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by perrygeo 3y ago
The first quote is about mineral resources but the link is about climate and greenhouse gas emissions. I'm sure it was just an oversight, but there is nothing on that EPA page that remotely addresses the mineral resource issue. "G
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by perrygeo 3y ago
The rise of Docker and the rise of Python as the most popular application programming language is not a coincidence.
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Ah yes, the inevitable slippery slope from sentience to polite bureaucracy.
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by perrygeo 3y ago
There seems to be this notion that we can make technical choices in a vacuum, that there are inherent qualities which universally make X better than Y. The job is then to search out the expert assessment on the matter. Without consideration
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by perrygeo 3y ago
There are significant costs to this but maybe some real benefits too. This post certainly doesn't sell the potential benefits well enough. The big functional gain would be better connection handling. The current process-per-connection
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by perrygeo 3y ago
According to Popular Science, visual appearance is what matters when assessing pollution. Now that the aesthetics are fixed, it's clean! The EPA fixed it. No more pollution. That's a really tidy narrative. Meanwhile, back in objec
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Computer models (GIS, CAD, and various database technologies) have been in widespread use in urban planning for over 3 decades now. The core idea of a "digital twin" is not new, IMO it's merely a buzzword for a 3D map. Grante
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Both environmentalists and early American naturalists have one common weak spot in their world view; they view humans as fundamentally distinct from nature. Nature is somehow both profane and awe inspiring compared to the "rational&quo
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by perrygeo 3y ago
I started working through Crafting Interpreters, building up a language syntax and grammar from scratch. A lot of work and 75 pages of lex/parse logic and we now have a AST... that we can debug and inspect by looking directly at its se
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Is the time it takes to spin up a database really a primary concern for anyone but a hobbyist? Hopefully one would take far more than 10 seconds to address the actual concerns of database work: backups, replication, upgrade procedures, acce
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Was this "new expression" meant to compete in the same economic market? If I take a photo, and you modify it and try to pass it off and sell it as yet another photo - clearly not distinguished and derivative. If I take a photo, an
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by perrygeo 3y ago
You've thrown out many subjective terms here: "catchy", "relevant", "sensationalist", "essential". How do you intend to define these and hold yourself accountable? How are you planning to keep yo
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by perrygeo 3y ago
It comes down to why you are writing the code in the first place: - If the goal is to write code to produce a dataset, the output is what matters. Sometimes you just need to get stuff done and the code is secondary. It's OK to write cr
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by perrygeo 3y ago
Unfortunately your comment just adds to the confusion re: imperial measurements. Which "cup" are you talking about? - A US cup is 8 fluid oz - An imperial cup is 6.67 fluid oz - A "coffee cup" is generally 4 to 5 oz but
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The problem with using "simple" is that it's ambiguous. Are you talking about the opposite of sophisticated? the opposite of difficult? the opposite of complex? It has virtually no meaning without context. So if you're t
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by perrygeo 4y ago
There are similar numbers for conventional farming, and historical estimates too. There's a whole field of study on the EROI of agriculture. And yes, for all of human agriculture until roughly the industrial revolution, the EROI was ov
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by perrygeo 4y ago
It would be interesting to see the EROI on these vertical farms. My guess is that dozens of calories (mostly originating from fossil fuels) go into every food calorie produced. If you want to convert petroleum to food, there are far more ef
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Simplicity and a great concurrency model are the two biggest selling points. When Clojure steals your concurrency primitives and calls them "go" in your honor, you're doing something right. Blazing fast, consistent tooling do
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Even if you've got the prerequisites in hand to teach on a topic, the pay is just laughable. You're likely expected to lecture, develop a full curriculum, grade their work, and hold office hours. Easily a few hours a week for ever
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by perrygeo 4y ago
> sysadmin work for hire you'd be shocked to know how many people believe that this exactly what the "cloud" is. these are the people making the support requests.
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Isn't that the point? "Don't build your own infrastructure, outsource to the cloud!" has been the rally call for a decade. It's the entire reason "the cloud" has any value at all, beyond renting at hardwar
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Jevon's Paradox has some interesting implications for the "ChatGPT will make software developers obsolete" crowd. I think it will do the opposite. LLMs will make generating code more efficient, thus we're likely to have
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Some great examples in "Conway's Nightmare" https://youtu.be/5IUj1EZwpJY?t=2053 My favorite from memory is that Windows now has five completely different volume control UIs, each of which can be traced direct
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The age of easy money - we're unlikely to ever again see a decade of 0% interest rates and money printing. MMT will be seen as a failed experiment that artificially and temporarily lifted economic well-being during the 2010s at the exp
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Foreign keys must be checked at INSERT time to ensure they exist in the other table. This enforcement of referential integrity takes time and slows down the ingest rate. On the SELECT side, data that has been pre-denormalized into a directl
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by perrygeo 4y ago
The issue with our AI debate is that there's not a single "problem" but many inter-dependent issues without a clear system-wide solution. - Big tech monopolizing the models, data, and hardware. - Copyright concerns. - Job sec
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by perrygeo 4y ago
You're not wrong. I hear a lot about fears of AI taking jobs, fears of a chatbot singularity, fears of evil men exploiting humans with AI... all reasonable fears. That doesn't worry me; every technological advance since the indust
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Ultimately, whether web scraping for AI training data purposes is considered legal comes down to whether web scraping for ANY purpose is legal. This isn't clear one way or the other, though recent rulings indicate that US courts are fi
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by perrygeo 4y ago
Nope. The haircut was only severe because of the immediacy of the bank run. With more buffer (presumably the new holders of SVB's assets have more cash!) and no bank run fears, those assets will eventually mature to their full value. T
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by perrygeo 4y ago
There is so much more to creating a successful software system than writing code. Getting your code to work is, in my experience, about 10-20% of the effort involved in making software effective IRL. And it's by far the easiest 10%. Da

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