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by picafrost 2y ago
I think Anthropic does a good job highlighting the efforts they take to anonymize data. It’s a marketing risk even to be open about the use of this data. There are things we say or write openly without caring who hears or reads it. Things w
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by picafrost 2y ago
I recall an aphorism that government is self-governed 90% by norms and 10% by law. I don’t know if American law is being violated but certainly it is alarming to observe from the outside when the norms are totally disregarded. The US looks
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by picafrost 2y ago
I think a great number of working professionals need a course like this too. I am already tired of ChatGPT being cited by the less experienced as an invisible expert in the room during technical discussions.
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by picafrost 2y ago
I don’t disagree. But if you want to work as an artisan you don’t work at a factory. Similarly, you can’t expect the products coming out of a factory to be at the artisan level. What is it about software that causes us to search for aesthet
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by picafrost 2y ago
> The material could be scaled up for use on British roads in a couple of years, the researchers believe. As per usual these optimistic solutions are inhibited by cost. All municipalities that I’ve lived in have ignored potholes until th
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by picafrost 2y ago
I’m still shocked that the US allows pharmaceutical advertising and people there just take it as something normal. It shouldn’t be normal to see pills you should totally ask your doctor about on billboards during your commute. It’s not good
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by picafrost 2y ago
Companies like Google and Cloudflare make great tools. They give them away for free. They have different reasons for this, but these tools provide a lot of value to a lot of people. I’m sure that in the abstract their devs mean well and tak
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by picafrost 2y ago
I lean toward most people remaining generally apathetic. There are many DIY kits and guides for a great number of things that have done most of the hard work of designing, measuring, cutting, etc for you. My perception is that most people
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by picafrost 2y ago
The attributes of young men have always made them convenient to put on the frontlines.
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by picafrost 2y ago
This is a great and very interesting write-up. It has never occurred to me that there might be algorithms applicable to calendars. It strikes me that the Gregorian calendar might encode some of the most calcified tech debt of humanity. It a
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by picafrost 2y ago
This number doesn't surprise me. I live within the Arctic circle and there are a lot of wood ants [0] in my area. Among the various reasons wood ants are fascinating (aphid farming, formic acid spitting/squirting) is that they liv
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by picafrost 2y ago
Swift is a nice language. I'm glad to see it being released from the clutches of Apple. I can only imagine how large of a task this is. I hope some day to be able to use it. The last time I tried a cross-platform project with it I swit
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by picafrost 2y ago
To be honest, I'm getting tired of being told what I should do. Learn a new framework? How about a new language? Start a side project? Turn my side project into a side business? How about brush up on my AI/LLM knowledge? Let'
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by picafrost 2y ago
Thanks for taking the time to point that out. Maybe high exchange rate or highly convertible is more correct to say.
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by picafrost 2y ago
The communities centered around links and comments that I get the most value out of are those that are gently strict about the discourse that occurs on them. They are well curated by moderators. But importantly, still open to all to partici
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by picafrost 2y ago
Reads like a warm breeze. The bonds we forge with other animals can bring another source of durable meaning to our lives. Even a brief show of trust from an animal while present in their environment can create a memory that lasts forever. O
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by picafrost 2y ago
The oligarchs will continue to oligarch as long as the exchange rate between money and power and power and money remains low.
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by picafrost 2y ago
If they really believe billions, trillions, the whole of human future is on the line, it’s going to get messy. American capitalists have excelled at ruthless competition by the sword (which is frequently the legal pen) since the days of pel
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by picafrost 2y ago
Astral are making great tools. There are many points of friction in the Python world and Astral is making them seem obvious to see and obvious to solve. That is hard work.
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by picafrost 2y ago
In many cases the start-ups that disrupted entrenched big players did so by skirting the existing law and regulations the big players have to abide by and gaining market share before regulators could catch up to them. Maybe I simply lack vi
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by picafrost 2y ago
I am very much in support of offering alternative options to centralized black-box apps with dubious profitability mechanisms. An option that doesn't catch on to the tune of a billion+ users is better than an option that never existed.
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by picafrost 2y ago
Employers, government or not, still wield far too much power over the personal lives of employees. I think it is rather meaningless to try and understand why RTO is en vogue now. Why is the discussion so rarely focused on the fact that your
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Third Base (2001)(americanscientist.org)
37 points by picafrost 2y ago|9 comments
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by picafrost 2y ago
I might be biased but I like the name. To add to the commentary with a positive connotation, Pica pica is the Latin name for the Eurasian magpie, perhaps the smartest bird (and animal?) of all :-) Congratulations on the launch, best of luck
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by picafrost 2y ago
I'm less certain that it's a slippery slope than it is a fine line. The government does not appear to have a problem with the speech occurring on TikTok. It is not trying to apply censorship or forcing the app to close down. It tr
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It’s always uncomfortable when realpolitik clashes with the values we aspire to have. What is freedom, anyway? Surely it can’t include allowing a foreign adversary access to a knob to twist on an important demographic of society. A foreign
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by picafrost 2y ago
This is a great initiative. Large tech companies, through hijacking our web experience and pursuing maximum scale, have normalized not being able to talk to a human being on the other side of a website/app/business. In many situat
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by picafrost 2y ago
Writing Zig has been bringing me a lot of joy. It feels like I’m working with a machine again. The memory safety guardrails are just high enough to help out without feeling like a tourist trap. There is space to enjoy writing code with some
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by picafrost 2y ago
Other lifeforms have dramatically altered the planet in the (geologic) past. The Great Oxidation Event, when plants colonized land, etc. These events were far more catastrophic to the status quo of their time. Timelines, means, and modes di
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by picafrost 2y ago
I have observed some musicians creating their own music videos with tools like this.

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