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by piker 10mo ago
Read the article. What happened is exactly what it suggests. OneDrive migration doesn't just copy your files to a server. While the migration is occurring, the operating system is optimistically re-mapping them all to a cloud URL and&#
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by piker 10mo ago
Happened to me 2 nights ago with a document my wife was editing on my laptop. I booted up Windows, which forced me to start some process while I was half paying attention. Windows booted normally but my Desktop was missing that critical f
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by piker 10mo ago
Any reason not to link to the repo in question?
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by piker 10mo ago
On the contrary, it helps underscore a storm's significance and allow for memetic spreading of information around the storm. You obviously didn't grow up in a hurricane-prone area.
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by piker 10mo ago
I read the whole article for some big reveal about how I had missed the point, but, yeah, it was all clear even in high school.
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by piker 10mo ago
> no interest in nuclear weapons Is that satire or am I confused? Do we actually think any sovereign nation in the world has “no interest in nuclear weapons”?
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by piker 10mo ago
It’s surprising how hard it is for some people to understand this. Yes oil blah blah. A few billion bucks, but the much bigger picture is (at least in this theory) Venezuela gets a democracy and the U.S. gets a stable strategic partner in a
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by piker 10mo ago
For purposes of this discussion, I believe VAT is roughly uniform across the EU + UK and some other European jurisdictions. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I did update the comment to limit the critique to the UK.
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by piker 10mo ago
Roughly the same with sales tax, it's just 1/3rd of that number. > But buy a £50k Rolex and yes there is vat. This is wildly ignorant of how less fortunate people live. They are hit with VAT on many daily expenses. Ignoring tha
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by piker 10mo ago
That’s right if the quote is net of income tax, but that wasn’t clear. While we’re on the subject we should include the 20% VAT (delta 5-10% sales tax in the states) which is the most regressive tax on the poor there is.
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by piker 10mo ago
Also, taxes?
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by piker 10mo ago
This must kill that platform.
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by piker 10mo ago
> Most font licenses allow one to embed it into a document and then use that document as intended (to print, view...), but do not extend the license to the document recipient to extract the font and use it in newly created documents. Yes
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by piker 10mo ago
One thing that I don’t see much mentioned in the article or the comments is that for Word documents at least, Times New Roman may be a more portable default if you want the document to render identically across platforms. Not everyone has W
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by piker 10mo ago
Sounds interesting. Do you have a source for that?
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by piker 10mo ago
It's inefficient in the case of a wholly-owned subsidiary to require company A's shareholders to hire lawyers, setup bank accounts, books, etc. for a separate company B which ultimately provides the same limited liability vis-a-vi
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by piker 10mo ago
Yes but there’s nothing stopping the shareholders of company A from forming company B rather than company A dropping it as a subsidiary.
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by piker 10mo ago
Honestly as a corporate lawyer I have never heard this view expressed, but it’s super interesting.
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by piker 10mo ago
I’m unclear why this is downvoted given the below. While it would theoretically be jurisdiction-specific, if the ABA model rules don’t provide some specific guidance, it’s clear that the lawyers would be ethically obligated to use whatever
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by piker 10mo ago
> Edit: after reading up on this it looks like attorneys have strict ethical standards to not use the information (for what little that may be worth), but the Associated Press was a third party who unredacted public court documents in a
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by piker 10mo ago
First class package manager, first class numeric operations for scientific usages (numpy), garbage collection, uniform human-readable syntax. Basically seems like it learned a lot from Perl both good and bad, and put those lessons into usag
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by piker 10mo ago
Is that right? I had no idea this was the core thesis of that guy’s book! I just assumed it was an “automate the boring stuff, get organized and delegate” kind of platitudes. If he’s part of the movement that has people ripping off employer
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by piker 10mo ago
Did the LLM suggest moving to the new architecture? If not that’s not what’s under discussion. That’s just following an order to translate.
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by piker 10mo ago
The second example has nothing to do with the first. I am optimistic that LLMs are great for translations with good testing frameworks. “Optimize” in a vacuum is a tarpit for an LLM agent today, in my view. The Google case is interesting bu
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by piker 10mo ago
https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/estuary/public_content/enc/e...
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by piker 10mo ago
> There are certain tasks, like improving a given program for speed, for instance, where in theory the model can continue to make progress with a very clear reward signal for a very long time. Super skeptical of this claim. Yes, if I hav
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by piker 10mo ago
I wasn’t aware. It’s kind of useful to imagine a world where those products and the backing of Amazon. I’m not familiar with the market, but I can imagine availability of cheap competitors was the proximate cause of this company’s demise.
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by piker 11mo ago
I always find Jonathan Blow and Casey Muratori to be great educators and advocates on the “simplicity” end of the spectrum. Jonathan can be super abrasive and comes with some political baggage, but does a good job advocating against what he
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by piker 11mo ago
> The difference here might be speed, that there are many more projects like this. This is a big difference.
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by piker 11mo ago
Always makes me a bit envious as well as awestruck. What a joy it must be in a lot of ways to be able to grind and perfect a piece of software like this. Truly a work of craftsmanship.

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