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by plandis 2y ago
The last I looked into this, iMessage offers end to end encryption and RCS doesn't by default. Apple (rightfully, IMO) refuses to use Googles non open source end to end encryption extension that also would require key exchange on Googl
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by plandis 2y ago
This is part of the strategy. The GOP has continually been disenfranchising voters. Both parties engage in gerrymandering.
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by plandis 2y ago
Plus Ben made it extremely easy to migrate from Google Guava’s cache. It’s mostly the same API and way more performant to switch to Caffeine.
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by plandis 2y ago
I believe Simon has full transcripts for some of the projects he’s had LLMs generate the code for. You can see how he steers the LLM for what is desired and how it is course corrected.
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by plandis 2y ago
I find it fascinating that Denmark believes Trump isn’t simply lying like he always does? Why would the Biden administration coordinate with Trump in an attempt to control Greenland? That makes no sense.
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by plandis 2y ago
I think people mostly use it for unit testing functionality since it’s generally a faster dev loop compared to running integration tests.
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by plandis 2y ago
You can vote with your wallet and get a Pine Phone or something similar, I guess.
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by plandis 2y ago
> I really really really hate the whole “let’s all laugh at these dumb people” dunking that this encourages. Are you talking about the entropy video where he asks people about the suns energy? I don’t think he was mocking people, the pur
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by plandis 2y ago
Plus the Rust compiler actually gives you helpful error messages. C++ compiler errors might as well be in Klingon.
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by plandis 2y ago
Could you use a cartridge type that has enough swappable memory banks?
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by plandis 2y ago
It’s literally a government handout for people wealthy enough to buy more expensive cars and solar. That money should have been spent to fund R&D/capital expenditures to make cheaper electric vehicles and solar cells for everyone,
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by plandis 2y ago
Has anyone here actually written technical books in LaTex and Markdown that can knowledgeably compare them? How do they compare? I’m biased from university towards LaTex but the MD syntax does seem way simpler.
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by plandis 2y ago
> With Java experience, but what fraction have a systems outlook? It depends what you mean by systems outlook but JVM based code is pretty common (to the point I’d say ubiquitous) in large distributed systems. In open source it’s much th
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by plandis 2y ago
If you work for a few years with JVM based languages this set of articles are so interesting! I remember reading through these for the first time several years ago.
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by plandis 2y ago
For what it’s worth to was in college in the late 2000s early 2010s and parents coming to party wasn’t really a thing at my university (private, research university). That being said, both my parents died when I was a young child so I would
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by plandis 2y ago
> For example, a vote for anyone is always a vote Israel and Israel's apartheid and wars. This is provably false. The Green Party explicitly ran on support for Palestine and voters in parts of Michigan voted for the party in decentl
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by plandis 2y ago
I think most people in western society trust their own government to care for their welfare way more that they trust the Chinese government.
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by plandis 2y ago
What’s wrong with surge pricing food, a substance known to be inelastic because people need it to survive, from a grocery store? Is that what you’re asking?
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by plandis 2y ago
> The more time passes, the less I can shake the feeling that the world would be better if we tuned out our environment less. I’m curious what you do on a 6 hr plane ride that’s not tuning out your environment?
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by plandis 2y ago
I think they are being sarcastic because the vanilla Minecraft server is heavily single threaded.
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by plandis 2y ago
How is it misleading? FEMA receives its budget from Congress. The money is appropriated by Congress into buckets for specific purposes. FEMA cannot legally divert money from one bucket to another unless Congress specifically allows for it.
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by plandis 2y ago
It’s sad that the US government unnecessarily deprived a human being of their right to life. I hope one day the people involved are prosecuted for this premeditated murder.
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by plandis 2y ago
Yes no GC is free (well perhaps Epsilon comes close :) It’s a low pause GC so latencies, particularly tail latencies, can be more predictable and bounded. The tradeoff you make is that it uses more CPU time and memory in order to operate.
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by plandis 2y ago
> I have an engineering master's from a world famous university where the lab work was pretty pointless. It didn't count for much if at all, and was more or less just entertainment. For me personally, having a maker space and a
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by plandis 2y ago
Part of the claim is that TikTok knew about this content being promoted and other cases where children had died as a result. > But by the time Nylah viewed these videos, TikTok knew that: 1) "the deadly Blackout Challenge was spread
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by plandis 2y ago
I love this. The website branding seems so close to Apple I think they will send a cease and desist.
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by plandis 2y ago
Well assassination of a political rival might be but what about the killing of the perceived head of a terrorist organization who attempted a coup to overturn a federal US election? Sounds like a national defense concern that the president
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by plandis 2y ago
> However, if the president is having is own feud with some guy he doesn't like and finds a way to get him drone struck, that would not be covered by immunity because he wasn't acting as president in that capacity in any legall
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by plandis 2y ago
Once again the US government dances around the broader issue of data privacy. I understand it’s easier to get people to vote against Chinese products in the US on data privacy concerns but it’s irritating that Congress isn’t working on legi
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by plandis 2y ago
> You simply write your workflow as a TypeScript function which calls your steps, implemented in other TypeScript functions. The framework automatically instruments each step to record its output in the database after executing. In my mi

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