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by pphysch 2y ago
It's only fair to compare them to other victims of unprovoked Western aggression, like Libya. In that arena, they are actually doing relatively well, and imagine how successful they could be without the "global policeman's&qu
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by pphysch 2y ago
> Keep in mind that a mismanaged government can be a lot more predatory than any private actor. What's the basis for this claim? What is a "mismanaged government" but one that is controlled by narrow private interests? Or
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by pphysch 2y ago
Yes, if you have a PhD in the organization's domain model, anything is possible. Any mess of code, whether "clean" or not, can be reasoned through. The problem is this takes years of on-site experience to attain this level of
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by pphysch 2y ago
Yeah that would be the next step in optimization. In the meanwhile, raw text CSV streaming (for not purely numeric data) is still extremely fast and easy to set up
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by pphysch 2y ago
The flexibility of JSON is a downside when you just want to stream large volumes of row-oriented tabular data
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by pphysch 2y ago
Stagnation in viz design has pretty much nothing to do with the shrinking native<->web capability gap, and the web is here to stay.
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by pphysch 2y ago
The large models are as good as their data, and there's a lot of data for common technologies and tasks, i.e. web stuff. Step out of that bubble, though, and it's a different world.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Of course libertarian ideologues will argue FDR was the Big Bad. They are arguing from ideology, not science. FDR committed the grave sin of making a lot of rich people slightly less rich, in the short term. Deregulation is the answer to ev
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by pphysch 2y ago
96 years ago we there was a massive financial crisis and depression that killed a lot of people and is directly related to the (lack of) national policies of the time. USA recovered remarkably well, but only because there was a big pivot aw
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by pphysch 2y ago
The GP created HTMX, so possibly he would argue for an even simpler 2-tier or 2.5-tier architecture that addresses frontend complexity
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by pphysch 2y ago
Use the full path of the bin dir in your rm rf
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by pphysch 2y ago
Maybe it's a shakedown from the FARA violaters that have huge influence in the same government that just happens to be seriously threatening to break up Google. It would be a classic mob play.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Cynically, much of the "privacy" industry is just a red herring by big tech / data broker industry to normalize how egregious their privacy violations are.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Wow, literally an hour after my reply. Joyous news. Thank you for your contribution to making this happen!
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by pphysch 2y ago
We can squabble over definitions, but a primary characteristic of Platonism for many people is the belief in a (separate) domain of ideals/concepts. That e.g. mathematical objects exist outside of our individual cognition. That's
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by pphysch 2y ago
Great! Hope the proposal gets support.
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by pphysch 2y ago
I love this approach. I just wish there was better tooling for HTML polyglot programming. PHP got it right by embedding itself within "HTML" documents. React also got it right by inventing JSX. There's Go templ too. They all
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by pphysch 2y ago
Why doesn't this comment mention Vision Pro or Apple Car?
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by pphysch 2y ago
The difference between DOGE and FDR banning gold hoarding over $100 ($2K+ today) is that the latter targets the wealthy, while the former is focused on looting public goods to enrich the privately wealthy. It could be seen as naked class wa
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by pphysch 2y ago
If you have to constantly tell customers to RTFM, you have a poor product. Or at least poor documentation. But no amount of documentation can paper over fundamentally poor product design, because docs are also technical debt. Even if devs a
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by pphysch 2y ago
This "is known" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. "Is known" 15 years ago, perhaps. Things are changing rapidly.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Once upon a time, a US president said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself". His unconventional administration brought USA from deep economic depression into a golden age. Meanwhile, the current ruling elite smears him a
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by pphysch 2y ago
Certain political factions* in Taiwan should be worried. The actual Taiwanese people are breathing a sigh of relief that they are increasingly avoiding the "primrose path" of Ukraine: Catastrophic death and destruction based on li
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by pphysch 2y ago
The original maintainer went on to write a sci-fi novel
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by pphysch 2y ago
It's a good strategy. It should be obvious to anyone paying attention that OpenAI doesn't have AGI secret sauce. LLMs are a commodity and it's the platform integration that matters. This is the strategy that Google, Apple emb
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by pphysch 2y ago
It's not just shifting complexity. It improves locality of behavior (LoB). You can look at a <button> element and immediately know what it does (within the limited domain of "command"s). This is a dramatic improvement t
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by pphysch 2y ago
They are not that different. Conway's Law is real. Great engineers are not just "pure programmers", they understand the scale and organization of their domain. Similar for managers. In joking terms, the 8th OSI layer is &quot
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by pphysch 2y ago
Powerful LLMs are one thing, but it seems the current approach for full "agentic" AI like this is just another attempt at Expert Systems. In time we will probably look at LLMs like we do ALUs; magical superhuman AI at inception, b
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by pphysch 2y ago
I can sympathize with both sides. The fact is people react negatively to any threat to their sinecure, so we should be mindful of this, but not let it prevent us from seeking genuine improvement. If someone does get really mad over somethin
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by pphysch 2y ago
That's my issue with attempts to 3D-ify viz. Unless you are actually modeling a 3D volume, like medical imaging or CAD, the added "forced exploration" of 3D simply hides insights.

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