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by pphysch 2y ago
Not clear whether it would be a net benefit, adding constraints and complexity to the scientific process which will be skipped whenever possible by underpaid labrats. Also, GIGO. Need to tackle the incentives directly.
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by pphysch 2y ago
AI algorithms alone definitely don't represent "energy" in a meaningful way, but high-quality data is a commodity. Part of the AI scam peeling back the facade on every AI product and realizing "oh this is actually pretty
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by pphysch 2y ago
I agree automating migrations correctly from state A to B without any risk of data loss or downtime is essentially an intractable problem. Still, the popular tools seem to have good heuristics and good DBAs recognize when migrations must
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by pphysch 2y ago
A proper sovereign country, not dominated by totalitarian corporations, ought to create and maintain something like LibGen as a national common good.
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by pphysch 2y ago
> And finally the GEM that is database projects, you can program your DB changes declaratively, there is nothing like this in the market and again, no one is even trying Automatic migration tools have essentially been doing this for a wh
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by pphysch 2y ago
Sure, why not. It's a good approach for innovation.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Refactoring "up front" is what people are taking issue with. It's extremely rare to have a project where you know every requirement and they never change "up front" before writing any code.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Yes the author strikes me as a early/mid career SWE rather than a seasoned professional (10K hours is often used as an allusion to "mastery"). 1. Junior: hack a solution from A to B by any means necessary 2. Mid-level: wait,
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by pphysch 2y ago
"don't trust the client / validate inputs" is software security 101
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by pphysch 2y ago
Not really, it is just used to mean the termination of unipolarity. Though frankly it's looking more like a bipolar West vs. BRICS+ situation.
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by pphysch 2y ago
You could've implemented bespoke interning at any point in Go; it was added to the standard library only recently, though, likely because it may leverage Go's relatively recent support for generics.
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by pphysch 2y ago
The groups that primarily fund The Tor Project, i.e. the US State and Defense Departments.
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by pphysch 2y ago
> If someone breaks into your house and tries to kill you, you might want to kill them too, but it's a little funny to say that there's symmetry Remind me, between Lebanon or Hezbollah and Israel, which entity is currently occu
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by pphysch 2y ago
It's crazy to attribute the downfall of the web/search to Google. What does Google have to do with all the genuine open web content, Google's source of wealth, getting starved by (increasingly) walled gardens like Facebook, R
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by pphysch 2y ago
In brief, administrators are tunnel-visioned on checking boxes without being mindful of the fact that if you only need 1% of the features, the other 99% represents unnecessary complexity that will directly impact the usability and maintaina
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by pphysch 2y ago
Probably a kernel of malice (corruption, kickbacks) surrounded by a warm flesh of incompetence.
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by pphysch 2y ago
And if this was the up-front cost, I'm sure there would be more DD about alternatives. But I'm sure the lock-in occurred long before the bill hit 9 figures.
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by pphysch 2y ago
I've heard some of the national labs have 100-200% overhead for some grants
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by pphysch 2y ago
Sorry, I can't take you seriously when you equate a clearly defined military-political organization ("Hezbollah") with a broad ethnoreligious group ("Jews"). That's totally absurd and borders on Holocaust denia
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by pphysch 2y ago
> Hinting at some kind of symmetry here seems weird. Both sides (Israeli state, and Hezbollah) want to destroy each other. It's a simple symmetry. Conflating the military force with the territory and civilians living on it only obfu
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by pphysch 2y ago
> “We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity and forget the rest.” This whole essay and thesis falls terribly flat to me because there is a certain ongoing event, which Fry makes no mention of, which happens to be
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by pphysch 2y ago
Simple is good but another approach to simplicity would be more sensors (weight, thermal, steam, optical?) and a single "cook" button (or a menu/dial with few different cook options, defrost, warm, hot). For casual use the UX
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by pphysch 2y ago
Hoxha wasn't even alive in 1991.
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by pphysch 2y ago
The Minsk agreements predated the 2022 war. Can you point to that evidence where Ukraine ever took them seriously to avoid war?
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by pphysch 2y ago
Fine, Zelensky has electively sacrificed between 100K-1M of his fellow countrymen on behalf of foreign interests. Still awful. And sorry, but no amount of condescension will convince me (or anyone) that Ukraine is better off today in 2024
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by pphysch 2y ago
If it makes no sense, then clearly you haven't been paying attention to the facts on the ground. How can you say peace has no chance if you never give peace a chance? Please show a single instance where Ukraine made any significant con
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by pphysch 2y ago
Ukraine was among the most corrupt countries in Europe since 1991 -- no one (West or Rest) disputes this. It was politically very weak and prone to gravity from both Moscow and Brussels. To assert that Moscow wanted Ukraine as a "clien
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by pphysch 2y ago
Well, you're using an overbroad definition of "business decisions", so forgive my interpretation. Of course everyone that goes on in a business could be conflated as a "business decision". But not everyone at the bu
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Subsidiarity(en.wikipedia.org)
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by pphysch 2y ago
Having managers (business people) make technical decisions based on marketing copy is how you get 10 technical problems that metastasize into 100 business problems, usually with little awareness of how we got there in the first place.

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