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by pphysch 2y ago
Yes, blackboard-simple is not the same as keyboard-simple. Unless the language is specifically for code-golfing, such design choices suggest the creators haven't thought very holistically about their product.
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by pphysch 2y ago
There's a lot of truth to this. Within social media e-commerce there is the idea of "merch drops" which dial up the FOMO to the max.
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by pphysch 2y ago
I've never seen "Gazzawi" used before as a demonym instead of Gazan.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Those aren't necessary outcomes, those were policy decisions made by the US/Western elite. They chose to deregulate and let global capitalists do whatever they wanted. USD has been primary global reserve currency since more or
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by pphysch 2y ago
Once Python became the lingua franca for next-gen HPC applications (i.e. machine learning), we had a good indication that the (higher-level) programming language wars will soon be over. Students graduating today are comfortable in Jupyter n
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by pphysch 2y ago
> they know that they can't do a firesale of US bonds as it would obliterate a lot of their wealth. Wealth and power are hard to distinguish at this scale. Suppose PRC were to a) instigate a global crash of USA Treasury assets and b
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by pphysch 2y ago
See also "influencer cabals" that specifically manipulate social media platforms, usually organized in group chats on the same platform.
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by pphysch 2y ago
Well, the alternative for a megacorp like Google is to stop attempting to innovate, either top-down (like Apple aborting its entire car platform) or bottom-up by collapsing under the bloat of never making those hard choices (like many other
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by pphysch 2y ago
> Focus engineering resources on core competencies and buy everything else off the shelf. Don't forget to hire/contract experts to admin those """off the shelf""" solutions!
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by pphysch 2y ago
And yet Python3 is more popular than ever /shrug
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by pphysch 2y ago
It's a solid reason to not use any SaaS. You might be drinking too much anti-Google koolaid if you think their product failure rate is any different than the rest of the field. At least with a Google SaaS it won't get suddenly r
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by pphysch 2y ago
> That story usually starts with an engineer or data scientist who's frustrated because they spend too much time writing queries and preparing dashboards for business people. They think that if they make BI easy enough, everyone wil
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by pphysch 2y ago
So OpenAI is going to compete directly with Azure, as a PaaS/IaaS? Doesn't make sense. At best they will be a thin layer over Azure.
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by pphysch 2y ago
I think the belief that a 6 month bootcamp (or equivalent) is sufficient to create a competent developer even in "easy" domains like web is a big reason why most software sucks and why "impostor syndrome" is over-reporte
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by pphysch 2y ago
The main site is based on WordPress? That is wild.
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by pphysch 2y ago
> This is the biggest nasty secret about cloud (and SaaS for things you don't build in-house). Yep. Huge amounts of marketing funds are spent tricking decision-makers into thinking that off-the-shelf, plug-and-play solutions exist f
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by pphysch 2y ago
> I am glad at least that the standard gave us a sizeable common subset over half a century rather than everybody doing their own thing from day one. There are tons of popular programming languages and they share paradigms, good ideas an
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by pphysch 2y ago
> Israel seems to only extend that sort of courtesy to a part of its citizenry, but when you remember that the "stable" countries in the region are all more-or-less absolute monarchies, it becomes obvious why the US is willing
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by pphysch 2y ago
The article should be renamed "natural primary keys". Natural primary keys have fatal flaws, but natural "secondary" keys are all sugar. Best of both worlds.
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by pphysch 2y ago
SQL-the-standard is one of the great mistakes of computing, a bad abstraction of Titanic proportions. The standard should have been abandoned long ago in favor of the actually-existing reference implementations like PostgreSQL. "Standa
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by pphysch 2y ago
> Do not send me Pull Requests - the code is small so I want to maintain it single-handedly. Interesting contribution policy. Makes sense in lieu of producing a strict style guide, I suppose.
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by pphysch 2y ago
There is an active war on the Internet Archive, et al. in the West by private corporations seeking to monopolize information. How is this a false equivalence? Glass houses. Remember Aaron Swartz.
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by pphysch 2y ago
To be fair, this is 99% of users' experience with Gmail. Just email.
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by pphysch 2y ago
> Is the duplication truly redundant or will the functionality need to evolve independently over time? "Looks the same right now" != "Is the same all the time" Bad abstraction is worse than no abstraction
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by pphysch 2y ago
In the same sense that US-based firms are run by the national security apparatus, via mechanisms like NSL, sure.
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by pphysch 2y ago
China does have strict media regulations which can be expensive for foreign companies to implement, but there are still a TON of Western brands that operate very successfully in China.
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by pphysch 2y ago
No, it is disingenuous to suggest that there are bona fide Hamas supporters anywhere in large numbers in the West. There are: 1) Naive college students who latch onto righteous political causes 2) Passionate lifelong anti-apartheid, anti-wa
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by pphysch 2y ago
> This is one reason why I think China banning Youtube is a policy mistake China didn't ban YouTube, Google just refused to comply with the strict regulations. So China tried to do exactly what you said, but they can't exactly
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by pphysch 2y ago
On the topic of supplying materiel, which is the topic of this thread, NATO countries have been 100% involved. If NATO could supply the materiel for Ukraine to "singlehandedly" defeat Russia, they would do it in a heartbeat. But t
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by pphysch 2y ago
In short, Washington abandoned the republic after WW2 and embraced shadow imperialism. It doesn't matter who is working the factories as long as the global elite gets to set the rules and reap the profits.

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