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961.
by pphysch 3y ago
Form is function in programming, we can dismiss using stdlib feature A vs stdlib feature B as "style choice", but the moment someone electively adds that second style, the mental complexity of the code increases. The new contribut
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by pphysch 3y ago
World leaders have way too much on their plate to be personally involved in assassinating random foreign citizens for high-degree political effects . If you see this headline, and story, and immediately think of Putin, that is an unhealthy
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by pphysch 3y ago
The "Python ecosystem" includes packages like numpy, pytorch & derivatives which are responsible for a large chunk of HPC and research computing nowadays. Or did you mean to say the "Python language"?
964.
by pphysch 3y ago
TBF that's not a bad place to be in the current hype cycle. Better than releasing and being permanently written off as yet-another-ChatGPT-wrapper.
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by pphysch 3y ago
Geopolitical topics for sure
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by pphysch 3y ago
That's a false dichotomy. There are plenty of people who are emotionally-developed professionals.
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by pphysch 3y ago
This conclusion is a bit tautological: another way to frame "self-control" is "power over yourself" or "ability to influence your own actions". Of course people who have power over N=1 people are more likely to
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by pphysch 3y ago
> Conspiracy theories see things when things aren't there Exactly. They make outrageously evidence-free statements like "Victoria Nuland isn't important".
969.
by pphysch 3y ago
Sweden and Finland have been in the EU for almost 30 years. Sweden joining NATO does not really change the geopolitics of the Baltic.
970.
by pphysch 3y ago
Serious question, what does this change? NATO gets a bit more revenue from Swedish taxpayers? So what?
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by pphysch 3y ago
Git is a much more subtle abstraction than k8s though. You can be blissfully unaware that a directory is a git repo, and still read/patch files. You cannot pretend k8s doesn't exist in a k8s system.
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by pphysch 3y ago
Why did a Pulitzer-prize winning NYT journalist choose a non-journalist with a military intelligence background -- and her nephew in law -- to do the on-the-ground reporting for an extremely consequential story? Based on the (lack of) fallo
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by pphysch 3y ago
What word do you prefer to describe the class of powerful people who aren't particularly loyal to any nation yet have extensive financial interests in (exploiting) them?
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by pphysch 3y ago
Sublime has devcontainer support?
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by pphysch 3y ago
In a recent US job opening for entry level SWE, over 80% of applicants had CS/IT degrees from the Indian subcontinent. /anecdote
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by pphysch 3y ago
Why is this anonymous tweet with no evidence or engagement being posted by multiple users in this thread? Why not just make the same claim directly?
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by pphysch 3y ago
I heard on the grapevine that 60% of a US "Tesla gigafactory" is actually a Panasonic battery factory. The battery vertical is definitely a critical part of this story.
978.
by pphysch 3y ago
None of those constitute "direct communication [of Trump team] with the Russian government".
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by pphysch 3y ago
No it does not. Have you actually read it?
980.
by pphysch 3y ago
You think my nuanced understanding of the world is based mainly on Soviet/Russian propaganda, while yours is mainly objective. This is an impossible local minimum to escape from.
981.
by pphysch 3y ago
There's nothing "very dishonest" about being skeptical of Yeltsin's anecdotes. The guy was a tool that was instrumental in the ultimate dissolution of the USSR. USA undoubtedly had better access to a wide variety of groc
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by pphysch 3y ago
This seems fine to me. I won't use it much, but it will make CSS "frameworks" a lot more sensible from a dependency perspective (i.e. just a bag of pure CSS functions someone wrote), and people will continue to create abomina
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by pphysch 3y ago
> Russia has been at the forefront of internet disinformation techniques at least since 2014, when it pioneered the use of bot farms to spread fake news about its invasion of Crimea. The idea that Russian or Soviet propaganda has ever (i
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by pphysch 3y ago
For bespoke internal services, I like to keep main.go as flat as reasonable, like a "script". Handlers can have their own files but the bulk of the control flow and moving parts should be apparent from reading the main file. Abstr
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by pphysch 3y ago
Smells like projection. If Washington actually cared about not funding draconian surveillance states that are currently committing genocide, China would not be first in line. Cynical.
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by pphysch 3y ago
I love this pattern of making tiny but powerful analysis tools with SQLite + a couple scripts.
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by pphysch 3y ago
How does cutting off communications prevent terrorist cells from executing their planned attacks? The real reason is obviously that the ruling elite usurped and imprisoned Pakistan's most popular leader, which means the political situa
988.
by pphysch 3y ago
It's meaningful here because if it said "A search engine in 4000 lines of Python" most readers' eyes would glaze over, but 80 is short enough to warrant a glance.
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by pphysch 3y ago
Reuters has been linked to covert government influence operations regarding Russia and Syria. Their "trust principles" facade is just that. They are no more reliable than any other serious news outlet, from China, Russia, or Ameri
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by pphysch 3y ago
JS being abused as a compilation target is definitely not a long-term strategy for the web. Going forward we need less emphasis on JS and more on HTML and WASM.

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