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by primitivesuave 9mo ago
I love the Typescript handbook, but wanted the examples to be "runnable". It turns out that the TypeScript compiler runs pretty fast in the browser for trivial code snippets, so I threw together https://ts.coach (TypeS
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by primitivesuave 9mo ago
You are effectively saying that the indiscriminate slaughter of the Japanese civilian population was justified, due to the actions of a few Japanese leaders. In my opinion, there is no justification for violence against civilians. Notice th
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by primitivesuave 9mo ago
In my reply above, I evoked the memory of Jeanette Rankin, who was the lone dissenting vote against the Pacific War after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (somewhat analogous to the October 7th attack). It is a natural human tendency to
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by primitivesuave 9mo ago
My point equally applies to everyone who condones violence to achieve some end goal. Jeanette Rankin was vilified for her lone dissenting vote against war, yet decades later she is among the few of her contemporaries to have a statue in t
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by primitivesuave 9mo ago
Completely agree with you on this. It will be an unfortunate exercise for future historians to look back on this time, crunch through the enormous amount of data with their quantum computers, and end up realizing just how many people were w
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by primitivesuave 9mo ago
Public opinion on Amjad shifted quite a bit in 2021 when he threatened to sue a former intern for his open-source project. https://intuitiveexplanations.com/tech/replit/
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by primitivesuave 9mo ago
Thanks for sharing! I used to teach students to build ML algorithms from scratch (everything from Markov chains to multilayer perceptrons and convolution neural networks) - I rewrote some of my notes in TypeScript here: 1. https:/&#x2
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by primitivesuave 11mo ago
Absolutely - the channel is called "Dolton Documentaries" on YouTube. I'll definitely check out the features you mentioned, and am super excited to see where this goes!
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by primitivesuave 11mo ago
Last year, I made a YouTube documentary series showcasing the prolific corruption in a small city government. I downloaded all the city government meetings, used Whisper to transcribe them, and then set up a basic RAG so I could query acros
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by primitivesuave 11mo ago
"Participation trophy" has become a modern aphorism in many situations where people are rewarded for simply showing up.
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by primitivesuave 11mo ago
The abacus is a standard part of elementary education in several Asian countries, for precisely the reasons you mentioned regarding numerical intuition. In American education, a student might only learn about the abacus from a brief paragra
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by primitivesuave 11mo ago
I finally figured out how to address my burnout with a 10 day Vipassana meditation course (dhamma.org) - hope it potentially helps others as well.
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
The website (coralprotocol.org) is stunningly designed, but makes no reference to anyone who is actually using this. I also think the numerous references to a crypto token that is tied into this project severely undermine any research credi
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
I really don't understand why crypto is involved in this to begin with. I can't imagine any serious person wanting to tie their inference costs to a token price.
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
I used to sell software to CS teachers, and noticed n8n really explode in popularity with that group around 2015-2018. Along with Node-RED, it is a fantastic paradigm for teaching practical applications of computer science, rather than si
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
If you think of each button press as a matrix being added to the board state where only the row and column are set to 1, along with the commutative nature of the moves (order doesn't matter), then as long as the total number of "f
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
N8n is extremely popular among CS educators. I imagine at least a few thousand of those stars are from students who learned to code with n8n.
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
This was during the time when people in California were being threatened with legal action (up to imprisonment) for breaking social distancing guidelines.
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
Gavin Newsom had a famous COVID scandal where he dined at the French Laundry in the midst of his own austere lockdown measures, and now the owner is telling him to not interfere with his cookware revenue. If you don't already realize t
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
I also live in California, and agree with you in sentiment because the housing prices are too damn high. However, the reason that most municipalities around here will bend over backwards to attract wealthy residents/businesses is becau
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
That's an interesting point. America is a good example of an economy where the majority of businesses are designed to channel the majority of their revenues to the ultra wealthy. I could see an exodus of ultra wealthy people where it o
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
In this case, "bad things happening" is an exodus of the ultra wealthy, which is not so simple to reverse.
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
I actually read this earlier because you commented on another post about Charlie Javice's sentencing. Based on that sentencing and others, it seems like the going imprisonment rate for "losses incurred by the powers that be"
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
He also ran a series of now-defunct scam dating sites with fake profiles around 2010-2015, and has been quite consistent at only operating scam businesses in the past 15 years. I know nothing about the people who hand over money to this guy
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
No - you would have to file a FOIA request with the SFMTA, and then tabulate the "Total Paid" column in the response files. Below is my FOIA request template for the SFMTA [1] to assist anyone who is interested in doing this. >
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
Just to confirm, this is what happened - he paid one twice, and therefore the other became delinquent. However, if you file a FOIA request with the SFMTA and do some basic analysis on how much is "owed per license plate", you will
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
I should have clarified - I only found his business through that list because I noticed his vanity license plate HPPYPPS, which corresponded to a business named Happy Pipes Plumbing which I subsequently found on Yelp. Also, I found out abou
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
I did a fascinating analysis of SFMTA data a few years back. They posted a public list of names and license plates [1] that they refuse to take down, despite many emails from me over the years. I found a particular license plate that belong
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
I use Aurora Postgres at work, where we pay approximately 9x more for equivalent resources to PlanetScale (according to their pricing page [1]). This is not an endorsement of PlanetScale as I've never used it, just pointing out that th
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by primitivesuave 1y ago
IMO it is a smart decision to implement this as a self-hosted system, and have the AI make PRs against the IaC configuration - for devops matters, human-in-the-loop is a high priority. I'm curious how well this would work if I'm u

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