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811.
by pstuart 11mo ago
Perhaps SQLite with FTS5? Or even better, getting DuckDB into the party as it's ecosystem seems ripe for this type of work.
812.
by pstuart 11mo ago
CATL's announcements of Sodium Ion batteries promise an order of magnitude cost reduction over lithium. Having enough storage to capture peak energy will be game changing; the only significant hurdle is to modernize the grid but there&
813.
by pstuart 11mo ago
IMHO there are two kinds of politics: 1. Partisan/tribal personality driven with a core of "us vs. them" 2. Government policy and the application of same. The first has no business here, but I'd argue the second
814.
by pstuart 11mo ago
A nice compromise would be to open source the libraries that consume and emit data as well as core processing. Then they can add their own secret sauce UX and integration. Likewise, that will never happen either.
815.
by pstuart 11mo ago
Understandable to (to me) an acceptable placeholder for expressing a sentiment of re-evaluation. There are so many failings of the Democratic party leadership, but I'd put near the top the failure to message and to let the opposition d
816.
by pstuart 11mo ago
I kept chickens for a while and it was very clear that they'd be more than happy to eat us if able to.
817.
by pstuart 11mo ago
It's germane to point out the War on Drugs™ is a war on the people and has never been about "keeping people safe". I know that a lot of people say that cannabis is ok but hard drugs should not be legal to keep people safe. Lo
818.
by pstuart 11mo ago
Yikes! I see what you mean.
819.
by pstuart 11mo ago
Hopefully the lesson from this will be received by operators: it's way cheaper to invest in personnel, training, and maintenance than to let the shit hit the fan.
820.
by pstuart 11mo ago
Developers, developers, developers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs
821.
by pstuart 11mo ago
It's stages in their life and it goes from manipulation to letting go. Even the manipulation was not malicious -- they just wanted to have "better" experiences with other people (and maybe upsell an entrée at first). And as a
822.
by pstuart 1y ago
#1 seems the most likely to happen (but I like the others). Seems like maybe forking it in an agreeable way, and funding an EU crew to do the needful with the goal of upstreaming as much as possible. I don't have insight into EU invest
823.
by pstuart 1y ago
I would subscribe to your newsletter ;-)
824.
by pstuart 1y ago
Do they want control or do they really want something that works that they don't have to worry about? The only reason for needing control would be if it was part of their secret sauce and at that point they can fork it and fuck off.
825.
by pstuart 1y ago
Project 2025 (the instruction manual that the president and his staff are hewing to) wants to shred everything in ACA and privatize everything. They offer nothing other than reducing taxes on the wealthy. The poors don't matter because
826.
by pstuart 1y ago
Obviously we all differ in how we respond to medications -- apparently it's 10% - 15% that have issues with statins. I think a pragmatic approach would be to try them if warranted by testing and be prepared to stop or change them if it
827.
by pstuart 1y ago
I believe the correct test to administer would be the Voight-Kampff test. https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Voight-Kampff_test
828.
by pstuart 1y ago
I've used double dashes for years and now they get automatically turned into em dashes, and I'm not an LLM (that I can tell so far).
829.
by pstuart 1y ago
I now have a cardiologist and just had an MRI to check on the state of my aorta, as a recent calcium scan brought up concerns. I've now been on rosuvastatin and ezetimibe for several years with zero noticeable negative effects. I'
830.
by pstuart 1y ago
A key takeaway is: don't be afraid of taking statins if you need them. I fell for the "statins are bad" BS for years and have paid the price.
831.
by pstuart 1y ago
And not smoking or drinking saves you money!
832.
by pstuart 1y ago
He pumps up the meme stock price -- the reason it's so high anyway is from his showboating (autonomous driving! robots! AI! robotaxi! etc...)
833.
by pstuart 1y ago
I think the OCI factor being noted here is the packaging not the containerized runtime.
834.
by pstuart 1y ago
There's no war in this situation. The War on Terror™ and the War on Drugs™ are jingoistic phrases that are not actionable declarations of war. These attacks are theater to distract us from other failures, like the ability to the federa
835.
by pstuart 1y ago
I have another comment that's a sibling to this and I'll avoid the copypasta. tl;dr -- the current model is whack-a-mole and is a fiasco except for it's unstated but intended purpose (oppression of "others"). What y
836.
by pstuart 1y ago
We created the damn cartels in the first place with our insatiable demand for their products. The current model is designed to create crime from end to end. And it was never about safety (FFS, look at how people who are busted for using d
837.
by pstuart 1y ago
Sure, the "stupid" is effectively "unintelligent" in that context (unless I'm being stupid here ;-) My point is that even intelligent people can be incredibly stupid and Dunning-Kruger can still apply (because they
838.
by pstuart 1y ago
They're not enemy combatants, at worst they're drug runners. Just because Trump declares something to be true doesn't make it true (although his lackeys will act as if it is). This is not how to deal with The Drug War™, it&#x
839.
by pstuart 1y ago
I think we're well served by distinct language: * "intelligent" is the intellectual capacity one is born with * "stupid" is the failure to use that intellectual capacity I know plenty of very intelligent pe
840.
by pstuart 1y ago
My ex works in QA for a biotech company and FDA audits are a regular thing and are taken very seriously. There's plenty to criticize of the org (as with almost all others) but the rank and file are doing good work to help try to keep

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