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by pstuart 2mo ago
> Go people were always been perfectly capable of creating abominational messes before generics arrived A poster child for this is k8s.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Right there with you. There's different flavors of stupidity. There's the "oh damn, why didn't I think of that first" and there's the smug "I did my own research and your evidence doesn't match by bel
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by pstuart 2mo ago
> We have the power. Only if we are united in using it.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
ICE got $75 billion, with $45 billion of that allocated for concentration camps. And somebody's got to build those camps and supply them, and their CEOs are all buddies with Trump.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
And that New US Dollar as a global currency? Not likely.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
I loathed the actions of DOGE but believe that "government efficiency" (yeah, lily oxymoronic) should be baked into everything the government does, most importantly, even the programs that one supports. That has been one of many f
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by pstuart 2mo ago
When they engage in financial conservation it's cover for destroying programs they don't like. The fact that they are cheering on yet another incredibly stupid, expensive, and pointless war proves that they are not "fiscal co
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by pstuart 2mo ago
This assumes that the chain of management within the police believes in accountability, which bring to mind a famous quote about assumptions.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
We know and hate everything about it but are individually powerless to affect change. The game is rigged. It is a significant emotional drain to keep watch of the state of things, but I can't look away.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Let's not forget the War on Drugs -- that's been the baseline for police oppression for decades (well before 9/11).
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by pstuart 2mo ago
> To have a functioning civil society, you actually need the opposite of what you're saying. You need a collective general trust that people will follow the rules regardless of what they think is "the right thing." That im
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by pstuart 2mo ago
It's probably perfect for a majority of work (and DuckDB takes that even further). But for big, multi-writer work PG is the way to go.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Another option that I've seen repeatedly is people with excellent technical competence being put in positions of management or leadership, where they are incompetent with the requisite skills for those roles.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Sorry for the extra verbiage that defiled my comment.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
That seems like a way to disincentivize cost optimizations in the project (for the client).
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by pstuart 2mo ago
It also means that emergency rooms can be used just for emergencies and ongoing and preventative care can happen in clinics. Cheaper to operate and preventing preventable emergencies lowers the load.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
A couple thoughts: * They're only buying a single copy of that book as they only need one to scan * If the book was public domain (or should be), then there should be an effort to "democratize" that data into a public
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Yep. Not everybody but enough to warrant vigilant monitoring and titration.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
People are tribal, and these days the tribes seem to be generational
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by pstuart 2mo ago
And quants!
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by pstuart 2mo ago
As a rule, people should be judged on content of their character. Their words and the actions behind them. That said, it's a really safe bet that anybody serving in the current administration is the wrong person for the job and their o
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Yep. I had a Northstar Advantage and was able to get all the various MicroSoft Language distributions for it. 80 column text and dual floppies. Woot!
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by pstuart 2mo ago
I imagine the SQLite eschews AI generated code, but using it for testing (vulnerability, performance, etc) would seem like an easy win. I know their proprietary testing framework is their secret sauce so we may never know...
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by pstuart 2mo ago
That article is meh. All of those issues are either addressed or junior programmer mistakes. Yes, it's a bit of blame the user which will likely get the retort of "but I thought Go was perfect for junior engineers?" Yes, th
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by pstuart 2mo ago
My ex-boss was a JS guy and then moved over to Rust. He loathed Go because it has pointers and it's possible to use a nil pointer if you are not competent. JS is fine for what and where it is, Rust is fine too. I just appreciate the
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by pstuart 2mo ago
So you'd be ok with a data center across the street from your house?
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by pstuart 2mo ago
I've thought about this more than I should but I think that the wonders of internet "channels" comes with a significant cost. First, let me acknowledge the quasi-monopoly aspect -- it definitely constrained choice and filtere
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by pstuart 2mo ago
I just want something that increases deep sleep -- I think just tricking the brain to control sleep is probably not enough -- it's likely a two way street.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
No-bid contracts by government officials -- what could go wrong?
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Is there an alternative out there that you do trust that is "noob friendly"?

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