pyrale

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by pyrale 9d ago
That is the kind of discussion where people end up saying "Oh okay, but we can FIRE ZE MISSILES". AWS will never willingly stop serving the EU, and oil corps will (unfortunately) never willingly stop selling oil. The US govt could
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by pyrale 9d ago
That reliance is increasingly seen as a bomb about to explode rather than a boon. US tech financing and promoting far-right parties doesn’t help their case either
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by pyrale 10d ago
> Canada is corrupt as hell, just no one cares so it doesn't make international news. So is Europe. It's just not at the point the US reached, yet.
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by pyrale 10d ago
> but there is a lot of bureaucracy and the bureaucracy is iron law. Yeah, an organized and powerful administration is the basis of rule-of-law system. The opposite isn't entrepreneurship, it's a state of widespread corruption
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by pyrale 10d ago
> One thing that is common about middle democracies is that prioritize a bureaucratic elite structure over an entrepreneurship culture No, that's just the 2010s propaganda fed to you by people who assert that not letting them do wha
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by pyrale 11d ago
> Same problems that regular rings have, yet people still wear them. In some jobs/hobbies, it is highly recommended to wear soft metal rings, and add a structural weakness to the ring in order to limit finger injuries, in case you f
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by pyrale 11d ago
Sure, but not in the IT service.
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by pyrale 11d ago
> You have no standing to demand "accountability". You should learn about this wonderful thing called democracy. Also why not everyone is allowed to work with radioactive material in their shed.
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by pyrale 11d ago
I agree with that. I'm just not sure all of us have the same leeway to improve the codebase, and the cost isn't the same either. When you have less means, you spend them more sparingly.
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by pyrale 11d ago
> Patching that up by using comments as a 'map' isn't the right way to deal with that. There is no right way. Only grey ones that help relieve pain for the team. > Refactors and rearchitecture are. Yeah... if you have t
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by pyrale 11d ago
> Smart developers don’t write mazes. You don’t choose what your forebears have written, though.
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by pyrale 12d ago
European swallows migrate to Africa in winter [1], they move through Spain and the middle-east, and a few more adventurous through Italy and Sicily ; and that's why they "bubble up" there first in this view. But you can see t
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by pyrale 12d ago
there has been two rounds of cash offers for dissenters to leave. People staying are probably not the kind that will publicly raise the issue.
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by pyrale 12d ago
> This and previous submission about the Automattic board attempt to fire the founder should be used as a lesson that you should never ever give up control of your company to anyone. I'm afraid in this case, this "should never&
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by pyrale 16d ago
> The fact is Tailwind core is an MIT-licensed open source project. That entitles you to fork the project, not to expect the maintainer to do what you want.
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by pyrale 20d ago
> I can't believe people are saying that with straight face. That's the consequence of a broken education system when it comes to teaching history. Empires rarely come to terms with what they did, and never while they're i
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by pyrale 20d ago
...Against US imperialism anyway. His credentials when it comes to other empires isn't spotless.
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by pyrale 20d ago
Their press release seems to center on: > Europe now has sovereign access to space. [...] Customers around the world now have a sovereign launch option at their disposal. They apparently try very hard to ignore Arianespace.
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by pyrale 23d ago
> Prediction markets are a wonderful idea Yeah, it's just like being able to take an insurance policy on other people's lives. It's a wonderful idea for all of 15 minutes until people start getting murdered. > bare mini
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by pyrale 23d ago
> If a predictor can’t help with picking stocks or making big decisions, then what are these predictions for, entertainment? Not sure how you constructed that specific sentence from my message. My point was that most big decisions aren&#
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by pyrale 24d ago
> Predicting a specific quantity dropping to a specific level at a specific date is a lot more valuable than saying “those guys are cooked”. It's also way harder, and the added value isn't that great, if you're not intere
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by pyrale 26d ago
> IMO it's as close as a codebase can be to pure functional programming whilst still functioning. You know, people have put functioning codebases using pure functional programming languages like Haskell, Elm, Purescript, etc. I real
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by pyrale 29d ago
Humanity would progress leaps and bounds if every app was deleted, and people just made websites that worked for phones instead. Yes, I know some apps wouldn't make it in the browser. These are sacrifices I am willing to make.
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by pyrale 1mo ago
That’s also true of coding. There’s nothing that sucks the fun of it as effectively as doing it for pay.
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by pyrale 1mo ago
No, but architects can’t just make the plans and never look at the output, there needs to be someone that checks that the work is done properly and fit to spec.
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by pyrale 1mo ago
> Only now, regular stores know the city will undercut them in price using taxpayer money. IDK why he calls that a city-owned store, he should just say that the city has started a VC program aimed to fund startups in the retail sector.
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by pyrale 1mo ago
> My boring municipality in the middle of a red state does that and nobody calls it socialist. I will never not be amazed at the US meaning of "red state" vs. what the rest of the world means by "red state".
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by pyrale 1mo ago
The company as a whole bought hugginface and will set its policy, though, not the lab.
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by pyrale 1mo ago
> We should not have to treat AI models as capricious genies that may take arbitrarily broad interpretations of their instructions. If that's necessary to keep them from doing bad things, we will fail to keep them from doing bad thi
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by pyrale 1mo ago
> NVIDIA is one of the most open labs. Nvidia’s history with linux shows the opposite. And as a user running models on a linux/AMD stack, this information does not fill me with hope.

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