pyrale

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by pyrale 2y ago
> Broadly speaking, I support DOGE's mission. This decision in particular I'm not at all a fan of. Everything the DOGE undertakes is absolutely justified except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge
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by pyrale 2y ago
> I wonder how in retrospect they will think about the decisions they made today. The decision was not made today, what happens today (or, rather, a few days ago) is Linus calling out a C maintainer going out of his way to screw rust dev
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by pyrale 2y ago
> Everyone else other than you get to enjoy a snappy and fast loading site. I think that’s a good trade off. The core logic behind that sentence is that it's good to be in an unfair system, as long as you benefit from the system and
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by pyrale 2y ago
APL programmers enter the room
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by pyrale 2y ago
The issue with that is that Google can be required to backdoor it, and the partner can't realistically vet updates to a reasonable level.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> the legal basis for sharing personal data with American companies is dead since Donald Trump has neutered the special court that would make such transfers legal. It was always dead, or rather, it's in a shrodinger's state whe
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by pyrale 2y ago
"Many of them will die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make".
578.
by pyrale 2y ago
Since there is no such thing as training rights, they would have a reasonable claim.
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by pyrale 2y ago
They would have a better defense if they had escrowed that money and/or reasonably tried to buy.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Would you want a prospective employer to have access to your past tax returns when negociating salary? The article also mentions information about employees operating in conflict zones.
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by pyrale 2y ago
I strongly suspect no single employee had access to all that data.
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by pyrale 2y ago
You're answering to a post I made saying that prices that were quoted from the Lazard report don't reflect all that's writen in the report. Your answer gives a model unrelated to the figures I was discussing, with extremely a
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by pyrale 2y ago
> Converting every passenger car and light truck in the US to a BEV would involve enough batteries to store something like two days of the average grid output, which is more than would be needed for a cost optimal wind/solar/ba
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by pyrale 2y ago
Problem solved then? We should give the folks at model.energy the next peace prize for their effort.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> As of today it's not enough to have positive net return, but to have a LCOE of maybe $60/MWh If you don't count externalities (see cost of firming intermitency [1]). > (and going down). Not the last two years accordin
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by pyrale 2y ago
> why isn't it considered corruption if you've been a career employee and you get promoted to be in control of an agency? Because a civil servant being promoted to be "in control" merely means that they become the fir
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by pyrale 2y ago
Regardless of the decision, a businessman being in control of the government agency that funds his company is as bad as it gets in terms of corruption. Next time there's a tender, how will the NASA employee know whether their decision
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by pyrale 2y ago
The main issue with tradespeople is quality risk. Most do decent job, but some things I've seen give me nightmares at night. My electric network took me time, but at least it won't burn my house like the existing one promised.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Technology won't fix the issues described in the article, which include scam, african countries not receiving antivenom designed for local snakes, shortages, delay to get to treatment centers, and expensive products.
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by pyrale 2y ago
The community is small enough that it wouldn't make much sense.
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by pyrale 2y ago
As a former Elm production user, the article is spot-on about why I moved on from the Elm community.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> there is not point in updating the language if all the essentials were well implemented already. There are bugfix PRs open for years now on the compiler and the core libraries.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> I'd encourage everyone to watch that as a grain of salt to TFA. It seems like the project leader felt he was being taken advantage of, and was just not getting out as much as he was putting in. That's two different topics. Th
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by pyrale 2y ago
I wonder whether telling either the army to use cars, or that the airport should be moved further away from the city was doable for atc personnel, or even their higher ups.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Damn, if we're also made redundant for posting snickering jokes on HN I'm definitely going to need a new occupation.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> A question, does the executive order (if it was actually signed by the President) have the "law power" to actually oblige Google Maps to make this change? Coercion isn't required when sycophants are eager to cooperate.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Speaker With Expertise
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by pyrale 2y ago
We have fired all our programmers. However, the AI is hard to work with, it expects specific wording in order to program our code as expected. We have hired people with expertise in the specific language needed to transmit our specification
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by pyrale 2y ago
Silicon computers are a crutch for the people too flawed to run their calculations in their head.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> never adopted for any project for any use case except where required by US contracting requirements AFAIK, this is wrong. I've seen the language used for a core system continuously developed over decades at a financial institution

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