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by rpeden 2y ago
When I fed that prompt to my Claude 3.5 based CarlinBot, it refused to write a poem and instead wrote a rant about why it hates tangerines (warning, profanity): Fuck tangerines, man. Those little orange bastards are a pain in the ass to pee
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by rpeden 2y ago
Kind of reminds me of some of the embassies of smaller countries in Ottawa when I lived there. There are quite a few in houses like this along Somerset Street if I'm remembering correctly.
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by rpeden 2y ago
Right - that's what I was getting at. I find stevia tastes like what I'd get if I took that wood + yellow paint + HB graphite taste I used to get when I absentmindedly chewed the end of my pencil in elementary school and then mixe
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by rpeden 2y ago
I vaguely remember reading something similar about stevia. Anecdotally, I know some people who think it's a tasty sweetener, but for me it just tastes bitter and awful. When I add it to coffee, it ends up tasting like I added a mixture
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by rpeden 2y ago
It's not quite the same, but the Federal Reserve's history of software developer job postings provides some insight: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE
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by rpeden 2y ago
Bias toward new topics is why it's called news. Otherwise, we'd have to call it olds.
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by rpeden 2y ago
An approach similar to what you suggest used to exist quite widely - at least in my part of Canada. We had Consumers Distributing, which was popular here and in parts of the U.S. You'd go in, find the item you want in a catalog, fill o
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by rpeden 2y ago
A trumpet is a lot weaker in that direction than you're assuming, and a plywood arcade cabinet is a lot stronger than you're giving it credit for. I'd be very surprised if a bunch of thin brass tubes transmitted enough for fo
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by rpeden 2y ago
Many family doctors in Ontario don't use the fee for service model. Instead, they have a roster of patients and they recieve a flat fee every year for having a patient on their roster. I'm not sure it changes any of the downsides
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by rpeden 3y ago
The article mentioned this was another reason for their existence.
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by rpeden 3y ago
Anything's possible, but a ship losing steering control is not that uncommon. This just happened at a particularly bad time and place.
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by rpeden 3y ago
Here's the one about the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse in Tampa Bay: https://youtu.be/3htwtaJI2nM?si=7SKMY2qxQEQpaf-O It's pretty similar to this one.
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by rpeden 3y ago
It's not especially common, but the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay is a famous example. Similar circumstances - it collapsed after being hit by a ship.
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by rpeden 3y ago
Because the Port of Baltimore is a very major port, and not allowing ships under it really isn't an option. Vertical clearance for ship traffic might have been the reason this kind of bridge was built in the first place. Otherwise, som
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by rpeden 3y ago
I don't see anything in the 3-clause BSD license indicating the copyright notice needs to be included in every file, though. They've kept a copy of it in the repository, and it looks like they left the BSD header in files where th
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by rpeden 3y ago
Here's the full list of the companies it owns: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html
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by rpeden 3y ago
Fable compiles F# to Python, Rust, and Dart now, too, in addition to JS. I haven't tried Dart or Rust, but when I tried compiling its output to Python it was actually quite good!
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by rpeden 3y ago
You might enjoy F#. It's a lot like OCaml (which others have mentioned) but being part of the .NET ecosystem there are libraries available for pretty much anything you might want to do.
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by rpeden 3y ago
One thing to consider is that hardware companies that benefit from a boom don't always do so well in the long term. Lots of investors in Nortel and JDS Uniphase learned that the hard way in the early 2000s.
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by rpeden 3y ago
I suppose it depends on projects you're using. For many developers their primary exposure to the Apache Foundation is through projects like Maven and Kafka, and those certainly don't feel dead.
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by rpeden 3y ago
Unless they use the bits of DCOM where Wine's DCOM implementation isn't quite compatible with Microsoft's, which was the OP's point.
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by rpeden 3y ago
It assumes knowledge of the host platform, which isn't necessarily the JVM. I've been working on a library that targets the JVM, JS/TS, and the .NET CLR. Clojure has let me share about 85% of the code across the three, though
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by rpeden 3y ago
I don't think it's double counting unless StatsCan's population estimates are way off. For example, look at the delta between Q4 2022 and Q4 2023: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.acti
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by rpeden 3y ago
The previous CEO was an aerospace engineer. As was the CEO who moved the company's headquarters from Seattle to Chicago. So I'm not sure an engineering background is any guarantee they'll do better. But perhaps the company&#x
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by rpeden 3y ago
QBasic was a slightly cut down version of Quickbasic that didn't include the compiler, so your assumption was correct in that case. QBasic was bundled with DOS but you had to buy Quickbasic.
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by rpeden 3y ago
As an interesting comparison to your A320 video, it looks like the A320neo overwing exits are now outward-opening instead of plug-style: https://youtu.be/VhiYfyE3Vps?si=FuKeNfpd1pD4sgc_&t=47
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by rpeden 3y ago
The same part was used on the 737-900 for quite a while and didn't (as far as we've heard, at least) have any similar issues there.
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by rpeden 3y ago
Thanks for sharing your takeaways! I enjoyed reading them.
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by rpeden 3y ago
It's awesome, but also funny that we're using WASM to reinvent COM 30 years later. And that's not a knock on WASM. It's just that COM was pretty neat for it's time, even if it was sometimes painful in practice. But
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by rpeden 3y ago
I lived in a nice apartment building in Toronto from 2015-2020. One couple in the building had lived in the same rent-stabilized apartment there since 1967. On the bright side, it was a well-maintained building in a good neighborhood, so th

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