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901.
by saghm 5mo ago
For what it's worth, even as someone who's known about the syntax for over a decade, I think there have already been two times this calendar year that I've mistakenly gotten the meanings of the caret and tilde operators on pa
902.
by saghm 5mo ago
Could `update` be deprecated in favor of an alias like`lock-update`?
903.
by saghm 5mo ago
You and I have a very different version of what the equals sign means. "This is a reasonable action to take in this scenario" is not what I understand as equivalence.
904.
by saghm 5mo ago
> Yes, and the contributions from those parents were so valuable that the society still owes them, even long after their death. That's why we pay our dues to their children and grandchildren. You're ascribing a level of agreeme
905.
by saghm 5mo ago
> People are billionaires because they “share with society”. They take a small fraction of the wealth and surplus they create. That's certainly an opinion that some people have, but as the parent comment stated, companies don't
906.
by saghm 5mo ago
I've never heard the phrase "bit the wax tadpole" before. From googling, it sounds like a reference to an urban legend about Coca Cola being poorly transliterated into Chinese? It's not clear to me if this is something c
907.
by saghm 5mo ago
I'd be interested in details about how visible reports from a given organization are to the others on the platform. People seem to be making comparisons to Nextdoor, but one of the fundamental parts of it is the public feed. If this is
908.
by saghm 5mo ago
I don't find that to be a particularly strong argument that a Python package manager would be possible to be in the same ballpark of performance as a Rust one. There's quite a lot of it that either doesn't support the idea of
909.
by saghm 5mo ago
I don't do Python all that often, but I got sold on uv when a year or so ago I wanted to try to fix a small bug in a relatively niche Python open source I was trying to use, and it used a packaging tool I hadn't even heard of befo
910.
by saghm 5mo ago
I don't know if there's a good source for where this convention started but it's not that uncommon; offhand, both npm[1] and Cargo[2] support that format. [1]: https://docs.npmjs.com/about-semantic-versioning#
911.
by saghm 5mo ago
> The entire purpose of semver is to give you a way to resolve that conundrum. New major version = assume it's incompatible. I'm not sure I'd agree with that characterization. The point of semver is that you can assume t
912.
by saghm 5mo ago
As much as uv has improved the situation, I have to imagine that there's plenty of stuff like this that fundamentally is impossible to address via tooling. It's incredible how much the situation seems to have improved compared to
913.
by saghm 5mo ago
I'm saying that the alternative is "An Amazon security personnel or store keeper reports a crime via the normal public channels and there's the usual paper trail for it". Your premise that this is only ever used for anyt
914.
by saghm 5mo ago
> You may work together, but would you want to start a business with them? That is what a union ultimately is, after all: A group of people who have come together to want to sell labor under an organization instead of individually. My li
915.
by saghm 5mo ago
> But ChatGPT does nothing to scale copying somebody else's website. What are we talking about here, exactly? "Make me a website that has the same content as that other one so I can get views instead" is not something you
916.
by saghm 5mo ago
No, I'm saying that simultaneous discovery and plagiarism are not philosophically incompatible, and treating them as equivalent is hard to take seriously.
917.
by saghm 5mo ago
> No offense, but you sound like someone who has never built a language model. Anyone who has actually built one understands that there is no copying going on. Just predicting words (tokens actually). > The problem is that people&#x27
918.
by saghm 5mo ago
Fair enough, I might just be extrapolating from a few of the larger American players in the industry.
919.
by saghm 5mo ago
It seems baked into the concept of "reselling can't be done at a higher value" that transfers would have to be limited to a platform where that sort of thing is prevented. For example, if the reselling market is just "ad
920.
by saghm 5mo ago
My point is that if you start with the premise of something rife with frivolous fear-mongering like Nextdoor, swap out "random individuals with no real clout" with "some of the most powerful companies in the world", and
921.
by saghm 5mo ago
Yes, because Amazon, etc. are not the ones using Nextdoor. My point is that if you think this is just "Nextdoor but for Seattle companies", consider what you think the equivalent of a frivolous and out-of-touch comment like "
922.
by saghm 5mo ago
Yeah, I'm kind of in shock that anyone would think this is the normal way things always worked. I'm not that old yet, I was born in the 90s!
923.
by saghm 5mo ago
Given how nowadays the payoff of a stock seems to just be from selling it later rather than having any direct correlation to the companies finances, it's all just a Ponzi scheme based on vibes.
924.
by saghm 5mo ago
The link they did include seems to have a pretty comprehensive list of alternatives. Complaining can be fun, but it doesn't really make sense to penalize them for not being prescriptive about alternatives when the exact point they&#x
925.
by saghm 5mo ago
"There are lots of bad things" does not imply "all bad things are equally bad and therefore it's not worthwhile to try to prevent any of them"
926.
by saghm 5mo ago
> say you run a store in the city. You encounter someone who smashes some merchandise. The police don't make an arrest because the person insists it was accidental, but you're confident it was intentional. Is it wrong to share
927.
by saghm 5mo ago
Depends on what they consider "destructive", and it's not like there isn't already a way for contacting law enforcement when the circumstances warrant it. The Nextdoor analogy is even more apt because it's kind of n
928.
by saghm 5mo ago
> If you make open source used by any of this companies for this network, would you also characterize it as actively enabling this? That's a pretty strange conflation. It's pretty commonly discussed exactly how rare it is for p
929.
by saghm 5mo ago
There's also the contact form! I'm sure if I send them a nice message they'll clear everything up
930.
by saghm 5mo ago
Good thing that ICE has such a stellar reputation of not pushing the agenda of the national government into local affairs!

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