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by sc68cal 9mo ago
Great article, shows a lot of interesting PostgreSQL features. I have used PostgreSQL and MySQL for decades, and this article showed me that I have barely scratched the surface of what is possible.
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by sc68cal 9mo ago
"AI might be destroying knowledge, causing harm to society, and making people intellectually lazy but it benefits me for a small period of time!"
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by sc68cal 9mo ago
Socialized losses, private profits
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by sc68cal 10mo ago
You completely missed the point of that quote. The point of the quote is to highlight the fact that automated systems are amoral, meaning that they do not know good or evil and cannot make judgements that require knowing what good and evil
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by sc68cal 10mo ago
They are on a international body that is investigating allegations of war crimes and genocide that the United States and Israel have committed in Gaza
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by sc68cal 10mo ago
When Starcloud put together that whitepaper the first thing I looked at was the launch costs[1]. It references a $5M cost to launch, which right away made absolutely no sense to me. Just a cursory search shows launch costs are around $50M p
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by sc68cal 10mo ago
This does make me appreciate some of the decisions that Zig has made, about passing allocators explicitly and also encouraging the use of the ArenaAllocator for most programs. Since Zig built up the standard library where you always pass an
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by sc68cal 10mo ago
Not every person has bared their soul on HN.
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by sc68cal 10mo ago
Oracle acquired them. So, now you have the full power of Oracle standing behind them to convince customers to adopt it, and the same power to keep customers from migrating.
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by sc68cal 10mo ago
> margins are either good or can soon become good. Their margins are negative and every increase in usage results in more cost. They have a whole leaderboard of people who pay $20 a month and then use $60,000 of compute. https:/&#x
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by sc68cal 10mo ago
That's what they did. If you read the article, it discussed the whole program as being a change from an in house developed system, to an off the shelf system. > The program launched in 2018 to replace the aging computer system used
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by sc68cal 10mo ago
Except that it keeps getting lawyers into trouble when they use it. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-disqualifies-...
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by sc68cal 10mo ago
Exactly
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by sc68cal 10mo ago
I would much rather tax the wealthy, so that we could create a society where we don't have children who need a "financial head start" I read a book nearly a decade ago, that I think is worth highlighting. > The book's
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by sc68cal 10mo ago
It's called consent manufacturing
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by sc68cal 11mo ago
> The incentive for one of the big players to undercut the other on cost even just a little bit to pick up market share is extremely lucrative. I would argue that the DRAM price fixing scandal actually demonstrates that the industry oper
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by sc68cal 11mo ago
So your entire case boils down to "people are lying about being poor"
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by sc68cal 11mo ago
You'd have to sue them to enforce it. Good luck bringing a case against Qualcomm, perhaps one of the worst companies known for its intellectual property management
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by sc68cal 11mo ago
They are inputs into a business. I agree that it's bloodless but it's very typical of business language
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by sc68cal 11mo ago
have enough money to pay the premiums
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by sc68cal 11mo ago
> Postgres doesn’t seem to have any popular libraries for pub-sub9 use cases, so I had to write my own. Ok so instead of running Kafka, we're going to spend development cycles building our own?
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by sc68cal 1y ago
xAI took on all the debt that was used as leverage by Musk in order to take Twitter private.
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by sc68cal 1y ago
From the article. > At the end of 2023, Justin Garrison left AWS and roasted them on his way out the door. He stated that AWS had seen an increase in Large Scale Events (or LSEs), and predicted significant outages in 2024. It would seem
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by sc68cal 1y ago
great thanks
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by sc68cal 1y ago
I haven't looked at the source too deeply yet to investigate how you implement the fork, but you state that it's a fork of Firefox, how do you plan to integrate fixes from Firefox (security, etc)?
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by sc68cal 1y ago
Would you feel the same way if it were eliminationist language, but against Jews, or African-Americans, or Irish-Americans, or Men?
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by sc68cal 1y ago
They were not bug fixes
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by sc68cal 1y ago
> Let me ask you, who benefits from Palestinians dying? Israel does. There's no need for a two state solution, the project of Greater Israel can be accomplished if they just kill anyone who they aren't able to forcibly expel fr
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by sc68cal 1y ago
Israel may have withdrawn from Gaza and forcibly removed their settlers, but they did not end the occupation since they created a naval blockade and control all entrance and exits from Gaza and decide what is allowed in for two decades
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by sc68cal 1y ago
There have been public reports by major news organizations on the subject of Israel using big tech companies to surveil the West Bank and Gaza, for a decade. This isn't an issue of customer privacy.

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