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by sebastos 9mo ago
Genuine question - are there examples (research? old systems?) of the interface to the operating system being exposed differently than a library? How might that work exactly?
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by sebastos 9mo ago
But if I get to Bring My Own Dependencies, then I know the exact versions of all my dependencies. That makes testing and development faster because I don’t have to expend effort testing across many different possible platforms. And if devel
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by sebastos 9mo ago
That’s fine as a “second order” rebuttal, but you’re leaving out _third_ order effects which are where all the action is in terms of the unique horribleness of real estate rental. The world is full of goods that share many of the nasty feat
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by sebastos 10mo ago
Right - but coming back to the original question, if I'm not mistaken, the explanation is that the blogpost is measuring information gained from an actual outcome, as opposed to _expected_ information gain. An example will help: Say yo
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by sebastos 11mo ago
Nailed it, but I fear this wisdom will be easily passed by by someone who doesn’t already intuit it from years of experience. Like the Island de la Muerta: wisdom that can only be found if you already know where it is.
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by sebastos 11mo ago
I see what you're getting at, and your sentiment is thoughtfully expressed, but come on... it's Calvin and Hobbes! It's part of that rarefied echelon of media that taps into something true about the human condition. Calvin do
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by sebastos 11mo ago
The asymmetry is that Hamas uses human shields to great effect, whereas the IDF doesn’t and couldn’t because their foe wouldn’t care. It’s all you really need to know. >resistance to it will continue ‘Resistance’ is an incredible word to
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by sebastos 11mo ago
> It's convenient that your knowledge of what "started" begins on October 7th and all the events of history prior since 1948 never happened What it comes down to is whether you can admit that the events of October 7th prov
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by sebastos 11mo ago
The conversation is about trying to do everyday activities inside of a combat zone. The international community's opinion about the war is, I should think this is obvious, not the relevant factor. It doesn't matter what people thi
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by sebastos 11mo ago
How many times must it be explained that building luxury mansions still brings property prices down. Nobody ever voluntarily builds crappy low income housing. That’s never how development works. You let people build the new fancy buildings
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by sebastos 11mo ago
This is almost exactly wrong. Like, if you wanted to invent a plausible-on-its-face position that formed a perfect -1 dot product with the truth, this is what you’d come up with. Polite western society has become so disconnected from what e
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by sebastos 1y ago
The analysis isn't done yet though: - How much do you trust the statistics about which ladder deaths were preventable? - Do you have the numbers on the counter-factual: once ladder training is introduced, these sub-populations see X re
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by sebastos 1y ago
Ah yes, The Lord of the Rings, an allegorical tale about how it is always wrong to wage war. Anduril, the flame of the west, refers of course to an evil sword wielded by an evil king who wrongly stands up to protect the people of middle ear
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by sebastos 1y ago
I think trying to keep a tally rather misses the larger point. You can’t properly determine the most impactful bad science of the last 30 years, because you’re not aware of all of it! These meta-studies are showing how often you find bad sc
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by sebastos 1y ago
Another angle I was thinking about, re the need for omniscience: Physical systems seem compelled to play by these object oriented rules, where encapsulation is the norm, and information must be transmitted, and locality dominates. But if we
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by sebastos 1y ago
But the difference is that assessing total property value can appeal to recent sales, so you have actual objective data to bound the realism of your assessment. What somebody would pay for the land without the improvement is stuck in imagin
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by sebastos 1y ago
Take-one-for-the-team salaries trump there too. Tom Brady and the Patriots dynasty say hi.
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by sebastos 1y ago
Amazing. Our company has to push gigantic docker images to IoT style devices, and we’ve had to maintain an installer script that downloads and stands up a local dummy registry, pushes the image to that, then ssh’s to the remote and pulls fr
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by sebastos 1y ago
You’re saying you think Thiel is pulling levers to get Vance in so that he can drive more directly?.. or what exactly is the conspiracy you’re alluding to here.
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by sebastos 1y ago
What happened “as soon as the attack happened” was you had Hamas apologists pre-emotively criticizing Israel BEFORE there was even time for any response to have happened. A moral absurdity. “Palestinians didn’t kill as many babies or do as
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by sebastos 1y ago
Well, ok - I’ll grant that you can find simplistic narratives that overly rely on GDP to stand in for “overall goodness”. But my point is more that the field of economics is not doing that. Modern economics understands what GDP does and doe
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by sebastos 1y ago
This is a pet peeve. Everyone has learned this meme that “economics is dumb”, and now people assume that the most basic difficulties they can imagine are probably valid criticisms. Modern economics has limitations, but they’re not so simpli
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by sebastos 1y ago
I thought this was an excellent statement of the problem, though perhaps it didn’t stick the landing. This author is clear-eyed about the shape of our discontent. Yet, like the rest of us, he had few answers for what to do about it. Still,
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by sebastos 2y ago
So it's 2024, and the plan is that we're going to wait another few years for BSP to be finished before vscode support is anything more than a toy? If their goal is adoption, that is just _awful_ pathfinding. Probably harkens the b
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by sebastos 2y ago
>The more often a person has regular checkups with a doctor the shorter their life expectancy. Well I'm no expert, but I can think of an alternative interpretation to this datapoint...
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by sebastos 2y ago
Ok, now imagine the kidnappers escape with the hostages, and hole up in their family homes. The family members will answer the phone and they insist they are totally 100% innocent: they haven’t seen their scumbag kidnapper uncle in years! T
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by sebastos 2y ago
Grrr - I strongly, viscerally disagree! All of these new dependency bundling technologies were explicitly created to get out from under the abysmal state of packaging - from Docker (in some ways) and on to snap, flat pack, appimage, etc. Th
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by sebastos 2y ago
"X is as complex as C++" is a preposterous statement for all values of X. A lot of people seem to assume that "C++ is complex" is referring to how the committee adds new language features every 3 years. The conventional
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by sebastos 2y ago
I've been looking around for some kind of design documents that explain how you were able to ditch the central broker, but I haven't found much. Do you have breadcrumbs?
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by sebastos 2y ago
What I love about you guys is that when somebody asks for a feature, you never come back with “sure, maybe we’ll bolt that on”, you come back with “We agree! That’s why we completely rebuilt the thing from scratch to handle that legitimate

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