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by sitkack 2y ago
> It smelled like a Band-Aid-flavored Rockstar Energy drink. It tasted like…heat. The capsaicin was subtler than I expected: nothing abrasive or punishing, just a blushing, ambient warmth like a string of white Christmas lights. There wa
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by sitkack 2y ago
I think that shows how great the trapezoidal rule is. I feel like this is brought out too many times, that now it is used to make fun of people. It is 18 years old at this point.
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by sitkack 2y ago
What is your reason for a bytecode interpreter vs recompiling the AST?
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by sitkack 2y ago
Great article, https://www.taichi-lang.org/ also uses the JIT decorator technique for their GPU compiled kernels.
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by sitkack 2y ago
Might replace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf
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by sitkack 2y ago
I have a theory that the normalization of homosexuality in the united states was a move by the security agencies to lower their exposure risk. If everything is cool, nothing is blackmail. Blackmail is what sinks orgs because you have no ide
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by sitkack 2y ago
This is what a Thatcher Conservative utopia looks like, top to bottom public private partnerships. The whole thing is an own goal.
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by sitkack 2y ago
You are just name calling, there is nothing substantive in your argument. It is rude and offputting.
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by sitkack 2y ago
> changing a core business process is a year political consensus, rearchitecture, and change management effort You are thinking within the existing structures, those structures will evaporate. All along the software supply chain, process
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by sitkack 2y ago
https://protectdemocracy.org/work/the-authoritarian-playbook... This actually hasn't been posted that often https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=protectdemocracy.org
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by sitkack 2y ago
Non-calculus based physics is violence.
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by sitkack 2y ago
That is exactly what this is.
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by sitkack 2y ago
I am leaving the Apple ecosystem.
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by sitkack 2y ago
Unless your site is an SEO cesspool serving THEIR ads, then you do end up there.
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by sitkack 2y ago
It isn't a silver bullet in that it can just "make software" but it is changing the entire dynamic. You can't do point sampling to figure out where things are going. We have to look at the slope. People see a paper come
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by sitkack 2y ago
Your post is way way off the front page now, it is the first thing you find if you search for it.
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by sitkack 2y ago
We need to think terms of light cones, not dog and pony take downs of whatever system you are currently running. See where thigns are going. I have worked in large systems, both in code and people, compilers, massive data processing systems
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by sitkack 2y ago
Come back your comment in 18 months.
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by sitkack 2y ago
Which means that the current vc-software-ecosystem is the walking dead. The front end webdev is now going to do things that previously took a 10 person startup.
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by sitkack 2y ago
Totally agree.
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by sitkack 2y ago
The board needs to be replaced.
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by sitkack 2y ago
There was a Show HN style post here maybe a year ago that you could type your hn handle into and it would decloak your alt accounts, it was very accurate.
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by sitkack 2y ago
Software is dead, if it isn't a prompt now, it will be a prompt in 6 months. Most of what we think software is today, will just be a UI. But UIs are also dead.
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by sitkack 2y ago
DOGE is not acting as an oversight agency, they are locking people out of systems and modifying code, so they can't be an oversight agency. Congress needs to do their job here.
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by sitkack 2y ago
The goal is burn down the federal government, it doesn't really matter to them what happens. Expensive lawsuits and settlements, sign me up! It isn't their money.
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by sitkack 2y ago
I don't know why you keep repeating this everywhere. It is not a sure thing. And legality has no bearing anymore.
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by sitkack 2y ago
Nothing looks bad to them, so it doesn't matter. Looking bad isn't a deterrent any more.
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by sitkack 2y ago
Google owns a large percentage of the backbone and does not pay for traffic. It owns not just its own fiber, but also leases dark fiber and right of way. Google has been buying railroad for access to right of way to lay fiber since the earl
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by sitkack 2y ago
Not a lawyer, but the advice they give is still good opsec. Don't talk to anyone except your lawyer. If you are arrested, then yes you do have to assert your right to remain silent. https://www.justia.com/criminal&#x2
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by sitkack 2y ago
National Lawyers Guild Know Your Rights reminder: Shut the f** up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEpW6KOZDs https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/stopped-by-police

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