smitty1e

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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Those were the innocuous founding ideas behind DoorDash, AirBnB, Uber, and Facebook. At scale, they would ruin communities, put restaurants out of business, destroy the dream of home ownership, and eventually undermine democracy itself
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> The reality is that we humans are messy and unpredictable. We don't quite know how we will behave until we have been throw into a particular situation. Open Source walks a very fine line, and anyone claiming to have all the answer
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Verily, this implieth the need for a Shakespearean English Wikipedia, for those occasions when thou needest additional bass in thy mix.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> they assume that the cross-section of relevant information to which they are privy is sufficient to adequately understand the situation Is this not the Central Limit Theorem[1] ? Nobody this side of Eternity is working with a full data
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by smitty1e 2y ago
None of the people summarized in the graph is ever more than one heartbeat from their demise. All those frog$kins are good as far as they go.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Whenever we fail to make simple things easy in software engineering Mandatory Rich Hickey "Simple Made Easy" link => https://youtu.be/SxdOUGdseq4?si=IY8mWzR3C-ru5Das "This keynote was given at Strange
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Your attention is drawn to Christoph Waltz working out on the theme to "Sesame Street": https://youtu.be/nr5MXQGhft4?si=SUfMtGKq8QQoY3Kh (Not to refute your point that modern scripts are more Hemingway than Updike
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Yay Emacs: Tweaking my video workflow with WhisperX and subed-record(sachachua.com)
2 points by smitty1e 2y ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Sure, but you've elided the actor, director, and the rest of the crew from the equation from the equation. Equating the script to the document seems a bit off, IMO.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Many of King’s criticisms of the film largely arise from the fundamental differences in the intentions behind the book and the movie. As with "Heart of Darkness" / "Apocalypse Now", this gets at one point I alw
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I have gone all the way through this, #21584. What a tremendous resource.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
This is why a Navy battle groups use https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_by_negation In summary, leaders of major slices of the effort run their own show, merely informing the HMFIC, who retains veto power, regardi
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Saddened by useless hedonism and stuff worship, yes.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Oh, yes they are, by providing a meaningful direction in which to progress. Lasting societies are a continuum. But I see my haters are out on parade.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Once more, the wisdom of "Explicit is better than implicit" shines. Instead, we jump through hoops with our hair on fire to manage complexity. People.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
No. In terms of pure Maslow, the tendency of modernity to destroy the transcendency of life, leaving the moral vacuum we see, is the central issue. Settle down; marry; enjoy parenthood; participate in a community of faith; ignore the haters
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X11 Forwarding and Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (2021)(thomasward.com)
4 points by smitty1e 2y ago|1 comments
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by smitty1e 2y ago
If the data are really that mutable, why not go with a service doing the query in RAM and then back it up to disk every second? This could be an SQLiter :memory: opportunity. Keep everything in tables and blow off the parsing. Then the AI w
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by smitty1e 2y ago
"We were not Agile as such; we were talking about a Waterfall as if it were an Agile flow of water molecules."
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Years ago--I think he was an IBM Fellow at the time--I had the privilege of hearing Jeff Jonas[1] speak. He was discussing literal spatial indices, scanning the sky for stuff, and how one would break up the problem to make it computable. So
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What should I ask Neal Stephenson?(marginalrevolution.com)
3 points by smitty1e 2y ago|1 comments
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> If an organisation wants to prevent that, it can rotate DKIM keys and release the old secret keys. This way, any future email with valid signature can be denied as a forgery OK, so, not the current private key. These are superceded k
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by smitty1e 2y ago
We should always maintain a healthy skepticism in either direction, and maybe supporting that is your purpose, but: why should your throwaway account be believed?
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Ah, but the innocently conceived...
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Take https://linuxfromscratch.org/ for a spin and see that Makefiles work fine; last a long time.
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Exciting Economics is Often Misguided Economics(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by smitty1e 2y ago|1 comments
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> But we’re still, in some ways, Roman. We still valorise power and straight lines. We still have Emperors, even if we call them Presidents, and we still have Empires, even if we pretend we don’t. We still build vast amphitheatres for en
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by smitty1e 2y ago
The author seemed to be arguing at length about some sort of technical shortcomings, as though an argument had been made .
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Maybe a haiku About joys of curation Brings the brevity
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Object storage in the cloud is likely to succeed there, but then cost and security issues arise. If data are encrypted, then managing keys is another pain/cost dimension. At the several decade point, keeping copies at multiple vendors

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