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by smt88 2y ago
We seem to be talking past each other. You're saying it's possible to accurately determine how closely related individuals (and even groups) are. I agree. But you can't determine where those individuals' ancestors lived
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by smt88 2y ago
> They aren't truly geographical- they're based on population structure in the genome. Determining whether people are genetically similar is indeed well-studied. The problem is saying with certainty that you know where their
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by smt88 2y ago
No it doesn't. We don't have DNA from 100 or even 50 years ago. These genetic tests are essentially geographical. For example, there are tens of millions of people in Africa and Latin America who unknowingly have mixed ancestry an
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by smt88 2y ago
My ex has a doctorate in genetics (specifically studying evolution through genetic data) and described such tests as "genetic astrology" because of limitations in the data.
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by smt88 2y ago
You can do this with other languages (C# for example) as well. Memory is so cheap, though, that most companies should spend their money on increasing memory rather than on paying programmers to optimize memory usage.
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by smt88 2y ago
> if what you're vending is the software instead of the service (not what people usually do now, but there was a time) I'm very curious what this means. Can you give an example?
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by smt88 2y ago
In the US, you can stay 100% anonymous using shell corporations, but it's fairly expensive to set up and requires some discipline from anyone who knows the secret.
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by smt88 2y ago
This comment aged poorly. We just learned the Trump Administration is killing EV tax credits.
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by smt88 2y ago
Trump ran on a pro-coal platform and remains vehemently pro-coal and pro-oil. He's not going to let his lobbyists down by boosting competing energy sources. Eliminating EPA regulations isn't going to make nuclear more competitive,
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by smt88 2y ago
Helping Trump get elected is the worst thing he could have done to harm the climate.
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by smt88 2y ago
"Almost all" is a stretch. Certainly a lot, and most new C/C++ (and even Go) projects will mention that they considered Rust before choosing a different language.
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by smt88 2y ago
Humans in this space tend to make mistakes like, "Added rent as per-square-foot instead of absolute value," or, "Missed a rent escalation for year 3." These tend to be easy to catch, even for the same person who's r
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by smt88 2y ago
It's not fascism because Threads has many competitors you're free to use instead. Threads is not a government. Similarly, it's not fascism for X to shadowban Democrats to help Musk get a cabinet position (or whatever Trump gi
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by smt88 2y ago
How do you guarantee that nothing in an extracted rent roll is hallucinated?
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by smt88 2y ago
All web-based software makes sense as a subscription because of ongoing maintenance costs. Servers, security updates, bug fixes, dealing with app stores, testing on new devices... it adds up in an unpredictable way. That's not even con
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by smt88 2y ago
Plenty of people don't know the definition of "carrier," and it's especially confusing because Google is a reseller (via Google Fi). A single comma would clear up any possible confusion and require nearly zero time to ad
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by smt88 2y ago
I don't agree. Can you share an example?
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by smt88 2y ago
Like what? The first thing devs think to automate is their own work, so we already have automated ways to do everything (including writing code now).
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by smt88 2y ago
Why are the blogs on running application servers at all? You could build them locally and host them on S3 for close to $0/month and load would be a non-issue.
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by smt88 2y ago
Why does a NoSQL or denormalized database need an ORM? Developing your own ORM is almost always a waste of time and a bad idea.
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by smt88 2y ago
LLMs can't and don't use logic/reason or "think," so the analogy to human overthinking doesn't make sense. Overthinking is often driven by emotion, which machines can't feel either.
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by smt88 2y ago
I should have referenced compiling to Wasm as well, which is what languages with very different semantics to JS (like Rust, the CLR family, and the JVM family) all do.
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by smt88 2y ago
You've been able to debug TypeScript (and anything else that transpiles to JS) natively in the browser for years using sourcemaps. That includes Dart, C#/F#, Go (as far as I know), and Python. For the languages that target wasm in
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by smt88 2y ago
A) GWT is 20 years old and not similar to how modern transpilation works B) What are the downsides?
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by smt88 2y ago
Languages like this don't make sense anymore. You can just pick a mature, feature-rich language you like (Rust, Kotlin, Python, probably many more) and transpile to JS.
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by smt88 2y ago
My impression as a longtime user of AWS is that they don't care to retain competent people. They seem to have a "throw more bodies at it" attitude toward work.
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by smt88 2y ago
It's so cheap to use a SaaS auth provider like Auth0 or Clerk.dev that you might as well implement one of them. It should take less than a day.
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by smt88 2y ago
All of Musk's companies have actual adults running them when Musk's attention is focused elsewhere (which it almost always is). There have been some anonymous reports that everyone in leadership at his companies just prays that he
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by smt88 2y ago
If no one from Boeing is going to jail, Musk certainly isn't either (at least not for anything related to vehicle unsafety).
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by smt88 2y ago
VS Code's stack is approaching this level of abstraction/translation/insanity, but it's still performant and useful.

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