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by spopejoy 3mo ago
And yet, all the spending couldn't dent DSAs huge gains in NYC and now Colorado. US apparently still has a functioning democracy, at least when candidates ignore the consultants and insiders and speak straight to the voters. Worked for
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by spopejoy 3mo ago
> I could have read a few man pages and iterated on the script by hand to eventually get there after maybe an hour or two of futzing I'm not even sure losing this method is such a bad thing. Tooling, build scripts, home networking -
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by spopejoy 4mo ago
Not sure "real finance" is a meaningful value-add? Finance itself is shockingly antisocial in its own right. When you see fintech companies talking up the virtue of "looping" stablecoins, or pushing wobbly derivatives li
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by spopejoy 4mo ago
Kalshi was just exposed doing this "hero" stuff, running social media spots with paid actors using a fake mockup of their site to simulate real wins on camera.
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by spopejoy 4mo ago
While you're looking things up, check out "predatory lending", and maybe the history of casinos. It's been recognized for centuries that lending money to someone with no ability to pay it back is morally wrong and, right
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by spopejoy 4mo ago
Username checks out. BTC is nifty but it is far from world-changing. Nowhere near the impact of Bretton-Woods, Nixon abolishing the gold standard, securitization of mortgages, petrodollars, ZIRP, etc etc. Also, bitcoin alone would have neve
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by spopejoy 4mo ago
> enabling research in cryptographic theory Yes but ... most/all of this research is for solving weird self-made problems created from some flawed premise like "we need a decentralized sequencer" or "we need a hash fu
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by spopejoy 4mo ago
> If I need to use a service now, I will give them whatever they want to get past the hurdle and use the service There is such a thing as principled resistance? Not everything has to pass some EA effectiveness test. Some inconvenience or
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by spopejoy 4mo ago
Amen. I don't really notice the AI speak, especially if the content makes sense like TFA. But man am I tired of the "Too good to be made by a regular person, but too average in every way to be made by a graphic designer" [1]
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by spopejoy 4mo ago
> Why are we complaining about this as a corporate greed thing You answered your own question :) > Photobucket completely failed to properly monetize As in, failed to turn free users into VC returns by selling their data or forcing th
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by spopejoy 4mo ago
I know coding is the killer app thus far, but if businesses are seeing any kind of significant cost for other LLM usecases, seems like at least a decent consultancy opportunity to set up medium-sized businesses with in-house kit. The other
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by spopejoy 4mo ago
What does profile-switching provide that switching containers within a single profile doesn't? Edit: I RTFA'd, containers can't adjust `privacy.resistfingerprinting`. Boo
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by spopejoy 4mo ago
In case you haven't noticed, the era of sw devs being able to leave and find better conditions/pay anytime they want is gone. But even in the good old ZIRP days, leaving for better pay is not an action that can be taken collective
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by spopejoy 4mo ago
> Store shelf space is reserved I thought this would be over by now, I certainly haven't bought physical this decade. Who is buying physical, parents of young kids?
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by spopejoy 5mo ago
Plus as TFA notes, they went full copyleft: > As of v9.0 in August 2024 the project relicensed from MIT to GPLv3+, with the explicit goal of staying copyleft and resisting future commercial capture of the codebase. The value of copyleft
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by spopejoy 5mo ago
I guess it's what you think the work of sw dev is. > Developing an entire architecture and then abandoning it because it turned out that it didn't scale too well, or couldn't handle some edge cases, is not a major mistake
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by spopejoy 5mo ago
Yes but ... people will sign that paper for almost any severance. Consider the alternative (don't sign, get a lawyer etc) -- many folks will just sign to get whatever's on offer
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by spopejoy 5mo ago
- The DORA report is about organizations not individuals - Mythical man-month is about organizations not individuals - No Silver Bullet: "I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this
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by spopejoy 5mo ago
OMG I forgot all about cucumber, but wow the "cucumber cycle" of old sounds a lot like LLM psychosis of today. As in, the solution to cucumber problems was always to invest more into cucumber! Add more operations! Integrate more
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by spopejoy 5mo ago
> I was waiting for the "so I tried coding something with an LLM myself, and I found..." Why? Most of the article was about the productivity of teams. > This is a very academic approach to the subject - read what other peopl
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by spopejoy 5mo ago
My question is whether espresso-method coffee has all the same properties. The study itself clearly states "brewed coffee" and they brew the crap out of it ("extraction in boiling water for 8–10 min"), I can't take
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by spopejoy 5mo ago
Not sure about Ocaml but with Haskell you can use ghci/`cabal repl` and get blazing fast reload of a web app as you develop. Tbh a lot of haskellers don't take advantage of this IMO.
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by spopejoy 5mo ago
I would counter that it was probably their startup-oriented fintech focus and execution that led to their success. I love good tech culture as much as the next HNer but I've seen companies with great tech die because of bad biz focus.
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by spopejoy 5mo ago
That wouldn't apply here, since as the article says they hire "generalists, and most of them have never written a line of Haskell before joining." In any case, I think the "Haskell tax" concept (where you can pay we
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by spopejoy 6mo ago
Been over a decade since I used Clojure in anger, but at the time it really seemed like IDEs made it hard to use a REPL with a large codebase -- they seemed more to want it to be like a javac/maven stack. I assume that got better?
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by spopejoy 6mo ago
http://archive.today/JfrRn
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The War Is Turning Iran into a Major World Power(nytimes.com)
16 points by spopejoy 6mo ago|9 comments
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by spopejoy 6mo ago
The story behind the numbers they present clearly demonstrates that X is censoring/shadowbanning them. Going from 600MM to 13MM impressions/yr -- losing 98% of their impressions! -- is no accident but clearly Musk's thumb on
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by spopejoy 6mo ago
> Brand reputation They said nothing of this in TFA, all they talked about was decimated view count. The obvious conclusion is X is censoring them, like they pretty much do to anybody that Elon feels like censoring.
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by spopejoy 6mo ago
> how would reproducing some random number be legally "stealing" under any legal system in the world? The usual way, via the criminal code. My old business treasury was scammed into transferring funds on-chain to an impersonato

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