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by switchbak 1mo ago
They didn't succeed per-se, they rode a gigantic wave of free money and barely avoided catastrophe. I think much of what we see there is really heroic efforts: subsystems get swapped out with things that suck less, PHP gets a new optim
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by switchbak 1mo ago
Man, the knee-jerk downvotes for this are awful. One can observe a problem while not advocating support for it. It is quite true that energy decision making has been tremendously politicized, and I don't think that's good for anyo
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by switchbak 1mo ago
Your inclusion of FP is interesting in an unintended way: LLMs actually thrive in a highly constrained system like you describe. "It's hard to switch your mindset" - isn't nearly as true for an LLM, it can usually adopt
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by switchbak 1mo ago
It's like a tool that has caused a fan out of both good and bad outcomes. Good: you can refactor your codebase at will, throw out legacy cruft by the megabyte, improve build/CI time, and simplify ruthlessly. Not to mention kick ou
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by switchbak 1mo ago
Why would anyone choose XML for a modern GUI layout in 2026? That seems like a mis-step.
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by switchbak 1mo ago
They will also know the fundamental underpinnings of the web, you know - the thing that those html devs are actually using. That’s like saying someone who fabricates cars doesn’t have the skills to drive them. Perhaps not, but they’re very
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by switchbak 1mo ago
Who exactly is this ill mannered counterpart to Trudeau? Please tell me you’re not talking about Trump here? Trudeau was a colossal cluster f of a prime minister, but he’s nowhere in the same ballpark.
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by switchbak 1mo ago
I think you’re ascribing malice where stupidity would suffice. Raw tribal stupidity. And of course there’s those that know exactly how wrong and awful this is, but support it out of self interest anyway (eg: Marco Rubio). That’s even worse.
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by switchbak 2mo ago
Thanks, I also took it in the least charitable way - which also wasn't fair. Thanks for being cool.
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by switchbak 2mo ago
The point is that some people didn't realize contracting was a step up, not a step down. But sure, take offence and presume I'm bragging. I imagine you're a lot of fun to be around.
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by switchbak 2mo ago
I should know better than to make statements in dumb topics like this. It's like dipping a net into a pool and just filtering out weird takes like this one.
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by switchbak 2mo ago
I was a contractor for 14 years, and I kept running into people like you that didn't realize I got paid a lot MORE to come in and fix the problems that the full timers couldn't. Reminds me of the folks I tell I work in "IT&qu
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by switchbak 2mo ago
Wow, it's a good thing you work from home. We don't want you roaming around in polite society!
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by switchbak 2mo ago
Being miserable is now a disability? Seriously? That reminds me of a sign I saw in a handicapped parking spot: "Being an asshole is not a disability".
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by switchbak 2mo ago
Or something big. Which is often not wrong.
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by switchbak 2mo ago
Exactly - these recommendations often come with no context or scale provisions. Yes Postgres can work in the small for a lot of things, it can even work at surprising scale if you use it according to its strengths. But if you use it for thi
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by switchbak 2mo ago
You know, you had a bunch of statements in a row, in what appeared to be someone trying to make a point. And then you said "USA! USA! USA!" ... what in the actual fuck are you trying to achieve with that? "Was USA behavior ve
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by switchbak 2mo ago
"Anyone who brings up kids is either trying to manipulate you or is a useful idiot for the manipulators." So say a school administrator has a meeting to discuss the pro's and con's of AI in their school - in good faith,
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by switchbak 2mo ago
"Who’s to say that your fallible memory is incorrect" - you can very easily test if someone has a bullet through their head. Well, assuming someone didn't go and steal their brain. I'm saying that not everything is opini
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by switchbak 2mo ago
I wouldn't take language advice from a Product Manager and Chief Evangelist from anywhere - and especially not Google. Having said that: my opinion is that LLMs thrive by working in a tight loop. Unlike a human, they thrive with more a
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by switchbak 2mo ago
But isn't this expected from users that like a certain language? Won't you also hear this response from Rust users that like Rust?
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by switchbak 2mo ago
You said "Anyone who brings up kids is trying to manipulate you" - that's clearly not always true. Now it's OFTEN true, and in politics it's almost always used in bad faith. But that's still not everything, and
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by switchbak 2mo ago
I think of it more as a basis for shared culture - I could chat about Seinfeld / Friends, and odds were high that the other person would know what I was talking about. I imagine in prior ages this was perhaps more about folks reading a
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by switchbak 2mo ago
Everything is perceived, and our perception gets filtered based on our prior experience. Just because we're not directly perceiving objective reality, that does not mean _everything_ is opinion. JFK was shot, that's not just my op
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by switchbak 2mo ago
A fully traceable public ledger is kind of a wet dream for an intelligence agency/evil corp. Funny how much faith we put into that, and look at it now.
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by switchbak 2mo ago
“Anyone who brings up kids is trying to manipulate you” Any argument with such blatant oversimplifications is almost certainly lacking in nuance and can be ignored and dismissed. I get what you’re pointing at: politicians regularly abuse th
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by switchbak 2mo ago
This is the issue I have with most of my well meaning but somewhat politically uninformed friends. The idea of “wouldn’t it be good if …” (idealized scenario), is never followed up with a “yes, but …” (realistic evaluation of how politics a
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by switchbak 2mo ago
"breaks sucrose into fructose and glucose almost instantaneously" - I presume what you meant to write? And that's absolutely true. I think it's easy to hate (more) on HFCS because it literally says "high fructose&qu
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by switchbak 2mo ago
That cuts both ways though, and I have quite direct knowledge of how this has been misused in really gross ways. But that said, I would still bias towards more freedom than less, and hope that we can get a handle on the more extreme cases.
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by switchbak 2mo ago
I was almost taken out by two rogue kayaks being towed behind an oblivious truck driver. If I get taken out, I want it to be while I'm saving kids from an angry bear, not something stupid like ^

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