tbrownaw

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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
> In the numbers it's almost more boring than the industrial revolution. Being almost more boring than the thing that caused Malthus to become wrong is quite an accomplishment.
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
> That law is so board - "public morals"? Should every porn site be taken down? The age-gate / anti-anonymity laws popping up everywhere are because there are enough people who would answer "yes" to that.
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
> can't taste much of a difference between "good" coffee and "bad" coffee. I found a 5+ year old half-full bag in the back of the pantry once; that was quite noticeably bad even though I usually can't tell
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
> greatest communication techonlogy 1. Snail-mail 2. Public cork-boards 3. E-mail
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
> Is this new term broader than the old term of CP or is it the same? Why did we even switch? The purpose of the new term was to emphasize that producing it involves the actual abuse of an actual child. And then somehow it got applied
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
I do not see how the second sentence follows from the first. I would think the claim in the second sentence would only be relevant in case of the inverse of the claim in the first sentence.
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
Those do not measure the same thing.
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by tbrownaw 2mo ago
I guess I could imagine this being tricky if you're stuck in a city apartment with no yard and no park nearby ...
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
What's the less insulting but similarly concise way to make the same substantive point?
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
> Using RMS as an example of "how to not be political" is uh... interesting. He's known for staying focused on one single issue, which is important for personal reasons unrelated to group affiliations.
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
> best effort parallelization of arbitrary loop like code across SIMD, multiple threads, multiple cores and GPU with a small directive. I doubt GPU is included by most runtimes yet, but for the rest of that have you tried SQL?
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
Most of my stuff isn't CPU-bound. Most of it is in managed languages, like Bash and C# and SQL and Python and Yaml and .tsx . It's been at least a decade for me since SIMD was more than an implementation detail handled by the runt
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
The comment I was replying to said > When people say "We're not political", or "That's not political". What they're actually saying is that it's within my own politics. That assertion is incorrec
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
> Pretending Are they though? I see "We are more than just Git hosting: Our community is ..." right in the highlight box on their landing page.
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
No, there's a big difference between "net effects are not guaranteed to be perfectly neutral" and "I am going to intentionally put my thumb on the scale". The position that everything is political so therefore opini
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
> How do you know what the politics will be next? That's the neat part, you don't. (Or, well, you could pay attention to the individual humans involved?)
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
A nice thing about Git is that you can trivially push to a new upstream any time you need.
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
Commercial and criminal activity are not actually the same. Also commercial activity tends to happen when everyone involved in the activity comes out ahead, so placing it as opposed to "net good" is perhaps a bit dubious.
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
Self-hosting based on an external project is still a dependency on Someone Else to keep it up to date, unless you have both the time and skill to take over maintenance of that project.
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
Ethics as opposed to morality is about codified rules . This seems to be somewhat conflating the two. Also this sounds like it's talking about both designing those rules and also applying existing rules, without noticing much distinct
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
The closest thing there is is e-beam lithography. It isn't really practical.
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
There's a decent amount of distributed stuff that has a design principle of not trusting the hardware it's running on.
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
> There is no world where accepting data corruption in order to save 3% cost is a reasonable tradeoff. It is if you're doing something where corruption is detectable after the fact, and happens rarely enough that redoing affected
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
> I definitely disagree with the idea that workers don't take on the risks. When $employer beats or misses targets, that affects my bonus (which is formalized for only the higher pay bands, probably on the theory that we can actua
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
I thought the labor theory of value wasn't much of a thing any more?
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
> Imagine we had that for software - "your JS is too big, you can't ship until you get it under 50 kB". ... But also that needs to be an official measurement, and if you're sloppy you can measure it wrong during y
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
> social media seems to be much more harmful The stuff I've seen on this doesn't look terribly convincing. It seems to mostly be along the same lines as saying that since some people get bullied or hang out with a bad crowd,
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
$employer uses Cursor, which is apparently owned by them and presumably using their models now.
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
That's a much longer long run than Keynes' "in the long run we are all dead".
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
> Musk bought Twitter looking to build an “everything app,” I thought it was mostly on a whim that turned out to be binding, and the 'everything app' plan came later?

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