tekne

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by tekne 5mo ago
If the PR automatically gets approved (given checks) then pushing the merge button is just going from draft to published. Being able to work on a draft without publishing, and incorporate changes (i.e. rebasing) should make your life eas
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by tekne 5mo ago
I've been thinking about something in this space, actually... it feels like this is much more a UX/social problem -- in that a wiki can very much be modeled as a repo with a very permissive auto-merge bot (e.g. if PR only touches
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by tekne 6mo ago
You hit on what, in my opinion, is the actual core issue with this type of thinking -- it doesn't compose. To make a poor analogy to physics: if you measure something which changes when you change unit/frame of reference -- it&#
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by tekne 6mo ago
Well -- it shouldn't be authenticated, then! Which public key you want to route to is above the network layer.
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by tekne 6mo ago
I mean -- if I'm going to join a team to solve the hard 20%, I'd like to see the idea validated against the easy 80% first. If it's really bad, at least the easy 20%.
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by tekne 6mo ago
I mean — the ideal of an SQL query is you say what you want, and it’s up to the engine to determine how to give it to you — that is, being declarative. Part of it is there’s so many different ways to represent data, and even more ways to
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by tekne 7mo ago
A human genome fits on a single hard drive -- think of all the ways you could fill it?
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by tekne 7mo ago
Encryption is mathematics -- making this an issue of freedom not only of speech, but of thought.
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by tekne 7mo ago
Technology means there is only one truly stable compromise, imo: I am free to use whatever technical means at my disposal to encrypt my communications and those of my customers (!), and you can try to read them as much as you want. Combin
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by tekne 7mo ago
You are essentially saying that walking is safe because as a civilian you are unlikely to get robbed. This is a terrible take. All it takes is an angry mugger, and you could get killed.
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by tekne 7mo ago
> champagne Makes sense, sort of... > crude oil I really hope that's cheaper than ink or we're gonna have a problem...
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by tekne 7mo ago
Don't think the second amendment covers firing
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by tekne 7mo ago
E(accident due to going faster) vs E(worse outcome due to waiting) Your argument only makes sense if the only possible bad thing is a car accident -- to make my point clearer, would you take a 1% chance of losing 100$ to avoid a 50% chance
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by tekne 7mo ago
I think the fundamental issue is that a form of equality where everyone gets what was previously the worst outcome is... probably worse.
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by tekne 7mo ago
You've got a license for looking up the law/engineering textbooks/your symptoms, pal?
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by tekne 7mo ago
Eh… there’s a point to be made about “enforced low risk tolerance” being a societal issue. Lead in gasoline is bad, but in general I think individuals are perfectly capable of determining whether they are willing to risk a taxi ride.
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by tekne 8mo ago
I mean -- my (completely non-technical) mother, after a few hours of my guidance, has started vibe-coding apps and websites for her local community organizations. And, like -- it works .
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by tekne 8mo ago
Needs monads (not joking)
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by tekne 8mo ago
Consider: content-addressed headers.
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by tekne 8mo ago
But suppose you have egalitarian nation N -- what stops the billionaire from non-egalitarian nation B from influencing your politicians? Especially if nation N is small and nation B is large. Moreover -- why would low-level elites (think: e
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by tekne 8mo ago
Bit of a nerd-snipe, but I wonder about the idea of sortition of a set of candidates -- say 200 -- out of a larger voting pool, and then voting for one of the randomly selected candidates. Then you get "at least approx. top 1%" --
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by tekne 9mo ago
Once the software is written, it is ~free to copy. People pay a lot of money to avoid the software getting copied... and it gets copied anyways.
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by tekne 9mo ago
My friend, don't scare quote freedom. Sure, it may not have infinite value, but there are plenty of far less valuable things we endure significant harm to be able to enjoy. And I say this as someone who absolutely hates social medi
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by tekne 9mo ago
Idk - I really think this is a different brain thing. I have synesthesia and so get syntax highlighting for free. I like my highlighting to give me "synesthesia bootstrap speedup"; on the contrary it annoys me when it clashes. It&
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by tekne 9mo ago
Nice username -- very fitting. Yes, and yet if we instead look for low-entropy peaks, I'd be shocked if anything in the solar system is even nearly as low-entropy as a single bacterium, let alone a brain. Then there's potential.
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by tekne 9mo ago
It's interesting: on balance life increases entropy. Yet it also produces pockets of ultra-low entropy; states which would be staggeringly, astronomically unlikely to be witnessed in nature. So perhaps what life does is increase
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by tekne 9mo ago
On one hand, yes: expanding bullet points to slop makes things strictly worse. On the other hand, if one uses AI but keeps content density constant (e.g. grammar fixes for non-native speakers) or even negative (compress this repetitiv
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by tekne 9mo ago
You could, but the issue is that now when I'm defining a type I need to think about it's nullable behaviour. Versus if I instead view nullability as a way of transforming types (aka a functor) that works by reflection ; this gi
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by tekne 9mo ago
My personal preference would be to have separate types `A` and `A?` and overload field projections to work on `A?` as you'd expect. Subtyping optional. Putting on my theory hat, while we we can overload field projection for any monad
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by tekne 9mo ago
I think there's something to be said for separating disdain for the person and disdain for the institution ; unfortunately the latter is used as an excuse for the former. But actually... there really are, IMO, better ways to "b

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