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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
Maybe if you're in a war that actually threatens your country. In the US, the Republican Party wages wars (such as the Iran War) pretty exclusively to facilitate borrowing public money and dumping it into the pockets of the rich. What
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
> Most "we need distributed coordination" turns out to be "we need one writer and a lock," which a single Postgres hands you for free 1. This article is about Cloudflare developing for their own internal control plane
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
The parent's claim was that Cloudflare is _implementing_ QuePaxa, not developing it, for whatever it's worth.
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
Yeah, for real. etcd is one of the biggest limitations to Kubernetes in my opinion. I would love to have a region-agnostic Kubernetes cluster.
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
“Guys, he’s obviously just trolling—he would never actually do that, it would be insane!” -MAGA Right before Trump tried to steal the 2020 election, militarily occupy US cities, annul various amendments, start the Iran War, etc.
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
As an American, it helps that the US is actively self-sabotaging.
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
While I applaud the strides the EU is taking to decouple militarily, it's still a long ways away from replacing the security umbrella provided by the US military. The EU doesn't even have a single command and control structure (al
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
> IMHO this mutual interdependence is actually a good thing. It stimulates maintaining peaceful relations and engaging in trade. We could use a little more of that. Isolationism didn't lead to anything good last century either. I th
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
I’ve been saying this for 20 years. I care much less if the game is visually stunning than if the core game is fun. It could be a paintball themed FPS for all I care as long as the core mechanics are fun and the story is engaging, I care ve
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
> They didn't say that. The entire premise of the conversation is that other languages allow us to write idiomatic code and get good performance, and the parent's position was that Java requires "competent developers"
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
> Java being slow is most often a pebcak scenario Am I the only one who thinks "pebkac" is a self-own? If you're blaming your users for the tool, it feels like maybe your tool is just hard to use properly. I have no doubt
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by throwaway894345 3mo ago
What does this mean “it’s the left that’s the problem”? The right’s solution to academic reform is literal pseudoscience. And I don’t mean this as whataboutism—I’m responding to the implication that some political faction other than the lef
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
I mean, the reason mobile data is part of the OS is because the antenna is hardware that must be shared across processes. Chat completions is just a network call like anything else—it’s already available to every app; they don’t need to pay
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
Somehow I feel it’s probably less satisfying if your contribution pays for a couple hours of developer time compared with the annual salary for an entire team. It’s probably more satisfying to be able to move the needle than not.
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
Jesus dude, I don’t want to wade through thousands of shitty companies to find the companies worth applying to.
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
No, gold is not a fiat currency and it also has significant utilitarian value.
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
> Age old argument: money also has no intrinsic utilitarian value. I didn't claim money had intrinsic value, I claimed that money is fiat currency--it's backed by a lot of people with a lot of guns. BTC is not. > And yes, bt
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
They don't _have_ to propagandize for one particular pole by default.
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
I don't subscribe to any groups except maybe a neighborhood association or similar. I was basically inactive on Facebook from 2014 until the last year. I've never been remotely right-wing and while I'm sure I have some old ac
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
The difficulty isn't in making the moral assessment, it's in searching through tens of thousands of employers and understanding their business models.
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
I would love to learn if people have structured approaches for identifying companies that are in that "least bad" band, but yeah, I agree that as long as we have a system based on extreme wealth inequality, it's going to be p
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
A company's impact on the world isn't a good/bad binary, it comes in degrees. In the case of Meta, they are _aggressively_ promoting far-right wing propaganda (or at least that's my feed, and what appears to be the gener
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
At least some of TSLA and SPCX value is derived from Musk's ability to purchase politicians to ensure the tax dollars keep flowing to them. Essentially, these ticker symbols are backed by the US government's ability to force us to
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
Bitcoin doesn't "store value", it has the value that society assigns it, which is what the parent means when s/he says "BTC is valuable solely through the power of memes". It's not a fiat currency, nor doe
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
I admire the confidence with which you started typing a reply that had nothing to do with my comment. Bravo!
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
Yeah, it's positively precious to think the specific pricing strategy for consumers is the overriding ethical concern with OpenAI, etc. I don't have any particularly strong affinity to any AI company, but comparing pricing to say
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
Heh, isn’t it fun living in a timeline where there are so many sociopathic leaders that your earlier comment is ambiguous? (:
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
I'm far from an expert, but I'm pretty sure the chips bottleneck at the moment is memory chips which has little to do with TSMC and the memory industry is _dumping_ capital into increasing manufacturing capacity. I'm not sure
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure Xi is also a sociopath, but he differs from Trump in that he's competent. And maybe that's a good thing for American democracy--if we had a competent dictator who could manifest massive infrastructure projects
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by throwaway894345 4mo ago
I wonder what are the economics driving these pricing decisions? Are the Chinese companies just subsidizing their models to a greater degree than the US, or is this an emergent property of energy policy between countries?

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