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by twoodfin 11mo ago
The query is surely faulty: Even if this wasn’t a huge distributed database with who-knows-what schemas and use cases, looking up a specific table by its unqualified name is sloppy. But the architectural assumption that the bot file build l
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by twoodfin 11mo ago
But the rapid deployment mechanism for bot features wasn’t where the bug was introduced. In fact, the root bug (faulty assumption?) was in one or more SQL catalog queries that were presumably written some time ago. (Interestingly the analys
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by twoodfin 1y ago
They can’t sell the home where it sits and buy a new one elsewhere?
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Public streams with no retention is how TXDOT handled this. That seems like the incentive structure of the law working as intended.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Fascinating. I suppose it also encourages developing adaptable strategies that accommodate imperfect information, vs. succumbing to wishful thinking or other forms of cognitive bias.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
As well-defined as Unicode is, surprising that no one has tried to replace ICU with a better mousetrap. Not to say ICU isn’t a nice bit of engineering. The table builds in particular I recall having some great hacks.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Appreciate this measured response. It’s more thoughtful than my reaction, which is to close the article and strongly consider flagging. That reaction is visceral, but I’ll try to rationalize it: Words & language are what separate us fro
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by twoodfin 1y ago
This kind of comment certainly shows that no organic stochastic parrots post to hn threads!
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by twoodfin 1y ago
The lesson, which we learned in the dot-com era and will likely learn again in the AI era, is that the benefits of step-change new infrastructure technology do not accrue in the long run to the infrastructure builders—the technology only cr
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by twoodfin 1y ago
The Iran bunker-buster strike seemed to exploit this misdirection ability to some extent.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
“Musicians play their instruments, I play the orchestra.” – Seiji Ozawa by way of Steve Jobs by way of Aaron Sorkin “I don’t want to be a product of my environment, I want my environment to be a product of me.” – “Frank Costello” by way of
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by twoodfin 1y ago
8) Create tons of dead-weight loss in the economy as you attempt to regulate your way out of (7) by being clever with the tax code.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I am not an expert in electricity generation or transmission, but it does seem strange that this “data center scare” is happening coincidental with (other?) big jumps in home electricity rates that have nothing to do with data centers. For
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The MDL ("Muddle") Programming Language (1979) [pdf](bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
12 points by twoodfin 1y ago|2 comments
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Great links! I don’t see how SteveB’s “bad app” was out of bounds. IBM was telling these analysts a bad app couldn’t bring down OS/2. As someone who used (and liked!) OS/2 at the time, this was indeed false: IIRC OS/2 in this
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by twoodfin 1y ago
No marketing campaign or OEM sales strategy would have saved OS/2. All the things that made it better than Windows 3.0/3.1 also meant it was totally unsuited to fill the disruptive low-end of the PC market that ate Windows up. The
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by twoodfin 1y ago
What numbers do you have in mind? I was paying very close attention to this world at the time, and I am confident that 90%+ of every PC that could run Win95 at the time of its release had been sold by an OEM as booting straight into the bun
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Was there any act that would have overcome the synergy of Intel’s commodity hardware economics and Microsoft’s ecosystem dominance?
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I think oddities like this were a consequence of a hardware world that was rocketing along the heart of Moore’s Law, alongside a software world that hadn’t matured past multi-year product cycles. When OS/2 for PowerPC was set in motion
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by twoodfin 1y ago
“WE’RE NOT BEING ATTACKED!! IT’S A SIMULATION!!”
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Still the best series opener by a country mile.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I dunno, it’s hard to be too sad. Turns out they really were inventing the future in that office, and the NeXT Cube has a better case for being the progenitor of the billions of slabs of glass, metal, and silicon that changed the world than
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by twoodfin 1y ago
The premise was the IRS could send 90% of taxpayers pre-filled forms for approval & these would have a high degree of accuracy—if you have to go over them with a fine-toothed comb, what’s the point? I don’t know the % of Americans each
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Yes, this argument is all about the tension between ease of filing and the complexity of the tax code. It really has very little to do with TurboTax lobbying, but that’s a framing that sells.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Which forms does the IRS get when you separate from your spouse and the kids (aka dependents) move out, too? Does the IRS get a form when a child is born or dies? You could say, yes, the IRS should keep tabs on all this life activity, but t
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Is this really strange? Matmul is just a specialized kind of primitive compute, one that is seeing an explosion in practical uses. A Mac Quadra in 1994 probably had floating point compute all over the place, despite the 1984 Mac having none
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by twoodfin 1y ago
All healthcare beyond the village witch doctor was technological progress at one time.
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by twoodfin 1y ago
I don’t think kids should be having boutique, hand-crafted “bean to bar” chocolate in their school lunches, but I also don’t think most Californians have products like that in mind when they think of “Ultra-Processed Foods”. Also as quoted
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by twoodfin 1y ago
Yeah. With the benefit of perfect hindsight, that was probably the best possible strategy. Go end-to-end in the low- and mid-range market, branding increasingly cheap panels with your UX & services. Continue to offer standalone boxes ta
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by twoodfin 1y ago
It’s not a felony to bankrupt your company or lose your investors’ money through good faith bad bets. Presuppose everything else that contributed to the GFC was straight up fraud: Prevent it all and the crisis is basically just as bad.

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