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by varjag 5mo ago
Amen. There has to be some people like that statistically but literally every prolific programmer I know is also pretty damn good. Proficiency tends to be a function of practice.
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by varjag 5mo ago
That's just a poor analogy. A better one would be with lobotimized people doing math.
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by varjag 5mo ago
I'm not sure how that matters even if it was true. Here I am clearly aware of both. And if I were not, does it make people less dead? If nuclear became #1 power source and instead of 25 year cadence we had IAEA scale 7 events every 1.5
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by varjag 5mo ago
Would you argue that Bhopal was a nothingburger because it is dwarfed by residual emissions worldwide over decades? These are consequences from single incident, for a power source that has minuscule share of generation worldwide. The second
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by varjag 5mo ago
Big Rabbit AI energy. I can't just take generic hardware products hyped up as "AI" with software seriously. It's the new Windows button.
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by varjag 5mo ago
Belarus had markedly increased general cancer rate post-1986. At the time most of that was fatal. None of that naturally is included in site personnel and firefighter fatalities that IAEA recognises as the only casualties. When I was a stud
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by varjag 5mo ago
Relieved to know you're doing well! (but I ordered one of your bottles just in case)
188.
by varjag 5mo ago
Hey you can just rewrite (or should we say regenerate) it. Second system has never been cheaper!
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by varjag 5mo ago
Coding with agents has also entered a positive feedback loop with million developers essentially paying to perform RL on frontier models.
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by varjag 6mo ago
So goblins killed the nerd.
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by varjag 6mo ago
SE jobs is a fairly huge umbrella. RF engineer is a specialization within EE, same way firmware devs are a fraction of SE.
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by varjag 6mo ago
Quite so. There's literally no moat that can withstand a prospect of 10x cost cut.
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Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp(coalton-lang.github.io)
138 points by varjag 6mo ago|56 comments
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by varjag 6mo ago
On the timescale it's like getting buried today with a copy of Beowulf.
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by varjag 6mo ago
Why not? Drugs in Norway are illegal as well, and you are most certainly not allowed alcohol before 18. We can however buy our toothpaste without security locks.
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by varjag 6mo ago
Social media had been with us for the better part of two decades. It doesn't exactly feel rushed.
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by varjag 6mo ago
It is certainly better than the status quo. Don't underestimate the effect of simply making something illegal.
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by varjag 6mo ago
I disagree, the brainrot is about the same across generations. People have a slight bias to reporting their generation as being more resistant though.
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by varjag 6mo ago
You gotta start somewhere.
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by varjag 6mo ago
If one person in executive position is able to effectively override the nation's rules and institutions it sounds awfully close to saying there are no checks and balances.
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by varjag 6mo ago
And what I am saying is that the same articles of prosecution as in the soldier's case are applicable for their case too. Not going after them is a choice.
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by varjag 6mo ago
Pretty sure Count 1 through 5 above cover insider trading by administration officials too.
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by varjag 6mo ago
There was a widespread belief that U.S. government has an elaborate system of checks and balances but it was not evidence-based. Kind of Flat Earth period of American political science.
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by varjag 6mo ago
These keyboards did not pose safety risk and were nicer to type than whatever the normal mushy Apple stuff is. Mine lasted 6 years of daily use.
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by varjag 6mo ago
Same. Using my MacBook 12" of Theseus still at home. It's a fantastic machine for travel or field work if configured to 16GB. That 1" down from Air makes a huge difference on a seat tray.
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by varjag 6mo ago
Have to say I really prefer butterfly keyboard (as long as it works).
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by varjag 6mo ago
Oh I love shopping lists, let's see. The FSB HQ, SVR HQ, Rosgvardiya HQ; tens of Army offices across the city. Roscosmos HQ, listening stations for the satellite network. Precision mechanics, optics and electronic foundries manufacturi
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by varjag 6mo ago
It's too bad the USA found itself without allies to stow their transports to. How did that happen, was it F-35? Yeah, it has to be F-35 to blame.
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by varjag 6mo ago
No there are still tens of original UAF jets that by now clocked thousands of sorties. Sometimes they get shot down or otherwise lost and we get photographic evidence (tail number, sometimes even pre-war colors) that it's one of the OG
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by varjag 6mo ago
Then it's fine, as conventional bombing of Moscow is not an existential threat.

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