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This and the comments may miss the forest for the trees. Enterprise software vendors sold libraries and then "application servers", essentially promising infrastructure (typically tied to databases). Enterprise software developers
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Optane persistent memory had a fascinating value proposition: stop converting data structures for database storage and just persist the data directly. No more booting or application launch or data load: just pick up where you left off. Di
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OpenDoc was mostly given to Taligent (the Apple and IBM joint venture) to develop. It was full-on OO: about 35 files for a minimal application, which meant that Erich Gamma had to build a whole new type of IDE which was unusable. He likel
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I'm grateful to those tracking and publishing this information, but as smoking guns go, the evidence doesn't seem particularly compelling. China announced their rare-earth restrictions on 10/9. Trump predictably over-reacts
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> what we're getting is straight up voodoo nonsense Maybe not in this case. For the AI to create a solution, it has to come up with a vector for your intention and goals. It makes some sense for an AI trained on human persuasion ma
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It's nice to review the features, but the history of Java isn't really about features or even programmer popularity. (1) It was the first disruptive enterprise business model. They aimed to make everyone a Java programmer with fr
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Demographics aside, administrators have no real incentive to make their product better. The whole system will be fairer if they can't depend on social fictions for their reputation and marketing.
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Can anyone say whether airline pilots make each diversion decision solely based on their own information and judgment, or do they loop in the company?
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> what's to say it isn't about 20 or 20000 different things going wrong In this case, the therapy resulted in old mice performing like young mice (in addition to the amyloid-beta level reducing).
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They don't compete with us directly, so they survived. We destroyed the many other humanoid/intelligent species, who did compete with us.
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For dot-com's it became clear that just having a web site wouldn't move customers. You could expect strong negative signal within a year of putting up the site, prompting broad pull-back. For AI now, the question is (a) how well
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When traveling, I met many who lived by the mantra of self-sufficiency. It seemed both to liberate and consume them. Daily now I see people living on the street with a lot more, but still with needs of all sorts. In some schools of Buddhis
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Other commenters are criticizing details, but I really appreciate the OP trying to see the entire landscape. I agree with other commenters that ownership over code is a primary driver (at least for CSS style vs. javascript interaction). Le
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> WASM feels like it might finally ... But WASM is weirdly allergic to the DOM and to javascript. The core, fundamental interfaces are terrible and highly disputed, so it will be restricted to mainly-WASM apps for some time.
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Impressive, but not helpful for me. For a library, I expected something like a card index, with an ontology reflecting the kinds of things users want. Instead, the tags (except for 2) reflect the media type. The index (however implemented
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I think the concern is deep, deeper than mitigations like going up the abstraction chain from coding to design, or lessons learned from failure. It's very, very difficult to really realize that one's sacrifice was meaningless or m
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> you can find much better solutions this way ... because mappings map nicely to functions
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I like it when teachers (e.g., Grant Sanderson) are careful to explain when they are trying to convey an intuition to motivate and guide some complex math, because it orients you without tangling you in all the misunderstanding that would c
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To reinforce this: pandoc has been the go-to for a long, long time and they have encountered and addressed tons of issues, which is especially important for two underspecified and over-provisioned formats like HTML and pdf. Go through the r
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In my observation, this "coherence" is a matter not only of understanding, but of accepting, particularly certain trade-off's. Often this acceptance is because people don't want to upset the person who insisted on it. On
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So sue. Don't expect legislators or online legions to protect you. Sue to protect others in the same situation. The common-law tort of invasion of privacy grows to encompass new situations only through court cases. Courts (i.e., judg
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mermaid layout doesn't scale for me so I keep using yEd/yFiles and their tgf (trivial graph format -- tab-delimited relations) input with orthogonal layout. It's a bit of a hassle in a meeting but updates take about 15 second
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There's both less and more to making decisions than ensuring they get made. First: get others to actually decide. Jean-Louis Gassee at Apple (componentized mac's in the late 1980's) said that when dueling managers brought hi
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> Datalog type dialect would be more appropriate I assume because datalog is more about composing queries from assertions/constraints on the data? Nicely, queries can be recursive without having to create views or CTE's (common
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Great post. But not sure I'd pre-position small organizations as having some kind of "role" -- effect maybe? I'm reminded of a term "the locus of relevant possibility" used to characterize where people spend th
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This should be re-titled something like: with 200x longer sequences and making products without culturing, dirt can make antibiotic gold. The two prospects: Erutacidin, disrupts bacterial membranes through an uncommon interaction with the l
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(non-expert) This is promising but needs publication and expert review. Here's the actual company statement from today: https://uniqure.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/uniqure-announces-posit
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Regardless of the merits of such visas, they were legal, and companies now depend on them. Business uncertainty is off the charts when any administration can change existing policy at a whim and on short notice, for any kind of sunk costs.
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This should increase political donations, cryptocurrency bribe purchases, and social compliance among tech companies dependent on H1B, whether it becomes policy or not. For that reason, you can expect no resolution before the mid-term elect
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FWIW I’m Hoping that the combination of AI and ridiculously powerful small devices will finally get us to the point where we can interact with computers primarily through voice. A limiting factor seems to be misunderstanding what’s actuall

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