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by walkabout 1y ago
> In 1975( 50 years ago when the tooling you cite was built), nobody would want to fly in 20 year or 10 year old aircraft, today we don't care how old the air-frame we fly are. Given the DC-3 is still(!) in service, and there were s
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by walkabout 1y ago
I've been doing PDF data extraction with LLMs at my day job, and my experience is to get them sufficiently reliable for a document of even moderate complexity (say, has tables and such, form fields, that kind of thing) you end up writi
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by walkabout 1y ago
I watched a company you've probably heard of burn stupid amounts of money because one guy there was trying to build a personal brand as a Graph Database Expert, and another had fallen hard for Neo4j's marketing. Stability issues,
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by walkabout 1y ago
Around 2013 I was handling bursts up to thousands of requests per second for multi-megabyte file downloads with dynamic authentication using just PHP5, Apache2, and Haproxy, with single-node MySQL (or may have been MariaDB, by then?) as t
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by walkabout 1y ago
The way I've been putting it for a while is, "all they do is hallucinate—it's the only thing they do. Sometimes the hallucinations are useful."
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by walkabout 1y ago
Chicago school assholes backed by economic-right postwar "think tanks" managed to radically shift our standard for "harm" in anti trust enforcement, back in the '70s, though a combo of lobbying and positioning their
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by walkabout 1y ago
Cannot relate. Aside from creating things for computers (code) I do a lot more creation-related stuff with my phone. I mean, it's covered in cameras and microphones and shit. I can measure things with it. In a pinch, it's a leve
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by walkabout 1y ago
Ok, sold, I’ll try it.
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by walkabout 1y ago
Yeah, I’m just skeptical because I was at an agency in the heat of yarn-mania, waaaay after people online were proclaiming npm dead and pointless, and it went poorly enough that we developed a ha-ha-only-serious joke that you knew a project
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by walkabout 1y ago
Is this like when everyone on here had already been saying Yarn was a no-brainer replacement for npm, having totally obsoleted it, for like two-plus years, but it was still lacking safety/sanity checks, missing features, and broke in b
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by walkabout 1y ago
> This might be controversial, but I personally think that distro repos being the assumed first resort of software distribution on Linux has done untold amounts of damage to the software ecosystem on Linux. Hard agree. After getting used
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by walkabout 1y ago
Probably not an awesome sign if multiple actors are invoking never-used laws that were created while WWII was still fresh on everyone's mind.
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by walkabout 1y ago
The standard answer is, "because inventing and implementing them was easier than fixing Python packaging."
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by walkabout 1y ago
They greatly expand the plausible possibility-space of what might happen, and in-fact they use large parts of that space regularly. Cars might do things they shouldn't but the list of things-they-shouldn't is fairly small in pract
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by walkabout 1y ago
Huh? I react that way because it introduces a lot of chaos to the situation. That won’t change even if I stop minding that chaos has been introduced to a dangerous situation.
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by walkabout 1y ago
Where’d we get this term? I hear “home lab” and I think of having equipment to accomplish something new, not… running ordinary server software in fairly ordinary ways. Like Tony Stark designing his suits has a “home lab”. People 3D printing
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by walkabout 1y ago
Yes, of course. But the bikes are the ones making the space those murder-machines operate in operate differently from how it usually does, which is inherently not great. I’d like to see car use reduced as much as the next sane person, but I
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by walkabout 1y ago
Yeah, I don’t hate bicyclists in the “I would try to make them feel less safe” sense (I tend to go way the opposite way, if anything) but I do dread seeing them when driving or walking in the same spaces. They’re really unpredictable, and t
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by walkabout 1y ago
There’s one major benefit to separating your gaming and work machines, if you aren’t also using a lot of graphics horsepower for work[0]: NVidia and AMD graphics cards tend to ~double major problems on a machine (or halve system stability
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by walkabout 1y ago
Yeah we could sell coke and guns abroad to fund single-payer healthcare.
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by walkabout 1y ago
Lots of illegal things could fund other things, making them “free”.
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by walkabout 1y ago
The only time before this I've felt like Apple took a huge UX or appearance dive on an OS upgrade was iOS6 -> iOS7. People complain about almost every macOS upgrade, but the closest they've come to bothering me is that I hate
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by walkabout 1y ago
> what ads format should be banned Practically all of them unless I've asked to receive them. I'd absolutely sign up to receive info about new products from certain industry groups, niche product promoters, some stores, et c.
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by walkabout 1y ago
You can't eat AI, either. Yet another hidden benefit of a human workforce, that AI can't match.
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by walkabout 1y ago
> Because it's the biggest slice of the federal budget pie It's not spent out of the general fund. The only— only —effect Social Security spending has on the budget is that for part of its spending, it calls in debt the gene
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by walkabout 1y ago
No, I considered the whole thing. It's worth, in some contexts, pointing out that we borrow to service existing debt, but it remains irrelevant that one of the owners of that debt happens to be the Social Security Trust Fund, if we&#x2
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by walkabout 1y ago
> Social security lives in a parallel universe to the budget, so they could cancel the program entirely and it wouldn't affect the deficit. 100% true, if you're operating in sane-world where anything makes sense. Here in insane
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by walkabout 1y ago
They keep cutting taxes, too. That's a big part of the problem. A space alien newly arrived on Earth and looking at just actions taken, GAO/CBO reports, and the actual historical data, would conclude that, at least since 1980,
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by walkabout 1y ago
Social security doesn't contribute to the general budget deficit. Its funding source is totally distinct. It doesn't and can't (under current laws) borrow to fund itself—if nothing changes, then as the fund runs low, payments
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by walkabout 1y ago
FWIW I hate most medical billing departments (and hospitals are the worst) about as much as I hate insurance. They're at least as likely to fuck something up (curiously, always in their favor, not yours) as insurers, from what I'v

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