wesselbindt

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by wesselbindt 8mo ago
> If 10x more tokens saves a day, spend the tokens. The bottleneck is human decision-making time, not compute cost. This seems entirely backwards. Why spend money to optimize something that _isn't_ the bottleneck?
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by wesselbindt 8mo ago
So someone says they think a place got worse because it has fewer whites than it used to, and I'm somehow in the wrong for interpreting that as them finding a place worse because it has fewer whites. Check. Very clear. Thank you for th
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by wesselbindt 9mo ago
https://thestory.is/en/journal/chaos-report/ ^ This report from 2020 analyzed about 50,000 IT projects in a wide range of market segments, and they found that 50% exceeded their deadline. This seems to sugges
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by wesselbindt 9mo ago
Fair point, as can be seen from this quote here (emphasis mine): > London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late ’90s and early 2000s. _Chiefly because it’s no longer full of native Brits_. In 2000, more than sixty perce
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by wesselbindt 9mo ago
Seems like a reasonable feeling to have. Anything that's not worth writing is not worth reading imo.
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by wesselbindt 9mo ago
Call me conservative, but between writing an article against TDD where the main argument was "I don't like the people who do TDD", his opinion on typescript, and the article he wrote on London not being great because it has o
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by wesselbindt 9mo ago
The amount of effort spent and blood spilled to make anything that even remotely smells like socialism fail is one of the greater tragedies of the 20th century.
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by wesselbindt 9mo ago
What does either option even mean?
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by wesselbindt 9mo ago
Conflict of interest that the author fails to mention: he's a QA manager at Amazon, and has a vested interest in QA being seen as a necessary role. It may well be, but this is definitely a conflict of interest. Aside from that, this ar
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by wesselbindt 9mo ago
I really hate gotcha questions like "who are you".
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by wesselbindt 9mo ago
Polyfills are a thing, no?
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by wesselbindt 9mo ago
Here's some more context, which you seem to need: the reason they've laid off 75% of their devs is because their revenue is down 80%, despite tailwind being more popular than ever. This seems to be caused by a drop in visits to th
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by wesselbindt 9mo ago
I can't speak for executive orders for a mayor, but I can say that executive orders of the president are anything but symbolic. Their scope was expanded significantly under Bush and Cheney, and they are binding for federal agencies. Fo
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by wesselbindt 9mo ago
This makes me MAD AS HELL
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Given that enshittification is a thing, and embrace extend extinguish is a thing, I'm inclined to agree with you there, without the /s.
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
I'm talking about the 20th century as well. The silent holocaust was in the 80s, east Timor extended from the 70s to the 90s, the highway of death and the gulf war was in the 90s, the invasion of Vietnam and the illegal bombing of Camb
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Ok, from what you say, I get the sense that the applicability of the quote is non-obvious. I'll paraphrase the quote: "people who choose the lesser of two evils, forget that they chose evil". In our conversation, we are essen
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
"In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to ch
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
No I won't because I never said they did. But there's plenty of war crimes to point to though. Surely you've seen the picture of the girl on fire because of napalm. You've seen the torture of innocent civilians in the Ir
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
1. No they didn't, and that's not controversial. Even the most cursory Google search can dispell you of this notion. 2. "The world is messy" does not excuse countless war crimes. Imagine a lawyer in the Nuremberg trials
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
I'm sure the folks who were tortured in Abu Ghraib were very happy that their toruturers bore no swastika. And I'm sure the Iraqi children who lost their entire families felt very blessed that the people who killed them were in fa
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Not the Kurds though. Or the Mayans. Or the Chileans. Or Cuba. Iran got screwed pretty hard. And Iraq too for that matter. Afghanistan. East Timor, and Indonesia too. Oof and the Palestinians really got the short end of the stick. Vietnam,
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Oh get off it. We all know who pushed for the invasions. We all know who operated the black sites.
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Goodness me where oh where could that anti US bias come from? Couldn't be the illegal bombing of Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam War, couldn't be arming the Guatamalans who carried out the silent Holocaust, couldn't be a
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
I am also wondering about this, and in case you have a chef's knife in your kitchen, I would also like to hear if you have any comment on how that may be abused.
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
I'm not entirely sure what your parent post is referring to, but I know the UK government has been going after anti-genocide folks to such an extent that a group of four UN rapporteurs sent them a letter about it. Details and some more
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Are you being paid to post here? They're giving me nothing. Cheapskates.
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
Taxes, maybe? Buy a fork for 1750, have it appraised by a friend to be worth much more than that, donate your million dollar fork to a museum to write it off.
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
One simile I've heard describing the situation where fancy autocomplete can no longer keep track of its patches is that you'll be sloshing back and forth between bugs. I thought it was quite poetic.
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by wesselbindt 1y ago
But the thing is that there's other ways of dealing with discontent in the working class. Sure, UBI is one of them, but there are less pleasant solutions (just do slavery, or have a well paid class of kapos, or sow internal strife by p

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