williamdclt

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by williamdclt 2mo ago
It's self-consistent: those who say that a chord must have at least 3 notes also say that power chords are not technically chords
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
> "unidiomatic" rust means, 'don't use these parts of the language even though they're first-class citizens?' that is indeed a roughly accurate definition of what "unidiomatic" means
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by williamdclt 2mo ago
mosquitoes too, though it pains me to give them credit for anything
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
Well so far we've been using humans to clean up the code that humans ruined in the first place, it's hardly a logical fallacy
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
Maybe they cared, but that's always been irrelevant. "Show me the incentive and i'll show you the outcome": the only incentive for a company in our economic system is to make as much money as possible, anything in the wa
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
Intentions never win over incentives, especially as time and scale increase. And we live in an economic system where the only incentive is "make as much money as possible".
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
ten times 50euros? Sounds like a very reasonable deal to not have to think about these things or spend the time setting it up.
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
> no one wants to tell their boss they want to disable RDS HA and wear 1h of downtime a year so they can cut 50% of their spend. If you're a SaaS, 1h of downtime costs a lot of money. In reputation, in lost business, in support time
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
good advice! > learn about GIN (and GIST) indexes yes, but also learn about the trade-offs and in particular the "pending list". The flush of the pending list can be slow, causing timeout, causing the list to not be flushed, ca
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
> is Taylor Swift a musician If only for her being a singer, I don't see how she _wouldn't_ be a musician
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
I'm not even sure that I do prefer the AI train to the social media / ad train. I certainly would if the direction was "we're throwing ourselves blindly in AI so to gradually free citizens from the need to work", bu
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
I don't understand what you mean, can you explain?
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
> which it mostly does I don't think that's true. I find that it way, way over-intensifies: eg using "load-bearing" for something that's just "kind of necessary although we probably could find a way without
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
According to gemini, "Total Fertility Rate" ("average number of children a woman would have over her lifetime if she experienced the current age-specific fertility rates of her society"). This HN thing of casually using
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
> Trump bombing Iran is going to keep them in power longer. The IRGC being in charge is going to keep Trump bombing them. I dont see a way out of that spiral on either side. Your statement actually makes the way out of the spiral very ex
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
Your example are somewhat funny (in a not-so-funny way), the most obvious example for "foolish to be completely dependent on anyone else, no matter how stable the CURRENT situation is" is the US, from a european perspective
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
> I’m doubtful of most people building their own crypto libs and distributed consensus implementations. But maybe cloudflare can pull it off. Who else than Cloudflare (or similar company in expertise and size) would be a better fit to im
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
I'm not reading anything in this article that seems to pretend like it's working in their favour? It's just an article from a company about their industry, companies do that all the time for brand recognition, building trust
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
Well it's because few people have "European-ness" as a strong personal value. Some people have strong values around open-source, or even around the specific country, but the sense of being European and valuing European things
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by williamdclt 3mo ago
You're not wrong that the position of many anti-datacenter people isn't entirely rational (in the sense of "backed by solid numbers"), but you're entirely missing the point of why they are angry. Consider this:
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by williamdclt 4mo ago
I'll happily live in a world where this is the extent of police authority abuse.
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by williamdclt 4mo ago
> there's few hundred years tradition behind it, at least in the west Not even close to being true! - There's not been any real convention for most of the history of western music (and no tuning fork anyway) and pitch varied hu
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by williamdclt 4mo ago
> adjust between A440 and A400 Someone shared this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwRSS7jeo5s I struggle to conceive being able to hear the difference, but _singing_ it entirely blows my mind
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by williamdclt 4mo ago
Baroque was 415Hz. I'm not aware of 436Hz having been a thing but 432Hz used to be standard before 440Hz came along. And nowadays, 442Hz is getting pretty common.
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by williamdclt 4mo ago
> knowing how the open strings are supposed to sound well that's the whole question isn't it? If you know how an open string is supposed to have, that's what people call absolute pitch?
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by williamdclt 4mo ago
It's really not that deep: they're characterising the business, you're characterising the hobby. The owner having a good time doesn't make it a successful business. A failing business can be a successful hobby, sure, tha
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by williamdclt 4mo ago
No that's not true. I've worked at a company whose product involved some decently advanced computer vision, marketed as AI (which isn't incorrect). I've also seen companies that were doing machine learning before the LLM
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by williamdclt 4mo ago
If they don't need $1300 cash, they don't have any real reason to sell it
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by williamdclt 4mo ago
So, temporary situation then. That's a pretty short period with no paradigm shift, just a delay in capacity.
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by williamdclt 4mo ago
> > The optimizer is usually smarter than you think. > Except for when it isn't, and moves heavy calculation inside a nested loop inside a nested loop to avoid an index scan. Nothing is perfect. Yeah that's also been my e

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