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by worik 5mo ago
This is true for all the UASanian frontier model owners They are all going to get their lunch eaten by the Chinese. In the USA with access to most of the world's capital, they've succumbed to the temptation of "bigger, faste
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by worik 5mo ago
London has not been part of Europe for a decade now. They locked themselves out in a bout of insanity
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by worik 5mo ago
> And 2 years is probably pretty average for the whole tech industry. Yes, and it is a problem > maybe for a fungible CRUD engineer And there's the cause. We're in a meat grinder, and there is no $100M payout in sight for mo
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by worik 5mo ago
> ...rust is way more productive than any other language... Eventually The learning curve is unfun
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by worik 5mo ago
> 95% of the ecosystem uses tokio nowadays The other 5% matters a lot. > but pretty much all async libraries will work with tokio, "pretty much" is useful until it's not. When it's not it is a special type of hell
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by worik 5mo ago
Surrender, to compile Weather the winter storms You will find, true bliss
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by worik 5mo ago
I do a lot of real-time audio programming in Rust because it is so expressive and the compiler so helpful But I disagree. I do not use asyc/await for my asynchronous programming in Rust if I get the choice. I have used it extensively
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by worik 5mo ago
It is good for China.
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by worik 5mo ago
"why use python " is a question I have asked myself for as long as Python has existed Too capable for a job control language, interesting objection, but if a job control language is too capable, it becomes a job implementation la
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A Hackers Guide to Circumventing Internet Shutdowns(eff.org)
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by worik 5mo ago
> Israel is the only successful and powerful free democratic state in that part of the world, Not true. The West Bank is being annexed by Israel and transformed into a racist state, where Jews have more rights than Arabs Not the actions
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by worik 5mo ago
> Let's let Mexicans take over America Good idea.
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by worik 5mo ago
LLMs are a tool. They must be wielded. Looking at the code, paying attention to the structure is part of the skill The skills required to wield an an LLM are not exactly those required to write code, but are very close. "Vibecoding&qu
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by worik 5mo ago
Have you ever been sailing on a yacht with friends? There is s hierarchy. Generally in my experience it is the person on the tiller who will bark commands as the boat moves across the wind. A hierarchy, temporary, amongst friends. Everybo
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by worik 5mo ago
I am curious about the existence of https://beamed.su/ The best IP Stresser service since 2022. That is one way of putting "DOS" for hire WTF does it really mean?
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by worik 6mo ago
Yes. We do not need GMO for food, I agree. But where is the genetically engineered heart muscle that sits in the engine bay of my car running on nutrient solution, excreting C02 and urine while driving my car with a hydraulic motor?
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by worik 6mo ago
> It is hardly feasible to train your own LLM as a private person or even a small company Yet
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by worik 6mo ago
> Here's the problem: you can't. It is not possible to "enforce" a "value system". True. But we can have a value system we share that benefits us all. We can work together to improve our welfare as a whole
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by worik 6mo ago
> Most people had no concept of a computer's capabilities, computer science was not as widely distributed. I am not sure that has changed....
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by worik 6mo ago
> do they ask about pre existing conditions? then prbly race also makes sense Why?
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by worik 6mo ago
Here in New Zealand those pages and pages of fine print are disappearing as they are no longer enforceable. The only things in a contract that can be enforced must be stated plainly and clearly Turns out there are o ly a few conditions that
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by worik 6mo ago
> The relevant facts are that the website owner voluntarily put the tracking code... The civil discussion should now be about the punishment for that. Regulation is required for handling people's data
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by worik 6mo ago
i am experimenting with TUI/GUI. My motivation is avoiding all the piles and piles of extra software dependencies that X and/or Wayland bring in. In addition (but might only be relevant in my niche platform) is that Wayland is bug
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by worik 6mo ago
And another thing... What is the harm of malfunctioning insider dominated prediction markets, other than those hedging possibilities evaporating? I am not taking a position, I am wondering. When they started they were an academic curiosity
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by worik 6mo ago
> Obviously, if you have a group of people working on the same task, you'll reach the business goal faster. That is not obvious at all.
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by worik 6mo ago
> the reality is that America has led in AI since the beginning and has had the best frontier models The USA has the biggest, but there lies their disadvantage In the USA building bigger, better frontier models has been bigger data centr
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by worik 6mo ago
I only have one upvote to give...
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by worik 6mo ago
Why would conscrtpt squaddies have any more trouble with that, than you? Or me? People everywhere are very smart, curious and want to something other than kill. There are exceptions, but they're exceptions
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by worik 6mo ago
I would point out two other short Cummings in the async/await paradigm 1. It makes asynchronous programming look synchronous. I do not like things being other than they appear. The point was touched on with the: getOrders(us
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by worik 6mo ago
There is a small "straw man" bias here. Callbacks are not the only alternative to Promises. There exist state machines and event loops too. I play around with real time audio, and use state machine/event loop. A very power

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