wredcoll

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by wredcoll 7d ago
It's faster than an lsp?? What on earth are you doing? Even just the context switch to typing the right grep command is slower than ctrl-g or whatever.
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by wredcoll 7d ago
No, no one would argue that.
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by wredcoll 7d ago
Nobody has time to fact check every single fact we need to act on. Have you read every single study about the last vaccine you took and what the positives and negatives are and where potential problems are and so on? Of course not, we tru
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by wredcoll 9d ago
My experience is that nobody fights the democrats harder than "leftists".
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by wredcoll 10d ago
It's a good point but I'd argue having something to aspire to is a good thing, even if it's fictional. To steal and paraphrase "the important thing about fiction isn't that you see that dragons exist, it's that
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by wredcoll 13d ago
> I've never met Tara Stamps, my county commissioner, but I could be face-to-face with her inside a couple days if I wanted. And that's Cook County, one of the largest densest counties in the country. This was literally my poin
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by wredcoll 14d ago
I'm not sure (pc) gaming could ever really actually pay for the continued advancement and mass production of state of the art silicon. The prices of gpus are nuts right now due to demand, but theoretically speaking demand causes more s
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by wredcoll 14d ago
People claimed bernie madoff was running a pyramid scheme scam for like 20 years, boy did they look dumb!
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by wredcoll 14d ago
I mean, this is way too vague to really talk about usefully, but like, adding some friction to certain processes can be pretty useful.
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by wredcoll 14d ago
> Public comment is antidemocratic. This is a fascinating train of thought. I get the logic, but where does it stop? If the idea is that any situation where people are influencing the government/making decisions without absolutely
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by wredcoll 15d ago
How do you test that?
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by wredcoll 16d ago
I am so incredibly confused. Literally the first line of wikipedia: > MacGruber is a 2010 American action comedy film based on the Saturday Night Live sketch of the same name, which itself was a parody of action-adventure television seri
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by wredcoll 16d ago
I am so tired of existing react/electron applications being compared against imaginary, hypothetical "native" applications. Like, it's fine to criticize something, "this component doesn't follow the OS's U
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by wredcoll 17d ago
You should probably let all the doctors and scientists know that you're changing the definition of sex and they're all wrong then.
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by wredcoll 17d ago
You know, aside from, well, everything else that makes this a stupid comparison, the most important part is the motive that people like you seem so happy to ignore. Latinx is a not particularly useful attempt by a tiny group of people to
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by wredcoll 17d ago
Boy, this sounds like a fair and honest representation of a totally real conversation you had.
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by wredcoll 17d ago
> Police are a public good. Without a public police force the wealthy would happily fund their own security, and most already do. There are neighborhoods in San francisco with private security teams who simply bypass the shortcomings of
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by wredcoll 17d ago
I loved macgyver growing up (unusual I know) and I found macgruber just incredibly mean spirited, like, it wasn't a parody that loved its source material and audience, it felt like it hated it.
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by wredcoll 17d ago
Wait, are you implying you enjoyed macgruber??
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by wredcoll 17d ago
> - All compiled software is static. New versions are released. I'm happy to pay for new versions/features if I want/need them. But if the version I have is working offline, it doesn't need security updates, and if it
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by wredcoll 17d ago
> These local models are like old school software. They're producing the weights, and then giving them to people. If I'm happy with the weights you've given me, and I'm not using your compute for inference and not wan
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by wredcoll 17d ago
> Because they own the IP and they get to decide the terms of how it’s licensed. Well, the laws that society decide what is legal in terms of buying and selling. People, somewhat unfortunately, are starting to act as if "licenses&qu
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by wredcoll 17d ago
What, why?
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by wredcoll 17d ago
In the long term, no business model is sustainable.
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by wredcoll 18d ago
You don't have to "be like" anyone but yourself. You should, however, be aware of what you know and more importantly what you do not know.
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by wredcoll 18d ago
> This is New Jersey approach again: "I'll make my code (the OS, the shell) easier to write, and in return make life harder for my users (the tool writers)". I'm not sure if you're actually trying to argue for a
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by wredcoll 20d ago
Why would poor communities need police more than anyone else?
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by wredcoll 20d ago
> They have not suffered because of police simpliciter They also suffered from a lack of point to point teleportation. Or, I mean, they would if that existed. The point being that it's not terribly useful to talk about things that o
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by wredcoll 21d ago
> Being anti police is a bit of a wedge in US politics, it's privileged to say we don't need as much police because the poorest communities are often who need it most. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, but
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by wredcoll 22d ago
> (assuming it actually follows the C standard and your compiler's documented extensions, which almost no real C code does - C was a horrible example) it will work just as well in a year as it does today. > See how well it works

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