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by wvenable 7mo ago
As someone else pointed everyone is already on DST for approximately 65% of the year. This just removes the remaining 35%. Picking standard time would have been a much bigger change. Ultimately, it's entirely arbitrary anyway. The o
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by wvenable 7mo ago
I think we merely have a system where the best people are selfless and poor and the worse people are rich and in charge. It makes sense; we have a system that rewards immoral behavior so we shouldn't be surprised that immoral people h
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by wvenable 8mo ago
> LLMs produce output of unknowable and unpredictable accuracy So do humans. But humans might not follow illegal or immoral orders.
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by wvenable 8mo ago
I don't know if I agree. Look at modern application development: even building the most basic GUI application in any platform, but especially the web, is significantly more "power-user" than Visual Basic ever was. People are
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by wvenable 8mo ago
> You don't pre-order, and you wait for reviews. ...you wait several years for them to not shut down the servers? In the end, without government intervention, is there any hope that any game beign developed right now will be able to
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by wvenable 8mo ago
> On the other, though, the companies that produce games that stop working are not worth supporting. But how can you make an informed purchasing decision based on something that hasn't happened yet? What about new studios?
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by wvenable 8mo ago
One could do that but then they'd lose all momentum and the project would never get finished.
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by wvenable 8mo ago
> to know how a specific ORM composes queries targetting a specific database backend, however, is where the magic falls apart I've never found this to be a particular problem. Most ORMs are actually quite predictable. I've se
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by wvenable 8mo ago
> Sounds great as long as you don't think about the fact that not understanding how it works is actually a bug, not a feature. That's such a wrong way of thinking. There is simply a limit on how much a single person can know a
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by wvenable 8mo ago
My Facebook feed (I visit just for marketplace) is also not quite like the author's feed. I don't have a lot of AI content or thirst traps. I wonder if he's got some sort of the default young male algorithm experience. I wo
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by wvenable 8mo ago
But that doesn't make any sense anymore either.
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by wvenable 8mo ago
The 6502 is the best 8bit CPU for learning stuff. There's a lot you could add to it, but there is very little could take away. It's minimal but you have everything you need.
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by wvenable 8mo ago
When I was a student, they gave away this stuff like candy.
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by wvenable 8mo ago
> its bullshit that the US actually needed to pull (tax increases). Did you forget that the Big Beautiful Bill included a massive tax cut?
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by wvenable 8mo ago
That's the real intent of tariffs "in general". Trump's tariffs in particular, though, are specifically meant to punish / shake down other countries.
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by wvenable 8mo ago
You just repeated what I said -- how is that the opposite?
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by wvenable 8mo ago
It not the paychecks that influence federal judges; these days it's more of quid-pro-quo for getting the position in the first place. Theoretically they are under no obligation but the bias is built in. The problem with a AI is simila
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by wvenable 8mo ago
There have been equally high profile cases where a perpetrator got off because they have connections. I'd love for an AI to loudly exclaim that this is a big deviation from the norm.
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by wvenable 8mo ago
> Ok, hold up. That is not a SaaS app lol. That is an on-prem installation. Very very very very much not the same thing. I didn't mean to imply on-prem. "Install" was the wrong word; call that "onboarding" inste
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by wvenable 8mo ago
> The point of having engineers is to build product and make you money. You're making the assumption that all software development is for software products. My work supports a non-software industry. Every minute that I save of use
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by wvenable 8mo ago
This is cool and actually demonstrates real utility. Using AI to take something that already exists and create it for a different library / framework / platform is cool. I'm sure there's a lot of training data in there
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by wvenable 8mo ago
1. The whole point of developer time is to save user time; if a developer can do that then it's worth it. 2. If the in-house software doesn't decrease training time or support costs then there is something wrong there.
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by wvenable 8mo ago
I agree. Just because you can buy some piece of software doesn't mean you should -- there is a lot of software that exists just to sell more consulting hours and will never fit the business. It's actually not hard at all to co
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by wvenable 8mo ago
Since everything ultimately ends up inside a base-2 computer across base-2 bus that even if these media aren't subject to the same considerations it still makes sense to measure them that way. The choice would be effectively arbitrary,
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by wvenable 8mo ago
Literally every number in a computer is base-2, not just RAM addressing. Everything is ulimately bits, pins, and wires. The physical and logical interface between your oddly sized disk and your computer? Also some base-2.
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by wvenable 8mo ago
> Yes they did. Kilo- means 1000 in SI/metric. I'm happy to say it isn't an SI unit. Kilo meaning 1000 makes no sense for computers, so lets just never use it to mean that. > Therefore, use IEC 60027 prefixes like kibi
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by wvenable 8mo ago
Still the advertisement is filled with details like the number of chips, the number of pins, etc. If you're dealing with chips and pins, it's always going to base-2.
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by wvenable 8mo ago
> The computer industry abused these definitions because 1000 is close to 1024, creating endless confusion. They didn't abuse the definitions. It's simply the result of dealing with pins, wires, and bits. For your problems, f
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by wvenable 8mo ago
That's funny. If I used the "correct" meaning when precision was required then I'd be wrong every time I need to use it. In computers, bytes are almost always measured in base-2 increments.
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by wvenable 8mo ago
Seems like a typo given that the ad contains many mentions of K (8K, 32K) and they're all of the 1024 variety.

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