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by xienze 11mo ago
> Pass messages. Use json. I shouldn’t need your code to function. Just your API. Yes, but there’s likely a lot of common code related to parsing those messages, interpreting them, calling out to other services etc. shared amongst all of
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by xienze 11mo ago
This just in, OpenAI has already committed to buying the entire world’s supply once it becomes available.
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by xienze 11mo ago
It’s the cycle of newcomers to <field> looking at the existing solutions and declaring “this shit is too complicated, why did these morons design it this way? Check out my DSL that does everything and is super simple!” Then time passe
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by xienze 11mo ago
> What is it with America and laws being pushed off indefinitely? Do other countries have similar problems? Well, it’s a big country that is really kind of like 50 different smaller countries that do a lot of important things in a common
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by xienze 11mo ago
20 minutes to “read” 87 dense pages of legalese? Perhaps you meant to say “skim over.”
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by xienze 11mo ago
Probably because not everywhere on earth has the same easy access that Iceland has. The article mentions this: > There aren’t gates of Hell just anywhere. A kilometre below ground in Kamchatka is considerably hotter than a kilometre belo
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by xienze 11mo ago
> I'm struggling to understand how something like this can be reproduced consistently across environments. How would you package this inside a Git repo? Very easily. At the end of the day, quadlets (which are just systemd services)
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by xienze 1y ago
> It's not always "just stop making them and see how the market deals with it." On the other hand, we’ve been delaying this inevitable and necessary action for decades over hand-wringing about the implications of rounding
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by xienze 1y ago
> Changing this would require a break with the “green industrial complex”, which is close to untouchable (to many EU politicians). I’m sure like with everything “green” they can get around having to use cheaper, dirty energy by buying en
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by xienze 1y ago
> All that effort convincing management you're just as effective working remotely was also a collective sales pitch to outsource your role. Here’s the thing though. People have been trying to outsource software development since the
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by xienze 1y ago
Maybe a home that’s been in the family for a long time has more than just monetary value to the people inheriting it.
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by xienze 1y ago
> "If what LLMs do today isn't actual thinking, what is something that only an actually thinking entity can do that LLMs can't?" Invent some novel concept, much the same way scientists and mathematicians of the distan
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by xienze 1y ago
Because most people in the US don’t know who “Andrew Windsor” is but have heard of “Prince Andrew.”
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by xienze 1y ago
One of the more egregious examples in my opinion is their rack mounted cable modem. I would love to get it but -- $279? No thanks.
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by xienze 1y ago
> I suspect it is; and we'll see the price increase later. I used to use Ubiquiti gear a number of years ago, but left when they started moving into an Apple-esque "prosumer" direction with corresponding price increases. T
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by xienze 1y ago
> I don't know what kind of data you are dealing with but its illogical and against all best practices to have this many keys in a single object. The whole point of this project is to handle efficiently parsing "huge" JSON
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by xienze 1y ago
> Where do you get the 1s latency number? “If it’s like old school satellite internet”
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by xienze 1y ago
Yeah I get that, and there’s a lot of products and services whose company values I don’t subscribe to but I still use them because the alternatives aren’t viable. If you’re OK with 1+ second latency (which makes something as simple as SSH i
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by xienze 1y ago
If it’s like old school satellite internet, the latency is atrocious and speeds aren’t great.
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by xienze 1y ago
> it's not invisible. The system crawls to a halt. I’m gonna guess you’re not old enough to remember computers with memory measured in MB and IDE hard disks? Swapping was absolutely brutal back then. I agree with the other poster, s
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by xienze 1y ago
People really overthink this. You can safely expose internal IDs by doing a symmetric cipher, like a Feistel cipher. Even sequential IDs will appear random.
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by xienze 1y ago
> Always waiting for "better options" is often irrational. You should buy what's best for you today. If you're trying to get people to switch en masse to EVs, it's not good for everyone to be in perpetual "e
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by xienze 1y ago
Yes but again, the steeper depreciation curve makes it more likely to happen.
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by xienze 1y ago
It is because people are incentivized to just wait for the "better options" that everyone knows are coming soon. Or, let's say you bought one and had an accident that totals the car but oops, the steep depreciation curve mean
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by xienze 1y ago
> Perhaps its a reflection of how hard it is to get the medical community to take Long COVID seriously ? Well let’s think about why. You’ve got an illness (Long COVID) that you can’t detect and manifests itself in a myriad of ways, most
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by xienze 1y ago
> It's not open source if you can't use it professionally or sell work derived from it. Does anyone _really_ use these low/no-code platforms to create products? I was always under the impression that you'd primarily u
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by xienze 1y ago
> we'll have cheap energy, if we do it right. Well by all means, show us how to do it right at scale. The leaders in this area (California, European countries) haven’t exactly done much to deliver on the promise of cheap renewable e
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by xienze 1y ago
> for about 40 cents a kwh? That’s fucking expensive if you don’t live in Germany or California! I pay a little less than a third of that for nuclear power. > And that's treated as an existential problem? Yes, tripling one’s elec
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by xienze 1y ago
Are you suggesting that two people, same weight, same metabolism, but one is a lifelong alcoholic and the other a once-per-month drinker — if they both have three or four drinks, the alcoholic would be just as impaired as the other person?
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by xienze 1y ago
> They might have an advantage of a few drinks compared to a regular person, but they often close that gap. When the legal limit is 0.08 or lower, that's the difference between "too drunk for a non-alcoholic to drive" and

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