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by xorcist 7mo ago
What exactly is your argument here? That organic chemistry is all wrong and oxidization is unfalsifiable, or that the fossil industry itself is fudging the numbers to make it look life we're oxidizing less organic matter than we think?
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by xorcist 7mo ago
The big cloud providers are perfectly happy to use GPL'd stuff (see: Elastic, MySQL). They don't need to use embrace-and-extend, they're content with hosting. The ones pushing for permissive licenses are rather companies like
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by xorcist 7mo ago
That used to be my joke ! Given that most large organization spend (much) more time with the administrative work around code changes than the actual changes themselves (planning, deciding, meetings) then before we let Claude write our code
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by xorcist 7mo ago
But your XML document also has syntax! You just pushed it up one level of abstraction. Your proto-math XML dialect of: <subtract><minuend>5</minuend><subtrahend>3</subtrahend></subtract&
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by xorcist 7mo ago
> Charging may seem like a minor inconvenience, It won't once they're five years old! I'm not against battery powered headphones, but I won't even take a second look at them if they don't have a battery type that
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by xorcist 7mo ago
The "real impact" of AI being gargantuan spending, or something else?
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by xorcist 7mo ago
That's .. not at all how interest rates work.
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by xorcist 7mo ago
Is the Git Book part of the git repo? Is the Linux Doc Projec part of the kernel? No. For good reasons. The only people who insists all doc must live in the same repo as the code are the ones who does not value documentation. Note, that i
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by xorcist 7mo ago
"Identity theft" is newspeak right up there with "intellectual property". It serves the sole purpose of diminishing real theft. If someone says "we gave all your money to this other guy, but it's not our fault
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by xorcist 7mo ago
See also: Impostor Syndrome (noun), pathologic avoidance of identifying mediocrity in oneself, e.g. "I'm not mediocre, I just have impostor syndrome!"
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by xorcist 7mo ago
You may not like the trivial answer: The same way as we do everything else. How do we get people to show up for work? How do we get people to respect data security boundaries? None of these are questions of technology. The answer is culture
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by xorcist 7mo ago
I have (the start of a) solution, but it's a boring one: You have to have people who care about this stuff. If you don't care, the rest does not matter. It does not matter if, when and how you outsource if you don't care abou
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by xorcist 7mo ago
That does not match with my, very much anecdotal, experience. Real subject matter experts are generally very clear about where their expertise ends. Less experienced people, not so much.
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by xorcist 7mo ago
> “EMBRACE FAILARE”—charitably put, to pass through the valley of incompetence as it’s the only path to the slopes of mastery Instructions unclear. Have pushed secrets to github. When will slope to mastery commence?
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by xorcist 7mo ago
It's something akin to a service provider in SAML parlance, if we are to believe reporting. How can it be air-gapped? And if we are to believe the hacked company, it is a development environment with test data in it. That remains to be
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by xorcist 7mo ago
> The IPv4 32-bit address space should have been included in the IPv6 address space, That's ... exactly how IPv6 works? Look at the default prefix table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Default_addr
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by xorcist 7mo ago
> everything in v4x that happens to have the last 96 bits unset That's pretty much identical to 6in4 and similar proposals. The Internet really needs a variant of the "So, you have an anti spam proposal" meme that used to
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by xorcist 7mo ago
Deciphering ramifications from a log message alone is a pretty unusual way to approach a problem. You still have your 1990s Nagios-style application monitoring, right? So when you wake up to a message that the web monitor says it's not
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by xorcist 7mo ago
That's perhaps not the best example of a stable democracy. Lots of people in Brazil mistrust the voting system, and they were pretty close to a coup d'etat after their last election, with polticians thrown in jail and so on.
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by xorcist 8mo ago
Beatings will continue until morale improves? You can't make this up.
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by xorcist 8mo ago
Unless you want to abolish timezones entirely, which would simplify clocks but complicate a whole lot else in society, you're going to need leap- something . Would leap minutes or hours really be much better? The idea that doing things
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by xorcist 8mo ago
In what way could injecting noise into a conversation be helpful?
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by xorcist 8mo ago
> It's very subtly branded, Except for the gigantic Apple logo plastered all over the lid? Don't get me wrong, I like Apple design (and I adore early Braun), but subtly branded it is not. You're supposed to recognize it in
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by xorcist 8mo ago
> They actually were better off, which illustrates how bad rural poverty was at that time. Perhaps at the start of the industrial revolution, but not during most of it. Which is says a lot about how pricing shifts and finds equilibrium,
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by xorcist 8mo ago
> That was genuinely impossible for someone like me before AI assistance Ummm... No? That was literally what people have done for decades? Is the implication that you feel you are too old to read a book at 45 and start programming? Sure,
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by xorcist 8mo ago
But the LLMs are quite the opposite: People should not bother with developing software, but ask the big LLM providers to do it for them instead. In all aspects of the term, software is getting less democratized. But that is in line with a d
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by xorcist 8mo ago
Are you sure you haven't confused these books? One of the books you mention is about an adventure involving a treasure. The other book is about catastrophic flooding in the first book and a comet that threatens the planet in the second
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by xorcist 8mo ago
If that was true, it would be like that. But it isn't, so it's not. EU is wide, and does not always speak with one voice, but it has a clear history of doing their best to avoid funding the proto-democratic forces in the region. A
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by xorcist 8mo ago
No one can do everything but everyone can do something. If you are in law enforcement, do not follow clearly unlawful orders. The president is not your boss. This is a functioning democracy. If you are a librarian, do not hide otherwise law
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by xorcist 8mo ago
> At least allow us to use names instead of numbers Many people probably think in terms of "fd 0" and "fd 1" instead of "standard in" and "standard out", but should you wish to use names at least o

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