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by yayitswei 3y ago
What do you like about living there?
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by yayitswei 3y ago
Fun related story re: links to the past https://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
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by yayitswei 3y ago
FYI, clicking on the question links breaks the back button.
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by yayitswei 3y ago
"There Is No Alternative"? I had to consult ChatGPT to get that acronym explained.
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by yayitswei 3y ago
Ethical norms are sufficient in a homogeneous society, but the "trustless" trend has enabled collaboration with ever larger groups of people with reduced need for trust. I'm thinking blockchains, cryptography, the stock marke
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by yayitswei 3y ago
Old and boring doesn't always mean simple. New ideas can simplify the architecture as well (the author cites GraphQL as an example). Agree that unnecessary complexity should be avoided. This talk explores the tradeoffs: https:/&#
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by yayitswei 3y ago
Anyone have recommendations for a good midi software instruments? I'd pay for a good piano or electric sound, and I haven't been happy with the GarageBand sounds I'm currently using. What are some good affordable options, and
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SEC approves 11 spot Bitcoin ETFs(reuters.com)
52 points by yayitswei 3y ago|9 comments
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by yayitswei 3y ago
What was your role at AWS?
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by yayitswei 3y ago
Fortunately I use evil mode so my workflow is unaffected, for now.
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France bans English gaming tech jargon in push to preserve language purity(theguardian.com)
7 points by yayitswei 3y ago|5 comments
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by yayitswei 3y ago
Love that Rich jumped in in the comments!
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LLM Divergence Attack(theatlantic.com)
1 points by yayitswei 3y ago|0 comments
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by yayitswei 3y ago
KFC Christmas dinner in Japan is a fun one. To be fair, all of our major holidays have been co-opted by corporations and they are still warmly celebrated. Going back to wedding rings, giving your new partner something of value is a very old
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by yayitswei 3y ago
Sounds like the plot of Les Mis!
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by yayitswei 3y ago
What language are you using?
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by yayitswei 3y ago
There's XTDB which is still Clojure-centric but is at least open-source. It supports SQL queries.
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by yayitswei 3y ago
Isn't that the highest level of Maslow's hierarchy? Where your other needs are met so you can afford to do something "useless" that makes you happy.
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by yayitswei 3y ago
When you have 500 points you gain the ability to downvote.
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California suspends Cruise's autonomous driverless vehicle permits(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by yayitswei 3y ago|1 comments
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California suspends Cruise from operating in the state(fortune.com)
2 points by yayitswei 3y ago|0 comments
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by yayitswei 3y ago
I thought Google doesn't do layoffs? It's even a Silicon Valley meme ("rest and vest").
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by yayitswei 3y ago
I know the absolute minimum about ray tracing but could still follow the article. Kudos to the author for such clear, interesting writing.
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by yayitswei 3y ago
Just adding an option that worked for me: clojure, with its philosophy of making things simple [0] (as opposed to easy, as in "easy to get started but turns into a mess"). There are some exciting new developments out there (see ra
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by yayitswei 3y ago
I use the thumbs up button at the end if I got a good answer.
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by yayitswei 3y ago
Good to know, thanks. I don't have insider knowledge but at least from various posts it looks like there's some healthy usage at scale, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18345341 , https://news.y
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by yayitswei 3y ago
Agree. Another way I like to think about it is to pick the simplest path to solve the problem, which might not be the most popular solution. Choosing postgres by default bakes in a ton of assumptions and often adds extra layers of complexit
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by yayitswei 3y ago
Much cuter than the military parkour robot we saw the other day. Both impressive though!
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I heard Clojure is fairly popular at Netflix as well.
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Information density will increase in models just as spatial density increased for hardware.

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