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by zzzeek 1y ago
Hypertext systems precede the web, I was using hypertext documents on CompuServe in the late 80s. It's hard to disagree given what was available at the time that putting the hypertext documents on another kind of network was a natural
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I disagree with everything you wrote here. Prs must absolutely limit their scope both in terms of length as well as what they accomplish (e.g. don't do unrelated refactorings in a pr delivering something else), large features must abso
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by zzzeek 1y ago
> Now, you can run any kind of Python API server, powered by fastapi, django, flask, or starlette, connected to a MySQL database automatically when needed I assume this is targeting the standalone WebAssembly use case, we're not...r
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by zzzeek 1y ago
well then don't, until it's too late right? theocracy is everyone's problem once they shut the gates
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Peter Thiel Wants Everyone to Think More About the Antichrist(wsj.com)
7 points by zzzeek 1y ago|3 comments
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no it's a puzzle. solvable too
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by zzzeek 1y ago
why assume someone is copy-pasting and didn't just build a bot to "report bugs everywhere" ?
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I rant about Elon a lot but can someone just explain to me how this keeps going on ? FSD is almost completely a solved problem by the likes of Waymo etc. Why does anyone care what Tesla is failing to do with FSD? Is this all about, &q
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US Gov acknowledges that 100K fee does not apply to existing H-1B visas holders [pdf](uscis.gov)
70 points by zzzeek 1y ago|79 comments
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your theory does not hold up for this specific article as they carefully explained they are sending identical inputs into the model each time and observing progressively worse results with other variables unchanged. (though to be fair, oth
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I'm sure MSFT will offer this person some upgraded API tier that somewhat improves the issues, though not terrifically, for only ten times the price.
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by zzzeek 1y ago
the Ruby language and interpreter has always horrified me and while I know absolutely nothing about whatever progress has been made in Ruby land, I can't believe after the decades of enormous effort and improvement that has gone into P
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Centimillionaire was chosen for a reason.
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the voters? who get their information from....media conglomerates, which are controlled by....you guessed it
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it would help if the billionaire / centimillionaire classes decided they didn't like what was going on.
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I dont know that we should assume the worst but you are assuming the best, that's what irks me more here. my position is that we should be skeptical and demand (politely, civilly, that is all fine) more information about what is the n
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by zzzeek 1y ago
> Please don't pile on like this when someone is showing up to fix something. how do you know they're "showing up to fix something" and not simply servicing the "10% returns" end of a widespread scheme to sh
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Point taken ! I'm sure you know my opinion here is partially from your criticism of my posts being "inflammatory" some time ago. Real things happening all day long right now are unfortunately inflammatory. We have a presi
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that "maybe" could power a medium sized city
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hacker news moderation does not like political stories. it's explicitly in the guidelines of what not to post: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." it is of course in the interests of billionai
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by zzzeek 1y ago
the video was long and depressingly commercialized, so I went to Wikipedia to just get the basic idea about this and im blown away how long cubesats have been around and fairly easily available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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NASA workers plan 3rd protest at D.C. headquarters on Sept. 15 to decry cuts(space.com)
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by zzzeek 1y ago
meanwhile current and former NASA employees are outside, today, protesting damaging budget and employment cuts by the federal government which will end or jeopardize many NASA programs: https://www.space.com/space-exploratio
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by zzzeek 1y ago
this all just says you're not really reading much about what's going on right now, or you're only reading right wing news sources there is broad consensus among academics and journalists who study/cover authoritarianism
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Animal Farm uses metaphor to make statements and observations about non-ficticious events. a non-fiction version of Animal Farm might be: "Authoritarianism is bad. Consider the case of the Russian Revolution leading to the rise an
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by zzzeek 1y ago
if someone thinks Animal Farm is a "simplistic work of fiction" that teaches nothing due to its author being an "avowed Socialist", that's a pretty poor "fan" of Orwell. Authoritarianism is authoritarian
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read Orwell's "Animal Farm". then ask yourself if the pigs had any "nuance" to what they were doing.
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by zzzeek 1y ago
these are fascistic decisions. fascism is well understood, and it is the root of the issue here. a confused, sickened and desperate population is easier to control and manipulate. end of story.
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NASA: 'Clearest Sign' yet of Ancient Life on Mars in Rock Found by Perseverance(smithsonianmag.com)
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by zzzeek 1y ago
> No. It's a hypothesis, because nobody had any explanation for why flu "disappeared". You may not prefer that particular hypothesis, but that does not make it unscientific or political. I hypothesize the rise in these les

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