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by zzzeek 2mo ago
of course, the vast, vast majority of PostgreSQL users outside of managed cloud hosting are not using pgbouncer. pgbouncer introduces complexities into the database conversation (transaction-level pooling interacting with the prepared sta
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by zzzeek 2mo ago
If we want to put pressure on new datacenters to mitigate their externalities I'd prefer they would somehow be investing in the local communities they impact, in areas like electricity generation and water infrastructure. Having them
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
I would never undertake a big performance optimization without first measuring that area's total impact. The LLM would then be great to work out the refactoring and you can give it your bench suite (which it probably wrote) to work ag
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
They care because trampolines have a very high rate of injury. If you throw a birthday party at your house and one of your neighbors kids breaks their arm or worse, neighbor might decide to sue you. That then puts your insurance company o
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
Insurance does not cover them and if they find out you have one they are likely to cancel your coverage. I'm not sure why "you can lose your home insurance for having one of these" isn't being brought up more.
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
Hi, don't mind me, but You don't need to return a boolean. You need to return an object that implements __bool__. Get it ? And even then, when you're dealing with objects that are special to expressions, you don't actua
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
this is annoying, it makes a big deal about "Back when we announced pay-per-crawl"... I want pay-per-crawl. I clicked the link for it a year ago, got presented with a "request access" button, I "requested access&quo
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Trump administration admits clean energy grants were canceled based on politics(clickondetroit.com)
8 points by zzzeek 3mo ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
Well that's also election time so the timing could not be better
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
It's to give unfair advantage to Anthropic and OpenAI who would then be expected to shower Donald Trump personally with hundreds of billions of dollars in cash, airplanes and tacky golden things.
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
there's persuasion, and then there's inspiring people already on your side. the upvotes/downvotes will give you a clue who the audience turns out to be. it was an upvote from me.
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
reading through this I eventually realized a situation similar to my experience of it is what my dog sees if I attempt to explain Python programming to him.
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
wow that is a really misleading headline. I thought this was the Israeli government spying on US soil.
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
the leader of China praised Open Source in a speech. Crazy times
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
great post but also the real thing they are talking about here is YAGNI
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
this whole AI era has put the topic of "do we believe actual reality, or what we hoped/assumed/continue to insist would be reality" front and center. Every discussion is like this these days.
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
the issue with articles that try to analyze the state of open source and its sustainability and all that is that nothing about open source makes any sense if you just talk about it. Imagine you're transported to 1977 and you work at I
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The Floating Robot Companion Designed for Safe, Friendly Human Interaction(cnet.com)
3 points by zzzeek 3mo ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
before COVID everyone on my team travelled once or twice a year to conferences as well as to the home office for get-togethers, on the company dime. Those conferences have been turned into online only and my company hasn't flown me or
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
OK here is the thing. Everyone get your downmods ready since my rants on here are always a disaster. People are really really tired. Because of not just Claude, but also "the recession" "the strait of hormuz closed"
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He Wanted to Track Microplastics in the Sea. The EPA Fired Him(nytimes.com)
25 points by zzzeek 3mo ago|13 comments
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
> At some point, you need to watch out for cynical/nasty series. In fact, all of the books we purchase are ranked against peers they have read in the past, or those we know to actively avoid buying due to cynicism, sarcasm, or open
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
in my Atari days, I went through half a dozen of those stupid joysticks, which broke easily as they were poorly designed and put way too much repetitive strain on the plastic insides that broke regularly. contrast to my SNES controllers tha
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
I was a total Atari kid and I still have my 2600 and my 800 on me. If Atari was the one distributing an NES like system IMO they would have just fucked it up. While I loved my atari devices, they were also extremely unreliable mechanicall
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Waymo car delivers misbehaving teens to California police(wpxi.com)
2 points by zzzeek 3mo ago|1 comments
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by zzzeek 3mo ago
This is all going to hinge in a tremendous way based on what kind of app you have and who your users are.
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
got a family friend who keeps posting on Facebook big "Fight Datacenters!" photos / posters that are extremely obviously AI generated it's quite cringe, like a not-so-subtle troll on the people who share the image
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
Fun post but sort of ironic to end with a lecture on "cultural hegemony" from....a Brit!
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
there is significant resistance to air conditioning in Europe at many levels (all of which are invalid or solvable): * "not technically feasible" - people talk about old buildings with oddly shaped windows * "can't affor
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by zzzeek 4mo ago
> Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for transporting a box of zines he didn’t even write. federal

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