Analemma_

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by Analemma_ 3d ago
Well you’re in the wrong place for that. Hacker News is mostly about showing how much smarter and more cynical you are than everyone else in the room, and attacking anyone who does actually have principles by accusing them of ulterior motiv
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by Analemma_ 3d ago
It’s not actually true that your software gets done, that’s essentially impossible unless you’re doing some kind of performance art project targeting a defunct platform from decades ago. Operating systems and libraries change underneath you
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by Analemma_ 5d ago
> I hope they wouldn’t succumb to a minority in their base and just ban data centers The most recent set of polls I saw said that 71% of Democrats and 64% of all Americans support banning datacenter construction. It's not merely a m
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by Analemma_ 5d ago
Funnily enough this probably the most safetyist thing the administration could do at the moment, since this will certainly autocatalyze more opposition to DC construction in a bunch of states and probably accelerate the state-level moratori
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by Analemma_ 5d ago
This is true as far as it goes but it's very difficult to do that when you're also anxious about material deprivation from losing your job. It's hard enough to construct a new source of self-identity when you're secure,
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by Analemma_ 6d ago
I don’t think that’s going to happen. Fashion, like all other segments of society and the economy, bends around the smartphone, not vice versa. The market decided a long time ago it wants big phones and to get handbags or other accessories
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by Analemma_ 7d ago
"Creating"? I don't think there has ever been a system where you could expect to be able to plan an uprising against the elites in public, or using infrastructure those elites own and control. I wouldn't expect to be abl
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by Analemma_ 7d ago
If you're going to toss out that aphorism for the bad outcomes you have to do it for the good outcomes as well.
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by Analemma_ 7d ago
I don't think you should think of it like "playing a game", you should think of it as "posting to a web service you don't control". If you posted on a web forum about your plans for violence against the CEO of
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by Analemma_ 7d ago
Man, why are you copy-pasting comments from the 90s? The current government is maximally evil and interested in using technology to keep power and crush dissent. You don't need to introduce hypotheticals!
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by Analemma_ 8d ago
I think we need to discuss adding Pangram integration to HN, similar to what Substack is doing. This is 100% AI slop, don't waste your time.
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by Analemma_ 8d ago
In OpenAI's case, if they were genuinely unsure, they wouldn't have said anything. "We cannot rule out" means they absolutely 100% for-sure did look at the existing prompts and bootstrapped from that, and they are trying
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by Analemma_ 13d ago
It's not a reality for a lack of trying. Multiple people have spent (literal!) lifetimes working on Xanadu and multiple businesses poured a great deal of money and effort into it way back in the day. It continues to not be a thing beca
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by Analemma_ 13d ago
Noah Smith is like Gell-Mann amnesia personified. He's good at writing columns such that he sounds like he knows what he's talking about, until he opines on something you happen to be familiar with, and you realize he's compl
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by Analemma_ 13d ago
Yes, it's downright stupid to buy into any tech IPO these days. The fundraising and all the growth were done by the A-M rounds, while the IPO is the bag-dump for the last few rounds of investors. Stay far away.
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by Analemma_ 14d ago
You still haven't explained how this is different from Python or Java applications.
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by Analemma_ 14d ago
If people are being honest, the nostalgia comes from a time where people only had to interact with other high-income, high-education, broadly-cosmopolitan technology enthusiasts similar to themselves. The moment the internet become used by
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by Analemma_ 14d ago
> No, the cornerstones of his thesis are: [...] The amount of money being dumped into this industry will never pay off. That has only been a cornerstone of his thesis for the last 10 months or so, once Claude Code and Codex began making
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by Analemma_ 16d ago
Commercial real estate got walloped by covid and the damage is still making its way through the system. A 2.65% decline in the last 5 years is probably one of the better performers in the sector.
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by Analemma_ 17d ago
Invoking Atlas Shrugged and "the government is punishing the most productive, wealth-generating members of society!" when you run a shitcoin startup is hysterical. Musk is a scumbag but at least he builds real rockets and electric
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by Analemma_ 19d ago
Every single person I've seen trying to defend the government's actions in this case has carefully elided the difference between "not awarding them a contract" (which would've been fine) and "using the law to t
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by Analemma_ 19d ago
Django + Postgres on the backend plus a frontend of HTMX + alpine.js for a light touch of interactivity where needed is a killer combination. Claude is very good at it, and with the right instructions actually keeps things concise and modul
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by Analemma_ 21d ago
A lot of font foundries are switching from one-time payments to pay-per-use licensing schemes, to try and get huge payouts from e.g. companies which serve web pages trillions of times, and those companies are mostly responding by just commi
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by Analemma_ 23d ago
I understand the complaint but a lot of these suggested improvements aren't great either, especially the ones that are close to the name of the app and so would be right next to the app name which is itself a menu header. "Passwor
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by Analemma_ 26d ago
I've banged on about this before, but every state needs to adopt a law where allegations of illegal behavior by cops are always handled by a Special Prosecutor, never the local DA. The incentives are too fucked for a DA to ever be trus
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by Analemma_ 28d ago
I don't have a super-wide gamut of experience here and numerical analysis isn't my specialty, but nearly all trig implementations I've looked into (in both software and hardware) make heavy use of lookup tables and other shor
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by Analemma_ 1mo ago
No, it’s not a reasonable feature. If I take a screenshot, I want the image to include what is displayed on my fucking screen, period. What is so difficult about this?
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by Analemma_ 1mo ago
The figure I've heard quoted is that 640,000 tons of used books (not 640,000 books, 640,000 tons of books) are shredded/pulped every year for lack of finding a buyer. I assume that very few of these are rare books. I think in the
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by Analemma_ 1mo ago
There's nothing in this article supporting the claim that rare books are being destroyed, it just has a link to a paywalled article from 404 Media.
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by Analemma_ 1mo ago
DRAM fabs are multi-billion dollar investments which take years to come online. That's the whole reason we're in this situation, there is no quick fix available.

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