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by ackfoobar 22d ago
This might be the your missing puzzle piece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_i...
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by ackfoobar 22d ago
You are of course right about what the word "commons" refers to. Still, I want to quibble. Maybe the definition covers both, but I still think it's worth distinguishing between incentives creating a bad equilibrium and simply
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by ackfoobar 2mo ago
> stuck to why he thought it was bad for Bun to do this Quite the opposite. "When Jarred announced the Rust rewrite, we were ecstatic." > It’s definitionally an ad hominem against Jared. Who Jarred is, as a CEO, definitely h
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by ackfoobar 6mo ago
Coming from Scala to Kotlin, this is what I thought as well. Seeing `it` felt very wrong, then I got used to it.
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by ackfoobar 6mo ago
As noted in the article: > This feature does have some limitations, for instance when we have multiple nested function calls, but in those cases an explicit lambda expression is always still possible. I've also complained about that
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by ackfoobar 6mo ago
> explicitly written to do this In that case I want the signature of "this function pre-computes, then returns another function" and "this function takes two arguments" to be different, to show intent. > achieved t
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by ackfoobar 6mo ago
The premise of this joke is dead since 2020, when ZGC was production ready.
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by ackfoobar 6mo ago
> ditch ORMs ... make good use of SQL I think Java (or other JVM languages) are then best positioned, because of jooq. Still the best SQL generation library I've used.
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by ackfoobar 6mo ago
https://github.com/peterklijn/hammerspoon-shiftit I use ShiftIt (a lovely project, but dead) reimplemented in Hammerspoon. It is very comprehensive.
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by ackfoobar 7mo ago
I guess the answer has to depend on demographics. But if we are spitballing, it probably wouldn't be all bad for every country to have a Lee Kuan Yew.
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by ackfoobar 7mo ago
I'd gladly pay for Premium (I'm already paying for YT Music, the price difference is minimal) if they allow turning off shorts. But they won't. They see time spent in app goes up when they hypnotize the users. They're to
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by ackfoobar 9mo ago
https://www.tiktok.com/@chloedav1s_ is the first account mentioned in the article. (Unless TikTok's UI is horrendously bad and I misunderstood) They are literally still images.
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by ackfoobar 9mo ago
Your scenario is sth like: guy sees bad AI, good AI, and genuine content in his feed. Bad AI gives him confidence in his ability to detect slop, but he thinks the good AI is genuine content. Here the higher the quality of the slop, the hard
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by ackfoobar 9mo ago
I checked out one of the accounts mentioned, mostly to check if I can discern fake accounts. The content is just still pictures. I'd dismiss those whether or not they're AI. Well, I'm not on TikTok anyway. This reminds me of
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by ackfoobar 10mo ago
Just for the record, another one of his PRs was torn to shreds. > some core developers (who are compiler developers by trade) are actually experimenting with and using these same tools too, but haven't suddenly turned into 13kLoC PR
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by ackfoobar 11mo ago
I guess it's really hard to write a sequel to Tron Legacy. Quorra came to life, then what? They're supposed to change the world. How? With a Q&A site? (Sorry I can't help myself with this dumb joke.)
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by ackfoobar 1y ago
> Most home cooks (I would bet millions) are not worrying about "the cutting experience" Indeed, and they won't buy the knife at this price anyway. My point is that not being dishwasher-safe does not matter for ~everyone.
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by ackfoobar 1y ago
I don't think anyone who cares about the cutting experience would put a knife into a dishwasher.
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by ackfoobar 1y ago
Asked for numbers, got a link. Let's see. They can manufacture 80 GWh a year. To get through dunkelflaute with moderate renewable percentage we need tens of TWh. Not to belittle Tesla, but that's 3 orders of magnitude difference.
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by ackfoobar 1y ago
My question is a few math operations away from "how much batteries capacity can we deploy to support how much % of renewables in the short-medium term, while still having a stable grid". My "100%" phrasing was sloppy, no
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by ackfoobar 1y ago
Have you done the math of how insufficient battery tech is, if we are to go 100% renewable? I'm so tired of renewable proponents just use the thought terminating cliche "BATTERIES!" when intermittency is brought up.
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by ackfoobar 1y ago
On the spectrum between pure communism and pure capitalism, modern China is closer to the US than the US is close to pure capitalism. > has resulted in big changes The change was allowing market forces to align incentives. https:/&
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by ackfoobar 1y ago
The poverty reduction comes from the Chinese "Communist" Party adopting capitalism .
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by ackfoobar 1y ago
> Junie, which also benefits greatly from integration into the IDE. That is very plausible, I really want it to be true as a fan of IntelliJ and Kotlin. I used Cursor at work and tried out Junie on a hobby project. Maybe it's the di
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by ackfoobar 1y ago
I seem to recall that they lamented on twitter the low amount of (monetary or code) contribution they got, despite how heavily they are used.
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by ackfoobar 1y ago
I'm very embarrassed to say this. Those code examples weren't non-compiling OCaml, but valid SML. Once I remembered the existence of the language (in my defence it was never mentioned in the thread), I managed to compile the code,
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by ackfoobar 1y ago
> straight/naive rewrite was ~3 times faster How much of that do you think comes from reduced allocations/indirections? Now I really want to try out OxCaml and see if I can approximate this speedup by picking up low hanging fru
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by ackfoobar 1y ago
PS rereading this I think "hope you're a Haskeller" might be read as an insult. That's not my intention, here's why I mention Haskell. 1. It's THE other language with a type system based on HM. 2. Variant const
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by ackfoobar 1y ago
Since the cardinalities match the algebra, it's no surprise that identities translate, but seeing them still brings a smile to my face. The correspondence can be pushed much further - to differentiation! https://codewords.re
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by ackfoobar 1y ago
> I'm not sure why Me neither. > you are entirely correct that sealed types can fully model sum types I want to be wrong, in that case I learn something new.

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