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by ahupp 19d ago
> but no indication of what that means The very first thing it means is that a firm has to understand the new law and then determine what changes it requires. And as a firm gets smaller that makes the relative burden higher. Of course
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by ahupp 5mo ago
What is the principle you’re using here?
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by ahupp 7mo ago
I think the parent comment is saying “why did the agent produce this big, and why wants it caught”, which is a separate problem from what granular commits solve, of finding the bug in the first place.
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by ahupp 8mo ago
Hilarious. When working on a virtual reality VOIP product, someone added a test mode that played back your own speech with a delay. It was like part of your brain shut off, was a surprisingly strong effect.
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by ahupp 9mo ago
Do they need software? Presumably the volunteer firefighters 30 years ago didn’t have this and did fine. Plenty of volunteer organizations are built on Airtable or some spreadsheets.
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by ahupp 1y ago
IMO corporate income tax is the first that should be removed, with a corresponding shift to income taxes. Those can be as progressive as you want, have much lower compliance costs, and don’t distort behavior in the same way. Thought in pr
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by ahupp 1y ago
I’d agree with this, unless the kwargs is typed with the new-ish PEP-692: https://peps.python.org/pep-0692/
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by ahupp 1y ago
Can you quantify what you think that choice looks like? Say you seized the entirety of Elon Musk’s assets: that could pay for a year and a half of the Dept of Transportation. Say you seized all the wealth (somehow) of the world’s 100 riche
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by ahupp 1y ago
With o3-mini-high (just the last paragraph): civilization Mycenaean the of practices religious and economic, administrative the into insights invaluable provides and B Linear as known script the in recorded was language Greek the of form at
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by ahupp 2y ago
Say they, hypothetically, the police just looked at every drivers license photo of people living in a 1 mile radius. And they find the suspect, and go to a judge saying a combination of appearance, perpetrator in suspects driveway, and cri
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by ahupp 2y ago
The big risk that we need regulation for is not that insurance charges too much, but too little. There will always be the temptation to charge less than the other guy, get lots of customers and hope nothing really bad happens.
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by ahupp 2y ago
Using language-native packaging doesn't imply that you have to use binaries from wherever. In the pytorch example you can still build it as a regular part of the distribution, using the C++ dependencies/toolchain, it just means y
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by ahupp 2y ago
This is conflating static linking with how the distribution handles updates. If a language is always statically linking dependencies (like Go or Rust), the distribution will have to rebuild everything that depends on a patched package whe
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by ahupp 2y ago
It’s not like this is unique to rust; you see similar issues with node and python. Distributions have many jobs, but one was solving the lack of package management in C. Now that every modern language a package manager, trying to apply th
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by ahupp 2y ago
The doctor / hospital that refuses to treat when insurance declines is also involved in the “omission of expected care”. Would they also be guilty of premeditated murder?
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by ahupp 2y ago
Murder is by definition an unlawful homicide. This isn’t just pedantry; it’s the most parsimonious explanation for why someone would support the death penalty and object to something like the assassination.
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by ahupp 2y ago
This is a great illustration of why taking about deaths is not really informative, and they should be talking about life-years lost.
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by ahupp 2y ago
The cost of shipping contributes to the cost of every product we export and import. Treating this as a purely zero-sum transfer between longshoreman and shippers is ignoring all the reasons this is interesting & important. As a hypothe
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by ahupp 2y ago
Is modularity an unalloyed good? Modularity comes with tradeoffs that mean you end up with, well, a bunch of discrete modules rather than something that works cohesively. That's why systemd was adopted pretty much everywhere, ignor
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by ahupp 2y ago
nit: HHVM was a completely new implementation of a runtime for a PHP-like language, it wasn't a fork of Zend.
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by ahupp 2y ago
You might be able to do this transparently with a [MetaPathFinder]( https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importlib.a... ), the only trickyness would be replacing the lookup in sys.modules which I don&#x2
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by ahupp 2y ago
That stat alone doesn't tell us if the disparity is due to different rates if criminal behavior, or different treatment by the system. A useful check is to look at murder victimization rates, since a) murder is almost always reported,
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by ahupp 2y ago
Yes, a large fraction of ER visits aren't emergencies. Typically they triage new patients, take the actually critical ones immediately and everyone else waits. I'm not sure wait time is an informative metric, vs something like su
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by ahupp 3y ago
There may be a bug or change since I left, but I built the app library and authorization logic, and it was explicitly designed to work offline. Of course, using it day-to-day and initial setup are different and I'd imagine if Apple is
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by ahupp 3y ago
I'm not sure who this is directed at. A more interesting question is, does Substack expand the number of people who can support themselves by writing vs a world without it? I personally spend over $1k/yr on Substack; sometimes b
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by ahupp 3y ago
That's 10x more oil per capital in Norway.
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by ahupp 3y ago
Yes. There are many (infinitely!) ways to write an equivalent expression, most of which are not as clear to read as the standard format.
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by ahupp 3y ago
IMO using operator overloading for this kind of thing makes it hard to read, since I have to be extra careful to mentally parse whether that `*` is a multiplication or units, remember what variables are in scope etc. Notation matters, and
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by ahupp 3y ago
If you're interested in this kind of thing, I wrote a python package called "unit-syntax"( https://github.com/ahupp/unit-syntax ) that adds physical unit syntax to python: >>> speed = 5 meter
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by ahupp 3y ago
> That was Corning, not Meta. I don't know who manufactures them, but Meta has had a team of optics engineers working on new lenses for years. > That was Carmack, so technically Meta, but it was also 6+ years ago. Timewarp was on

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