austin-schick

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by austin-schick 2mo ago
I'm finding the list of signatories on this letter really interesting and somewhat confusing, looking purely through the lens of economic interest. It makes sense to see Meta, the startups, and the VC firms on this list. And it makes s
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by austin-schick 2mo ago
The article says that they did do this: > Qiu’s team had engineered mice to have a human version of the CHD3 gene with their daughter’s mutation, R1025W, which results in a protein with the amino acid tryptophan where there should be an
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by austin-schick 2mo ago
I think I'd consider this kind of technology at the intersection of personal freedom and _public_ safety. Drunk or distracted driving puts others at risk, not just you.
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by austin-schick 3mo ago
Separately from any details of this post, I think you misunderstand what kubernetes is. To me, that's something worth reading and thinking about. You seem to think it's like a virtual machine, and it lets you run containers anywhe
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by austin-schick 3mo ago
I get your point. I will disagree that it "doesn't work". It does! You just can't use it for real production workloads since it runs in your browser. If you ported kubernetes to your toaster would it be a port? I think s
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by austin-schick 3mo ago
Doesn't have to be bad news! An abundance of explainers is only good for the world. Different explanations work for different people. Someday somebody will say "I read all the articles people recommended, and I don't know why
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by austin-schick 3mo ago
I don't think this analogy holds. Version control and diffing are some core capabilities of git. Sam lists core capabilities of k8s that his port can handle: pod lifecycles, container garbage collection, IP allocation, etc. My understa
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by austin-schick 3mo ago
I think this blog post has a great description of the "Modern C" niche Zig fills: https://vfoley.xyz/hare/ . I tend to think of Zig in this way. If you found yourself reaching for C, you could instead reach fo