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by coke12 1mo ago
Obviously so. Raytheon is a private company that has its own equities to consider: including things like public image, legal liability, etc. The idea that the USG says jump and Raytheon says how high is absurd. They make choices and even ad
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by coke12 2mo ago
The Epsom salt meme predates your “Web 3.0” thesis by many decades. I have no idea if it’s true but it’s not indicative of any new trend.
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by coke12 3mo ago
Comparing SpaceX to an aircraft leasing company seems more foolish to me than a 94x multiple. I understand the gist here, but come on. This is a generational company. It’s the only relevant space launch business, and has its tentacles deep
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by coke12 5mo ago
They have deep synergies in the collectibles market. There's a Venn diagram with eBay on one side and Gamestop on the other, and cultural characters like Logan Paul with his $16m Pokemon card right in the intersection. This is a big ma
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by coke12 5mo ago
What about human cheese?
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by coke12 6mo ago
He was well known in the first Trump admin.
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by coke12 6mo ago
No, reading verbatim from a technical paper is way too dense. You need a lot of filler words to slow it down and repetition to make it stick when read aloud.
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by coke12 7mo ago
Every group want to label some outgroup as naively benefiting from AI. For programmers, apparently it's the pointy haired bosses. For normies, it's the programmers. Be careful of this kind of thinking, it's very satisfying bu
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by coke12 7mo ago
Anecdotally I have bought 2 switches over its lifetime and never saw any of this ever. Just clicked “buy” on Amazon.
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by coke12 7mo ago
I don’t know, I’ve been involved in computer science for several decades now and cellular automata hasn’t really lost its charm. Seems like a cool thing to dedicate your life to!
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by coke12 10mo ago
Many sites do something like that in practice. The problem is the extra 500ms of parse+eval time for your JS bundle influences user behavior a lot on the margin, so it’s better to not force the user to wait.
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by coke12 10mo ago
Ultimately the choice of platform is about trust rather than capability. Apple has been a much better citizen historically than any of the smart TV companies.
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by coke12 1y ago
The description/assessment of tasks is all plausible, but agreed, some of the execution can be surprisingly boneheaded :) Case in point, I am building a cellular automata-based physics system, and there is seemingly nothing I can do to
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by coke12 1y ago
Coincidentally I am also writing a cellular automata simulation. I've blindly given your article to my software architect subagent, who has identified several architectural improvements that it can make and has converted these into tas
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by coke12 1y ago
Consider that a subset of us programmer types pride themselves on never moving their hands off the keyboard. They are already "wired in" so to speak.
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by coke12 1y ago
What a fascinating semantic mistake. Is it possible being long-divorced is more similar to being siblings than we realize?
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by coke12 1y ago
Other words they like are "reflection", "expansion", "compression". These are fundamental, abstract, semi-monadic terms that allow the user to bootstrap an abstract theory. A little bit of "insight" (
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by coke12 1y ago
This is arguably why it makes more sense to bring GH under the umbrella. Azure integrations need to happen yesterday. The future is full-stack batteries-included low-codeish platforms that are easy to launch with and then boom you're o
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by coke12 1y ago
Github should have the product sophistication/complexity of Atlassian with the distribution advantage of Microsoft. Anything less is an execution failure IMO. Not even mentioning AI, which is a huge opportunity also.
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by coke12 1y ago
Our own solar system has what appear to be spiral arms. Very cool finding.
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by coke12 1y ago
How could you possibly know what an LLM would do in that situation? The whole point is they exhibit occasionally-surprising emergent behaviors so that's why people are testing them like this in the first place.
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by coke12 2y ago
Are there any hierarchies in mathematics that aren't like this? It seems like most hierarchies are constructed such that going up one "level" expands your scope so much that the previous rung looks like a drop of water in the
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by coke12 2y ago
It's the exact same benefit as having your own car. It's a common reason people have to avoid shared transit.
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by coke12 3y ago
Sayings about how old things are surprisingly effective: "Don't knock it till you try it" "Chesterton's fence" "Reinventing the wheel" Any others?
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by coke12 3y ago
That's a toy example! In reality in a complex app you'd usually be aborting far from where the fetch is created, and you'd have large promise chains where the semantics of cancellation are non-obvious and even unintuitive.
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by coke12 3y ago
There are a lot of issues with the ergonomics of AbortController. It's very low level.
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by coke12 3y ago
I've had this same cancellation conversation many times with JS programmers. I think it's fair to say there's a need for standardization. Evidence for this need is network request management is really poor in pretty much all
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by coke12 3y ago
I think he does? Has he indicated he doesn't have enough funding?
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by coke12 3y ago
You can do this with brown paper lunch bags. Put some popcorn in a bag, fold the top so that it doesn't open when it expands, and hit the popcorn button.
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by coke12 3y ago
It's possible they are trying to avoid making people think of memory swapping which is existing jargon and usually means something more complex.

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