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by computomatic 7mo ago
On the other hand, species go extinct with increasing regularity.
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by computomatic 7mo ago
Most, if not all countries have their own domestic payment systems. This is about cross-border payments within the EU. “Breakup” seems a bit exaggerated considering the % of payment volume which might switch to the new system.
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by computomatic 7mo ago
I think it’s more helpful to discuss this in requests per second. I’d interpret “thousands of people hitting a single endpoint multiple times a day” as something like 10,000 people making ~5 requests per 24 hours. That’s 0.5 requests per se
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by computomatic 7mo ago
> merely matching the cost and harms of the existing system is far from enough The new system needs to be better but that doesn’t necessarily mean safer. For delivery, that could mean cheaper and faster and more convenient. Autonomous
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by computomatic 1y ago
This is great product design at its finest. First of all, they never “handle more requests than they have hardware.” That’s impossible (at least as I’m reading it). The vast majority of usage is via their web app (and free accounts, at that
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by computomatic 1y ago
This matches my experience fairly accurately except for the one guy I met at a housewarming who handed out cards to everyone . It was so weird - I haven’t seen anyone do that in real life. He had a shop that repairs chipped windshields.
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by computomatic 1y ago
Presumably it corresponds to Table 8 from this doc: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/8124a3ce-ab78-4f06-96eb-49ea29ffb... If that’s the case, it’s mislabelled and should have read “17%” which would better the visual.
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by computomatic 1y ago
You don't think the LLM made the leap to California Academy of Sciences specifically because Coit Tower was in the context? If you asked for driving directions from your local walmart to cal academy, the LLM seems just as likely to dec
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by computomatic 3y ago
This is a fantastic article with some facts I didn’t know. I hadn’t thought about how the self-closing tag is effectively nothing more than a stylistic choice. That said, it failed to persuade me. I’d still favour the self-closing style in
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by computomatic 3y ago
I did the same. The only way to win is not to play.
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by computomatic 3y ago
Regarding the inevitable degradation of open core, is your experience that they get actively worse or just stale? How would you balance that against something that’s good enough today for what you need today? (Ie, is being good enough today
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by computomatic 3y ago
The salient point from the parent comment was that “using” assumes the resource is an Object. The core value prop of both “using” or “defer” is that a single scope can manage the lifetime of some resource while child scopes interact with th
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by computomatic 3y ago
Scoped resources are essential for avoiding global singletons. The JS/Node ecosystem acts like (and often believes) globally-scoped singletons are a recommended pattern for things like database connections. The reality is, there’s no b
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by computomatic 3y ago
The short answer is always, always have your own lawyer review these things. The lawyer preparing the corporate documents is the corporation’s lawyer. That person cannot also be your lawyer. Every founder should have their own lawyer review
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by computomatic 4y ago
I get the sense that ChatGPT crosses a complexity threshold where there’s no good way to describe how it works that satisfies everybody, and that’s leading to cyclical stories of the form “everyone else describes it wrong, so here’s my take
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by computomatic 4y ago
Where does fly.io document their per-account services limits? For example, max apps, databases, etc. I took a quick look and couldn't find them. Do they have any documented service limits? A google search turned up [0] which does not i
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by computomatic 4y ago
> Maybe if we trained an AI to detect genuine vs. parody? Blockchain will solve this better
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by computomatic 4y ago
Interesting history, for sure! That said, I can’t help but feel like this one premise is unsubstantiated. > But where does it get the meaning of being “uncreative” copy-paste code? I’ve never heard of boilerplate being described in quite
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by computomatic 4y ago
According to an interview I watched recently, Steve Jobs wasn’t even sure they’d launch the iPhone a year before they did. There’s a relatively well-known exchange where he flat-out tells an interviewer there’s no phone, and post-launch adm
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by computomatic 4y ago
Nothing interesting will be reliably funded over the next 5-ish years given the current macroeconomics. If we’re talking about where the opportunities (jobs) are going to be, then you’re probably looking at tech roles within non-tech compan
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by computomatic 4y ago
$ git clone git@github.com:dotfiles '$HOME' Cloning into '$HOME'... *ugh...* $ rm -rf $HOME *wait...* $ cd $HOME cd: no such file or directory: /Users/admin *fuuuuuuuu*