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by ebcode 2y ago
You might find this site useful: https://alife.org/
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by ebcode 2y ago
Hi Pablo, I agree w/ thetopher that this needs more transparency. If you're happy to show your receipts to date, you should do so on the website. Also, offer a way to contact you (email, phone, something) that isn't twitter.
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by ebcode 2y ago
For more (great stuff) in this vein, check out Lars von Trier's The Five Obstructions .
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by ebcode 2y ago
very good. you could take it a bit further and allow arbitrary 6-12 letter words. #impacted, #gullible, #traumatized, #mediocre, #obsequious, etc..
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by ebcode 2y ago
To save someone a search: POSIWID = The purpose of a system is what it does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
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by ebcode 2y ago
If the pagers had been equipped with lasers that caused blindness, there is a Geneva Convention protocol going back to 1995[0]. I would like to think that the spirit behind that protocol is that the intent to cause permanent blindness in
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by ebcode 2y ago
Of course that's a bit of a troll comment at the end there. There are plenty of Linux distros still not using systemd. https://www.devuan.org/ as one example.
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by ebcode 2y ago
Also see (for various reasons): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1055480.The_Inmates_Are_...
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by ebcode 2y ago
here's an article with examples in Python and Julia: https://medium.com/@AlexanderObregon/how-pythons-multiple-di...
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The Canary(washingtonpost.com)
218 points by ebcode 2y ago|54 comments
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by ebcode 2y ago
Welcome to Karma Club. The first rule of Karma Club is: you do not talk about Karma Club. [With apologies to Chuck Palahniuk]
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by ebcode 2y ago
Also see: "Safeware: System Safety and Computers" and the work of the author, Nancy Leveson: http://sunnyday.mit.edu/
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by ebcode 2y ago
good question. they have a good product, but it seems like their marketing folks haven't figured out selling to engineers/geeks
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The Theory of Topos-Theoretic 'Bridges' – A Conceptual Introduction (2016)(glass-bead.org)
21 points by ebcode 2y ago|4 comments
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by ebcode 2y ago
I probably should have linked to the original article[1] instead of codinghorror's summary. I don't think the article being from 2006 (or 2004) makes it dated (though it does have a date). I think it addresses a fundamental issue
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by ebcode 2y ago
Anytime I hear ORM, I always think of this: https://blog.codinghorror.com/object-relational-mapping-is-t...
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by ebcode 2y ago
check out Craft CMS
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by ebcode 2y ago
what was the documentary?
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by ebcode 2y ago
That is a great talk by Steve Yegge. And now I know why he's angry all the time. Not only did he work on GeoWorks, he also tried using Ruby at Google! Absolute legend. Here's the video of the talk: https://www.youtube
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by ebcode 2y ago
Yeah, I wonder if OP could replace "most dangerous" with "most honest" and not lose the meaning. Good on you for speaking out, and thanks for doing so.
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by ebcode 2y ago
As a new user of OpenTofu, I find this disheartening. But if I try to put myself in the shoes of "the Ukranian dev", I can understand it. Then I think about the United States' past (and present) wars of aggression overseas, a
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by ebcode 2y ago
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -- Mahatma Gandhi
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by ebcode 2y ago
I looked up turborepo since I'm not familiar, which is described as a "build system". so... gobuild? (taken, ofc). Monorego. Build-a-gogo. Gogorepo. etc, etc
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by ebcode 2y ago
I was playing around with OpenAI's API, and found I could get the same output from the same input if I turned the temperature down to 0. Does anyone know if this is a feasible way of getting deterministic output from an LLM?
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Netiquette Guidelines(datatracker.ietf.org)
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by ebcode 2y ago
> Why can't we have nice things? "Nice things" is a value judgement, subjective, and the question as phrased usually seems mostly rhetorical. It's always a struggle to communicate clearly. We can, and do in fact have
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by ebcode 2y ago
not wrong per se, but they take longer to type than lowercase
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by ebcode 2y ago
It was actually scheduled to be demolished, but then they added an antenna: https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/news/130-years/why-was-eiffe... Also: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe&#x2F
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Paper #74. Viewstamped Replication Revisited (2021) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ebcode 2y ago|0 comments
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by ebcode 2y ago
Chiefly, they execute -- usually in an office.

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