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by infamia 8d ago
In the long run a planned economy is a huge disadvantage, the Soviets and now the the CCP are prime examples. For instance, the CCP is also sitting on a bunch of practically empty metropolises, paired with a property bubble and a falling po
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by infamia 12d ago
> The ADA isn't some surprise gotcha that crept up on any of these people The ADA was written in an extremely non-specific way that allows unelected bureaucrats to reinterpret it every so often. To be honest, the US would probably h
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by infamia 12d ago
> I do not usually have every word I will respond with stored in my limited working memory. My output is often predicted based on the previous word I spoke. People don't know exactly the words that they're going to say necessar
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by infamia 1mo ago
Great point! I'd also add that Django's another solid choice for boring tech that LLM agents will know very well and will very likely continue to do so. A fair bit of SWE Bench and other Python benchmarks are Django related tests,
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by infamia 1mo ago
If you want to just prefetch everything throughout a project or just on a per-Queryset basis, all that is coming in the next release of Django. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/6.1/#model-fi
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by infamia 2mo ago
That's a really cool story! I live near a couple of industrial sites like that which have a power plant on site, that were shut down quite a long time ago due to environmental concerns they don't burn cleanly at all as you said!
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by infamia 2mo ago
> That depends on the design. ... The older the design the less likely it can turn down far. I don't doubt there's a small number of plants that can't do 10-1. That said, transmitters are intended to be replaced and upgrad
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by infamia 2mo ago
> it's logically incoherent to try to determine what level of inflexible power generation will meet "the baseload". Lots of folks don't know that coal and gas fired plants are able to turn down their power generation
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by infamia 2mo ago
> In fact, the complexity of Chat Messages and Notifications synchronisation is one of the prime reasons why React exists. SSE is perfect for chat/notifications and is a lot simpler than syncing. The server pushes updates to the cli
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by infamia 2mo ago
> Having control of something isn't the same as third party services granting you access. Many online games only supports windows with secureboot and TPM enabled, but that would be a silly excuse to say that you don't really &q
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by infamia 3mo ago
A bit more like Kevin Powell, who publishes lots of free CSS videos [0], has some good basic CSS Training Courses for free, but charges money for the advanced ones [1]. His videos are not only available on his site, but they're also on
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by infamia 3mo ago
I think for most people you're right, they just want to upload their videos, and maybe make a couple of bucks on the side. I was referring to folks who are truly committed to making this their career and want to have their own brand.
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by infamia 3mo ago
There are lots of strategies how to make money and it will vary based on your specialty. It could be premium content, premium services, exclusive engagement with your fans, merchandising (e.g., many cooking YouTubers sell their own brand of
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by infamia 3mo ago
> Realistically, how many viewers will be retained should YT shut the OP down? Right now, that number rounds to 0. Practically speaking, YT is free internet video streaming for long-form videos on the US market. People have been followin
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by infamia 3mo ago
You can publish to both and even better your own domain that simply points to your video hosting provider. Long term you want to own your distribution channel as much as possible, while using YouTube as your lead generation tool to drive tr
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by infamia 3mo ago
> Requiring a disclaimer is essentially admitting the content isn’t meaningfully different than human generated content. At that point, who cares? Just engage with the premise on its own merits, rather than on how it was written. The pro
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by infamia 3mo ago
Great advice! The really tricky part to me is when you have an event your recorded before it happened, but want to look it up after the event has passed (e.g., you want to look up the doctor's appointment a year after it occurred). The
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by infamia 3mo ago
It's no huge secret that most large, modern countries are researching vaccines for these dangerous diseases. There are quite a few of these labs on U.S. soil as well last I checked. I don't get what the scandal is supposed to be a
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by infamia 4mo ago
> You seem to be talking about compile-time versus runtime Yes 100%! I was talking runtime in reference to Ruby and later Python. > That seems to harm rather than help your previous claim. In untyped languages, in principle every obje
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by infamia 4mo ago
> Rewriting critical software infrastructure (infostructure) to more reliable typed languages Instagram (and Threads) is still using Django, which is even slower than Rails. Once you get to unicorn scale, your app is going to bespoke, wi
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by infamia 4mo ago
> "survival" is the wrong word; its terminal. No one actually knows that one way or the other since some patients were still taking it after the study ended according to the article.
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by infamia 4mo ago
> It’s like a tourist visa. The visa itself is not a pathway to anything. > ... > People who come here on a K1 get permanent residency once they get married through a different statutory route: 8 USC 1154. But that has nothing to w
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by infamia 4mo ago
> I don’t want to defend the cure administration, but it’s very common and normal for a country to require a person to leave to change status. This new policy is different than the "flag poling" you've described. The new g
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by infamia 4mo ago
Because the words temporary amd nonimmigrant don't carry the meaning that you're imbuing into them. Fiance visas operate very similarly to these dual intent H1 visas. You're granted a temporary nonimmigrant status while you p
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by infamia 4mo ago
Warships vs. insurers willing to underwrite a policy for merchant vessels to transit are definitely two very different things. The Iranian Government has a much higher pain threshold/resolve than Trump, but they're also in a lot m
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by infamia 4mo ago
I had not heard about that transit, thanks for sharing! The ships mentioned in our two links match up, so it certainly sounds like they spent a some number days in the Persian Gulf and transited back. There was also a transit that occurred
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by infamia 4mo ago
> There is a reason the US Navy fled the Persian Gulf on Feb 26 and has not returned since. Two US Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers transited Hormuz a couple of weeks ago without damage and are still there last I heard. The Iranians were r
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by infamia 4mo ago
China hasn't seen 10% GDP growth for 15 years. It will likely fall in the 4-5% range this year as it was last year. China has a self-inflicted population decline problem that the U.S. doesn't, which will weigh on China's futu
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by infamia 4mo ago
This is brilliant, I was not aware of ITCSS. Thank you for sharing! The link you shared fits my brain a lot better than pure BEM/CUBE, which works but always felt weird and uncertain to my style. Sprinkling a bit of BEM on top of ITCSS
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by infamia 4mo ago
Iran cannot get their oil out of their country fast enough. Iran's oil storage facilities are filling up, as evidenced by them bringing in derelict tankers just to temporarily store oil. If they have to start capping wells, they will a

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