joelwilliamson

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by joelwilliamson 5mo ago
Function colouring, deadlocks, silent exception swallowing, &c aren’t introduced by the higher levels, they are present in the earlier techniques too.
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by joelwilliamson 6mo ago
Who calls WWI, stagflation or Covid good old times? Only the post-WWII boom was really a good time.
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by joelwilliamson 6mo ago
When did that happen? Did they admit guilt in the big settlement, or was there a different case?
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by joelwilliamson 7mo ago
I think tourer was arguing that the Nazis were a template for how to use speech restrictions to maintain power.
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by joelwilliamson 8mo ago
GitHub is a poor example of Chinese internet restrictions, since access to it is usually fine from China.
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by joelwilliamson 8mo ago
They could open source it and not even have a Github project associated. Just provide a read-only git repo on anthropic.com or drop a source tarball every release.
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by joelwilliamson 10mo ago
Give 10 years of copyright for free, then a $1000 fee for the next decade, and make every subsequent decade 100x more expensive.
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by joelwilliamson 10mo ago
Even Amazon Prime’s catalogue is only a third the size of what Netflix had 15 years ago.
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by joelwilliamson 11mo ago
Have you tried Real World Haskell?
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by joelwilliamson 11mo ago
He’d be dead either way, the question is if having those three years were a net improvement to his life
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by joelwilliamson 1y ago
The “board” in a boarding house is food. There can be other services as well, but food is definitely required to be a boarding house.
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by joelwilliamson 1y ago
He probably typed BSD, and it got autocorrected to BAD.
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by joelwilliamson 1y ago
She said she wouldn’t care if the hotels were set on fire. “Set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care.” That “for all I care” changes the whole meaning of the sentence.
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by joelwilliamson 1y ago
That’s a 2000x increase. 2000% is 21x, so $210,000/a.
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by joelwilliamson 1y ago
My daughter’s school had a race day to wrap up their swimming lessons, and one of the events involved rolling from front to back every second stroke. It was funny to watch but not very practical.
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by joelwilliamson 1y ago
> SpaceX is the only entity that have recovered and reused any rocket parts after sending payloads orbital This is not true. Say what you will about the Shuttle, but they definitely recovered and reused rocket parts from both the booster
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by joelwilliamson 1y ago
“What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away”
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by joelwilliamson 2y ago
It’s a trend that’s a few centuries old at least. The French and Indian War was partly caused by Americans who didn’t have enough land to farm to support a family moving west, and the British trying to stop that was one cause of the Revolut
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by joelwilliamson 2y ago
I grew up in Ontario in the 90s, and addresses were in the phonebook.
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by joelwilliamson 2y ago
A month of programming can save an hour of planning.
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by joelwilliamson 2y ago
https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.12.html#removed Here's a list of things that were removed from Python in 3.12, most of were deprecated after the 3.0 release.
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by joelwilliamson 3y ago
Groovy is a far better scripting language than YAML, which seems to be the choice of many other NYPD systems.
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by joelwilliamson 3y ago
Privately controlled companies need to do what their controllers think is most important. If the Sulzbergers think taking a stand on AI is more important than profit, they can go a long time without increasing profits.
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by joelwilliamson 3y ago
After the Korean War, North Korea had significantly more industry, more natural resources and more agricultural land, as well as a larger population.
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by joelwilliamson 3y ago
There is another rocket that has had a few successful landings: Falcon Heavy.
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by joelwilliamson 3y ago
How do you remote access an air-gapped workstation? Seems like you'd need to be constantly switching whether your laptop is on the internet-connected network or the isolated network. If the laptop can switch between them automatically,
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by joelwilliamson 3y ago
Why is it a misuse to use "crypto" to refer to a currency whose design relies on secrets, but it's fine to use "crypto" to refer to keeping communications private using some secret information?
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by joelwilliamson 3y ago
Can you give an example of a time when a CEO or board of directors lost a suit for taking the morally upright option instead of trying to maximize share value? I often hear people talking about this, but it's always generalities rather
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by joelwilliamson 3y ago
They disabled i.reddit.com a few weeks ago.
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by joelwilliamson 4y ago
Wasn't the Seattle interurban torn up in the early 1940s? I don't think you can blame that on the boomers.

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