larksimian

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by larksimian 26d ago
Our servers run Ubuntu. In practice it doesn't make that much of a difference I assume, but why diverge at all if I don't have to. I have separate laptops for work and personal anyway.
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by larksimian 28d ago
Compound interest can be demotivating. Oh if I'd started investing 10 years ago I'd be rich, I'll never get as much out of it if I start now, so I might as well just not do it. Comparing the future value not against present i
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by larksimian 29d ago
Just ask any of the last gen coding agents to fix this for you and they'll make a script that tweaks a few things and it just works. Is it acceptable? No. Did it solve my endless crashes that I used to get every day? Yes. I don't
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by larksimian 2mo ago
There's no moat to AI models so it doesn't really matter who develops it first. If AGI happens none of it matters since it won't be controlled anyway. If there's an exponential wall then everyone will be at it within 12
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by larksimian 2mo ago
Yes, election coverage and endorsements and politically biased media did not exist before Citizens United. None of the dozens of democracies with political spending limits have political news coverage. You really cracked this case wide open
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by larksimian 4mo ago
Hinduism is hardly non-proselytising. After all there's not a lot of Buddhists left in India. The Brahmin caste pretty intentionally and comprehensively reacted to and pushed out Buddhist practices once they became threatened by them.
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by larksimian 1y ago
I was thinking along parallel lines. If you have fuck-you money then sure: you just leave when asked to do something imoral. But if you are materially dependent on the job then you have battling imperatives that will stress you. The first t
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by larksimian 1y ago
It's not really random. Disease development in the Old World was a combo of long term urbanisation and animal husbandry. Urbanisation in the New World existed but wasn't as old and obviously there was way less animal husbandry. Al
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by larksimian 1y ago
They were charging up hill in the mud. Noone really died from arrows, except maybe some of the horses. But a lot of their horses fell and then the knights ran back through their own infantry, though apparently that wasn't that big a de
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by larksimian 2y ago
Yeah, what's 3 orders of magnitude wrong between strong and stable geniuses. They're claiming to cut $16b and actually only cut like $6b and none of it was actually fraudulent it just literally matched grep trans or something. I k
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by larksimian 2y ago
This is absurdly wrong. Most immigrants are poor people entering their new societies at the very bottom, not hipster digital nomads. Sometimes they are lower middle class in their own societies, but often they are pretty much at the bottom
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by larksimian 3y ago
It's easier to steal pentagon contract money than money issued for highways or train tracks therefore military contracting has a higher profit margin therefore that's what the lobbyists advocate for.
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by larksimian 3y ago
This sounds good but doesn't actually make sense, like most corporate money-grabs. If cards accumulate in value, everyone is essentially playing for free(or indeed being paid to collect cards since generally the market rose faster than
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by larksimian 3y ago
You're building CRUD apps. The conventions work and are extensible for teams of 1, 10, 100 and 1000s. You are not special and neither is your product. Companies making millions or billions of dollars have used this framework successful
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by larksimian 3y ago
It's so easy that there's like 5 or 6 of them that I know of in Romania alone and drivers will swap between 2-3 of them every day. So yeah, it's pretty trivial. While there's no reason to start one if you can't unde
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by larksimian 3y ago
I'll add that Ruby meta-programming has 2 pseudo-phases(at least in my mind): load time and 'true' run time. They're both technically run time, but smth like a has_many method in rails ActiveRecors runs once when the cod
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by larksimian 3y ago
I basically 100% agree with this and this is the editor env I wish I could live in. I think the debate still exists because editors/langs don't work like this and you end up having to compromise one way or another. Obviously, if w
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by larksimian 3y ago
It all depends on how often I'm interacting with an area of code. Is it library code I'm using all the time or some obscure private internal that I visit once a year at most? If I'm only reading that code like ... 1 time ever
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by larksimian 3y ago
I just had the same sort of realization actually, trying to explain to myself why I dislike micro-functions: it pollutes the vocabulary that I need to know at all times with super low value information words that are only relevant in very p
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by larksimian 3y ago
I agreed with their assessment though for a totally different reason: the second function is only doing primitive operations and not invoking any other functions. For the same reason I found that their refactoring actually made the first fu
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by larksimian 3y ago
He's lying. Worker wages have been stagnant for a decade plus. Even the recent increases have been vastly outpaced by increases in prices AS EVIDENCED BY INCREASING PROFIT at companies that are increasing wages. The problem is there is
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by larksimian 3y ago
If they charged like $2/year/user for 3d party API access they'd be profitable and no one would be that outraged. Their expenses are still absurd given that, from my perspective they've literally done no improvement to t
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by larksimian 3y ago
I know you're not saying this, but just to point out how absurd this price point is: > Reddit generated $350 million in 2021, primarily from its advertising business > Reddit has 52 million daily active users and approximately 43
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by larksimian 3y ago
Has this strategy ever worked in the history of social media businesses?
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by larksimian 3y ago
Bollocks. Tumblr is still around and probably has been losing money for longer than people here have been alive. No one is throwing away the kind of audience reddit has. Now the CEO might lose his job, but let's not get that twisted up
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by larksimian 3y ago
You follow some weird accounts if that's what you see in your feed.
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by larksimian 3y ago
It generates an avatar for her. They show it in the demo, it looks really good.
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by larksimian 3y ago
Eh, it's relative. You can get that for like 10 euros a month in Romania and they throw in a mobile phone and some cable channels to boot I think.
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by larksimian 3y ago
He's not taxed at 45% he just doesn't understand progressive taxation. You'd need to make like 1 million a year or more for the effective rate to be 45% i think.
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by larksimian 3y ago
Villa just means house in that context, I believe

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