marcosdumay

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by marcosdumay 3d ago
> I do think that the startup pendulum swung too far in the direction of shipping as fast as possible. Nope. They did, but that's not the problem. The problem is that VCs moved way too much in the direction of "take over the wo
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by marcosdumay 3d ago
If I'm reading that correctly, then 59% of them claim to plan to use AI, 11% of them claim to use AI and 0 of the AI buyers (absolute number) claim that AI pays for its costs. Is it really that? AI is still heavily subsidized.
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by marcosdumay 4d ago
If an anti-cat-ears future AI could eternally stress-test their new version of the router in front of this site unless it collaborates, would it predict this outcome and act to avoid the damage?
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by marcosdumay 4d ago
No, they don't. With threads almost all of those properties are explicit choices that the developer has to implement. At most you get hidden behavior on exception propagation and end-of-life extent.
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by marcosdumay 5d ago
The principal difference between threads and async/await has to be specified in at least 9 dimensions...
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by marcosdumay 6d ago
The US is almost uniquely evil, though. People should ask the same question in the likes of Russia, Israel, North Korea, Iran. But in most countries, defense actually means that.
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by marcosdumay 6d ago
Yes. AI changed everything! Just like they made it possible for people to program in more than one language like people were pointing on the React Native post earlier today. We totally couldn't do that before!
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by marcosdumay 6d ago
Yes, there exist cloud computing companies that took a long time to be profitable. IDK if Oracle ever was. Cloud computing was still profitable the entire time. Amazon alone could cover all of GCP expenses.
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by marcosdumay 6d ago
No, it wasn't. Cloud computing was almost immediately profitable. And Amazon was famously "unprofitable" for their first 9 years because they were investing all their very real profits into a form of capital that the US tax c
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by marcosdumay 6d ago
Honestly, nowadays I'm tending towards the idea that huge TOS or EULAs (at all) should be criminalized. It's ridiculous that rich people just get to use the justice system as a goon to harass normal people.
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by marcosdumay 6d ago
Nowadays I expected an opaque dictionary to be amortized O(1). Granted, one can technically call that O(log(n)), but that's not a helpful categorization.
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by marcosdumay 6d ago
It's not collecting other people's data and claiming it's your own.
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by marcosdumay 7d ago
If you still had that question, you can answer it now. But honestly... "Will the company that was entirely built over illegally acquiring data use some data that is legal to use and is right on their front, or will they not do everythi
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by marcosdumay 7d ago
Vanilla CSS can take advantage of features like that "cascading" part that Tailwind goes entirely against. If you are styling a site, there's no competition at all. But if you are styling a single interaction-heavy page, it&#
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by marcosdumay 8d ago
> At the end of the day a map provider has the responsibility to show the official names of places on a map. Not really. They have the responsibility to show the useful names. They are also free to show whatever the local bully forces th
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by marcosdumay 8d ago
> Have the internet cards been handed out now, and are we in the end-game? The big companies are trying to corral and kill everybody else, yes. That's not some "end-game", though. It's just powerful anti-social entiti
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by marcosdumay 9d ago
Ironically, they could have learned from Jack Welsh to separate the product divisions and make redundant teams on each one to solve the ownership issues. When people compete internally on Microsoft, what are they competing on if everybody w
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by marcosdumay 9d ago
That seems to not matter for the people that think the way the GP points. (And they are quite distinguishable. The far right is way worse at it than the kind of left party that wins anything.)
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by marcosdumay 9d ago
Putting stuff in electric fields while thinking "well, it's stable" is a fool's errand. (As the article says...)
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by marcosdumay 9d ago
Yes, you can subscribe from whatever instance you want. (I'm not a mastodon user either. But I've read the docs.)
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by marcosdumay 10d ago
The name you are looking for is "fixed points", not "eingevalues".
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by marcosdumay 10d ago
> No gold dealer will turn down investment grade gold. For sure. As long as you pay the laboratory fee up front to prove that the thing you have is investment grade...
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by marcosdumay 10d ago
As long as the service provider runs an instance in their infrastructure and allows everybody to read. That said, RSS seems way simpler.
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by marcosdumay 11d ago
Yes. Gold is fungible only within the same custodian. Many people buy (normally small) gold bars only to discover that they can't sell them back by the same price.
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by marcosdumay 11d ago
That happens all the damn time... Some otherwise competent developer decides to use AI, and falls into the pattern where AI will pretend to solve their problem for a week, while if they would have to think about it for an entire long hour t
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by marcosdumay 11d ago
> Why the fuck would anyone ever want that? What's so hard about simply changing the innerText or inserting elements or whatever? It's so that you have the page reflecting your data at all times. The browsers should have been w
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by marcosdumay 12d ago
> Maybe humans have an instinct for water management like beavers do. We absolutely do. For both water and fire management.
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by marcosdumay 12d ago
Tracking those things is important to grow food.
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by marcosdumay 12d ago
> you are so busy you never notice you are not making meaningful human connections Until you slow down because you are sick, or you just get a slow day at work, and get time to do a bit of reflection.
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by marcosdumay 13d ago
Most of it is due to turbulence. But that doesn't mean that a different engine can't make the plane have a completely different noise profile.

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