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by okennedy 2y ago
Spreadsheets.
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by okennedy 2y ago
Bash is ubiquitous and stable, making bash scripts incredibly portable. All of the other languages you bring up are great for authoring code, but have a non-zero amount of friction when running code in the wild. Python may be omnipresent,
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by okennedy 2y ago
> Automattic is a fantastic home for us. We needed a home (or new investors) to keep working on Beeper. Is the added investment necessary to scale out specific features, or is it to address challenges related to profitability?
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by okennedy 2y ago
This looks like an in-memory log-structured merge tree [0]. (Albeit based on sorted runs rather than trees, as in the more recent variations of the idea) [0] https://www.cs.umb.edu/~poneil/lsmtree.pdf
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by okennedy 3y ago
From a practical standpoint for most database systems, sort of? One might say that there's a functional dependency from the 'time' to the 'precipitation' attribute, and providing that information to the optimizer m
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by okennedy 3y ago
The big difference I see at a skim is that, in classical datalog, facts are only allowed to contain domain attributes, and not value attributes. E.g., you can express binary facts like Raining(12:00) (it's raining at 12:00), but not R
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by okennedy 3y ago
Inkscape has a filter that's been pretty reliable at generating vectors from raster inputs.
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Amtrak is building a Shikansen in Texas(texascentral.com)
1 points by okennedy 3y ago|0 comments
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by okennedy 3y ago
TFA's point is that the model is horrible for creators: a revenue sharing model is only viable as long as the number of creators being shared is comparatively small. $5, $10, $20 from a few hundred or thousand viewers is a decent haul
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by okennedy 3y ago
Differing skillsets? Managing people doesn't have to mean more responsibility. Some people are good at doing, others are good at the bureaucracy game and buffering for the doers. Both are critical, and in a good org, both have differe
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by okennedy 3y ago
Or to keep adding "features" in an attempt to continue the growth curve and/or stay hip, and worsen it instead.
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by okennedy 3y ago
Things are bad enough already, even with pre-LLM technology. "I'm sorry sir, your 8-year old son can't board this plane because the system says he's a terrorist" [1]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/201
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by okennedy 3y ago
NYC, and Manhattan specifically, is one of the rare places in the country where having a car is almost virtually unnecessary. In downtown, cars are already playthings of the rich: Just parking the car during peak hours can run you hundreds
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by okennedy 3y ago
Because that worked out so well for us the last time we tried... [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812
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Smoke Forecast – Firesmoke.ca(firesmoke.ca)
3 points by okennedy 3y ago|0 comments
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by okennedy 3y ago
The researchers behind the project have since moved on, but the idea of a db underpinning a game engine came up over a decade ago in Walker White's work at Cornell. Unsurprisingly, there's a whole lot of ways in which expertise f
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by okennedy 3y ago
As the peer comment points out, functional data structures force you to be deliberate about where/when state changes take place. In particular, they force you to be cognizant of which version of a data structure a particular piece o
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by okennedy 3y ago
This is the canonical guide to reasoning about amortized runtimes. The exponentially growing ArrayBuffer (O(1) amortized append) is the classical data structure used to teach amortized runtimes, but the O(1) amortized functional queue Okas
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by okennedy 3y ago
Even open book exams can be gamed. There are whole industries set up around enabling in-exam communication (e.g. concealed subvocal mics/headphones) and outsourcing schoolwork. It is definitely possible to design assessments on which c
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by okennedy 3y ago
You are describing a different class of attacks. If the company owns the device, they should be free to (try to) lock it down all they want. OP is about Apple locking down devices that someone else ostensibly owns.
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by okennedy 3y ago
I'm not convinced that they need to. What threat model are you considering? In this case, the privilege that the user is granting the new hardware is the authority to unlock the phone. Since the phone has to already be unlocked for t
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by okennedy 3y ago
There are simple ways to allow hardware changes without losing security. One straightforward idea: Once the phone is unlocked (e.g. by pin code) allow the user to authorize the new hardware. This is effectively what Apple does already. The
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by okennedy 4y ago
From TFA: - Users were notified that the posts were written in collaboration with a bot - Human authors oversaw the posts, including having the ability to edit posts and having responsibility for hitting send. The lack of informed consent
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by okennedy 4y ago
Apple's Numbers has a relatively clever way to pull this off. If a cell (e.g., B:$2) is in a table with a column (or row) header, all formulas will use the header field value in the variable. e.g., = floor( [Strength:$Value] &#x2
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by okennedy 4y ago
Lawyers also have a _legally binding obligation_ to provide accurate, context-aware, complete advice.
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by okennedy 4y ago
Writing, especially when the intent is to transmit an idea, is a lot like writing code: (i) Make absolutely sure that you know what your goal is (and why it's your goal). (ii) Before you use a term or concept that the reader might
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by okennedy 4y ago
Good low/no-code solutions do a great job of aiding discoverability and cutting the need to grapple with a language's syntax. Unfortunately, while this is a roadblock for many, the challenge is more fundamental. What makes a goo
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by okennedy 4y ago
There's a crucial distinction between being impressive and being useful. Is it impressive that we've gotten to this point? Certainly! Is this a tool that people can safely rely on? Probably not.
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by okennedy 4y ago
I can't emphasize this point enough. Hypercard was an amazing tool, in the same class of evolutionary steps forward as the spreadsheet. It's unfortunate that nothing's come along to replace it. (I still have fond memories
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by okennedy 4y ago
Even if this were the situation, and the owner of the 2nd repository were the one at fault, CoPilot can't point to the specific repository it "learned" the code from to absolve itself. If a human said, of sufficiently complex

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