rubinelli

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by rubinelli 2y ago
I may consider using HOCON [0] if I see any traction, bust after writing a lot of YAML and even making my own YAML-driven tools, I feel its shortcomings are overstated. I got bit by corner cases maybe three or four times, and they didn&#x27
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by rubinelli 2y ago
I've written a fair bit of PySpark code and Polars's syntax feels fairly similar, but it also offers a limited SQL dialect.
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by rubinelli 2y ago
Anything besides ads, GCP, and Apps in that bucket?
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by rubinelli 3y ago
Perl's actually excellent at processing unstructured data, and it had a strong foothold in bioinformatics for a time. I don't think the decision was as obvious as it looks.
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by rubinelli 3y ago
That's a very rosy view of humans. The average person gets older, not wiser; they see the consequences of their actions and find someone else to blame. Real social and cultural change comes from new generations.
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by rubinelli 3y ago
CGP Grey doesn't explore what happens after death is defeated. I can't imagine how it can lead to anything but a stagnated society, with prejudices and inequalities enshrined forever.
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by rubinelli 4y ago
De minimis is a longstanding defense in copyright law. If you are copying very little from very many works, as is the case when you turn multiple petabytes into a few gigabytes of neural network weights, you are in the clear. The problem
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by rubinelli 4y ago
Early Lego games made great use of intonation and miming for their gags and storytelling. For example, this is their version of the famous "I am your father" scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvX3MaFB9TI
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by rubinelli 4y ago
There is a lot of wishful thinking that goes into galaxy brain code. It assumes you know with almost complete certainty what rules are bound to change and where extension will be needed, that the next developer will be able to understand an
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by rubinelli 4y ago
Aircraft carriers don't have the large cannons of a dreadnought. An armored car that served as launchpad and command center for drones could be drastically lighter, faster, cheaper, and with simpler logistics.
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by rubinelli 5y ago
There was a fair bit of moral panic, funnily enough, around D&D recently, specifically the representation of "evil" humanoid races and how they mirrored real-life racism https://www.psychologytoday.com/nz/
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by rubinelli 5y ago
Is it just a moral panic? Because these kids, who are bright enough to build their games and virtual worlds in Roblox's arcane tools, are spending hundreds of hours to create content for a multi-billion company and seeing nothing for t
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by rubinelli 5y ago
You should also be compensated for the time you spend on-call (which means you can't take on other commitments you otherwise might.) Anything less and it's outright exploitation. "We pay you well" is a non-sequitur.
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by rubinelli 5y ago
Most messy problems can't be solved by neat solutions. Without tariffs, countries will be incentivized to use lax emission control as a competitive advantage.
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by rubinelli 5y ago
That's not true. It's fantastic for ransomware and scams in general.
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by rubinelli 5y ago
Nope. The world didn't keep a control group for smallpox, even in the most distant villages. We simply eradicated it.
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by rubinelli 5y ago
Even though we talk about "the" vaccine, there isn't only one; there are half a dozen different vaccines being administered world-wide, using different methods of production. We're talking about all these independently-d
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by rubinelli 6y ago
Funny, but it suggests the market hasn't learned anything from 2008.
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by rubinelli 6y ago
People keep talking about patients going to the doctor for frivolous reasons, but what I see is that it is much more common for patients to ignore symptoms or take some over-the-counter medicine, and take too long to see a doctor.
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by rubinelli 6y ago
I think there is a lot of good to talk about, with just a little creativity: hundreds of thousands of jobs in a green economy, cleaner cities, ending the dependence on oil from autocratic nations, devices that you can repair and use for dec
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by rubinelli 6y ago
Many of the innovators in medieval Europe and Soviet Russia were seen with suspicion, when not outright persecuted. Innovation, beyond safe incremental productivity improvements, requires nonconformism and unconventional thinking. After all
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by rubinelli 6y ago
In this case, the irony comes from selling a product that will probably make the problem worse by teaching people how to pump out articles faster and add to the information glut.
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We’re Rebranding PrestoSQL as Trino(trino.io)
36 points by rubinelli 6y ago|10 comments
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by rubinelli 6y ago
Exactly. Every country affected by COVID-19 saw an enormous surge of deaths by respiratory diseases. Here in Brazil there are signs that we may be underestimating both infected and deaths by a factor of ten.
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by rubinelli 6y ago
Given how contagious it is and how much faster information moves today, that is highly unlikely.
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by rubinelli 7y ago
Fiberglass would break down and release microplastics, though, so it is not as environmentally friendly as a sunk metal hull.
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Coding Adventure: Portals(youtube.com)
2 points by rubinelli 7y ago|0 comments
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by rubinelli 7y ago
I was a child at the time, but I remember salaries, prices, taxes, everything followed an index, the URV (real value unit). The index then became the Real we have today, and indexation was abolished. So businesses had something reasonably s
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by rubinelli 7y ago
You don't need VR for that, only motion controls. Some people have exercise streaks that go on for years on Nintendo's Wii Fit, and Ring Fit Adventure is on the same path.
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by rubinelli 7y ago
If nobody is taking that job for a salary that is economically viable, then it shouldn't exist. We shouldn't make people waste their finite time on this Earth doing pointless jobs under the threat of homelessness or starvation.

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