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by sbt 6d ago
There was a big jump around new year, but they seem to have flatlined since them. Just my experience.
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by sbt 10d ago
Send the PMs that greenlit this to jail.
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by sbt 1mo ago
See also: Morroccan Donald Trump Highway
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by sbt 2mo ago
Disclaimer: I have not looked carefully at the permissioned data proposal, but I know atproto reasonably well. Stepping back for a momement, it's clear that permissioned data is driven by real world use-cases (Bluesky needs DMs, Tangle
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by sbt 8mo ago
"If you mix raisins with turds, they're still turds" - Charlie Munger Another consequence of US NatSec being gradually privatized is that once your income stream derives mostly from government spending, it becomes an imperati
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Bidenomics: Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment and Growth(braddelong.substack.com)
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by sbt 11mo ago
> It never made sense to me how such a ruthless and inhumane culture is sustainable in the long run. It’s pretty simple, actually. Once such a dominant market position is achieved, you can get away with almost anything, whether with cust
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by sbt 1y ago
This is the correct answer. Consumers also don’t seem willing to pay for privacy, sadly, when they can get a product for «free» in exchange for data.
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by sbt 1y ago
> The core issue is that Rust still hasn't stabilized backtrace propagation on errors. I would actually strengthen this to: «The core issue with Rust is that Rust still hasn’t stabilized _»
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by sbt 1y ago
This is probably my favorite programming language I would like to use if it had more backing. Their reference capabilities in particular seem like a very good match for the actor model. Alas, it does not appear to have a large corporation b
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by sbt 1y ago
> ...context needs to improve drastically. Yes, drastically. This means I'll have to wear Zuck's glasses I think, because the AI currently doesn't know what was discussed at the coffee machine or what management is plannin
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by sbt 1y ago
I have been using it for coding for some time, but I don't think I'm getting much value out of it. It's useful for some boilerplate generation, but for more complex stuff I find that it's more tedious to explain to the A
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by sbt 1y ago
Note that many companies are pretending to hire in order to look successful/growing. They might be willing to hire if some unicorn candidate comes along, but in practice the job ad is just marketing.
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by sbt 1y ago
The problem is that now you have to package for N distros. And the people who run the distro may not want to spend time on it, so you have to do it yourself.
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by sbt 2y ago
Please do it. It will not solve the problem (which is SS/Medicare spending), but will guarantee that they lose the midterms, which will grind the rest of the MAGA agenda to a halt.
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by sbt 2y ago
Unfortunately, the adaptive cruise control is also far dumber than it thinks it is, slamming the breaks when passing under bridges on the highway etc.
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by sbt 3y ago
Well it’s not like Postnord manages to deliver something even if they try.
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by sbt 3y ago
> The US isn't just productive. It is productive beyond the wildest imagination of the rest of world. Productivity has a specific meaning in economics, i.e. labor productivity (GDP per hours worked). What I think you are referring t
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by sbt 3y ago
Cost of production is much higher in Norway than in Saudi.
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by sbt 3y ago
I didn't know about this but will check it out, thanks.
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by sbt 3y ago
We use a similar setup where I work. One challenge we have has been generating bazel targets for different sets of crate features for dependencies. We have solved this by writing Bazel tooling, but learning how to do this has cost a fair bi
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by sbt 4y ago
I think awarding it to Obama was the wrong decision. That said, people sometimes misunderstand what the Nobel Peace Prize is about. "Peace" is interpreted in a very abstract sense by the committee and should perhaps be better unde
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by sbt 4y ago
This essay is uncharacteristically incoherent. The title is "What I've learned from users", yet after reading it I have no answer to this question.
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by sbt 4y ago
> If you want to give "power to the people", you need some way of estimating independent voting power, that is not tied to resources. You mean like a democracy?
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by sbt 4y ago
As an EV owner, I would say you either need access to a commercial charger (e.g. at work) or be able to charge at home. But either of those alternatives would be fine by itself. I don't charge at home, but do most of my charging in the
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by sbt 4y ago
The problem with errors in Rust is that the stdlib defined Error as a trait and traits are hard to use (not sized, etc). The current state of affairs with thiserror and anyhow is not satisfactory if we want to ease the Rust learning curve.
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by sbt 4y ago
> You don't have enough letters after your name to matter, and you will likely be a pet instead of a peer. This is an underrated point. This is the case for programmers in finance as well, and requires a hefty salary premium to put
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by sbt 5y ago
PGs personality has been great for attracting the kind of college graduate clientele YCombinator has catered to.
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by sbt 5y ago
Another problem is that Big Tech owns the relatively corrupt US government.
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by sbt 5y ago
There are so many logical flaws (and bad English) here that it’s hard to know where to begin. The analogy with opium is perhaps the only sensible one. Norway, however, is the world’s cleanest and most ethical producer of opium (oil). Given

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