sirtaj

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by sirtaj 10d ago
server -> personal -> server -> personal... I've seen this cycle a number of times in the last 40 years. Almost none of the people making any of the software we use are purely using the cloud, they are using powerful personal
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by sirtaj 18d ago
I guess efforts like Google's OKF, which teach the llm to manage the ontology directly, are the opposite of what you want. The weathering need is real. An llm equivalent of dbms analysing usage pattern to tune indexes.
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by sirtaj 21d ago
They are Taiwan's largest buyer, by a significant margin.
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by sirtaj 21d ago
They've found their thought-terminating cliche for a particular topic and apply it liberally.
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by sirtaj 22d ago
Is China any less dependent on Taiwanese semiconductors than the rest of us?
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by sirtaj 28d ago
I remember being mostly okay with this level of cruelty when this was one of the few games I had available all summer, but I tried to play some of them again as a middle aged guy and I couldn't believe I had put up with this. This is o
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by sirtaj 1mo ago
The article is about oligarchy. You've somehow redirected it towards immigration. How are you making this connection?
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by sirtaj 2mo ago
I think we might be talking about different things. My understanding is that voting with your wallet is orthogonal to why you want to do it.
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by sirtaj 2mo ago
This is literally what capitalism tells us to do though, isn't it? If you don't like it, don't buy it.
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by sirtaj 3mo ago
It feels like a lot like mobile telecom providers, trying desperately not to become commoditised by trying to value-add up the chain. Those guys mostly just ended up annoying consumers by creating walled gardens and preinstalled apps, let&#
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by sirtaj 3mo ago
But what is there to accept? I was lucky to be born and not be run over by a truck today. What is the purpose of this information? How do I internalize it and use it to guide my behaviour?
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by sirtaj 4mo ago
Odd thing to blame on a bunch of schoolgirls!
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by sirtaj 5mo ago
I agree with you. The internet is now important enough that it's required for almost everything past basic sustenance. Governments worldwide are moving services to the internet, so it's not even optional any more.
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by sirtaj 5mo ago
This line of thinking comes up so often, but ignores second order effects. I don't need schools because I have no children, but I will certainly depend on well educated children entering the workforce. Or, more facetiously, I don'
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by sirtaj 6mo ago
Indeed. Maybe it's just a function of passed time, but it feels like people surrounded by hustlers - including themselves - look at this and think "what's the hustle behind this?" because they can't imagine anyone d
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by sirtaj 6mo ago
I have a skill and template for adding ADRs to the documentation for this purpose.
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by sirtaj 8mo ago
Visual Basic scratched this itch for anyone who was willing to spend roughly the time learning it as, say, becoming basically proficient at Excel. But the ship appears to have sailed for that kind of RAD development.
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by sirtaj 8mo ago
I use Q/aka kiro-cli at work with opus and it's clearly inferior to CC within the first 30s or so of usage. So no, not quite
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by sirtaj 10mo ago
Not if 1% of the time it turns into a pair of scissors.
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by sirtaj 10mo ago
"Not controlled by ideology" is a pretty bold statement to make about a self-declared Communist single-party country. There is always an ideology. You just happen to agree with whatever this one is (Controlled-market Communism? I
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by sirtaj 11mo ago
Valheim and No Man's Sky are ones I've played recently.
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by sirtaj 11mo ago
Asking from ignorance - are schemas not enough to replicate this most of the way? What are the extra nice to haves that would bring PG on par with Oracle here?
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by sirtaj 11mo ago
Am I incorrect in thinking this is as much true of the linux kernel or emacs as it is of an LLM?
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by sirtaj 11mo ago
Presented to us by the same people who gave us the film "Climate Hustle" [1] 1. https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/climate-hustle-wants...
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by sirtaj 1y ago
I see DJing as more akin to being a skillful curator than being an artist. They are related but not equivalent.
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by sirtaj 1y ago
Ask a Himachali person how far something is and it's always "just around the next hill." Another couple of hours of walking and you"ll still get the same answer.
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by sirtaj 1y ago
Here in India you can usually tell them apart by whether they are advertised as HEPA vs "HEPA-type".
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by sirtaj 1y ago
I think it's more about messaging rather than reality. Only one of these parties fights the safety nets, is against raising the minimum wage and cuts taxes for the rich, and that's the one that's positioned itself as the &quo
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by sirtaj 1y ago
I'd say that proportion of what you might call "vegan" food in india is quite small. Dairy-based products are everywhere in vegetarian dishes, and many (too many, imho) recipes treat paneer as the default stand-in for meat.
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by sirtaj 1y ago
You're right, it's seeking and developing nuclear weapons that has been the problem historically. Once you have them it's fine, the sabre-rattling pretty much stops. Worked for India, Pakistan, China, North Korea.

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