speedplane

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by speedplane 8mo ago
This is a nice idea, but it's empty. There were widely reported ICE operations in Minnesota over the past few days, yet it's blank on the map. Seems like a fun vibe-code project, but not useful w/o data.
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by speedplane 9mo ago
Legal-tech: Using AI to help attorneys bill flat-rate instead of hourly. It's data intensive, but possible if you go through their old time entries and tell them the flat-rate price of all of their hourly work. 93% of attorneys bill ho
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by speedplane 4y ago
Saw both the movie and the real thing multiple times. Subject of numerous a heist fantasy… even today though, the MTA guys collecting money from the machines are escorted by NYPD conspicuously showing their firearms while giving you the eye
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by speedplane 4y ago
The question is whether consciousness is emergent from large enough models, or whether it’ll be something we’ll need to design/build.
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by speedplane 4y ago
“Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.” “‘This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the exi
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by speedplane 5y ago
> Instead, we should be using game-style "data oriented programming" a.k.a. "column databases" for a much higher performance. This makes logical sense, but I don’t buy it in practice. Most of the heavy data reads are
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by speedplane 5y ago
> I don't think that being able to replace a library at runtime is a useful enough feature to justify the high maintenance cost of shared libraries. We’re moving to a world where every program is containerized or sandboxed. There is
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by speedplane 5y ago
> Can someone explain the value of such a list, am I missing something? You can glean information about your competitors’ usage and advertising, which can help you optimize your own app’s advertising spend.
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by speedplane 5y ago
Scale it
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by speedplane 5y ago
You can do Unicode in Python 2. You can do Unicode faster and easier in Python 3. But by gaining that ability, they set the existing community back by 10 years.
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by speedplane 5y ago
> There are literally savings accounts with interest rate over my mortgage interest, meaning there is a zero risk arbitrage opportunity. Many utilities give an 8-9% interest rate on bonds, with very little risk (Comcast isn't going
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by speedplane 5y ago
> Wealth inequality is not a problem in itself. Poverty or theft is. Inequality leads to power centers. Power centers lead to systemic corruption. Systemic corruption is a problem. So yes, extreme inequality is itself a problem.
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by speedplane 5y ago
> It is often best to avoid non-ASCII characters in source code. ... >> Depends of the language. In Python 3, files are expected to be utf8 by default, and you can change that by adding a "# coding: <charset>" heade
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by speedplane 5y ago
> they've been heralding the death of Moore's law since he started and that the "one trick ponies" just keep coming. He says he doesn't doubt that they will continue. The situation is clearly far worse than what
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by speedplane 5y ago
> We should all be happy for the millions of people that didn't starve to death, and for the millions who didn't have to walk their children off of cliffs or have the family hug a grenade. Before we thank ourselves for all the
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by speedplane 5y ago
Time is an illusion. Science tells us it's linear, measured in precise nano-seconds. But humans measure time differently, it's based more on the depth of connection we have to others. You can have a life-changing event in a day, o
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by speedplane 5y ago
The M1 processor is a direct result of the death of Moore's law. It's an amazing processor, but a sad sign of things to come. The performance gains from Moore's law have typically come from shrinking die size. That has ended,
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by speedplane 5y ago
Guns germs steel! Read the book.
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by speedplane 5y ago
There is a mathematically based definition of a perfect market. It’s only an approximation of real life, but it’s heavily used: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/perfectcompetition.asp
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by speedplane 5y ago
Can’t we just have biased media (like we do now), that makes their biased clear?
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by speedplane 5y ago
> Billionaires are criminal by definition Sadly, billionaires aren’t criminal by definition (no such laws), but the existence of billionaires sure does cut against the idea of a perfect market (in a “perfect” market there cannot be profi
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by speedplane 5y ago
> It’s easy to make a profit when everyone is strapped for cash and you have an infinite supply I’d expand this... It’s easy to make a profit when everyone is strapped for cash.
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by speedplane 5y ago
If you can work 50 hours a week, and can manage a team of people, it’s time to look beyond McDonalds.
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by speedplane 7y ago
> What kind of program requires that much ram? Elasticsearch is written in Java, and routinely uses 30GB+ of RAM. I suspect if it was written in Python, it would use an order of magnitude more.
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by speedplane 7y ago
> the term "a real python programmer" clearly meanys a developer who actually has used Python in the past in a remotely significant way As a "real python programmer" that is trying to manage a conversion from Python
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by speedplane 7y ago
> if ... accurate, that Trump intentionally did not want more testing, to keep the reported number of infected low, to ... increase his re-election chances. ... it's not politics. It's unethical and immoral... I'm no fan o
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by speedplane 7y ago
Fact 1: There are always bugs or unforeseen events in software. Fact 2: When there is an unforeseen event, the developer did not consider what to do. Fact 3: Developers often deal with other people's buggy code. It's clear that ex
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by speedplane 7y ago
> So Ubuntu is open-source, but if I fork it, it comes with « Ubuntu » in package names, therefore I’m infringing on their trademark? Yup. However, I suspect that Ubuntu gives a pretty permissive trademark license in their distribution.
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by speedplane 7y ago
> Given the choice between honest work and preying on our fellow human being its always easier to exploit. This is why despite being proposed as a means to inspire creation copyright theoretically expires 7O years after you die and reali
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by speedplane 7y ago
> That is an argument for the idea of copyright itself. It's not an argument in favor of the current system and it also proves no justification to expand the current system. You're wrong. The constitution grounds copyright (and

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