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by xbpx 2y ago
If I'm so brutal and don't give a damn why do I care if I use every library under the sun? Simple you say? Then I'm rewriting code some other poor sods have written 100 times, which sounds a lot like not-invented-here orname
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by xbpx 2y ago
Counter take: This hot take is unnecessarily defeatist and smacks of the rote defense for maintaining the current power structure, namely "the world is too complicated maybe we shouldn't try". I'd like to mention that we
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by xbpx 2y ago
Plotly offers more power and flexibility than chart.js and provides a much simpler API than D3 (it has D3 and webgl renderers). The ecosystem is broad and includes React, Angular and other wrappers and language-interfaces for Python, Rust
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by xbpx 2y ago
Corporate Web is SEO Ad hell but it's got nothing on the future that awaits us. Let me present AI Ad tech 2030 All commercial websites contain meta tags with vector embedding links. Vector embedding services are standard offerings in t
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by xbpx 2y ago
Except you see many of the same people staffing the boards of major companies, donating to politicians and contributing funds to think tanks that supply politicians with policy options. Conceptually it's less helpful to keep politics a
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by xbpx 2y ago
I know, my statement there is harsh. The early tech culture emerged from 60s counter cultural forces that had, to their credit, really impacted the world. So it probably wasn't as naive as it seems now.
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by xbpx 2y ago
For sure. But there will always be good times and bad. Main streets in towns were likewise vital communities until interest rate hikes and massive deregulation in the 80s. If you want to keep quaint Norwegian looking towns pristine even thr
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by xbpx 2y ago
You ever drive down a main drag of any town or city pretty much anywhere that has a fairly unregulated capitalist system? Advertising everywhere. Signage. People dressed as hotdogs paid a few bucks an hour to wave a sign shaped like a ketch
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by xbpx 2y ago
Really? The situation isn't so simple. High income earners are paying historically low taxes. Not to mention cuts in inheritance taxes from the 80s onward. You'll need to explain your data more carefully than claiming it is all b
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by xbpx 2y ago
Who knows, likely not many aside from some folks training in GCP on TPUs but any large funded corporation has a path laid out by Google. And Apple with its M-series. You can build hardware and dedicated ML chips and if you can do that the s
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by xbpx 2y ago
The CUDA lock-in is over played. Tensorflow, Pytorch and any large framework supports multiple hardware including Google TPUs. Any company making significant investment will steer some of that towards hardware support in the software they n
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by xbpx 3y ago
Clearly the Radcliffe wave is leftover vibrational energy from a space-time knot formed when now long extinct aliens exited the galaxy in a dark energy fueled artificially generated wormhole. Clearly.
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by xbpx 3y ago
That's why white has a higher statistical win rate ya?
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by xbpx 3y ago
Arch sends distribution news every week or so, usually in one or two paragraphs. https://archlinux.org/ I've followed the gitlab migration and every package and distribution change that warranted community notification
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by xbpx 3y ago
I bet there is huge potential in physical computation but it seems like we'll need post-silicon or massively-3D circuitry to scale it out sufficiently. Bio-electronics and organically grown components are possible but also in pure R&a
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by xbpx 3y ago
Politics: Know Your Enemy, The Dig About movies (and politics): Michael & Us, Unclear and Present Danger Tech: Oxide and Friends, Twenty Thousand Hz Science: Nature Podcast, Quanta Magazine Podcast
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by xbpx 3y ago
This has been tried and has both worked and failed. Failed in some cases where governments built large clusters of apartment towers without much heed to community or spaces for urban renewal and local business. And succeeded when there were
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by xbpx 3y ago
Ridiculous. That list of tremendous people are some founders that found success. There are plenty of tremendous founders we don't hear about that didn't do as well. There are plenty of tremendous people in regular jobs that can&#x
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by xbpx 3y ago
If you're feeding the specific nodes to scrape, iterating and bug fixing what is Chatgpt doing other than giving you someone to talk with while you code? Call me when I can ask a LLM to pull structured data in CSV form from website X a
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by xbpx 3y ago
Stallman was right and he provided an alternative. Go use it. Stick to GPLd software safely nested under the auspices of a foundation. Don't expect Deno or any other corporate entity solely focused on profit seeking to give a single sh
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by xbpx 3y ago
This is a hilarious comment. It's exactly the comment that was made in the 70s when workers had a larger share of national income and when average salaries could afford a house. Indeed, soon thereafter in the late 70s we saw rounds of
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by xbpx 3y ago
A REPL isn't just a REPL. You are comparing modern day Toyota Corollas to a Spaceship sent from the future to the 80s. One is just different level radical. At least when it's baked by SLY or SLIME
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by xbpx 3y ago
Maybe because your entire lived experience has been reordered based on your skin color and how it isn't a light yellow color. Powerful cultural strands exist in your community to push back against constraints placed upon you because of
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by xbpx 3y ago
GDP doesn't measure a healthy economy however. It measures aggregate production which can be owned by a small minority of extremely wealthy asset holders while everyone else needs to work double shifts. I'd want a measure of inequ
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by xbpx 4y ago
Amen, real person role playing will remain superior to video games until AIs are more capable and fantastically deprived than humans. Until then, people bring the surprise, serendipity and wonder that makes a new game unique
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by xbpx 4y ago
Lisp feels more creative. You can bend the language, it's malleable. Rust may be the new Engineer's best friend but to me, Lisp remains the tool for the artist. Use Rust to Do It Right. Use Lisp to have fun.
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by xbpx 4y ago
It's so the middle managers can see that the line managers have done some due diligence. This is to prevent the case where line managers "don't have a good feeling" about an employee but can't point to specific item
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by xbpx 4y ago
Is this one a West Coast Canadian term of a certain era? It was popular in Vancouver in the oughts but I've been met with blank stares elsewhere on the continent, especially East Coast younger millennials.
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by xbpx 4y ago
Regular exercise. Make your priority be health not work. Fit everything around that. Every day the goal is to get an hour of exercise in and hopefully some work. In my case the work actually improves. Family and kids makes this more challen
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by xbpx 4y ago
The Dig - political left with structural / material analysis of world around us. The back catalogue is vast. Excellent host, Daniel Denver Know your Enemy - analysis of the US right-wing. Excellent and personable hosts, Matthew and Sam

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