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Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, stoic, democratic socialist

  • If your health check is broken, then you might not notice that a service is down and you'll fail to deploy a replacement. Or the opposite, and you end up constantly replacing it, creating a "flapping" service.

  • I just don't really understand the point they're trying to make. Japan is responding to OpenAI, which is a US company. They have the same copyright laws. None of the parties involved have any kind of edge over the other w.r.t. copyright law.

  • I doubt he actually believes that. He's just using that rhetoric to get Christians on board.

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  • Trains are a common special interest of people with autism.

  • Last I looked into it, running an ATproto relay is highly cost-prohibitive compared to a fediverse instance.

  • I wish you worked for Quantum/CenturyLink. All I've got is 6RD.

  • LLVM

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  • Isn't Zig working on their own backend?

    Also, pretty excited about the cranelift project.

  • You can use both.

  • I checked that no one has posted these yet:

    • Dallas Buyers Club
    • The Trial of the Chicago 7
    • The Prestige
  • That's essentially the same as saying guns aren't the problem.

  • An issue which I aim to resolve using a self-hosted VPN.

  • Pretty sure my eyes max out at 4K. I can barely tell the difference between 4K and 1080P from my couch.

  • Pretty much everyone I've talked to about this says the same thing. LLMs are useful for one-off scripts or quickly generating boilerplate. It just turns out that those tasks don't make up the majority of programming work unless you are in a bullshit job anyway.

    We aren't yet great at knowing when LLM will save time and when it will inflate time.

  • I believe that's called a Boycott. Usually those are targeted. I'd recommend boycotting as many companies as you can whose CEO tickled Trump's anus with a faux golden thimble.

  • You are part of the wavefunction. There is no collapse, just entanglement.

  • Not sure which Oxford dictionary you're using, but the Google one says

    an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g. ASCII, NASA )

    Maybe it's been changed?

    And Merriam Webster online says:

    The word acronym typically applies when the resulting thing can be read as a word

    My position on the whole "word meanings change over time" debate is: I agree, but if you used to have two words with distinct meanings and now they are getting collapsed into one, that's mostly because people weren't aware of a subtle distinction. And that's not a good reason to make the distinction meaningless for everyone.

    FWIW my original comment was a joke, I hope that was clear.

  • You can check multiple dictionaries (Oxford, Merriam Webster) and they will agree with me.