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He lost me at "our particular moment of dystopian late capitalism."

This article is drivel. If a supplier writes down the value of a contract with Tesla, they're saying Tesla is buying fewer batteries, or will in the near future. That is, there is …

The code example is very similar to Ray. Monarch: class Example(Actor): @endpoint def say_hello(self, txt): return f"hello {txt}" procs = this_host().spawn_procs({"gpus": 8}) actor…

Nice. Another aspect of the ternary operator is conditional evaluation. Beyond parenthesis, in a?b:c, only one of b and c get evaluated.

Agreed. I was skeptical at first, but I've worked at several companies with unlimited PTO and they all specifically encouraged people to take time off. One place was explicit that …

Sure. Everyone, including government employees, should be allowed to discuss anything with AI. The problem is actually doing illegal things, which is... already illegal.

Reading a comment is exactly the same thing as scraping the internet, you just stop sooner.

If I read your comment, then write a reply, is it a derivative work?

I got a ZSA Voyager split keyboard and then spent weeks exploring custom layouts. The first question was QWERTY vs something better. Then there was layers and layer navigation. And…

Sure. There are undoubtedly a lot of config formats that are overly complex. But sometimes the complexity is irreducible. Kubernetes is one such case. The model is very well though…

/me sighs The board has not been consistently candid in its communications with... anyone.

Yeah. This is how Squeak changed the license from SqueakL to Apache and MIT. That code has a lot of history, so it was a pretty big effort, but worth it in the end.

The FSF disagrees with you on that.

Also, potentially bad outcomes if a nuclear aircraft is shot down.

Not the GP, but: Imagine you're sampling successful traces at, say, 1%, but sending all error traces. If your error rate is low, maybe also 1%, your trace volume will be about 2% o…

It's subtle and so difficult to see the differences at smaller scales. If you're going to provision a handful of EC2 instances, all the tools work fine. I think HCL is an under app…

Right. Maybe buy a stake in ESPN and get them to run 3D livestreams of games, but even that probably doesn't go forward until the MLS deal is a success.

San Francisco won't be satisfied until they've completely driven out all the tech companies and their employees.

Eh, I'm not sure about that. Tesla started from scratch and developed large-scale manufacturing and logistics from first principles. It was hard, but it's put them in a hugely adva…

No, because M&A isn't banned. I don't know how many car companies we have, but I do notice that there are a bunch of new ones recently. Just off the top of my head: Tesla, Lucid, R…

It doesn't come at the expense of the employees of the acquired business. They often get rich, or at least land a well-paying and career-enhancing gig at the acquiring company. Thi…

I dig this too. It's what I loved about Quicksilver - it had simple grammar that went direct object, verb, (optionally) indirect object. That tied nicely into the plugin system, wh…

Yeah. Something like the federal highway system, or dams.

California has an unlimited supply of water along its western border. We ought to tap that rather than the Colorado river.

I don't know if scientists are studying this - given recent trends they ought to be. But if experience counts, then yeah, there is. I've done a lot of work remotely, in person and …