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Similarly, I've never understood the economics behind the constant rescraping that is flooding the internet or really what's triggering it. It can't all be agents reacting to user …

what if i were purely interested in archiving local community posts? does anyone have experience on scraping without getting banned? i have no interest in juicing engagement, purel…

i feel like ppl have magical beliefs about type systems. just because it's _probably_ (did it use unsafe?) memory-safe doesn't mean it does what you want it to do

javascript is like… unusually messy and weird, so maybe that colours most people's perspective. you don't have to worry about type coercion and weird kinds of equality and so on in…

>Type systems restrict which programs can be expressed and increasing expressiveness often requires increasing type-system complexity (which, speaking from experience, both humans …

not going to debate bad faith right wing cause celebres arguing the inverse. i see it with my own two eyes when i have to yell at recruiters to stop bringing me all-male candidate …

there's loads of evidence, y'all just don't like engaging with it cos you don't like the answer because fixing it is work and fundamentally women and minorities are not seen as peo…

>The fact that a company does not have representation that is exactly equitable with the general population i didn't say exactly equitable, i said 80%. it's not possible to have 80…

the discrimination already happened! it's not possible to end up 80% white guy without discriminating. it's curious that the status quo isn't nearly as concerning.

i like how when a company obviously discriminates against women and minorities by hiring almost entirely white guys that's fine that's to be expected but if you try to fix that dis…

>Are Go backend building custom auth, admin, DB ORM/migrations/auto migrations, templates, email, dev server etc for each project? lmao, basically, yes. except when you bring this …

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> does not mean you have to be a post-marxist anarchist if you oppose a far-right project, what are they going to call you? lol. here is your membership card for the cultural marxi…

>You can advocate for sustainability … while being strongly capitalist just fine. […] excluding a large intersection of people otherwise interested in the non-political parts the f…

it helps that there's a regulatory agency that verifies the cleanup happened! if the 4th of july might get canceled the following year ppl might be more aggressive around cleaning …

i have wanted to be able to compile ruby to a binary for some time – and have dreamed of poking at this problem with claude – so this is pretty cool. if you can get a Rack compatib…

giving these things control over your actual computer is a nightmare waiting to happen – i think its irresponsible to encourage it. there ought to be a good real sandbox sitting be…

i can think of some tasks (classification, structured info extraction) that i _imagine_ even small meh models could do quite well at on data i would never ever want to upload to an…

i mean… your work also went into the training set, so it's not entirely surprising that it spat a version back out!

i can't imagine running these things outside of a vm and it's bizarre to see how many people yolo it

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