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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h0CHrQE794 there's a tension between innate preferences we’re born with, versus cultivated tastes that require effort

lol, I briefly thought of such a technique, but in the end, found it simpler to just use a synchronization primitive at the application level to serialize db access on transactions…

busy_timeout is often sidestepped (ignored) when a transaction attempts to upgrade from a read to a write producing SQLITE_BUSY. By default, SQLite transactions start in DEFERRED m…

The alternative is a High-Dimensional / Embedding-Like Approach where question responses aren't tied to fixed axes, but rather the full response set is treated as a point in latent…

what exactly is 'calling a function in two parts'

2016 (up to 2018 or so) may have been the peak of such varied activity in the developer ecosystem, including articles like this, whether it was discussion, ideation, OSS variety, l…

you made a funny

what's an example of something you made happen

whats an example of things that you have your agents do that use workflows and sqlite db

irrelevant to the definition, thanks anyway

A democracy means political authority ultimately comes from the people.

What exactly is 'sustainability'

I like how OBS has subsumed (often low-quality) screen recording apps for me; apart from the apps original intent for streaming

if your definition requires universal observer agreement you already have that issue with special relativity / light cones / the spacetime metric. many worlds posits a single unive…

peak FP debate was 2015/2016-ish

In the 2010-2020 era, readers of Hacker News used to know how to read Haskell and had strong opinions (pro and con) of it. That era is now over.

I assume it depends on the amount of detail you're expecting to get. Generally there are some broad categories: 1) tracked vs untracked mounts 2) shooting single frames vs shooting…

whoever came up with the name 'earworm' needs to be shot

Boltzmann Brains usually mean something is wrong in your cosmology

Licenses communicate your intent; if you choose the most permissive one possible that is also implicitly communicated.

Actually, we're already past the peak of star formation in the universe. So the universe is well on its way winding down.. less and less stars are being created. We're seeing the u…

Where did the the values of the coupling constants between the various fields come from? There are many parameters that do not have a reason for their value.

learning

can we just come up with one common term to to refer to all of my these between sites