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runlaszlorun

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About runlaszlorun

alex.l.ross@gmail.com

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    Comment #49096644

    I'd def recommend simonw's CLI and Python lib for anyone doing SQLite stuff, there's all kinds of stuff there.

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    Comment #49042743

    Very cool. I'll def check this out more later on.

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    Comment #48946705

    Ha! I didn't get the reference at first but hilarious...

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    Comment #48615318

    Zen party monster... Reporting for duty!

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    Comment #48266696

    Awesome, thx for posting. I now have my new next book to read. Been wanting to read more of the original cybernetics stuff. Would you also recommend "The Human Use of Human Beings"…

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    Comment #47952952

    I'm in. What's next?

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    Comment #47529865

    https://archive.is/pbNhS

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    Comment #47422749

    This is hilarious but... and I can't believe Im actually giving critique here... but a modern day, LinkedIn version would be couched in words like "exceedingly complex", "multi-dom…

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    Comment #47422636

    I'll confess to only have skimmed TFA but I love this idea.

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    Comment #47188399

    I'm def adding "slippery semantic slopes" to my vocab.

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    Comment #47188347

    You pretty much nailed it. I can't even get outraged at any given instance now that the trendline is so staggeringly clear. I can't see anyway this ends well for the US. I say this…

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    Comment #47188325

    Um. No, that's not how it works...

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    Comment #47188088

    Oh my gosh. I was hoping that book had died a terrible death...

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    Comment #47188005

    Best comment of the day. In three words no less...

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    Comment #47187879

    > There is a lot of history of the first movers that created revolutionary products that eventually faded away into nothing, while others capitalized on the innovation. I'd say mos…

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    Comment #47171249

    I'll add my voice that the movie is definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it yet.

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    Comment #47170577

    This deserves to be the top comment.

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    Comment #47130648

    Palantir used this backdoor to get into municipal police departments. LA is the example that sticks in my mind. I remember others.

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    Comment #47101572

    I think this issue is way overlooked. Current LLMs embed a long list of values that are going to be incongruent with a large percentage of the population. I don't see any solution …

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    Comment #46962913

    What are his recent missteps? I'll confess I try to ignore industry chatter to a fair degree.

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    Comment #46962851

    Ha, great analogy.

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    Comment #46846148

    It's not their fault, they didn't have lean startup and blitz scaling yet.

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    Comment #46846138

    Oh wow. That's far less ridiculous a notion.

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    Comment #46843848

    So am I correct I'm thinking that SQLite doesn't need, for example, FS sycalls just the VFS functions?