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Disclaimer: I have not looked carefully at the permissioned data proposal, but I know atproto reasonably well. Stepping back for a momement, it's clear that permissioned data is dr…

"If you mix raisins with turds, they're still turds" - Charlie Munger Another consequence of US NatSec being gradually privatized is that once your income stream derives mostly fro…

> It never made sense to me how such a ruthless and inhumane culture is sustainable in the long run. It’s pretty simple, actually. Once such a dominant market position is achieved,…

This is the correct answer. Consumers also don’t seem willing to pay for privacy, sadly, when they can get a product for «free» in exchange for data.

> The core issue is that Rust still hasn't stabilized backtrace propagation on errors. I would actually strengthen this to: «The core issue with Rust is that Rust still hasn’t stab…

This is probably my favorite programming language I would like to use if it had more backing. Their reference capabilities in particular seem like a very good match for the actor m…

> ...context needs to improve drastically. Yes, drastically. This means I'll have to wear Zuck's glasses I think, because the AI currently doesn't know what was discussed at the co…

I have been using it for coding for some time, but I don't think I'm getting much value out of it. It's useful for some boilerplate generation, but for more complex stuff I find th…

Note that many companies are pretending to hire in order to look successful/growing. They might be willing to hire if some unicorn candidate comes along, but in practice the job ad…

The problem is that now you have to package for N distros. And the people who run the distro may not want to spend time on it, so you have to do it yourself.

Please do it. It will not solve the problem (which is SS/Medicare spending), but will guarantee that they lose the midterms, which will grind the rest of the MAGA agenda to a halt.…

Unfortunately, the adaptive cruise control is also far dumber than it thinks it is, slamming the breaks when passing under bridges on the highway etc.

Well it’s not like Postnord manages to deliver something even if they try.

> The US isn't just productive. It is productive beyond the wildest imagination of the rest of world. Productivity has a specific meaning in economics, i.e. labor productivity (GDP…

Cost of production is much higher in Norway than in Saudi.

I didn't know about this but will check it out, thanks.

We use a similar setup where I work. One challenge we have has been generating bazel targets for different sets of crate features for dependencies. We have solved this by writing B…

I think awarding it to Obama was the wrong decision. That said, people sometimes misunderstand what the Nobel Peace Prize is about. "Peace" is interpreted in a very abstract sense …

This essay is uncharacteristically incoherent. The title is "What I've learned from users", yet after reading it I have no answer to this question.

> If you want to give "power to the people", you need some way of estimating independent voting power, that is not tied to resources. You mean like a democracy?

As an EV owner, I would say you either need access to a commercial charger (e.g. at work) or be able to charge at home. But either of those alternatives would be fine by itself. I …

The problem with errors in Rust is that the stdlib defined Error as a trait and traits are hard to use (not sized, etc). The current state of affairs with thiserror and anyhow is n…

> You don't have enough letters after your name to matter, and you will likely be a pet instead of a peer. This is an underrated point. This is the case for programmers in finance …