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This is a nice idea, but it's empty. There were widely reported ICE operations in Minnesota over the past few days, yet it's blank on the map. Seems like a fun vibe-code project, b…

Legal-tech: Using AI to help attorneys bill flat-rate instead of hourly. It's data intensive, but possible if you go through their old time entries and tell them the flat-rate pric…

Saw both the movie and the real thing multiple times. Subject of numerous a heist fantasy… even today though, the MTA guys collecting money from the machines are escorted by NYPD c…

The question is whether consciousness is emergent from large enough models, or whether it’ll be something we’ll need to design/build.

“Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.” “‘This country, with its institutions, belongs to the peop…

> Instead, we should be using game-style "data oriented programming" a.k.a. "column databases" for a much higher performance. This makes logical sense, but I don’t buy it in practi…

> I don't think that being able to replace a library at runtime is a useful enough feature to justify the high maintenance cost of shared libraries. We’re moving to a world where e…

> Can someone explain the value of such a list, am I missing something? You can glean information about your competitors’ usage and advertising, which can help you optimize your ow…

Scale it

You can do Unicode in Python 2. You can do Unicode faster and easier in Python 3. But by gaining that ability, they set the existing community back by 10 years.

> There are literally savings accounts with interest rate over my mortgage interest, meaning there is a zero risk arbitrage opportunity. Many utilities give an 8-9% interest rate o…

> Wealth inequality is not a problem in itself. Poverty or theft is. Inequality leads to power centers. Power centers lead to systemic corruption. Systemic corruption is a problem.…

> It is often best to avoid non-ASCII characters in source code. ... >> Depends of the language. In Python 3, files are expected to be utf8 by default, and you can change that by a…

> they've been heralding the death of Moore's law since he started and that the "one trick ponies" just keep coming. He says he doesn't doubt that they will continue. The situation…

> We should all be happy for the millions of people that didn't starve to death, and for the millions who didn't have to walk their children off of cliffs or have the family hug a …

Time is an illusion. Science tells us it's linear, measured in precise nano-seconds. But humans measure time differently, it's based more on the depth of connection we have to othe…

The M1 processor is a direct result of the death of Moore's law. It's an amazing processor, but a sad sign of things to come. The performance gains from Moore's law have typically …

Guns germs steel! Read the book.

There is a mathematically based definition of a perfect market. It’s only an approximation of real life, but it’s heavily used: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/perfectcompetit…

Can’t we just have biased media (like we do now), that makes their biased clear?

> Billionaires are criminal by definition Sadly, billionaires aren’t criminal by definition (no such laws), but the existence of billionaires sure does cut against the idea of a pe…

> It’s easy to make a profit when everyone is strapped for cash and you have an infinite supply I’d expand this... It’s easy to make a profit when everyone is strapped for cash.

If you can work 50 hours a week, and can manage a team of people, it’s time to look beyond McDonalds.

> What kind of program requires that much ram? Elasticsearch is written in Java, and routinely uses 30GB+ of RAM. I suspect if it was written in Python, it would use an order of ma…

> the term "a real python programmer" clearly meanys a developer who actually has used Python in the past in a remotely significant way As a "real python programmer" that is trying…