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If we want to put pressure on new datacenters to mitigate their externalities I'd prefer they would somehow be investing in the local communities they impact, in areas like electri…

I would never undertake a big performance optimization without first measuring that area's total impact. The LLM would then be great to work out the refactoring and you can give it…

They care because trampolines have a very high rate of injury. If you throw a birthday party at your house and one of your neighbors kids breaks their arm or worse, neighbor might …

Insurance does not cover them and if they find out you have one they are likely to cancel your coverage. I'm not sure why "you can lose your home insurance for having one of these"…

Hi, don't mind me, but You don't need to return a boolean. You need to return an object that implements __bool__. Get it ? And even then, when you're dealing with objects that are …

this is annoying, it makes a big deal about "Back when we announced pay-per-crawl"... I want pay-per-crawl. I clicked the link for it a year ago, got presented with a "request acce…

Well that's also election time so the timing could not be better

It's to give unfair advantage to Anthropic and OpenAI who would then be expected to shower Donald Trump personally with hundreds of billions of dollars in cash, airplanes and tacky…

there's persuasion, and then there's inspiring people already on your side. the upvotes/downvotes will give you a clue who the audience turns out to be. it was an upvote from me.

reading through this I eventually realized a situation similar to my experience of it is what my dog sees if I attempt to explain Python programming to him.

wow that is a really misleading headline. I thought this was the Israeli government spying on US soil.

the leader of China praised Open Source in a speech. Crazy times

great post but also the real thing they are talking about here is YAGNI

this whole AI era has put the topic of "do we believe actual reality, or what we hoped/assumed/continue to insist would be reality" front and center. Every discussion is like this …

the issue with articles that try to analyze the state of open source and its sustainability and all that is that nothing about open source makes any sense if you just talk about it…

before COVID everyone on my team travelled once or twice a year to conferences as well as to the home office for get-togethers, on the company dime. Those conferences have been tur…

OK here is the thing. Everyone get your downmods ready since my rants on here are always a disaster. People are really really tired. Because of not just Claude, but also "the reces…

> At some point, you need to watch out for cynical/nasty series. In fact, all of the books we purchase are ranked against peers they have read in the past, or those we know to acti…