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mkoubaa··on ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
And I used to roll my eyes at the homeless guy who ranted about the mark of the beast
mkoubaa··on ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
Exactly.
mkoubaa··on Banned C++ features in Chromium
Kythe can be used for that
mkoubaa··on Replacing Protobuf with Rust
Bingo
mkoubaa··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
What were the political commitments of the writers of the pre-WWI history you read? Could they have an incentive to characterize things this way?
mkoubaa··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
There's a lot of groupthink around this. I blame the pseudoscience called economics
mkoubaa··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
This much is understood.
mkoubaa··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
When the debt gets this big and fixed obligations can't be changed devaluation becomes the only workable solution. Yet it's still robbery.
mkoubaa··on The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar
There's a other group besides these: the secret society, who infiltrate the cathedrals, the megachurches and the bazaar. They are quite cultish, but thankfully the "Data Primacy Lodge" is gaining more initiates than the old guard "Order of Objects"
mkoubaa··on Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts
Well put
mkoubaa··on Scaling long-running autonomous coding
You have to be careful which codebase to try this on. I have a feeling if someone unleashed agents on the Linux kernel to fix bugs it'd lead to a ban on agents there
mkoubaa··on Scaling long-running autonomous coding
On the other hand, finding fixing issues for months is still training data
mkoubaa··on Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Yeah if you let them index chromium I'm sure it could do it next week. It just won't be original or interesting.
mkoubaa··on Choosing learning over autopilot
Are you arguing that we are no worse at building bridges than we were 100 years ago?
mkoubaa··on Iran Protest Map
OP (breppp) posts nothing but political content. Such accounts should be banned.
mkoubaa··on Iran Protest Map
In any MENA related post I've just learned to use inverted ranking. Start at the bottom and go up. Might make a chrome extension to toggle that
mkoubaa··on Iran Protest Map
I can't decide who I despise more, the regime or the people cheerleading a revolution where a lot of innocent people will suffer
mkoubaa··on Dude, where's my supersonic jet?
7 hour to London is actually 10 hours when you factor in the commute to the airport, security, planing, flight, deplaning, shuttle to hotel.

Cutting it to 3.5 hours isn't a 50% overall decrease, because those 3.5 will turn into 6.5 of real time.

So the marginal value of faster flight goes down the shorter the trip is, and these supersonic airplanes can't do the super long Pacific flights because physics.

It's a much smaller niche than is often imagined. But it's still a niche, I guess.

mkoubaa··on Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
Things are trending this way. I call it the PC counter-revolution.
mkoubaa··on There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
Why would anyone build bunkers for cattle?
mkoubaa··on The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)
The skill american high schools actually teach is to confidently misunderstand the thing in ways that conform to current trends. I still remember the absolutely outrageous hot takes about The Divine Comedy that were taken seriously and encouraged by our Lit teacher.
mkoubaa··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
It's not textbook responsible when it's consistently and predictably done for only one side of every conflict.

That's like if a waiter gives the appropriate amount of attention to the tables with white guests and disregards tables with minority guests. You can't clutch your pearls and say that it isn't hypocrisy to notice that the waiter treats a given table correctly.

mkoubaa··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Boy I wish I was still this naive
mkoubaa··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
About that
mkoubaa··on Can Bundler be as fast as uv?
Do smart thing make code go brr? No. Stop do dumb thing make code go brr.
mkoubaa··on WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform
The author never explains why they went for non-WASI runtime. Is there an advantage to doing that?
mkoubaa··on Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans
Some people are only capable of learning the hard way
mkoubaa··on Professional software developers don't vibe, they control
The right way to program a computer:

Well

mkoubaa··on Professional software developers don't vibe, they control
Don't care have too much to do must automate away my today responsibilities so I can do more tomorrow trvst the plqn
mkoubaa··on CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)
What?? History has produced a huge amount of good monarchs. There are some around even today, for example Oman.
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