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I’m willing to bet this has nothing to do with recyclability and everything to do with less expensive manufacturing.

Reminds me of my father saying something about how vacuum tubes are great integrators.

This is so self aggrandizing for the AI community. The military has tanks, guns, ships, cruse missiles, satellites, and nuclear weapons capable of ending life on earth but now we're supposed to tremble at the might of AI that is doing the equivalent of "hotdog or not"?

Does an MX record make it a “database of convenience”? You don’t have to serve any of those records. I’m not saying there isn’t a problem with email but just that it’s not a problem with DNS.

I’m going to send this to anyone the next time I hear, “oh no! AI has a big carbon footprint!” The solution isn’t going to be by going back but going as quickly forward as we can go. The only question is if we can go fast enough that our past doesn’t catch up with us.

Yes. All true. I just hate the coax in my house. It pisses me off every time I see there they installed it by just drilling a hole in the facade.

There’s something even better than MOCA. Black electrical tape. You tape the cat5 to the end of the coax and then pull really hard and then you get great performance.

What I like best about XSLT is that it reminds me that someone thought this was a great idea. They went so far as to declare it as “the way” and everyone should use it everywhere. There were conferences, books, blogs, everything. Anyone who criticized it was harshly rebuked and criticized. It isn’t just XSLT. The highway of IT progress is littered with these. XML, XSLT, CORBA, JEE… It’s helpful to keep in mind that nothing has changed, the current ones just haven’t blown up yet.

I have a question about bird songs in general. Why is a chorus of birds sound so pleasant and not cacophonous? Have they evolved songs that sound pleasant together? Have we evolved to think it sounds good? Is it just random chance?

This is a ridiculous rant. “ oh no! We have choices”. Then you list out every choice available for what is a new space people are exploring and the list is barely a half dozen long? It’s more like this is peak “claiming everything is peak”.

I did the same thing but there’s one more crucial piece that you need. Wireless charging. It can take a decent hit to your battery. I put in a magasafe charger and it’s the perfect setup. I throw it on the charger and it keeps the phone from moving around, wirelessly connects to CarPlay and charges the phone. It was a little difficult finding a MagSafe charger with a removable usb so I could buy a short cable but I found one and it was a nice clean setup without cables all over the place.

Random initialization would keep you from producing the exact same results.

It's a stupid name like Google or iPad was a stupid name until it's worth a billion dollars and then it's not so stupid anymore. Success makes the name, not the other way around.

Or find ways to easily compare them without doing it manually.

There is a huge selection bias. Gen Z being the latest entrant is going to have people who are anxious and not well equipped for the environment who will move to other careers. These types of people will not be represented in older cohorts because they have already moved on.

I don't get it. You need to charge your phone anyway. You just make that part of the phone charging routine. I have a MagSafe triple charger next to my bed that I throw my phone, watch and AirPods on before I go to bed and everything's good for the next day. I also have a compact MagSafe triple charger for traveling that I keep in my go bag.

Why don't you use a mechanical watch winder? https://www.amazon.com/s?k=automatic+wrist+watch+winder&hvad...

That reminds me to go back and watch some old episodes of Connections by James Burke. He does a great job of showing the unpredictable and non-linear path of progress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series...

I feel the exact same way about car modifications. I know you spent a fortune on those rims and you love them but I don't. Now it's a liability to have to replace them.

Zooko's triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle You can't have it all.

It’s called rest.

There is a book about it called "The no Asshole Rule" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule#:~:text=Th....

I'm wondering what they're referring to with "The author even believes this algorithm provides the "ultimate" level of quality (for an orthogonal, non neural-network, resizing)"

That's why I always buy old shit for a fraction of the price. Always a step behind but it's a constant step.

Featurebase[1] is a database based on bitmaps. (Formerly known as Piloasa) I'm not sure if they actually use Roaring Bitmaps [2] or they implemented it themselves. Either way it's based on the idea of compressed bitmaps.

[1] https://github.com/FeatureBaseDB/featurebase [2] https://roaringbitmap.org/

On the flip side I'm starting to see, "You haven't been to therapy? Well, I have and have fixed all my problems so the problem must be with you. You really should get some therapy."

Graph databases excel when you need maximum flexibility and this is when the shape of the graph is constantly changing by adding new, novel, and unexpected data. As soon as you put it behind an application it becomes static and you end up paying a huge price for flexibility that will not be needed or used.

... or the annotated one from the Authzed folks https://authzed.com/zanzibar

It's not quite as open as the language of your choice. There are a handful of popular languages available, Rust, C, C++ and a number of fringe languages like Zig, AssemblyScript, etc. You can run something like Python but it's a bit misleading because you're compiling the entire runtime to WebAssembly similar to how CheerpJ runs Java or Blazor runs .NET

First, start by mentally preparing yourself that this mess is the foundation of our technologically based society.