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AzzieElbab

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AzzieElbab··on On social reality in China
I grew up in the USSR. The similarites are uncanny. Add fatalism and less elaborate linkage to imaginary history.
AzzieElbab··on CSSQuake
Awesome! Harder to exit than vim.
AzzieElbab··on Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
Oh man! How do we ever get enough compute to run AI if AI-written apps end up eating it all?
AzzieElbab··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
The end is near!
AzzieElbab··on Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code
95%
AzzieElbab··on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
I did. 450, according to CNN, no sources cited, and no reference to how many died of hunger before the war. One thing I did not expect on this board is innumeracy.
AzzieElbab··on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
How many people died of famine in Gaza?
AzzieElbab··on Java 25 officially released
It is probably more related to people replacing multithreaded services with single-threaded workers.
AzzieElbab··on Nvidia on NixOS WSL – Ollama up 24/7 on your gaming PC
I do not play games. I quietly celebrate each time my Linux-certified Fedora laptop successfully wakes up from sleep.
AzzieElbab··on Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights
Have you read a single lease contract? Take your meds and read one
AzzieElbab··on Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights
You are speaking with 100% certainty of the timelines. You don't know any details of these leases and are simply making assumptions. Even if your assumptions are correct, the pandemic officially ended 2 years ago.
AzzieElbab··on Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights
Appreciation of the asset doesn't matter if you are leasing it. Neither does tax exemptions if you are the government.
AzzieElbab··on Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights
I hope your leased car has a driver's seat and can be driven. Also, I hope you leased the car with your own money
AzzieElbab··on Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights
Is anyone even remotely curious why do government offices with no desks exist?
AzzieElbab··on Gleam, Coming from Erlang
It is counterintuitive, but this feature did not do much for the Scala ecosystem. I wrote some toy projects but have not seen any in the real world.
AzzieElbab··on Scala 3 Migration: Report from the field
Jon DeGoes still works on the ZIO ecosystem along with his Rust projects.
AzzieElbab··on Shell-ish scripting in Go with ease
I make a living with go, scala, python, rust, java, and sometimes ts and Js. I prefer scala and sometimes rust.
AzzieElbab··on Shell-ish scripting in Go with ease
I hate go-lang with passion, but these two libs are really cool
AzzieElbab··on China won A side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek R1 vs. OpenAI O1 for Finance
No one wants to talk about the amount of catching up the West needs to do in areas of AI and robotics/drones
AzzieElbab··on I've acquired a new superpower
When I was six, some older kid showed me this trick, but I could never really cross my eyes. These days, I wear glasses, so I guess no new superpowers for me.
AzzieElbab··on Nordstrom Family to Take Company Private in $6.25B Deal
I used to grab coffee in Toronto's Nordstrom cafe. The store was positioned so that you had to cross it after getting out of the subway on your way to other stores and offices—as prime of a location as it gets. It still got tanked by the rent
AzzieElbab··on Nordstrom family to take company private
Consider yourself lucky. My feet are not just wide. I wear 10.5 size and have high arches.
AzzieElbab··on What Scala has to offer for Java devs
I've seen people do this a lot. You have to tell Akka/actors which executorService to use. Actors are just a messaging/mailbox abstraction over threads/pools inspired by Erlang. Akka should use a work-stealing service by default, depending on the version, which might explain why non-blocking calculations used only two threads.
AzzieElbab··on Should programming languages be safe or powerful?
tldr - should your language be Lisp or Haskell?
AzzieElbab··on 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025
no one uses or writes new graph databases. sad
AzzieElbab··on Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
They should place their Git backend on the blockchain to collect all the power stones.
AzzieElbab··on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
Do you need one when that ministry reports casualties exactly to single digits within minutes of any incident? Like "567 killed in Israeli attack on Gaza hospital", just look down at your keyboard to see where that number came from.
AzzieElbab··on Why Haskell?
Yes, this bad mathematician's lingo is really unnecessary. It means someone else wrote an implementation of an interface called Num for your `a` type. Well, it is not really an interface. The correct term is type class, but that is details.
AzzieElbab··on Nobody knows what's going on
North Korea, China, Russia, and most Gulf and Central Asia countries.
AzzieElbab··on Mortgages Stuck Around 7% Force Rapid Rethink of American Dream
Canada is similar to the UK. I don't see any way out other than productivity-driven growth and building more housing. Both seem extremely unlikely
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