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I think including some CBD in there negates the memory issues.

I like to think of it as all formalisms are tautologies. Therefore we can go along with some common sense and fuzzy logic rather than having to prove every possible axiom, which isn't actually possible or would take unlimited time. It's analogous to the halting problem.

Lots of companies are still using it, and although it's not hyped that much anymore, it is much nicer to use than JS or PHP which means dealing with legacy code is less of a headache IMHO. So it will continue to be a money machine for those who don't need to be at the bleeding edge and reinvent everything.

It's also faster than Python on a bunch of benchmarks (sorry I don't have a link). The next version will have a JIT compiler so performance will keep getting better.

There's also Elixir and Crystal which are inspired by Ruby, so the spirit lives on regardless.

Yeah I've been doing remote 95% of the last couple years and it takes a toll not being able to be around people at all. Even as a mostly introverted person who needs quiet alone time for solving harder problems and general flow state. There's something about social interaction that helps with motivation that I find hard to get over chat and video. This is assuming the people are not toxic somehow.

"Discovers", yeah sure.

Re America: that sounds like exceptionalism to me. It's not an outlier. A bunch of rich dudes wanted to avoid taxes (fair enough), and to continue slaving and stealing indigenous land.

Plenty of countries that used to have dictators (absolute monarchs) were able to limit them to merely symbolic figures, and bring in constitutions and strong parliaments. Some of these were also revolutions. See most of Europe and their colonies. Yes some have since regressed, but there's nothing particularly special about the USA besides the fact that it didn't have quite as much entrenched power, at first, and virtually unlimited ability to expand. So it was special in terms of it's early flexibility, but ever since it expanded to fill all its available space, seems to be pretty non-special.

Very interested in this. Would like to try it out for an AI framework that combines knowledge graphs with word embeddings and expert systems, and although the Python ecosystem is the de facto standard (despite lack of safety and performance), and Rust seems theoretically the best, Swift seems to check all the boxes in terms of safety and expressiveness for me. Swift even has a relatively huge community, but it's so focussed on iOS stuff.

I know Chris Lattner did something with TensorFlow though.

Is anyone into this?

I wish it were easier to distinguish vaping dry flower from liquids. They aren’t the same but I hate calling my pax a vape for some reason.

What really gets me about this as a sometimes-entrepreneur, is that management is not even taking personal risks. Besides narrow cases of torts and their need to have fiduciary duties, they are no different from other staff workers.

Had to switch from coffee to black tea for this very reason. Cannot subsist without some caffeine for mental health reasons, and absolutely love coffee, but it just does not love me back.

When I drink too much coffee, it makes alcohol that much more necessary to offset the extra stress and anxiety, but black tea does not have this issue, it just kinda fades away for me. Then a little cannabis at night for a bit of pleasure and sleep promotion.

Yeah flashbacks from econ 101.. Was referring to the coherence issue of moving away from known quantities/dimensions.

Whereas with good abstractions and maintainability, software can grow the pie/field significantly. It's not completely irrespective of hours and is totally contextual to how innovative/novel the challenge is. But there's still the potential for a multiplier that doesn't exist in farming, short of biological breakthroughs.

I only know Node and Python well enough. I find with NPM that dependencies are indeed hell because anything goes. With Python it's slightly less bad because packages have a fixed tree of versions (although I don't know what's up with Conda or others yet), not to mention the more extensive standard lib. I suppose if there are real conflict workarounds required you could always use virtual environments all the way down, but I have generally just done whatever upgrading is required to resolve incompatibilities (which can sometimes preclude using third-party deps or require forking and upgrading their own deps).

I also remember from years ago that Bundler in Ruby allowed version mismatches to coexist and would install both deps in the same tree, punting any runtime issues (same as NPM).

Any Gentoo or NIX users might have something to add here, as I can remember being regaled at conferences by them about this topic.

All that said, it would seem that Rust could have some kind of super-intelligence about dependencies due to all the static goodness. So my questions are:

a) who cares how much is userland and how much is std lib if everything is equally safe and documentable?

b) if "too much" becomes std lib, could any feelings of overwhelmingness not be mitigated with more namespacing?

Hmmm, so is the prose intending a logical AND? If so it would seem that we couldn't discount the prior quantity of non-duck happiness and would somehow need to hold the two types of happiness in balance.

I'm not familiar with Mill or Bentham. What would a "preponderance" of the evidence on both sides look like if there were to be a balance, I wonder? Can we even compare quantity and quality in any way?

Are you saying the difference between quantity and quality is zero sum, or maybe more like dividing by zero?

I feel like Pareto efficiency only comes into the picture if the quantities are actually clear, but I don't understand how to make that concrete in ethical (not economic) terms.

The "rule" of "quality" seems like it can easily be abused by whoever is in power in the given situation. E.g. an assertion such as this could be valid: it's okay for police to shoot "innocent" people if "they were disturbing the peace".

Are quality and quantity both vulnerable to being gamed?

"Where do YOU want to go today?"

Will never forget the awesome splash screen with various historic photos and the video clip with clouds(?), while/after it loaded content from the CD-ROM.

Edit: found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTOAHlGaDoo

Edit 2: Okay the above was generic but I remember similar bits of it used for Encarta.

I know nothing of finance, but I have a normal liquid savings account that's paying 2.25%, apparently "permanently". Why would anyone buy a less-flexible product that pays less?

Anyone using non-JVM stuff in general? Nothing against the giant ecosystem around Hadoop/spark etc.

I am currently using one Python process with Prefect for DAGs (https://docs.prefect.io/guide/), custom API queries and Elasticsearch indexing code in a batch processing style and it seems to be going fine to ingest a 2TB dataset with the ability to generate rich errors, retry/resume etc.

Besides maybe job listings, why would a real "plumber" who came from python and js NEED to dive into the whole Apache ecosystem?

Note: this started as a super brief comment and then expanded into a missive because I was interrupted by a call with an artist friend and two glasses of wine, and then didn't want to throw it away.

TLDR: can we really trust the work product of untrustworthy ("bad") people?

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I know it sounds rational to enjoy the works of "geniuses" even if they were horrible people. I just have trouble with it.

Like, even using JavaScript which was invented by a homophobe, rubs me the wrong way, as it were :) Even though I kinda like the language itself for fun/easy hacking.

Or take Schopenhauer whose stuff about music is inspiring to me. Dude was a gross incel though. Or take Wagner's anti-semitism.

Encountering facts like that just makes me wonder what other kinds of defects or oversights could be hiding in their works. Belief in the virtue of punching down just doesn't feel the same qualitatively as other vices like addictions or whatever. It seems worse, "evil"?

I would trust the average drunken poet or painter or junkie musician more than any iconoclast or figure who seems to be inspired by the muses of unfair living for other people only. Excepting of course legitimate satire or criticism. If you have to rely on extremist or violent ideas in order to create something useful or beautiful, it actually comes off as pitiful.

I guess it's not that art needs to be harmonious or symmetrical or pure or "good", but that to be trustworthy and useful for insight, I feel more comfortable knowing that its creator was somehow loving and inclusive.

On top of it, I think if you are considered a genius that the bar must be higher not to fail at basic respect for others. Geniuses are ostensibly smart after all, so defects like discrimination, opposition to equal opportunity, or any form of hatred (except maybe self-hatred) just feels disqualifying from a user experience standpoint.

For every Feynman or Schopenhauer or Wagner there are tons of equal or better geniuses who might not be in the right place at the right time, or don't make a lot of noise, mainly because of inequality.

One of my favourite commentators, Stephen Fry, a gay man of Jewish descent, even defended Wagner's art, which I find extremely conflicted. I wish I could achieve that level of liberty in criticism.

All of that said, I think also that just creating anything at all comes with some amount of good built-in. Nature is brutal too and it makes all kinds of beautiful and useful things quite by accident. The difference in critique and judgement only seems to arise if the creator is sentient.

"Academics always discount the intelligence of past people."

...except maybe in the discipline of history, some of whom love to overestimate the greatness of past individuals.

It also sounds like you are worshiping some kind of idol of the token of exchange. One main function of law is to allow for promises far more complex than any simple transaction.

Very interesting, I have noticed a major (albeit fun) experience of mania from CBD, followed by extreme rebound anxiety after cessation following a period of taking it for a while.

THC-heavy strains on the other hand, seem to have no bad effects.

Since I just read about this in a course, the main reference (at least for Canada/UK/Commonwealth) is the Salomon case from 1895: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_v_A_Salomon_%26_Co_Ltd

So, not new.

I think people overreact to hearing that corporations are (legal) "persons" when in fact they are not anything like natural persons (no body, no constitutional rights). As I understand it, directors and officers are the ones held personally liable in criminal matters, but corporations can still be liable for negligence and breach of contract etc. IANAL.

Sounds like it is different in the US. Does citizens united somehow make corporations more like people?

Reminds me of the Irish Chronicles that say the people came from Galicia in northern Spain, before that from northern Africa (possibly Phoenicians), all the way back to Scythia (the horse archers who smoked weed in tents). Seems like a stretch but I think there have been some DNA studies that confirm parts of it, but my understanding is the medieval monks who compiled the stories were trying to claim a link to the Mediterranean/holy land in order to connect their identities to the Bible. Maybe they were mixing up multiple different migrations to fit the narrative. I'm curious about what real historians/scientists think about it.

My understanding (and experience as a contractor) is that for the service provider the benefit is being able to control the what and how of the work. This is better for the client as well especially if there is asymmetric knowledge as is often the case in tech.

However, if your are working full time and end up being made to follow the client's schedule, don't get to address technical debt, have useless meetings etc. then you might be considered an employee anyway. Which I can't understand why you _wouldn't_ want that, because it could mean overtime pay for all those crunch times that result from bad management.

So independent contractor is probably best for a tech worker if you're able to set boundaries and have autonomy, but not at all if having to work overtime and not take vacations.

Dunno, he seems pretty legit in the documentary about Serena and them having their kid. I don't get a "do as I say not as I do" vibe from watching that, but who knows.

Musk had an overweight phase. I think he likes nice wine.

Epic vid, great audible sounds of space ;s

Haha so true. When trying to communicate this historical cycle to people I have been referring to this deck lately: https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/AIFull.pdf

Can't wait till marketing folks run with "3rd wave AI".

One of my cats was born with a diaphragmatic hernia and we didn't know until she was like five years old. Organs were all over the place but things were fine. Stomach was in the upper chest, and the lungs had grown into the lower abdomen.

She ended up showing symptoms of not being able to keep food down (although eating slower seemed okay) and so we got it fixed for a pretty penny. It really seems like depending on where the organs end up, there might not be any issue. I was really impressed with how mechanical the problem is and how reliably successful surgery is. Presumably there could be complications if there's a real tangle.

Sweet project! There's also https://curio.io which I stumbled across reading Aeon, and it's got high quality but pretty low volume of content so far (I'm sure they're working on that).