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Don’t all non-European people look alike?

I remember when people claimed to use NixOs in order to have a deterministic, repeatable setup.

Your understanding of not-containers is incorrect.

In non-containerized applications, the data & state live outside the application, store in files, database, cache, s3, etc.

In fact, this is the only way containers can decouple programs from state — if it’s already done so by the application. But with containers you have the extra steps of setting up volumes, virtual networks, and port translation.

But I’m not surprised this has to be explained to some people in 2025, considering you probably think that a CPU is something transmitted by a series of tubes from AWS to Vercel that is made obsolete by NVidia NFTs.

I’ve never seen nix, but I’d rather learn “yet another language” than fight yet another yaml syntax.

I think Instagram has pink headings and Facebook has blue. So they’re practically different companies.

Also, Instaface doesn’t need developers. Their product was completed at least a dozen years ago. And it was created by a team of a dozen or so engineers.

Tech workers used to not be average people.

Sounds like the guy that invented bicycle helmets. He didn’t want Nazis to feel safe letting their kids ride bikes to school either.

And we wouldn’t have a use case for Ai without StackOverflow & Google’s broken search.

We already have POST, PUT, and PATCH that do the exact same thing. Why not have another version of GET that looks the same as POST and is subject to personal interpretation.

FYI: QUERY is for GET requests where the query string make the URL too long. It does this by sending a body like POST.

In the past, POST meant you were sending a body, and GET meant you received a body. And the people got religious about a pseudoacronym called REST.

Left to their own devices, the LLMs would probably design a pocket watch.

Can you explain why we pay Sam Altman & Elon Musk? Or Jeff Bezos & Bill Gates? They’re just middlemen collecting money for other people’s labor.

The reality is that every middle aged loser knows more than they ever wanted about kpop, labubu, and furries just goes to show it’s all a centralized homogenized monoculture being forced on everyone.

Do they have real beans in them?

When a trend only reaches mainstream awareness as a mockery, like labubu, it’s not destined to last long.

On most cloud deployments, you get one shared “virtual” core — whatever that means.

Ah, but if you use node.js you get breaking changes every other day from dependencies on dependencies you didn’t even know you had.

So is the FORTRAN75 compiler, but it’s still being used.

A manager’s job isn’t to guide the company, it’s to make sure his team does the tasks they are assigned. Likewise, a worker’s job isn’t to “think about the big picture” and come up with a strategy for the organization.

So who is supposed to do it? Because executives sure aren’t.

The American billionaire class absolutely controls Europe, and American politics dictates European policy. There is the illusion of European ascendance right now because the American soft power is being channeled through Europe because the faction of the US government (that still controls the majority of soft power) is out of power politically, so they project their values (and funnel their money) through Europeans.

When a Democrat returns to power in the USA, nobody will care what European vassal governments and corporations say or do anymore.

American projection through Europe has made Europe weaker and more subservient than ever.

Vacation every day, right?

Less than 0.0001% of economic output in the USA is performed by penal labor, mostly by non-incarcerated people (e.g. court mandated community service such as road cleanup as penalty for traffic violations).

The average age of the population of Europe has gotten significantly lower over the last decade.

You could definitely load your billions of records with millions of relationships into memory, denormalize, restructure and rewrite the data (flawlessly) a lot cheaper (computationally) than running a large LLM on all that hardware.

Instead of trying to get LLMs from zero to 100, which is impossible to do, you should concentrate on getting them from 75% to 95%. The idea that someone who has no knowledge of the domain and no understanding of relational data modeling can chat “like to know really good um but don’t make any mistakes” with a GPU an uncover the mysteries of the universe is imbecilic.

But… someone what knows approximately what to do and sort of how to do it could work wonders — if we had LLMs trained on a corpus with specific rules.

I don’t know how to left join and what table I need to get the aggregate of sales in each region by date and price range, but I can describe it halfway and know how to check if each step is valid.

LLMs can do this. They’re trained on English, and they are able to weight definitive rules. But instead we throw a random text at a general purpose transformer.

Parsing a response of tokens into grammatical English is the most expensive computation (after the initial scraping and catalog). Instead of wasting all the cycles doing that against the sun total of GitHub, StackOverflow, Reddit, and Wikipedia, create a fuzzy match on a simplification a rigorous specification and train it on your data (just a few million tokens) to teach it that users have primary addresses and are associated to accounts that have regions and region X has roughly 10 times the sales volume of region y.

So someone intelligent in the matter with an understanding of logical rigor and a general idea of the data shape can actually become 10x more efficient, instead of trying to lift vibe coders to the level of Spakespearean monkeys, you could be turning mid-level devs into super analysts.

We should also enforce a standard where every website has to change their content to match the user’s preferred idiomatic diss, whether it be “yo momma”, “deez nuts”, “six seven”, or a series of hottentot tongue clicks recorded in Ogg Vorbiz.

Is this like SETI@home, Bitcoin, and Ai code generation?

In the old days we used to just chop wood, and burn it to keep warm. Then sit down and watch the sportsball game on TV to waste time.

640k ought to be enough for anyone.

The increasing incompetence and rapid decline into an illiterate, superstitious, tribalistic dark age almost makes me believe that we could have actually have been capable of going to the moon a few generations ago.

Have you ever tried to balance a string on its end? It gets harder, the longer the string is. There aren’t any other physics than that.