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Not everything is an LLM boogeyman. Sometimes a bug is just a bug.

In my hometown in Idaho in the 1990s and 2000s yes, this includes access roads and improvements to the surrounding area. A car dealership and Wal Mart both paid for road improvements and traffic lights as part of development.

In accordance with his will they will fund his “passion projects”. His list of favorites is probably different than yours. Being disappointed about that is not new.

But the return on that subsidy is positive so why not do it?

Yeah you're absolutely correct. Too late to edit/delete.

This came up on the Lunch Money livestream yesterday. The entire episode is worth a listen but here's the relevant sections:

Krugman: "I've been writing some about downsides of technological change and I realized afterwards that if I really wanted a really stellar example of a productive important innovation that had terrible effects on society would be the cotton gin."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJxQbfbpf7M&t=25m38s

Richardson: "I always have a hard time articulating this, but the number of large plantations in which enslavers owned in air quotes, you know, more than 25 or more than 50 other human beings was a very very small proportion of the American South, less than 1%. The majority of people who again owned their black neighbors had one or two enslaved people on their farms. They weren't necessarily called plantations. And they would be working alongside those black Americans. And the cotton gin could have made small farms viable and could have ended human enslavement. And instead what they gave us was, you know, the the Trail of Tears in the 1830s that cleans indigenous Americans out of the southwestern land. You get an extraordinary land rush into the American South in the 1830s and the 1840s. And you get the establishment of these gigantic essentially factory farms. And that's a place where, you know, the majority of southerners, obviously the indigenous southerners and the black southerners, wanted no part of this system, but it actually didn't serve the white farmers either. It served a really small, less than 1% group of American enslavers in the American South. And you look at that and you think that wasn't the technologies fault. That was the fault of the people who um who set up the political system that enabled it to work that way."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJxQbfbpf7M&t=28m18s

Yes, Kagi was sufficiently confused as to what "Data blades" are that it actually thought I was looking for replacement woodworking blades. "DataBlade" finds the IBM Informix product.

I performed both searches on Kagi and didn't see anything about IBM. I do see results for "DataBlade" and "Data blade database" but I didn't try those specific variations after my first two attempts returned nothing of interest. That's too much effort to decipher a HN post.

A very long time ago, there was once a feature called "Data Blades" which tanked a commercial database vendor.

I have no idea what this is and a web search turned up Harbor Freight woodworking tools.

I’m a big advocate of two wheeled transportation. The differences between bicycles, e-bikes, mopeds, and motorcycles are important and meaningful. The misuse of terminology by entitled car drivers and the ignorant public literally kills people every day. Yes, I am aware people are wrong. No, I don’t care to compromise.

To be repairable it has to break first, which Vespas don’t. I did replace a voltage regulator once. It was a non-event.

No. Mopeds have pedals. That’s the “ped” part of motor pedal.

The 300GTS is amazing. It can do anything.

Split traffic on the way to the farmers market while getting waves from random people? Easy.

80mph up a hill on the way to the park? Also yes.

Ride through the park to set up a picnic? Not only yes but it literally has a built in cooler.

Just a total zero compromise vehicle.

And you can buy one for what five grand? All other motorcycles (which I have many of) are stupid.

I love Vespas. I have a bunch of old Hondas that are amazing for different reasons but they’re all motorcycles so people will randomly try to kill me to prove a point. But on a Vespa you can do anything and people will just smile and wave. Literally everyone loves them. I went on a day ride with some friends and while they were refilling their motorcycles I just rode circles around them in the gas station because I could. Then I passed everyone on the highway because I could do that too. They’re hilarious.

Vespas aren’t mopeds.

“Largely” is doing a lot of work there because people who didn’t commit acts of violence weren’t held accountable for them.

If you're fighting the executive branch, then legality goes out the window

No it doesn’t. It’s enshrined in the constitution. The entire point of the United States is to be able to change the system. I’m struggling to imagine a worse take than this.

This is an oversimplification. I am not in favor of shooting the police in the neck but I absolutely will not tolerate an hindering of peaceful first amendment expression even when it happens in proximity to violence. What are the police even protecting us from at that point?

Nobody doubts they are making money. It’s literally a nostalgia cash grab. The question is how much that money will cost WotC in reputational harm and loyal customers.

Specifically you need the TZDATA history of the local Postgres instance. Is the TZDATA version persisted at Postgres start time? Is it possible to query this information without recording it in the schema manually?

Why would queries on TIMESTAMP not produce human readable strings? Postgres has defaulted to a human readable mask for timestamp presentation for at least 25 years.

See Current: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-datetime.ht...

And 7.1 (2001-04-13): https://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.1/datatype-datetime.html (Section 3.4.2)

Yeah that's exactly what I am thinking. It could be a wrapper. But I think it would be better to take the (UTC) timestamp of the time of insertion instead of the TZDATA version itself. Then the Postgres instance can handle what version of TZDATA it had at that time.

What happens if I booked an appointment before the rules changed and TZDATA could be updated and deployed?

What format should you use? Human readable strings for longterm storage, because when things go wonky, it’s easier to debug.

You can just use a TIMESTAMP with no TZ data. It's functionally the same as using the string but simpler because you avoid all the string handling headaches and gain the benefit of avoiding to avoid double booking and date/time functions to answer questions like "how many appointments do I have in April?".

The issue here seems to be that the behavior of tzdata (correctly) changes over time. Can all this complexity be avoided by storing the tzdata version in the timestamp itself so it can decoded with the same rules?

You're right that for the most part this is avoided by convention and scheduling time changes at quiet times of day.

A bit contrived but consider you are a maintenance worker in a facility that uses isolated timekeeping devices. "Change the clock on the vault back one hour at 3:00am".

now that we have a new tech that's literally solving unsolved math problems, we're suddenly doomers. Why?

Because it’s easy. It’s free to post internet comments. The doomers have the lowest effort take so they’re very prominent. People doing things are too busy doing things to post doomer comments.

Is it the YouTube algorithm's fault? Or viewer preferences?

I didn’t read the rest of your comment but it’s the fault of the algorithm because that tail wags the dog. It’s physically impossible to watch all videos so we are all at the mercy of the (a) algorithm.

I’m not sure what I am looking at. I see a number going up but the methodology is missing and analysis is lacking.

Has Japan ever closed a railway station?

Are the 1872 stations the first ever in Japan?

Is this a plot of all stations ever constructed or just the ones that still exist?

Has the number of stations ever gone down?

What events are corollated with building booms and what direction does the arrow of causality point?

Care to share your secret?