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Yeah…

Data centers in space sounds really stupid until you consider how hard it is to get a data center built on Earth.

I really hate this trend of turning every piece of software into this kafkaesque monstrosity that demands you jump through 100 hurdles to do the simplest thing. I mean yeah its good for LLMs but as a human it gets kind of annoying. I honestly love that if you hand SQLite garbage it will do its best.

That doesn't appear to be stopping the current administration. That's why I think you should be more concerned about the tools of oppression existing rather than the laws that govern them.

These tech-bro public resignations are so tedious. Ostensibly he seems fine with the existence of AI mass surveillance and AI powered murderbots but he just never envisioned a scenario where they would get used that wasn't congruent with his politics.

God punished the Romans by turning them into Italians

I think the addresses are a big issue. The address space is just stupid big, I don't understand why we need to prepare for every grain of sand on Earth having a WiFi chip in it.

Most people can pick up calculating subnets in their head in ipv4 pretty quickly and ipv4 addresses are easy to memorize on accident. My brain turns to mush as soon as I start seeing hexadecimal characters in addresses.

40 bits would've bought us a lot of time and would've kicked the can down the road several decades. People from the future would be much better equipped to design a new protocol because they understand their needs better.

I was saying adding a byte to the address so its a 40 bit address which would be two bytes to the header. Obviously it would still have the same issue where hardware and software would be incompatible and would need to be replaced but the same concepts that worked in IPv4 would work in my fake protocol instead of IPv6 where the network needs to be redesigned from the ground up.

Also IPv6 addresses are ugly

Literally all we had to do was add a byte to IPv4 and we'd be done but noooo we need to overengineer the next protocol and make it as painful as possible to adopt.

If someone modified the original dataset and it was discovered they would be held accountable. However if you have a departmental policy of modifying the data for "privacy reasons" and it just so happened to surrepititiously affect some sort of political outcome then ah geez that just a wacky coincidence not any individuals fault.

So "differential privacy" pretty much sounds like someone gets to modify the results of a census and how it gets modified is entirely up to their discretion.

Seems like something that could be abused to achieve political objectives.

Thanks for chiming in Young Sheldon

Whenever I read about some troubling news in the world I always take time to look at my funko pop collection and contemplate the question "What would Spider-man do?"

I'm sure there's a barely functioning business critical app that runs exclusively on Windows NT in their administration that would beg to differ

Do you wear a condom while you’re programming too for maximum protection?

What if you just like do normal programming instead?

Feel free to do your own analysis

I think you can have empathy for their situation and also recognize the gluttonous amount of self pity in this.

My stance has always been stick to 1 database for as long as humanly possible because having 2 databases is 1000x harder.

Open source software is great and all but I just wish that everyone that disagreed with me wasn’t allowed in.

I was at the same place you are for a while until I realized my obsession with doing everything "right" was killing my enjoyment of programming. I read through Let Over Lambda a couple of months ago and was blown away at how deeply unmaintainable some of his code examples are, but I got inspired to start letting myself do weird unmaintainable shit while programming instead of constantly acting like my code has to pass a code review and I've found its a lot more fun.

I’d rather deal with intellectually dishonest argumentation than live in a walled garden where only certain opinions are acceptable.

4 levels of nesting is pretty low compared to the average windows setting

I can understand how a mediocre SWE thinks and can anticipate what corners were cut, I have no idea what an LLM is thinking.

Picking fights with strangers on social media apparently...

I believe they changed that shortly after that blog post went viral: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/08/amazon-s3...

I would argue that's been happening for a long time with much simpler methods. Take this website for example, I get points for posting comments that people upvote. If I post a comment that people don't like, I will get downvoted. I obviously want more points because... so I naturally work to craft the comment that I believe will net the most upvotes. This isn't 100% terrible because this helps weed out the assholes, but I think it has much more insidious effects.

Feel free to call me an accelerationist but I hope AI makes social media so awful that no one wants to use it anymore. My hope is that AI is the cleansing fire that burns down social media so that we can rebuild on fertile soil.

Have you heard of term limits?

Yes very illogical to hope that life will get better when my analysis proves the opposite. Bazinga!