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[...] It's not right to say 500 dollars of losses over six months is a drain on the average person, there may be unpriced benefit to them you don't see. [...] This has certainly translated into 10k+ of losses for myself over the last 20 years but I am pretty happy with the transaction because fantasizing about what I would do if I won is worth way more than 20 dollars in just enjoyment each week I play. [...]

[...] But what ended up happening is hundreds of thousands of innocents died, millions were displaced, and all the infrastructure was bombed and those countries were set back 50 years. [...] Even all western experts and analysts say they Iran does not have nuclear weapons or a plan to build one. [...]

I build a lot of micro sites, but I still use frameworks — like Deno (node alternative), Hono (for APIs), and Alpine.js (for tiny lightweight sites). [...] if you want to do more pure vanilla, understanding signals is really useful — this basically powers svelte's runs and react's hooks and whatever. I love nanostores, a 286 byte (!) state manager that lets you build highly reactive pages w/o the weight: flexible tools like tinybase ( and unstorage ( are also super useful tools like this lets you build highly reactive, engaging sites that load for under 50-100kb

[...] That matches my own perception of wide crack-down on neo-Nazis in Putin's time. They've got jailed and some died in prison [0]. [...]

Location: Pune, India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, FastAPI, Flask, Next.js, React.js, Node.js (Express, Hono), MySQL, MongoDB, LangChain, ChromaDB, Qdrant, Docker, vLLM, Stable Diffusion, BLIP Résumé/CV: Email: prakashope@gmail.com I’m a Full Stack Software Engineer with experience building scalable web applications and production-ready Generative AI systems. I’ve led the development of high-traffic AI modules handling 4M+ daily requests and delivered over 50+ POCs turning innovative ideas into real products. I can help build: - Full-stack web applications with Next.js, React.js, FastAPI, and Node.js - Generative AI pipelines using LangChain, vLLM, Stable Diffusion, and vector databases like ChromaDB - High-performance APIs and backend services optimized for scalability - Containerized deployments using Docker and Docker Compose - End-to-end AI-powered products from research to production

[...] Design is atrocious, search doesn't work, you can click 50 captures of a site before you find one that actually loads, obvious data corruption, invented their own schema instead of using a standard one and don't enforce it, API is insane and usually broken, uploader doesn't work reliably, don't honor DMCA requests, ask for photo id and passports then leak them ... [...]

my tiny blogs no one reads have been racking up a huge deno deploy and vercel bills ($40-50/mo each) bc I ran them "naked" without a cache or cloudflare or static builds - it didnt matter bc I got like hundreds of visitors a month. they were just hono or whatever api pulling from my backend which could be notion or airtable - super simple, though kind of slow now I suddenly I have 10k visitors a month hammering my apis and causing massive egress and cpu usage - so i had to get them behind cloudflare and now build everything statically - cut the costs back down from 90+ cpu hours to about 0.2 cpu hours a month crazy times (also, all donw w/ claude code's help, or it would have taken a week for me to figure out)

Sounds like a “bell curve meme” type of argument to me.: 50 IQ: War with Russia is stupid. [...] I'm on my phone and can't type out the long-form reasoning here. [...] Motivation and mass psychology: your TikTok point is not trivial Your observation about contemporary society is sociologically important, even if it sounds flippant. [...]

You need to ask for credit for the tread wear warranty when buying new tires. [...] And Costco is the worst for this; I suspect they get the warranty money and pocket it because they sure put up a wall with a bad policy that says they don’t honor the warranty unless the tread gets down to a dangerous level.

[...] TAs are TAs, all colleges have them; they do not replace full instructors, but some of them are worth their weight in gold due to their student empathy.

[...] Simply because I can use it now to make bank on software. [...]

[...] Why did I build it? [...]

[...] It was a special moment to see his passion for the project almost 50 years in, and felt incredibly special to hear it directly from him. [...]

I'm not defending it. Proceeds to defend it I'm putting blame where it belongs, on the perpetrator. No one in Israel asked for war. Lots in Gaza did. Gaza is a population of 2M people run by an armed gang of a mere 50,0000. The IDF a fully fledged modern army has thus far proved unable to root out Hamas despite leveling most of Gaza. It seems hard therefore to blame the 1,950,000 not in said gang for its actions especially when half of them are kids. When a woman defends herself from rape by stabbing the rapist I don't say, "She caused him more damage!" I blame the rapist. This is manipulative garbage. The rapist is singular unified in guilt and purpose. We are talking about a society. If you have anything else in this vein please keep it to yourself. Not everyone wants war and that's sad that people are caught in it. But Israel isn't at fault, any more than that woman. Hamas is firing from behind innocents. They have to kill innocent people to survive, typically. You can help them by eliminating their need to do it, or you can blame the victim. We can demand lawful just behavior even in war. Letting murderGPT generate targets and blowing up women and children in there home isn't it. What happened in October was simply awful but Israel in modern times is not under existential threat from Hamas. They absolutely had the ability to prosecute the war in a different fashion. Acting like they had to either lay down and die or petpetrate horrors is again manipulative and dishonest. A few fuckin pointers. - Drop bombs only on human vetted intelligence - Fire on armed resistance not children - Drop bombs on people participating in conflict instead of homes even if its harder and less effective - Drop bombs only when the probable collateral damage is either zero or the tactical gain is high eg killing 0-5 to get a top tier leader is probably acceptable killing up to 20 to get each and every flunky is insane. If the war can't realistically be prosecuted successfully on those t

Need to preface that I’m not innocent of this at all, my primary source is my own experience: but I genuinely believe our approach to attention disorders - especially stimulant prescriptions and academic accommodations - will be widely ridiculed within the next 50 years. In a similar manner to how we think about smoking on airplanes in 80s. Not trying to be dismissive or reductive, but when 15-50% of honors students at elite universities are a part of this it deserves way more scrutiny that it gets. Same is true in a lot of elite private sector spaces.

My favorites are - Paris Baguette: a Korean bakery chain, selling 50-50 asian and western confections but no baguettes, pretending to be French, most popular in America. - Bondi Sushi: a New York chain, named for a beach in Australia, for a Japanese specialty. - Outback steakhouse: American chain named for a Australian region, and depending where you are, full of Canadian imagery including mooses and snow and sleds (I went in Boston). Paris Baguette makes sense to me, it draws a lot of people who think they're getting a French bakery, but discover and enjoy the (novel-to-them) asian pastries in the process. As a non-white American, I have always been confused why Americans love appropriating Australian branding for restaurants? Who exactly does that appeal to, and to discover what? Evidently it offends Australians. It means nothing to me who doesn't really know what aspect of Australia I would seek from such places (sushi? steak?), so it doesn't seem meant to draw people who not affiliated with Australia somehow. Maybe Australians cofounded these places in America? Or just Americans who had life-defining experiences in Australian locations and came back to start restaurants in honor of those places? I have not dug too deep into their origins.

…or buy a cheap digital picture frame from <mass market retailer. When my g-parents passed, and the family moved away, we bought everyone a cheap digital frame linked to a shared family album. [...] Our chosen company’s albums have an email address that you email a photo to, and it displays on everyone’s frame. [...]

[...] I was happy enough with signal. [...]

democracy was protected by codes of conduct, honor, and most importantly, strong content moderation in the form of monopolistic legacy media. 50 years ago? Perhaps some of what you describe applied, in very limited form and only if you view a small segment of the media/political landscape with extremely rose-tinted glasses, but go read more of U.S media history to see how completely off base you really are. Media in the United states has spent most of its history being absolutely saturated with extremely yellow, scandal-mongering political hack journalism of the absolute most dishonest kind you can imagine (yes even in the age of social media). This was the case throughout the 19th century, the whole early part of the 20th century and it certainly applied 50 years ago, which would be roughly the late 60's to the 70s. Overall, i'd say you have no idea at all of what you're talking about and pulled this funny notion out of nowhere for the sake of forcing an alarmist point.

The good news is that, while the number of fabricated papers have accelerated, so too is our ability to detect fabrications. Also, fabricated papers were a massive problem well before AI was useful in research. I think it's fair to characterise AI as our saviour here instead of the villain. The broader issue pertains to the Replication Crisis. For decades, journals relied mostly on the honour system. Many people think peer review requires validating the data. It does not. It's basically a cursory check that the claimed methods are valid. The data is usually not validated. In fact, the data is usually not even produced for the journal or peer reviewers at all. This has become such a large issue that research began to sample studies to see if they could replicate the results given the claimed methods. A shocking number of papers could not be replicated. Scientists are loathe to claim this proves fraud, but when one has carefully written 50 pages of dense research methodology to arrive at statistically significant findings, it's clear that they would know if their experiments were replicable. There is also another major issue with academic research as it exists: findings are (almost) only ever published when they confirm the hypothesis. Researchers begin from an often very biased perspective about the way they believe the world works (sociology is one of the worst for this), and work backwards from their conclusion. They might conduct dozens or hundreds of experiments, all while fail and are never published. Then they land on an experiment which can be massaged to reflect the message, and that is published. The fact is that all those "failures" are equally insightful research, and it should all be published for a variety of reasons. There are also major issues re how research is gated and funded, and how many hobby researchers are never given the opportunity to publish at all - even if they could afford to pay the journal bribe. Long story short, this entire industry w

[...] I'd say the humanities hindered the progress of humanity more than they promoted it over the last 50 years.

It doesn't always work, that's for sure. I suspect one of the things the admissions committee did was try to filter out the cheaters. Explaining how the honor system worked was part of the freshman orientation camp (held on Catalina Island). One reason it did work is the students liked being trusted, and they did not like anyone that would threaten the system, and would turn them in. BTW, that was 50 years ago. I have no information on how the honor system is fairing today.

[...] They basically passed a standardized test that they spent a few years in prep classes to pass. [...]

I guess you have to decide what it is exactly you think your side stands for: 1. Norms, honour, decency etc. In that case, the democratic norm that's honourable and decent would be to gladly comply with both the spirit and word of whichever government is in power regardless of the individual's personal beliefs, up to and including calmly accepting redundancy. This is what the platonic ideal of a civil servant is meant to do. The Republicans believe, with good reason, that the US civil service hasn't been doing this (same issues exist in other countries). 2. Bold resistance, elections be damned. Do whatever it takes, violate every norm, exploit every procedure, regulation and rule to fuck the right as hard as possible. That they won a legitimate victory is of no importance in this worldview because they are Crazy and Wrong and Bad, and therefore it is right and true to subvert them as much as you can. These two positions aren't compatible but you're talking as if they are. You can't both cheer on stuff like the attempts to subvert Schedule F and claim to be the side of generosity, honour and democratic norms. Either you're subversive rebels and must accept the outcome if Trump successfully crushes you beneath his bootheel, or you're genteel servants of the people in which case you have to help him achieve his goals within the bounds set by law and the courts. Now we fully agree that world 1 is preferable, and in that world Trump/Musk would need to spend much more time waiting on Congress to pass laws before they can shut down orgs like USAID, and the intelligence community wouldn't have produced 50+ people willing to lie in order to manipulate a domestic election. But nobody believes we live in world 1. Even now you're trying to have it both ways, and arguing that you should be allowed to claim to represent world 1 whilst simultaneously calling a legitimately elected government a "regime".

I live in the Okanagan in British Columbia and the local honeycrisp are still good here. I think the colder climate and smaller scale farms here make for a better apple. We also have long term storage facilities where the apples are stored in nitrogen which really helps with freshness. The local place I go to is straight from the grower and they have a 24/7 cold storage facility of apple bins operated by the honour system. All apples are $1 a pound. Part of the issue here is that wineries have been historically more profitable than orchards so there are many fewer places to buy local fruit. In the past two years however, there has been cold snaps which have killed 50% and 90% of grape vines subsequently so people are starting to question the stability of wineries.

I can do, but I warn you it's long. Be careful what you wish for! YAFIYGI. :-) I didn't use a direct timecode link because 1.) it's not really all in one place, and 2.) I feel the entire interview is almost a microcosm of his thought. But if you insist... -- @12:20: (on climate change) "We know we have to do something, but how do you get an entire planet of people to decide on a direction and start doing it together? We have terrible examples of it, like WWII, where the entire planet marched to destroy each-other. It was horrible! Think how much time and effort and people and materials got spun up for WWII. If we can do that for climate change, climate change would be done! It would be well on its way to being better than it is now, where we're just on a path to doom essentially." @14:30 (asked about Manna) "We would have hoped that we would have somehow gotten enlightened -- I don't want to go political here, but -- you gotta look back on the past five years and just wonder, 'what the heck happened?' The dystopian side of it seems right on target, right on track for... something. Because people are just getting poorer and poorer in the United States. The body politic is just getting crushed, and you would like there to be a better way. I don't have a great..." @16:50: (on privacy in a Manna-like world) "The problem with privacy is that you end up with a whole bunch of people storming the Capitol of the United States, and you have to do this enormous amount of work to figure out who they were, and some of them you don't even know now. I don't think they caught even half the people, and very few of the people at the upper echelons, it's undetermined, but it's likely they're all gonna escape. Because they're able to do stuff, they're able to hide -- right now we're seeing all this stuff about people erasing their text messages in the Secret Service, and now in the Department of Defense, and now you get what happen on the internet where these anonymous trolls are just

[...] For instance, you can have a regular picture (par) or an honorific picture (kupar) of, say, your lama. [...]

[...] People can make great discoveries and be remembered for that but there is a more modest role a Scientist can play, to assemble material which will be helpful to others and be of some permanent value; I have chosen that approach; All i think as a consequence of my first shattering experience in Cambridge". [...]