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The fact that they had to guess what the original author did is already an issue in itself. What we see here is that: 1. the original author did not sufficiently document their methodology and 2. when a best effort at reproducing the results is applied and we look deeper, we then discover that the results are wacky.


When someone comes along and proclaims 2+2=5, just because someone is right that they're incorrect doesn't mean their own assertion that 2+2=3 is any more correct, or that their reasoning for believing the original person was wrong has any validity.

Being accidentally correct is only barely better than being wrong, and for many uses (such as when the reasoning is extrapolated and used elsewhere) is no better at all.


They're not claiming 2+2=3, they're showing that the same methodology that proclaimed 2+2=5 also proclaims (as best as they can determine give the flawed documentation of the methodology) that 3+3=7, 1+1=3 and 17+17=137


I am very interested in this, but it looks like the video link gives 404


Weird, the video is supposed to be embedded. On my chrome desktop it displays properly. EDIT: fixed


Ask the COBOL guys


The market being what it is, I took a job in ColdFusion last year.

There are people here who have worked in the same CF codebase for over twenty years. They might start and finish their careers in a language everyone else forgot about decades ago.

I think Ruby has enough momentum that career Rubyists will have a home for as long as they want one.


How'd you find the job? And was it remote?

I spent 2 years coding in ColdFusion maybe 25 years ago. I've got experience!


Smart. Bravo.

Buddy of mine pivoted to doing just SQL and road into retirement as a DBA.

With hindsight, we both wished we had gone all-in on SQL way back when.


That is actually a smart move. You only have to learn SQL once to use it for 50 years.


The foundations yes, the rest only if you never change between RDMS products.

On my 50s, learnt SQL around 1996, have used SQL across Access, Informix, DB2, Sybase SQL Server, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, PrestoDB, Neo4j.


They’ll be getting nervous too at some point the agentic port will come for cobol. The past hesitation and risk aversion will subside once the less risky stuff is addressed. Once someone big enough sets a precedent, it will gain momentum


Emphasis on "feel"


The us could probably half it’s calories intake and be fine, if not better, from a public health perspective.

The average ribeye steak you serve in your barbecue joint can feed a family of 4 in war time.


Barbecue joints don't usually serve steaks. Tri tip, maybe, but if you're talking barbecue and beef then it's brisket.


> It would be just easier to not wage war by the way

Yeah, those pesky Ukrainians waging war for the pleasure of it.


Yes, Russia, NATO countries and its allies (Israel), are the major causes for conflicts in the last decades.

But stop framing it as "defense", we've been almost exclusively the ones attacking, not defending. It's us being the bad guys.


Deepseek flash is open weight, this means we can download and run that model without any connection to deepseek, no data/tokens/usage data ever reaches them. They cannot make us their product.


All those random api providers are absolutely scooping up your data though. And the hardware to run it locally is absurdly expensive.


Running Ds flash at acceptable speeds is challenging unless you have several thousands of dollars to invest


Apparently the eu official website really needs to track you then. For what’s essentially just static content. I’ll consider dropping cookies banner when their website can work without. Stop the “do as I say not as I do”

EU official website in it’s cookie banner glory: https://european-union.europa.eu/index_fr


They apparently hired incapable people to build that. Very silly to build it in a way that kind runs contrary to what the intentions of the very laws they are making are.

I get similarly upset, when I see Google tracking on official websites of government or public institutions.


> Apparently the eu official website really needs to track you then.

No, they don't really need to track you, that's why it requires consent to do it.

They are doing exactly what they say.

In other words, they're not saying don't track your visitors. They're saying get consent first.


You could try to understand why that’s the case, instead of assuming maliciousness or incompetence.

https://commission.europa.eu/resources/europa-web-guide/desi...

> Use of the cookie consent kit is mandatory on each page of the DGs and executive agencies-owned websites, regardless of the cookies used.


they use third party cookies, just read their linked info on it and it's fairly clear why they have a banner

if they didn't use third party cookies they wouldn't need it


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