Are other phrases of the form "ending ____ness", where ____ is a racial qualifier, also acceptable, then? Someone using that term could similarly argue that they're not advocating for the eradication of ____ people - just the identity and behavior associated with ____ people.
Are you arguing that calling it "whiteness" is a bad branding move by the sociologists? In that case, I fully agree. There's other similar bad branding moves like "toxic masculinity" or "racism = power + prejudice". I wish they would change those words.
Or do you mean that sociologists who speak about "abolishing whiteness" secretly mean "abolishing the behavior and identity of white people"? No I wouldn't agree with that. I think they mean what they say, and when they tell you their definition of "whiteness", that's what they're referring to. Not some other thing.
What a bizarre bait and switch. Starts talking about browsers allowing malformed HTML and uses that to draw conclusions about allowing certain types of people.
It's a poor metaphor. Real tolerance necessitates intolerance - see Marcuse. What is a browser going to do, send malformed HTTP requests and name-and-shame any server who refuses to respond? Servers vs. browsers is not the same type of relationship as people vs. people.
Not to mention that the author's metaphor is implying that certain types of people are malformed.
CRUD apps are ridiculously simple and have been in existence my entire life. Yet it is surprisingly difficult to make a basic CRUD and host it somewhere. The bulk of useful but simple business apps are just a CRUD with a tiny bit of customisation and integration around them.
It is true that LLMs make it easier to build these kind of things without having to become a competent programmer first.
W.r.t code changes especially small ones (say 50 lines spread across 5 files), if you can't get an agent to make nearly exactly the code changes you want, just faster than you, that's a you problem at this point. If it maybe would take you 15 minutes, grok-code-fast-1 can do it in 2.
Would you mind sharing a motivating use case for those of us who don't think S3 is complicated or unreliable? Doesn't S3 already include HTTP upload capability? Are ML engineers really avoidant of basic operations like "HTTP retries and S3 multipart uploads"?
Thanks for the question. You’re right that S3 itself is simple and reliable, and yes, most engineers *can* write HTTP retries and multipart uploads. EdgeMQ isn’t trying to replace S3’s API, it’s what you need around S3 when you have lots of producers on the public internet.
It gives you:
* edge HTTPS endpoints (auto-scale, multi-region HA)
* a WAL so accepted events aren’t lost
* segmentation + compression
* explicit commit markers for consumers
* backpressure instead of silent data loss
* and a standardized way every team lands data in S3
You could build that yourself on top of S3; many companies do. EdgeMQ exists for folks who wants that behavior but dont want to operate a custom HTTP to S3 ingest service forever.
Its also worth noting that its in the early stages and the next features to be developed are transformations whereby you can input format a (say, JSON) and deliver in s3 as format b (e.g. csv, parquet etc).
It is pretty clearly labelled with "(Sponsor)". Couldn't be less obtrusive, either. I think on balance it's at least neutral compared with the other nonsense available to both the publisher and advertiser these days.
This is a rhetorical sleight of hand; almost everyone pays FICA taxes at some point in their life, and of course there are other taxes than Federal income tax.
Is it? The article is exclusively about federal income tax - spefically the variable part that you have to calculate yourself, not the constant % that's automatically withheld from your paycheck (FICA).
Unfortunately, the IRS built DirectFile to enable free filing and the current admin killed it. Maybe we’ll get it back in three years after regime change.
I recently asked grok-code-fast-1 to read the SST OpenTUI readme and docs (gave it the github link), and to write an implementation plan for an OpenTUI usage mode for my Rust CLI stdin/stdout app. It fetched the readme. Fetched a couple more doc pages. Response begins "Sure, here's the plan: I'll write a TUI using the Rust package Ratatui..."
I'm sure the patrons at dive bars love businesspeople walking up and asking you to listen to their startup idea or review their designs for a corporate rebranding.
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