mkhattab

As a muslim, I hope he doesn't eff this up, Obama style. But the fact that he won, although not the blowout as some were expecting, restored a bit of my hope in the common man. Cuomo's attacks may have swayed some of the vote but ultimately failed.

I hope Mamdani succeeds for the sake of New York (California resident here) and hopefully this win inspires other young people around the country to participate in politics.

These deal numbers have lost all meaning for me.

There’s been some buzz around the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, which I visited last month. That project took 1.1 to 1.2B USD. Double its original budget estimate but still the museum looks fantastic and it feels, tangibly, like it’s worth a billion.

In contrast with all the money spent on AI, it just feels like monopoly money. Where’s the monument to its success? We could’ve built flying cars or been back to the moon with this much money.

> Go prioritizes not breaking the ecosystem; this allows to assume that Hyrum’s Law will protect certain observable behaviors of the runtime, from which we may infer what can or cannot break easily.

If this assertion is correct, then effectively Go as a language is an evolutionary dead end. Not sure if I would Go fascinating in this case.

Does anyone know of an up-to-date or live visualization of the amount of scientific fraud? And perhaps also measuring the second order effects? i.e. poisoning of the well via citations to the fraudulent papers.

It's hard to tell at this point if it's just selection bias or if the scientific fraud problem has outgrown the scope of self-correction.

Sorry! Just realized that when I checked the docs again. My bad.

Minor annoyance:

Yesterday I was reading the docs and one of the first things I tried is the following, copy and pasted, which didn't work, using version 0.71:

  COPY (SELECT 42 AS a, 'hello' AS b) TO 'query.json' (FORMAT JSON, ARRAY TRUE);

  >>> Error: Binder Error: Unrecognized option CSV writer "array"

Just tried the above again with this release and it's fixed now.

Ideally, all commands listed in the documentation should be tested or verified to work.

Aside from that, nice work on the release! And I'm learning more and find it pretty cool, especially WASM support.

My manager used to do this all the time.

Typical scenario:

Manager: hey

<an hour or so may go by>

Me: what's up?

Manager: nvm

I don't believe Arabs are under the illusion that their government is non-tyrannical. I live in Egypt and there's not a single person I've met that doesn't think their government is corrupt, oppressive and inept. So there's really nothing revealing or surprising that a newspaper could report.

"BREAKING: Egyptian government is corrupt. In other news, water is wet."

On the other hand, there are perhaps many Israelis who believe the false narrative that the Palestinians sold their lands and left, but changed their minds and started the aggression.

Yes, one usually does and can repair all those things. Except for the pacemaker, which I’m not sure.

I agree. Who are all these people that pull backups, that maybe GBs or TBs in size for offline storage? How does that even work in practical terms in disaster scenarios like this where resolution times are expected within hours and not days?

Perhaps we need to distinguish, if at all possible these days, between the military and the military industrial complex. I don't believe the military is inherently evil but think it's necessary to the defense of the country. The military industrial complex, on the other hand, is in the business of warfare and perhaps not as necessary as we might think.