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by 9rx 3mo ago
Of course, the genetic fallacy is just that: a fallacy.
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by 9rx 3mo ago
> But I wouldn't call that abject poverty. But you could. There is no law of the universe that is going to stop you. Words are something randomly made up by humans. > it's just plain wrong. Again, words are completely ma
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Absolutely. Which is why the hackathon was conceived: to serve as an escape from the real world. All good things must come to an end, I suppose.
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Equally obvious is that it doesn't matter what you do or don't understand. Nor does it matter if you find something to be rude. The comments, they are not written for anyone in particular. This is a public forum. Comments are ther
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> Now that Google is manufacturing answers There isn't someone at a keyboard typing content. It's still just search, repeating quotes from other websites. The difference is that the algorithms have turned lossy, so the quotes
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Remember, CPI exists to attempt to figure out how the value of a currency has changed over time. It's not a cost of living index, a housing cost index, a wellness index, or anything of the sort. It is not trying to measure how you are
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by 9rx 4mo ago
It is unclear what you mean. It is true that most software jobs were not writing iPhone apps, if that is what you are trying to say, but those were good jobs. Those who didn't have good jobs for a moment were quickly scooped up by inve
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Huh? Housing becoming significantly more valuable than in the past[1] does not imply that wages have dropped. [1] Mostly thanks to computers/software making housing a more compelling proposition. Historically, people couldn't wait
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by 9rx 4mo ago
The GFC wasn't good? It wasn't good for the general economy, sure, but given the specific industry we are talking about that was one of the best times ever. Money was being printed hand over fist building software that did nothing
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> So yes, there is a significant job crisis. And the link echoes that there is a job crisis. But not an AI job crisis; rather a COVID frenzy fallout job crisis.
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by 9rx 4mo ago
As many as was required to find statistical significance. This S in BLS stands for statistics, after all.
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by 9rx 4mo ago
The results of them actually talking to businesses and asking questions that are more than "did you have a job ad posted?" You are hardly the first person to imagine that job ads aren't representative of actual job opportunit
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Workers taking on new/different roles isn't the same as being replaced. Workers have been taking on new/different roles since at least the advent of agriculture, so that's nothing new. Being replaced would be something n
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by 9rx 4mo ago
BLS doesn't look at job ads when compiling "job opening" data. Their method isn't perfect (nothing in life is), but far more comprehensive than you give it credit for.
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> Whenever you change the structure within that blob, your type checker won't flag that the receiver hasn't been updated to handle it. The relevant type is "blob". There is no further structure. If the function that
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by 9rx 4mo ago
SEQUEL. It was a play on QUEL [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages ].
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by 9rx 4mo ago
You are convincing me of it too. It is clear that your friend still needs your system thinking to point out edge cases and whatnot, but if you applied that by spending a couple of days adding a test suite to provide the missing validation,
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> there isn’t really much more software that needs to be built Yup. Most everything we need was already built in the 1970s. Programmers have been kept busy because we've kept introducing incompatibilities into the mix, like DOS pr
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by 9rx 4mo ago
"Climate change" may very well be meaningless. It was, after all, adopted for use in public messaging due to its predecessor, "global warming", never transcending meaninglessness, so there is precedent for the general po
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Show it. Pick a missed edge case or breaking point in his app and demonstrate the pain the customer is going to encounter. You don't have to live in the realm of hypotheticals. He has given you a concrete, but flawed, implementation th
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Postgres was relational for the first decade of its life, until the infamous '95 release when it sold its soul to the devil. You could dig up on old version, perhaps. But, yes, the tradeoff for real-world use was already mentioned. The
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Most technical and scientific terms absolutely are meaningless outside of related technical and scientific communities. All terms have at least one person who sees it as meaningful else it could not fundamentally exist as a term, but clearl
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by 9rx 4mo ago
"Meaningless" doesn't mean everyone fails to find meaning, it means that there is no general consensus on what it means. As you pointed out before, everyone holds their own pet definition. It means something to most everyone,
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by 9rx 4mo ago
> You'd find plenty of definitions Exactly. Terms that are meaningful have one generally accepted definition. When everyone and their brother are coming up with their own pet definitions, that is when a term is considered meanin
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by 9rx 4mo ago
It is meaningless to the general population. No term is meaningless to an individual or small groups of people, obviously. That goes without saying.
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by 9rx 4mo ago
You don't have to get very clever. Once you get beyond inner join it starts to stick out like a sore thumb that SQL isn't relational and that you should have chosen a relational engine instead. SQL shines when you have an ORM and
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by 9rx 4mo ago
All of the above are obsolete. But still what is regularly found out in the real world.
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Edgar F. Codd did it better when he designed Alpha. It is his work that we still talk and dream about to this day. SQL won because it was the first implementation to be network-connected, which was far more important to industry than langua
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by 9rx 4mo ago
Of course. There is no name that could inherently mean anything. Words are all made up and arbitrary.
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by 9rx 4mo ago
ESP-IDF is only compatible with the ESP32 range of devices, not all ESP-prefixed devices, so "ESP" alone is not sufficient information to satisfy the earlier comment.

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