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by BlackFly 2y ago
Possibly, but it is an unmitigated good to incentivize companies to position their relationships with customers honestly. People approach free-to-play games and subscription based games with different attitudes than purchased games. A purch
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by BlackFly 2y ago
This article, like most breathless endorsements of parenting, fails to detach personal experience from the actual experience. Sometimes a mother doesn't immediately feel love for the child and instead feels an intense guilt for being s
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by BlackFly 2y ago
What nonsense! That is probably the better example of a perfectly good sentence fragment. There are many others in spoken English.
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Yes, project managers easily can have that level of comprehension, but it is rare to meet a project manager that understands that a time range is something like a confidence interval. That is, if it is estimated a task will take 3-9 weeks,
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by BlackFly 2y ago
If it only solves the problems I already find trivial then it is a parrot. Nowadays we all have a calculator with us but if you emphasize that fact and choose to not practice and excel at basic arithmetic then you will be unable to perform
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Meanwhile, I have never understood positions like this. What exactly does ideal team work look like to you? Do you collaborate with your teammates or do you all go off and work on completely isolated tasks? Do you only share knowledge after
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Bear in mind I am pro code review, but... There is a trick in pharmaceutical research where you test a potential candidate drug against placebo to yield a bad study that seems to show benefit. The reason it is a trick is because in many cas
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by BlackFly 2y ago
In the same way, laws do not prevent people from killing other people. However, we (with a few exceptions) find it unethical to solve problems by killing the other party and make murder laws. Too many companies offer a defense for behavior
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by BlackFly 2y ago
When it is actually impossible to count something and when the error between estimation and an exact answer is not significant the pedantic distinction is not helpful. The same thing happens with measurement. No measurement is ever exact. I
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by BlackFly 2y ago
If they need a head on a pike to get the rest of the world to trust them enough again to keep competing with Airbus then maybe they will find that rule of law still makes sense.
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Times sure do change. Contrast with, "Why are libraries or the community park free?" where it is laughable to suggest that the users are the product. The truth was they weren't free, in a sense, but were understood as free be
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Are the statements by the neighbourhood drunk in the corner pub commonly interpreted as legally valid statements by the individual making them? Nobody takes the drunk seriously, yet the neighbourhood drunk shouldn't be treated more ser
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by BlackFly 2y ago
You've chosen a good example to further this discussion precisely because it further emphasizes the differences between assumptions and invariants in code: the point when it breaks. Assumptions break at unpredictable times (like when t
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by BlackFly 2y ago
If you want a silver lining then consider that, unlike most trials, you know with much more certainty which is the just result. When that is not reached, or reached in a roundabout uncertain way (like the ongoing money laundering conviction
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by BlackFly 2y ago
It doesn't just move errors to compile time. It moves runtime errors into the interface layer where you parse a request to bind it into your type so that by the time it reaches the persistence layer or something deeper you don't n
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by BlackFly 2y ago
I would recommend not calling such things invariants and not thinking about them in the same way you think about invariants. If you would allow a comparison to physics then you would call such things assumptions: frictionless pulleys, small
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by BlackFly 2y ago
And the best cake maker I know whips ingredients together by her mood, inventing cakes on a whim. The margin of error is wide enough.
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by BlackFly 2y ago
I agree with your points, but your conclusion is equivalent to suggesting that painting is a science because perspective is geometry. I am not denying that ingredients work in a deterministic fashion, I am suggesting that subjective aspects
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by BlackFly 2y ago
You and I are really talking about two different cohorts, which emphasizes my point. Who are you trying to understand and how are you trying to understand them? The article and I are talking about early career professionals (mid twenties) a
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by BlackFly 2y ago
As opposed to cooks, who love measurements like - a carrot - four cloves of garlic - an onion - yolk of one medium egg - salt to taste because cooking isn't a science and precise measurements are generally worse than useless. If you sp
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by BlackFly 2y ago
Possibly, but that's not my suggestion. A crude--but in this case useful--measure of inflation is just average house cost + average education cost. This is enough to understand the woes of generation Z because education costs and the c
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by BlackFly 2y ago
I had the same question. I suspect it is the same issue that triggered re-evaluation of classical methodologies for controlling inflation: they are measuring inflation in a way that doesn't conform to your perception, normalizing salar
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by BlackFly 2y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that a teenager that is willing to invest time into setting up a VPN so that they can talk to Nigerians probably isn't the sort of teenager to have this kind of problem. We let people fly
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by BlackFly 2y ago
I'm pretty sure this is already covered by DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/770. You purchase "Digital content" from the company; regardless of how they word it (like saying it is a license) while you are making your purchase this la
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by BlackFly 3y ago
This is a pretty good example actually of what makes entering these conversations so difficult. It can logically be both and I would personally say it is both but your reply demands polarization. It is either one or the other because people
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by BlackFly 3y ago
Just makes it more annoying to implement. Your locally running CLI tool will still have access to the local TPM the browser used: in other words, the CLI tool can implement the necessary parts of the browser.
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by BlackFly 3y ago
Well, I don't think it is an indictment so much as the typical indication of how we humans swing to extremes. I find it somewhat lamentable (although perhaps more enviable) how gay men are able to more openly discuss with one another w
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by BlackFly 3y ago
Sure, but polyrepos don't break with scale in the same way as monorepos. You only need additional tooling when you are trying to coordinate homogeneity a scale larger than your manual capability. Autonomous services don't typicall
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by BlackFly 3y ago
There are multiple ways that code gets merged into master and ends up broken. First, the one where everyone does everything correctly: CI executions do not run serially because when too many people are producing a lot of code, you need them
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by BlackFly 3y ago
This doesn't happen in a poly repo because you can just do it. You release version 2.0.0 of something and downstreams update at their own pace. Diverging as you call it. But this isn't a problem. If 1.0.0 is a finished product the

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