CRConrad

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by CRConrad 1y ago
I don't think I am "confused". What's "confused" about pointing out the error -- or hypocrisy -- in accusing someone else of "moving goalposts" when it was you who did that? (NB, BTW, it wasn't m
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> I have always understood it in the “modern” sense. IF, that is, your memory is better than Dave Berry's...
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> When used alone, "ass" to me feels like it's roughly synonymous as when it's prefixed with "dumb", which would seem to relate to that old meaning of "jerk", but with "hole" on the end,
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> Where did I accuse anyone of a false dichotomy? You didn't accuse anyone of it, you presented one ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44995714 ) and then claimed it wasn't one ( https://news.ycombi
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> The goal of ANY software engineer worth their salt should be minimizing errors and defects in their end product. ...to the extent possible within their project budget. Otherwise the product would — as GP already pointed out — not exist
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> you're just moving goalposts. Pretty funny, coming from someone who went from "false dichotomy" to "the false equivalency".
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by CRConrad 1y ago
No, AFAICS GP wasn't conflating anything. Why would you think they were?
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> > you're much more likely to build confusing, difficult-to-use APIs. > have not found this to be the case with zig in general. Dunno how general it is, but TFA we're discussing here contains an example, so AFAICS it see
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Nope, that's not how a / an works in English.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
What says they didn't?
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> And now it pops up in emails, slack messages, HN/reddit comments and probably more than half of blog posts? Yeah, maybe that's the one thing people who didn't know how to do it before have learnt from "AI" outp
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> the long emdash [...] tell tale LLM signs I so wish people would stop spouting this bogus "sign" — but I know I'm going to be disappointed.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
"egregiously"? Bit of an exaggeraton, IMO. "lately", as if it were some regular thing? But yeah yeah, I'll try.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
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by CRConrad 1y ago
I think the main reason you couldn't find a mac version to download is that there is none. The closest I saw was a .tr.gz file (i.e. a gzipped Tape ARchive) of Unix source code, but A) I don't know of their definition of "Uni
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by CRConrad 1y ago
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by CRConrad 1y ago
No, the argument was exactly the standard form of "Dark Forest." > > not because they wouldn't love to meet us and form positive-sum interactions > Not sure where you got this adaptation from. It's not an &quo
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Then what was your preceding comment supposed to mean?
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> Windows XP with approximately 45 millions lines of code, arguably the best Windows OS ever. Naah. Early(ish) Win7, or maybe even late Vista.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> When that account went down, all those “other” backups were just dead noise encrypted forever. How and why? Are you saying you had encrypted backups on other providers, but... Didn't keep the encryption keys to those backups somew
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> Doesn't everyone has this? What you're asking is “Isn't everyone a giant corporation?” Judging from the incredulous tone of your question, the answer may come as a surprise to you: No, not everyone is a giant corporation
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Yeah, that bullshit has been debunked all over the net for quite a while now; there are lots of us old farts who write exactly like that, and none of us is an “AI”. Idunno, maybe on aggregate we're so prolific that the material they&#x
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Sure. But so is posting comments that clearly show one didn't read the article. Or at least, if it isn't, it certainly should be.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> that kind of dickishness is going to ensure that I don't do more than the least amount of effort for you. For one thing, IMO that wasn't all that dickish. For another, they arguably didn't even do the least amount of eff
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by CRConrad 1y ago
No.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> In particular for code that made it onto git. By “onto git”, do you mean “onto GitHub”? I really wish people would stop conflating the two. In fact, I can't tell whether this confusion is just another symptom of, or a (major?) par
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> There's no back-link mechanism for a ticket. Of course there is: Put the ticket number (or URL) in a comment.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
Presumably https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sophiebits , who commented twice in this discussion, would know.
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by CRConrad 1y ago
You don't need to be accused of being a nit-picker all that many times to figure out what a nit is. So the label is kind of useful: for flushing out the people who need it explained -- now you know sho's sloppy enough to be worth
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by CRConrad 1y ago
> How would you quickly identify something as "would be better if." [? -- my addition // CRC] How about by writing a comment containing the words "would be better if"?

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