FleaFlicker99

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by FleaFlicker99 3y ago
Yeah - isn't this more measuring anticipated fear of a situation vs actual risk? Of course the risk _is_ higher if you're less able to defend yourself, but we're talking different measurements here. And I don't buy that
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by FleaFlicker99 4y ago
I've so far found it almost entirely useless for code (mostly Scala, no big surprise there), but for suggesting tools / alternatives, big picture stuff it's come up with some interesting ideas. If I was hacking Javascript or
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by FleaFlicker99 4y ago
The great thing is it can repurpose the code from the old inertial guidance unit since the new one is so close it's basically the same thing. I think that GPT thinks it knows what it's doing.
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by FleaFlicker99 4y ago
Ok but that's a little different than saying you can't cut the traversal short. If I'm traversing ancestors (let's say) until I find one that doesn't satisfy a condition, it'll bail out then. I get that this do
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by FleaFlicker99 4y ago
I worked as a contractor/freelancer for ages, and coming back into fulltime employee work I was appalled that this was actually considered to be relevant to my impact on the job site. Some of our clients used gitlab, which to github lo
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by FleaFlicker99 5y ago
Particularly the business often doesn't want to take on the goal of improved performance when good-enough will suffice. Which can often make sense when you factor in increase development costs, reduced flexibility/maintainability,
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by FleaFlicker99 5y ago
The cynical side of me thinks that the move to embracing "the personal is political" is mostly about making any transgressions widely visible. That makes it that much better for the claiming of victimhood and the ensuing backlash
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by FleaFlicker99 5y ago
No, people are concerned when 'kids' call out an innocent action (a glance, let's say) from a teacher a 'microaggression' and have their parents call in and threaten them. There are countless examples of this kind o
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by FleaFlicker99 5y ago
Harley style motorcycles take the cake though, "loud pipes" are such a thing in that part of motorcycle culture. I don't understand the aesthetic of trying to annoy everyone to such a degree, and I don't understand why i
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by FleaFlicker99 6y ago
The internet was such a big deal because groups of people could finally interact without the mediation and filtering of a large (typically corporate) entity determining what's "fit to print". You don't have to search ver
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by FleaFlicker99 6y ago
> must prioritise complaints raised by "trusted flaggers" That's the real concern here. Speech must be handled very carefully, but now we're elevating some specific people to be 'more equal' than others? Who