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by JW_00000 4y ago
No, but gradual/optional typing did come after Ruby. Back in 2005, you could choose between static typing with type checking but lots of verbosity (e.g. Java "Point point = new Point();" or C++ "for (std::map<int, Bla
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by JW_00000 4y ago
In fact, the author even says this argument is "true but uninspiring / irrelevant". He's just deciding not to focus on that aspect in this article.
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by JW_00000 4y ago
When someone writes: > Soon you will see people saying you should have done this or that complicated thing and you answer: > Is his PGP key on his hardrive or a smartcard? you're proving their point.
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by JW_00000 4y ago
I'd add: > When babies are sleep-trained (with the "cry it out" method), they don't actually sleep (much) longer; they wake up as often but have learned to not signal their parents.
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by JW_00000 4y ago
> For the next year sit in cash [...] after the crisis passes I feel like I've been hearing that for the last ~8 years at least. Stocks have been said to be "overvalued" for a long time... If you would've waited all t
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by JW_00000 4y ago
But how can you verify ChatGPT's answers if you don't know what its sources were? E.g. if I google a technical question about HTML5, I can see whether a result is the HTML5 spec, MDN, W3Schools, or a random medium blog. If I googl
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by JW_00000 4y ago
And two years later, your idea fails and your boss says: > A good fraction of the things I complain about eventually turn my way after a year or two passes and evidence piles up, but I have never been able to kill stupid things before th
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by JW_00000 4y ago
Suspend on my MacBook Pro also didn't work for >1 year, but seems to be magically fixed now. All OSes have annoying bugs in my experience.
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by JW_00000 4y ago
What about a slightly alternative approach, where instead of trying to block the abuser, you try to make it clear to end users what the real website is? E.g. in your logo image, include the real domain name "saashub.com". Have som
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by JW_00000 4y ago
The most active people on reddit/Twitter/social media: * have lots of free time, e.g. teenagers, students, the unemployed. People with an average job and kids don't have the time to constantly be active on social media. Hence
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by JW_00000 4y ago
Would free trains not need conductors? At least here in Belgium, conductors also check whether it's safe for the train to depart. Metros don't have this, but they have cameras throughout the vehicle and on each platform of each st
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by JW_00000 4y ago
When doing such a calculation, would you need to take into account the fact that space is expanding while the particles are traveling? (And will have expanded a bit more in the time it takes for the particles to reach us than in the time it
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by JW_00000 4y ago
Agreed. In fact, this is the same line of reasoning my teachers used in elementary school when we asked them "Why do we need to learn how to add/subtract/multiply/divide, when calculators can do it automatically for us?&
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by JW_00000 4y ago
Instead of spending 6 months laboriously doing experiments in a lab, and then a month writing up their results in a paper, researchers can already write a paper in one month if they just invent the numbers without actually doing the experim
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by JW_00000 4y ago
I guess those people will call it "content".
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by JW_00000 4y ago
Surely, out of the billions of books that exist in the world right now, some will survive 5000 years. The Library of Congress is archiving many (but no longer all) tweets [1] and web pages. The British Library is similarly archiving tweets,
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by JW_00000 4y ago
What happens currently if you send a file with content type text/plain to a browser? If the browser would just render it (maybe in a monospace font), you're already halfway there, without needing to embed a Markdown renderer in th
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by JW_00000 4y ago
I cannot even concentrate on reading a text while the radio is playing; let alone programming while assembling furniture.
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by JW_00000 4y ago
I didn't believe your point about Gmail, expecting many companies to still host their own mail servers or use other services, so I went looking for some data. Found [1], which says that Gmail has 34% market share and Microsoft Exchange
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by JW_00000 4y ago
But on the other hand, this also happened with reddit when Digg launched v4... (Although I agree with the general criticism that Mastodon is far from easy to use for the average non-techie.)
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by JW_00000 4y ago
In both Flemish and Dutch media, I've seen Mastodon pop up several times in the last week. It seems to be this is because quite a number of Flemish and Dutch Twitter users (known journalists, tech commentators, etc.) have started using
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by JW_00000 4y ago
It's a blog post but somehow the styling doesn't make it look like one.
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by JW_00000 4y ago
To add to this, a website I've found useful is betterexplained.com. Specifically for complex numbers, take a look at [1] and [2]. But they also have good articles with visualizations to help you understand the Fourier transform, the nu
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by JW_00000 4y ago
I don't read the article like that: it's not a list of (all) things your manager doesn't know, it's a list of (some) things your manager might not know. In other words, these are all things your manager should know, but
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by JW_00000 4y ago
If the DAO isn't implemented in software using smart contracts, then what is the difference with a "traditional" foundation like e.g. Debian or Python have?
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by JW_00000 4y ago
Does this mean you think any criminal (that committed a violent crime) should be locked up for life? Or how does the length of prison sentences factor into this?
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by JW_00000 4y ago
What is the largest increase/decrease in global average temperature we've seen over a 100 year span since humans have existed on Earth, before the Industrial Revolution? How does that compare to the last 100 years?
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by JW_00000 4y ago
I'd say a proportion of any job. The trick therefore is to either find a job or tweak your current job so that the "bullshit proportion" is minimized.
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by JW_00000 4y ago
Is an investment foolish if it has a positive ROI? I live in Belgium, and even without subsidies and before the current increases in electricity prices, solar panels had a payback period of ~ 10 years (while they generally last ~ 25 years).
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by JW_00000 4y ago
It's worse than a Turing test: it's trying to distinguish between a honest human (writing content they are knowledgeable about or that is original) vs a dishonest human (who writes filler content just to get a higher ranking). It

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