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by JackFr 1y ago
On a recent visit to the UK (from the US) I briefly thought I was in an alternate universe because their TJ Maxx stores are virtually identical but inexplicably called TK Maxx. (Well, not quite inexplicably. Wikipedia cleared it up for me.
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by JackFr 1y ago
It seems unlikely. Some control groups might be nice. Send two more groups on a week long retreat, tell them some quack theory and see if they improve.
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The problem is norms are being destroyed. It’s not all new with Trump (governing by executive order, ignoring duly enacted laws, strong arming media companies, etc.). But while earlier administrations might have done those things on the mar
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by JackFr 1y ago
From June 4, 1940 to June 22, 1941 Britain faced Hitler alone.
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by JackFr 1y ago
> they just wasted it on things like trying to maintain the Empire. they just wasted it on things like nationalizing the coal, gas, electricity, rail, air transport and steel industries.
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by JackFr 1y ago
1) as the child of a parent who was a smart, hard working accountant/financial analyst who was out of work for 2 long stretches in my youth, I have learned when you lose your job, you do not fuck around — you attack it with the same ur
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by JackFr 1y ago
(Apologies for the bad form of replying twice…) > it seems to me improved technology on the whole leads to increased concentration of power Which is why we are dominated by IBM, AT&T, Kodak and Xerox.
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If you take human brains as the limit (a questionable assumption) they do it all for 20 watts (and hardware that makes itself!) The training is often years and can be expensive. In all seriousness though there’s plenty of room for improve
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by JackFr 1y ago
Artifactory. Nexus. I believe AWS/GCP/Azure have offerings. No bank, and almost no large corporations go directly to artifact/package repos. They all host them internally.
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by JackFr 1y ago
> supported by various mega-money interest groups ‘Mega-money interest’ groups are a bugaboo for people who find it hard to accept that a large swath of the public doesn’t agree with them.
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by JackFr 1y ago
Show HN is advertising.
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That’s jesuitical hair-splitting.
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It’s not a racket — the state does use its monopoly on violence to enforce your title to the land. Otherwise it would only be yours until someone bigger and stronger came by.
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by JackFr 1y ago
Before you write a parser, try a regex. (But some times you really do need a parser.)
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Growing the Java Language [video](youtube.com)
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by JackFr 1y ago
This. I work with juniors who have no idea what a spec is, and the idea of designing precisely what a component should do, especially in error cases, is foreign to them. One key to good prompting is clear thinking.
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by JackFr 1y ago
Stopping by to concur. Tried about four others, and to some extent I always marveled about capabilities of latest and greatest I had to concede they didn’t make faster. I think Claude does.
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by JackFr 1y ago
I think that’s a disingenuous take. Earlier in the piece the AWS CEO specifically says we should teach everyone the correct ways to build software despite the ubiquity of AI. The quote about creative problem solving was with respect to how
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by JackFr 1y ago
> Junior developers not even out of school don’t need to be instructed to think. Have you trained juniors lately?
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by JackFr 1y ago
> Someone says the nice bats in those nearby woods might not get on with the big scary trains so £100M gets spent to resolve the issue. That is an issue with many projects in the US. Reasonable and well-intentioned environmental regulati
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by JackFr 1y ago
- When we have a report of a failing test before fixing it, identify the component under test. Think deeply about the component and describe its purpose, the control flows and state changes that occur within the component and assumptions th
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by JackFr 1y ago
> Every AI-related invention is hyped as "intelligence" but turns out to be "Necessary but Not Sufficient" for true intelligence. Alternatively, the goalposts keep being moved.
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by JackFr 1y ago
The real reason for the sychophancy is that you don't want to know what Claude really thinks about you and your piss-ant ideas.
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by JackFr 1y ago
Can’t find me any REVS tags. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revs_(graffiti_artist) Instead shows me thousands of “Rev“
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by JackFr 1y ago
Raised 3 kids in a 2 bedroom apartment in NYC. It’s fine. When they go to college, they marvel at the space they have in a dorm room.
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by JackFr 1y ago
IP is a pragmatic legal fiction, created to reward developers of creative and innovative thought, so we get more of it. It’s not a natural law. As such fair use is whatever the courts say it is.
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Safety is about unintentional harm to yourself or others. Ethics largely concern themselves with intentional behavior.
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by JackFr 1y ago
Not hand waving, Asimov’s three laws are not a good framework. My claim is that the whole point was so that Asimov could write entertaining stories about the ambiguities and edge cases of the three laws.
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> Ibuprofen ? That's really not something I'd have expected to end up in someone's 'healthy stuff' list. Never knew about the potential stomach bleeds until I took my mother to the hospital earlier this year. Ir
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> by securing a large personal loan from Carlos Slim, who went on to become their biggest shareholder. NYT has dual class shares. It’s run by the Sulzberger family despite Slim’s stake. They are rich, but not billionaires.

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