JeffSnazz

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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
What matters is the structure of the program per se. The entire concept of the happy or error path is a cultural phenomenon that requires explicit acknowledgment and rejection to solve (excepting languages that demand error-handling to func
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
That doesn't really excuse it, the news outlet has a responsibility to educate itself on basic matters (eg ML vs AI). Even if they have refused to do so before now. Granted, I've not met many newsrooms with a serious conceptualiza
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
What is preventing Microsoft from fixing this?
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> I don't think it's putting down other people you've worked with, holding yourself up as some paragon, OR belittling your own abilities. People tend to focus on the happy path. It's good to be aware of that and try t
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> The Windows Registry is far better than the the INI Hell(tm) that preceded it or the chaos that is assorted text files on Linux. What excuse is there for the registry? Why are we stuck with 1980s solutions for 2024 problems? Why is the
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
I don't tend towards expressing personal comparisons "in public" since they seem both inevitable regardless of the situation and disrespectful to bring up as a topic of interest—not to mention potentially exposing you as inco
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> Military expenditure is more about being ready "just in case" A rule of thumb I've found to be useful is that if you make a weapon you'll find a use for it. Being ready "just in case" is some of the most h
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> which is ridiculous when looking at the numbers show me the numbers > what I'm trying to point out is that having a first-class industrial base, with enough experts, well running supply-chains, and so on, is different from ecli
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> This is why I am extra vigilant, pendantic and strict when writing or reviewing code that handles exception and error paths. I realize that this is a different person from you, but that's the attitude I am replying to.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> It's defensive programming. This would necessarily presume applying the same attitude towards the happy path—you're describing something short of that. Or to put it a different way: defensive programming necessarily implies a
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> 3) as a way to earn their living. Here generative AI will make a difference in some art professions, but that doesn't seem to be the implied scenario of the comment I was replying to. wat
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> Most people would always face an uphill battle, producing mediocre art which only a few (likely with some personal connection) would appreciate. Now there's no need to care about them at all!
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
This attitude seems a little silly to me—being "extra vigilant, pedantic and strict" about happy-path code would necessarily imply the same about "exception and error paths". Generally speaking, bugs mostly appear in a b
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
What's the windows development environment like? Have they excised the nightmare that is the windows registry yet?
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> We stopped building highways, and switched from Moses' model of building enough roads to the "urbanist" model. Where we put in transit that makes it easy to go to the downtown ONLY. I don't think we've switched
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Fair enough.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Counterpoint: all open-source software. It's obvious what causes this behavior: for-profit software production is a cancer.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
"How to Blow Up a Pipeline" by Andreas Malm, published by Verso Press in 2021, ISBN 1-839-76025-7 There's always the wealth-transfer option if you object to the ethics of property destruction! The other options are even more
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> there's no point in having all kinds of low-added-value industry in high-income places The point is economic and social stability. If you don't value that over short-term economic efficiency (i.e. profits), of course, I can u
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> So that they can be replaced with cleaner power or just to bribe people into staying poor? This is a straightforward wealth-transfer. It is up to the recipient to decide how they want to use it, but it should be noted this is attached
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
...yea, too little, too late, in a highly ineffective manner. We're not going to consume our way out of climate change and that's all VCs are capable of doing. In fact our addiction to managing our society via consumption is very
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Yea, if only the laws reflected what people actually want. "legitimate" is only as good as the laws that back it.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Better than caring about climate change! (I believe venture capital is destroying our society.)
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Boy you fellas sure know how to talk a guy up!
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Legal, but wrong. There is no such thing as a ambiguous consent, and it's a fucking catastrophe that we've legislated ambiguous consent into our statute.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> Don't you ever use two screens? My eyes can only look at one thing at a time.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> They can happen at the same time. Ok, maybe I should have said "one of these depends on the other"
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> This is something that takes generations to build, but can get lost, very quickly. Sure, hence my assessment of 5 decades.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
That's not really a trouble at all if you're used to dealing with mail
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> The US has not lost industry. Compared to China's absolutely staggering industrialization it has!

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