JeffSnazz

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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
SWEs are overcompensated? How do you figure? The revenue figures per-engineer tell the exact opposite story. > the leadership of a sector-wide labor union) to push against all of us would be only too handy for them; negotiations would ha
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
I just can't match the productivity of macOS. Particularly the keybindings of linux are a non-starter for me. I always end up gravitating back towards just using emacs, and then just using emacs on a mac, and then just going back to vs
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> It’s always managements fault for prioritizing speedy crap to meet some internal goal instead of prioritizing the end product. 100% with you there—I meant to imply a pipeline failure was a management failure of some sort.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> but forming a run-of-the-mill labor union would almost certainly lower SWE salaries and benefits across the sector in the end. How would that work? Wouldn't reasoning about incentives here point in exactly the opposite direction?
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
That's certainly how they may see themselves, but the hardware isn't what I buy Apple products to access. It's just a nice perk that the hardware is so well-manufactured, frankly—it's the software that I actually interac
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> how the fuck is Kathleen Kennedy still employed I don't think it can be on any one person. The CGI in some of these latest marvel movies (looking at you, Multiverse of Madness and Wakanda Forever) looks about as good as what I see
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> There are countless hobby text editors and libraries that handle literally all of this. The thing is, there really aren't. Certainly not that I would characterize as a "hobby" text editor.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> Video game engines absolutely handle text rendering across a wide range of languages. They handle specific subsets of text rendering across a wide range of languages. There's a ton of interactions with the OS-level text interact
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
I'm not sure about Sublime Text, but I can't imagine Blender is very accessible. As it's such a visual app that's perhaps not surprising, but this approach wouldn't work for other app styles.
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Literally never heard of it before this comment. Thanks for the heads up.
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I can't name a single software feature that they've come out with in the last few years—that's certainly a notable change from their old release cycle.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Serious question, why don't Googlers unionize? They bring in far, far, far more revenue than they cost in salary. You'd be foolish not to leverage this collectively....
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
I mean it's not even about innovation per se—we've run out of new frontiers to exploit. First it was a literal frontier, then it was an economic frontier, and finally a computer and internet frontier. Maybe VR is the next thing, b
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
That was true before WFH became popular with the lockdown; I'm not convinced these are related phenomena. For one thing, an employee in the office generally isn't any more valuable than one working from home.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Only for people scared of degrowth. It's not that scary if you actually have some kind of consensus mechanism or conflict resolution, which is the thing we actually lack as a country that's scary as shit. Anyway, politicians could
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Oh wow, thank you!
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Israel has a parliamentary system, no? It seems appropriate to blame the parties that forms the coalition for the behavior of the state, and there's certainly no shortage of illiberal actions Israel has done against their own citizens
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> I don't think this conflict raises any fundamentally new questions on an epistemic level. There are plenty of philosophers that rejected the idea that objective consensus is possible, even more so when faced with assigning a truth
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
I was able to have literally months of logs from a dozen servers streamed to a single app running with 1/256th the memory I have in the laptop I'm writing on, and it was both more responsive and had more features. And you didn&#x2
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> I'm not trying to argue one should take Israel's word at face value (of course you should subject it to scrutiny as well), but yes, Israel, a liberal democratic state with a free press, strong left-wing movement, and the sec
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> If you look at the history of empires, from the Romans to the Han, it is littered with instances of societal decline as a direct result of inflation and overspending. There is little evidence to support this. There is an abundance of e
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
...is there any reason to doubt these figures? Is there any reason to suspect that Hamas is any less trustworthy than the Israeli government is?
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> This group is no more affiliated with Israel than Alex Jones is affiliated with the U.S. Who gives a damn about affiliation? What matters is the material effect on the world, and it's hard to find a more notorious propaganda movem
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> If you ever wonder how companies can stray so far from "obvious" morality... That's how. I don't generally disagree with your point, but I suspect the relentless pursuit of profit above all other values figures mor
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> Has anyone seen this sort of thing happen? Yes, of course. Content management is the expected standard when dealing with crowdsourced content. This includes any data coming from social media. This is subject to essentially private, sub
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> HN basically has a policy of flagging anything involving politics, including things much less controversial than Israel/palestine This does not preclude the effective operation of an astroturfing operation. I would be absolutely s
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> I don't think its fair to treat unverified rumour as fact. Virtually all information about the current conflict in the near east between Israel and Palestine might be considered "unverified rumor", whether the entity rel
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I'd assume unverifiable but narratively meaningful theories like multiverse theories, "the universe is a hologram", etc fill that role nicely. Sci-fi is full of them. "New Age" beliefs are what you're looking f
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Well for one the keybindings have been updated from the IBM PC. Doing that on linux isn't impossible, but it would require an enormous effort across many codebases. I have tried for many years to match the productivity of macos on linu
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> Why navigate a million menus or compose complex rulesets by hand when you can describe in natural language what you want the app to do. I dunno, I don't really have an urge to talk to my computer for most tasks. There's alrea

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