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by Maxatar 5mo ago
Exactly, before the rise of LLMs it was not at all uncommon to hear people claiming that their job is to just Google API calls or copy and paste code from Stackoverflow. The context back then was that companies are being picky by hiring peo
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by Maxatar 5mo ago
He was being snarky. He does actually end up citing who he thought the author was, and in doing so realized he was wrong. He could have done that initially instead of saying "Google the name of the author."
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by Maxatar 5mo ago
Not strictly after 90 days, but Denuvo is usually removed after the peak sales period for a game. It's really at a publisher's discretion when to remove it, as the sales model for Denuvo is that you have to continue paying for it
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by Maxatar 5mo ago
>I've never understood why certain philosophers view computation as some kind of abstract symbolic manipulation The abstraction is over the multitude of different physical ways that computation can be performed. That is the role of
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by Maxatar 5mo ago
No, compile time memory is not the same as static storage duration/ro section.
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by Maxatar 5mo ago
This claim is false: >Bankruptcy won't even discharge the kind of debt many/most of the lower-middle class fall broke upon. Most of the lower-middle class do not go broke upon the listed criteria.
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by Maxatar 5mo ago
Most of the lower-middle class do not fall broke upon the things you listed.
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by Maxatar 5mo ago
No you are baking data into the compiled program so that you can perform compile time operations on that data. These compile time operations are most often used to guard against erroneous runtime behaviors. If all you want to do is bake dat
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by Maxatar 5mo ago
I'm not trying to prove anything. I am pointing out that your claim about the cause of many/most lower and middle class people's bankruptcy is false.
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by Maxatar 5mo ago
This claim is simply false. The cause of bankruptcy in the U.S. has been extensively studied and absolutely none of the criteria you list comes even close to the number 1 reason that people in lower or middle class declare bankruptcy: medic
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by Maxatar 5mo ago
You wrote an entire wall of text when you could have just taken 10 seconds to review what you call the "most basic back-of-napkin math" and realized you were off by two and a half orders of magnitude.
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by Maxatar 5mo ago
>"...viable economics for profit..." OP did not include this requirement in their post because doing so would make the claim trivially true.
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by Maxatar 5mo ago
Being objectively correct isn't the goal of the translator, the translator can't possibly know if a statement is truthful. What the translator does is well... translate, specifically from some kind of corporate speak that is reall
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by Maxatar 5mo ago
You're mixing up quite a few somewhat related but different concepts: data races, race conditions, concurrency and parallelism. Concurrency is needed for race conditions, parallelism is needed for data races. Many single threaded runti
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
A lot of developers don't actually understand the code they write. Sure nowadays a lot of code is generated by LLMs, but in the past people just copied and pasted stuff off of blogs, Stack Overflow, or whatever other resources they cou
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
You're most likely being pedantic, like when someone says they understand every single line of this code: x = 0 for i in range(1, 10): x += i print(x) They don't mean they understand silicon substrate of the
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
Your claim is far too open ended to interpret clearly. A change in demand post-legalization can absolutely be highly variable across different countries/cultures, but unless you can demonstrate a country that legalized cannabis and saw
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
>I mean, you also can't advertise illegal drugs either. Doesn't seem to curb demand though. Making drugs illegal does not eliminate demand, but it absolutely curbs it. The converse is also true, for example legalizing cannabis
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
Yeah I think those details are the least of most peoples concerns. I can't vouch one way or another for DeepSeek's documentation but for me what matters most when reading documentation is being able to get the information I want e
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
Most high paying companies would do the same, irrespective of their reputation.
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
>...you also save on not having to remember useless terminology... It may be true in this particular case, but in my admittedly brief experience using Haskell you absolutely end up having to remember a hell of a lot of useless terminolog
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
This is not true. Producing a counter example to an assertion refutes the assertion. While you can certainly argue that such a counter example entails the negation of the original assertion, that is not the same thing as claiming the negati
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
I was also in tech at that time, in fact I worked for Google during that period and people definitely thought that the Internet had reached its peak. So many criticisms back then not about just peak Internet but that all these companies wer
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
The article immediately starts off with such a glaring contradiction that it makes it very hard to correctly interpret the remainder of it. You can't say that something can never be ethical/safe on the one hand, and then on the ot
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
This article is specifically about QBASIC, which was bundled with MS-DOS, and by extension Windows up until Windows Me. QuickBASIC is a separate stand-alone application that predates QBASIC. The two certainly shared a lot of similarities, b
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
There is a clear and sudden transition on this blog where prior to a certain date there are zero instances of the em-dash and then suddenly it appears like crazy. Like look at his archived posts from 2023, absolutely no em dashes... now loo
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
>But why this matters is there a challenge judging intelligence cross cultures? I don't know for sure, but my own anecdotal experience is that yes, there most certainly are challenges when a person from one culture assesses the inte
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
>Yes. The fact that you don't list these says a lot about how much you know on this topic.
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
The only ways that comprehending emotions wouldn't belong in its own category of intelligence would be if everyone were equally capable of deducing the emotional state of others, or that performing such deduction is not something intel
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by Maxatar 6mo ago
A sample size of 198 as per this study is more than sufficient to draw pretty strong conclusions. The issue is not the sample size, it's that studies like these almost always involve a very homogenous population of young college studen

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