RHSeeger

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by RHSeeger 2y ago
In my mind, it's a balance between expressing the flow of control/algorithm vs the details. You can have 20 long lines (admittedly, some blank because it helps readability) that show what is happening... or you can have 200 lines
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
My experience is that utilities don't innovate at all. In fact, the do their best to get the government to give them funding for innovation ("you know, because we love people") and then just... don't actually do what the
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
It's interesting to me because AI and intuition serve some of the same purpose; to help the person being served find the answer. And both have similar limitations in that you need to verify what they're telling you. - If your gut
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
Being able to write code that is able to be understood by someone new to the project is a skill set. It is certainly one that is not universal. And it is certainly one that should be admired. Solving hard problems in the simplest way, with
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
I guess it's a matter of how you look at it. To me, power is one way to avoid consequences, and anonymity is another. From the way you're phrasing things, anonymity is a kind of power, because it lets you avoid consequences. Both
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
The same way you know whether it's ok to talk about someone's family life, or politics, or anything else; you get to know them.
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
Fair, but trying to enforce "you're never allowed to mock people, even when those people expect enjoy it and it's all in good fun" also makes you an asshole. Different behaviors are appropriate for different groups. I ha
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
If the target of your joke isn't laughing (if they're upset by it), then it's not a joke, it's bullying. If they _are_ laughing/enjoying it, then it's playful banter. You're right, it very much varies by c
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
My guess would be that it's less about "position of power" and more about "less likely to face consequences". You see the same type of behavior in a variety of cases - Construction workers hooting and whistling at w
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
There are some pretty wonderful SCP stories. I'm a fan of the anti-meme stories, infinite Ikea, and a few others.
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
It is possible to both have some metrics and not have them be the only way you determine if an employee is doing a good job. Because some things can't be measured, and some can.
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
Heck, there's companies where standard practice is "fire the lowest x% of workers on a regular basis". Doesn't even matter if they're doing a good job or not; just that someone else is doing a _better_ job. Optimal
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> I don't think there's ever been a neighborhood law abiding citizens had to avoid because of fear of cops. I think there's a fair number of stories of POC be accosted by police officers because they were in a neighborhood
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
There's actually a couple different "types" of Type 1 Diabetes. For example, you can get it during pregnancy (Gestational Diabetes), etc. So it doesn't surprise me that it's possible to get it from Covid. I seem to
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> He now has Type 1 diabetes, a condition one is normally born with Type 1 Diabetes isn't something someone is born with. Rather, it's something that you generally get when young (and, in fact, it used to be called Juvenile Dia
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> If management is measuring pull request (PR) throughput, is it really so bad that developers start pushing through smaller PRs? God forbid we end up delivering value faster with fewer defects, better testing, and more thorough peer rev
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
This was my first thought. I don't think I've ever worked in anything "ground breaking", but I've never had work that was just "connect A to B with no thought". I mean, even if it _is_ connect A to B, you
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
You're making an argument just to make an argument. Being a woman has both positives and negatives; there's tradeoffs. The same is not true of being a diabetic. My guess would be that most people believe there are very few benefit
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
I am a diabetic. It doesn't make me a worse person, but it does make my life more difficult. If I had the ability to screen for diabetes for my child, I would do so. Because the fewer things that make my child's life harder, the b
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
Co-pilot as in github copilot, available in IntelliJ? Because I find that to be pretty fantastic.
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
If you're using dynamic systems properly, it should be very empowering, and the lack of types is not really perceptible. If anything, it reduces the time code my moving things (having to consider types) out of my brain. I can just imag
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
But by that logic, we should force people to pay taxes on everything they own that goes up in value, on a regular basis. My point wasn't that "not forcing the sale won't impact taxes at all". It was more to point out tha
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
If you need to be able to represent what looks like a tree of data set - no value - new value do_no_set (sorry about the horrible tree) then it seems like you should represent the data like that. Pass in act
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
Having a type system provides benefits. Having a type system also comes with costs. The trick is whether (you believe) your specific use case gets enough out of those benefits to pay the costs.
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> If you make it so the tax basis stays low so a sale would have to pay tax on 95% of the value instead of 25%, she doesn't sell, you don't even get the tax on the 25% and the tax base stays lower because she doesn't switc
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
That type of logic is generally used to address the problem of being unwilling to act, for fear of making the decision; and it's reasonable in that context. But taking the time to understand the situation so that you can make the best
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
I'm not sure I see the point in that, since you wouldn't have the context involved in each decision to know if we made a good one. Unless you're specifically looking to identify that we haven't done anything _you_ consid
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
In my experience, the vast majority of problems are insufficiently specified. No matter how well you solve the current problem, there are bound to be certain assumptions you've made about the requirements. And when those assumptions do
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
When I was living in "upstate" NY (the Poughkeepsie area, which isn't upstate, but that's what it's called), I would regularly listen to AM stations out of NYC (close to 100 miles away from the broadcaster); using j
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by RHSeeger 2y ago
> Open is wildly more useful and more flexible. It's very much a matter of personal preference. I prefer individual rooms - Kitchen and living/family room together means that someone doing the dishes (or the dishwasher running,

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