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by Spivak 1y ago
But TypeScript erases (its) types at runtime, exactly like Python. Python is Python's TypeScript. Whether you want TS or JS-like semantics is entirely dependent on whether you use a type checker and whether you consider its errors a bu
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by Spivak 1y ago
The only people mad at Google/LLM summaries not leading to click-throughs are the website operators themselves. They're great for the user that doesn't have to go to a garbage ad riddled page. Kagi's "summarize page
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by Spivak 1y ago
If you're in a market where landlords can charge the full mortgage you desperately need more housing. Rent around here costs slightly more than the interest on the mortgage.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Technically on Bluesky even if you don't own your own domain you can still move all your stuff to a competitor and everything will still work. The only thing you can't do is keep your original handle but no "links" to
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by Spivak 1y ago
According to research, yes. Children who are taught to read by "guessing" are demonstrably worse readers, even when evaluated years later. I don't think there's much of a battle going on outside of the effort it takes pu
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by Spivak 1y ago
Have we stoped celebrating laziness being a virtue in software development? Discipline doesn't and will never scale and the pressures of business mean that processes that processes that put up walls to shipping will always crumble. Rea
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by Spivak 1y ago
Same as the folks who use in-memory Redis. Is there something uniquely bad about Postgres for this situation? If your cache is so performance critical that you can't lose the data then it sounds like you need a (denormalized) database.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Because human nature is what it is. The best way to eat better isn't to be a better person, it's to not keep junk food at the house. It's not Cloudflare's fault that they're successful, but it's now everyone&#x
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by Spivak 1y ago
The actual win isn't the fine, it's > and cease unlawful enrollment and cancellation practices for Prime. which thank god, Amazon deserves to be in the hall of fame for their multiple beg screens.
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by Spivak 1y ago
1. You have to tow the company line as a line manager or else you'll be fired. 2. If you are a dead-eyed shill for the company your employees won't trust you and you'll be an ineffective manager. Calling this work dynamic bei
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by Spivak 1y ago
I suppose I'm glad this research was done because it puts some real data behind the phenomenon but anyone who's ever worked a job anywhere will recognize this pattern of accountability laundering. The simplest form is when Alice w
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by Spivak 1y ago
Yep, saying it's an age thing is missing that every homeowner is directly financially incentivized to ensure prices go up. I literally get physical printed mail (against my will) every other week telling me about the health of my neig
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean it's only fair, I would prefer that both ordinary people and public officials were granted privacy in public spaces, but we don't so they don't. Citizens can't hold public officials accountable when they're o
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by Spivak 1y ago
In a very literal sense a non-trivial part of the entertainment value of sports has been taken from you. I don't think it's ridiculous at all, I think the people making the decisions to have computer accurate refs don't under
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by Spivak 1y ago
Legal sports betting via app which turned gambling into a casual activity for hundreds of millions of new players. These apps made a market that previously placed 4 billion in bets to 125 billion. This is very new. Their rise and market is
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by Spivak 1y ago
Brother in law is a firefighter, gleefully is exactly the correct term here. According to him getting to bust windows to run the hose is literally their favorite thing to do. To the point where even if they don't actually need to, or i
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by Spivak 1y ago
My guess would be because the transformation would be a user-visible change. If they produce a stack trace inside it wouldn't look as they expect.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Just introduce a templating language and the CI to generate the yaml as part of your pipeline as way to make it simpler? Above a certain level of complexity, sure. But having nothing in between is an annoying state of affairs. I use anchors
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by Spivak 1y ago
> People also just love looking at averages for salary and home price, but they ignore that the average home has more than doubled in size. The average car today is also much faster, safer, and more luxurious than the old ones. Capturing
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by Spivak 1y ago
I don't think anyone is confused by flatMap in isolation. It's chains of not-very-obvious data transformations. When I have to do one of these I typically break out each step into it's own line/block and add comments wit
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean they clearly don't have to, Python has the same problem of being able to pass anything—you don't see this kind of incredibly defensive programming. But Python set a culture of being for "consenting adults" where i
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by Spivak 1y ago
I don't think it's a valid measure across models but, as in the OP, it's a great measure for when they mess with "the same model" behind the scenes. That being said we also do keep a test suite to check that model u
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by Spivak 1y ago
If it was random luck, wouldn't you expect about half the answers to be better? Assuming the OP isn't lying I don't think there's much room for luck when you get all the questions wrong on a T/F test.
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by Spivak 1y ago
You are absolutely daft if you think that's how money works in government. It all goes into a pot and is dolled out according to the budget. When you impose fees like this the fee alone has to be worth it independently. We should fund
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by Spivak 1y ago
Maybe slower evolution but bacteria reproduce by cloning and they have no trouble evolving.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Look I don't even know what sides the various actors in this spat would see themselves on so don't consider what I'm about to say as an endorsement of their beliefs because I don't know what they are. That being said the
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by Spivak 1y ago
Yes, this is how Gitlab pipelines work. It's actually easier to just inline the script most of the time than have a bucket of misc scripts lying around. Especially since you have hooks like before/after_script which would be reall
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by Spivak 1y ago
Or you just use YAML. It's a configuration language for your software, you control which parser you use which can be YAML 1.2, you can use the safe loader which can't run untrusted code, and you're parsing the values into you
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by Spivak 1y ago
I genuinely don't understand this from a business perspective. They were getting money, then they jacked up the price to a degree that all but guarantees they will lose them as a customer. Sure it's small potatoes but they could h
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by Spivak 1y ago
I can't tell if you think what I said was serious, I tried to hard to convey the /s.

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