Spivak

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by Spivak 1y ago
You haven't backwards, the user of the phone tree software is the company deploying it. It exists for their benefit, not the customer's.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Do you consider all forms of "self-service" to not be automation of a job that previously required an additional human? Like checking in at the airport via kiosk/app for example. Do you consider that to be "doing the wor
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by Spivak 1y ago
The data speaks for itself. Honda offers the civic and accord and the CRV outsells them both. SUVs are much higher utility than a sedan for pretty much the same price and same gas mileage.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Genuinely this. Every time an older employee gives me a "And thank you for shopping at <business>" I just feel sad for them. The company neither pays them enough nor gives even a single fuck to warrant that kind of behavior.
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by Spivak 1y ago
There used to be two humans standing at the cash register, now because of software, automatic change machines, and cameras there is only one. One of those humans' jobs got automated. Call it what you like but replacing the work of huma
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by Spivak 1y ago
You mean ordering kiosks and self-checkout machines? We have automated it, it's just not everywhere has implemented it. The one I'm desperately waiting for is serverless restaurants—food halls already do it but I want it everywher
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by Spivak 1y ago
I don't know why you think this is an either or situation. Not being a junior doesn't stop you from having a manger.
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by Spivak 1y ago
If your position has no upward mobility juniors will change jobs, likely change companies, once they have the experience and all the effort you spent training them will be wasted.
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by Spivak 1y ago
You're not wrong but I've had good luck booking with 3rd party travel sites in exchange for discounts. I'm going on the flight, won't need to change or cancel it. I always click no on the "would you like to spend $x
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by Spivak 1y ago
Huh? Does the mountain of software written for Linux to the point where Windows added Linux support to attract devs mean nothing? Surely WSL is not a moral failure for Microsoft.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Thank you! It seems so simple in hindsight to have a type that means "can be moved to another thread safely." But the fact that using a Mutex in your function changes the "type" is really novel. It becoming Send once the
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by Spivak 1y ago
Well yes but this seems more complicated. If the code was executed on a single thread it would be correct. The compiler somehow knows that await might move the work to another thread in which the code would still be correct if it weren&#x27
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by Spivak 1y ago
How do you encode the locking issue in the type system, it seems magical? Can you just never hold any locks when calling await, is it smart enough to know that this scheduler might move work between threads?
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by Spivak 1y ago
If both phone OS's are going to be the exact same on user choice then you might as well compare the two on their merits and this is not a comparison Android wins.
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by Spivak 1y ago
What could they do? They have a pot of all the money they make, 70% gets paid out to artists, 30% goes to Spotify. Same as Tidal, more than Apple Music. Any plan will involve shuffling around the same pot of money and the last time they tri
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by Spivak 1y ago
Right! Which is my point. It's finally a "killer app." It's not a situation where the Wayland thing is technically better but to a user is essentially the same except new $limitations. Now there's a new cool trendy
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by Spivak 1y ago
Is Hyperland the thing that finally convinces hacker types that Wayland is the future? A Wayland compositor that gives you Xorg like scripting via a UNIX control socket, easy to set up, and is much much less opinionated than GNOME. So many
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by Spivak 1y ago
Time to see what the next move for Apple will be if they lose the appeal. Because I doubt Apple will be content to lose money on the ruling and will look to collect the fees elsewhere. Without the ability for developers ship iOS apps with n
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by Spivak 1y ago
Ah yes Republicans, the party of strong environmental regulations and impeding business. "You betrayed everything you believe in, and for what?" "To own the libs."
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by Spivak 1y ago
I'm a bit biased because my home state is Ohio and they have it in their constitution that the state can't have a stake in any private company and can't even lend credit to any private company. And this amendment was written
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by Spivak 1y ago
Yes? That's what grants are. The government is buying a domestic chip industry with that money.
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by Spivak 1y ago
The flow where you build the static site into a container in CI, push it to a registry, and then your server watches for changes (watchtower) and runs it behind nginx-proxy is the true lazy solution. Push to your git repo and forget about i
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by Spivak 1y ago
That's a much stronger claim, stronger than the one made in Kennedy's criticism. If you or anyone can prove that they actually lied or fabricated data then yeah, nuke the paper from orbit. But if the criticism is that they'
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by Spivak 1y ago
Hold it up for all to see as an example of bad science. Make your case, back it up by data, publish your findings. Ya know, academic discourse. It's not like the man can't get funding for such a study. Realistically, if you'r
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by Spivak 1y ago
But then why flex and try to pull the study? Don't interrupt your opponent while they're making a mistake and then dunk on them. Surely the most transparent thing is allowing this scientific discourse to happen out in the open and
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by Spivak 1y ago
The picture is a little silly but listing out the demographics of your customer base is like so normal. The marketing for Monster would be quite different if their market was over 65 women. Although it would be a funny bit to run a monster
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by Spivak 1y ago
If they're outside the country they can freely tell Mississippi to pound sand—the state might compel entities they do have jurisdiction over (i.e. ISPs) to cut them off but that's the extent of it.
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean anything that circumvents geo-fencing at the IP level is going to be tunneling your traffic through an address that isn't blocked. Your options are all VPNs, the choice is only who's running it—you via a VPS or similar, fri
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by Spivak 1y ago
Or stated another way, adding block scoping necessitates Python 4. You could be cheeky and make it work in a backwards compatible way by adding new opt-in syntax but it wouldn't fix match nor be terribly ergonomic having to declare it
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by Spivak 1y ago
Also this is pretty much in line for the rest of Python leaving variables around. for x in [1]: pass print(x) # => 1 The match statement presented is equivalent to an assignment, you do have to know that, but then it&#

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