Spivak

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by Spivak 7mo ago
I mean I think these laws are stupid and would happily lend my license to anyone in my family to bypass this shit. Especially since for most verifications they literally just need a picture of my driver's license—the very definition of
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by Spivak 7mo ago
The MS Word webpage absolutely loads faster than MS word. Same with Outlook. Microsoft is even about to cheat https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/microsoft_will_preloa... and preload their apps to fake fas
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Because your product is a program and some of the features are paid. So you have a screen for the user to start/manage/cancel their subscription? It doesn't have to be some JS heavy thing, just that it will be a page in your
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Voters do care, in both blue and red states, they already passed laws in their state to this effect. This is the federal government invalidating those laws.
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Well part of that is because STE folks aren't typically required to take any kind of theoretical maths. It's $Math for Engineers and it eschews theoretical underpinnings for application. I don't think it's any kind of
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Said a different way, when wealth gets concentrated into a few large players the economy starts exhibiting all the problems of centrally planned economies as the number of people who have meaningful wealth to allocate shrinks.
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by Spivak 7mo ago
See this is a fun game because when you're fishing for a breakthrough you can predict tomorrow or 100 years. Nobody, even experts have any idea until it happens and they're holding it in their hands. To have any kind of accurate p
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by Spivak 7mo ago
I could see a case being made that programming language functions, especially in ruby where everything is message passing, forms a package manager. A method might actually want to guarantee that when it sends a message foo that the code rec
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Yeah, or 365 coffees (well for me it's energy drinks). I'm well aware which one of those brings me more total joy in my life and it isn't the flight. It isn't even close.
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by Spivak 7mo ago
> lends itself to people making it their entire personality. Well yeah, it would become your whole personality too if you spent that much time trying to hand scrub poop off of cotton.
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by Spivak 7mo ago
I mean it's a small thing but this seems like the bureaucracy equivalent of seeing your friend get up for a smoke break out of habit and reminding them that they're trying to quit.
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by Spivak 7mo ago
I think it's less armchair speculating about the observable outcome, that people are losing their jobs, but the why. AI coding tools aren't making 10x developers, they aren't even making 1.5x developers. They also aren't
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Yes but then you're committed to using Nix which doesn't work so well the moment you need some software not packaged by Nix. Want to throw a requirements.txt in there? No no, why would you even ask that? Meanwhile docker says yeah
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by Spivak 7mo ago
> If you put the abortion issue in a referendum with other issues like say police funding, you would probably get a different result. Ohio actually is aware of this which is why in the state constitution there's a rule that bills mu
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by Spivak 7mo ago
> Voters in 2026 can decide what kind of speech they want to ban or not. You're essentially arguing against a constitution. Governments can work without one but it should at least be recognized what we're losing. There are no l
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by Spivak 7mo ago
I mean I can already answer the last question in the affirmative even without knowing anything else. That's just how the sausage is made—if you see similar laws being pitched in multiple states it's because some org is lobbying fo
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by Spivak 7mo ago
This is why I said DNC. That wasn't just a cool synonym for Democrats. The leadership of the party sits way further right of the average Democratic voter. Someone who is right leaning has more in common with an establishment democrat t
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Because The DNC actually is what the Republican marketing pamphlet claims to be, a mildly right leaning pragmatic pro-business party.
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Sounds like a generic form of single table inheritance. I don't honestly see any other way to do it (punting to a JSON field is effectively the same thing) when you have potentially thousands of parts all with their own super specific
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Can you point to said research because everything I can find from any kind of authoritative source is that form doesn't matter and nicotine is strongly addictive in all of them. There is like zero messaging out there from anything rese
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Nicotine is depending on how you measure the 3rd or 4th most addictive substance on the planet. It's up there with Heroine, Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Meth. If you consider heroine a "not even once" type of drug then nicotine s
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by Spivak 7mo ago
I mean honestly that's about right. As soon as it falls out of living memory people forget why the fence was there and tear it down. Expect rhymes from the 1930's—an economic depression, tension leading to another world war. Fun s
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by Spivak 7mo ago
My impression has been with frontend tests is they come in two flavors: extremely hard to write to the point of impracticality, and useless. Most orgs settle for the latter and end up testing easily testable things like the final rendered d
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Yes but we're on a tech form discussing specifically a person who dropped out of college to go into tech, a field that at the moment doesn't have any need for a college degree. They didn't remove themselves from the qualified
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by Spivak 7mo ago
What year is this comment from? Having an undergrad college degree has been a near worthless credential in tech for at least a decade.
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Fascism isn't really a form of government though, it's a political ideology and aesthetics that we see echoed through different regimes. You can be a democracy on paper while in practice being a single party corporate oligarchy w
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by Spivak 7mo ago
I think the point was this specific case is to most people probably murder.
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Hospitals are about to go for this product like fucking catnip. It's all they've ever wanted for the fleet of 10k dumb client devices that all run Epic and nothing else.
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by Spivak 7mo ago
I mean GeForce Now is still going and PS+ streaming is surprisingly playable. I think people just didn't want Google.
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by Spivak 7mo ago
I mean first step of triage is stop the bleeding. Obviously I want more but making this admin a lame duck for the last two years would be a win. Honestly making them veto a bunch of popular to regular people legislation would probably do wo

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