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by _bxg1 7y ago
So did Standard Oil.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> This is the dark side of monopolies. Is there a bright side?
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> Amazon considers sellers to be a renewable resource that can be disposed of haphazardly It's almost like... Amazon doesn't have to... compete to draw sellers to their platform
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by _bxg1 7y ago
A large portion of the U.S. today harbors active disdain and distrust towards anyone claiming to know more than them on any subject. And those people have voted one of their own into the highest office in the land. It's really not hard
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> Not a lockdown, sealed. How does this work with essentials like food and medical care? Does the government bring supplies to people since they can't go to the store?
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Why not 0.00...1?
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I haven't laughed this hard in quite a while
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by _bxg1 7y ago
This type of situation is the strongest case I've seen for a software-engineering certification on the level of the ones for civil-engineering. The trouble with software is that a lot of it is really unimportant, and some of it starts
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by _bxg1 7y ago
As a rule, I think any job field that people are consistently self-motivated about ends up converging towards exploitation of that motivation. Just look at game development, academia, animation. People in these fields are chronically over-w
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by _bxg1 7y ago
So would you typically maintain a separate compiler for each use-case, or try and make one that serves both?
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by _bxg1 7y ago
As someone who knows very little about compiler implementation but has some interest in it, I'm curious what makes the difference between the two in terms of architecture
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Apologies if I came off as ungrateful, that was not my intent. I don't know the inner-workings of the project's prioritizations; I just, from the outside, haven't seen much movement on the language server in the time I'v
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Yes. And the thing is, because Rust is such a complex-to-compile language, and because there's all this discussion around its slow compilation times that they're working to improve, I just assumed the whole time that "well
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Many plugins, in various languages, only work when your editor "workspace" is your actual project root.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I used RLS 1.0 (through the VSCode RLS plugin) for a year or so before discovering rust-analyzer, and I just want to say, even in pre-alpha it is an astonishingly huge improvement. If you do Rust development, do not wait to upgrade. Type
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Yeah. The other thing is, if you do decide to pursue that liberal arts degree - we need some people who do! - know that you are shooting for academia and plan accordingly. It's cutthroat, but it's possible. But only if you make
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Yes and no. It's not great that people start the rat race so young now. Especially since it doesn't actually make that much of a difference: extra "accomplishments" in HS are only loosely associated with better colleges,
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I graduated HS 10 years ago and it was pretty similar in my experience, maybe a bit less extreme. There were some "stereotypical teens" at my school but they were a minority. Everyone I was surrounded by was trying to squeeze in a
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Yeah, some people just don't have the head even for regular programming. One of the people I started CS with really just wanted to make games. He was creative, and wasn't a dummy, but he hated programming once he tried it. He co
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I think high school courses are a great way to solve this problem. I took two years of computer science before setting foot on a college campus, so I knew for sure what I wanted to be doing. For the record, I was never super interested in t
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Just tried Pyright and it's incredible. Wow; why in the world don't they include this functionality in the regular extension? Thanks so much!
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I wonder if anybody's considered packaging these drugs up for home use? A "stroke EpiPen", if you will.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
The most interesting part of this for me is actually under the header "Appendix: Power", which could be its own short post. Key excerpt: > When I see patterns in my programs, I consider it a sign of trouble. The shape of a prog
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Revenge of the Nerds (2002)(paulgraham.com)
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I think there's a bias in the data because a) lots of people die from the respiratory symptoms before they get a stroke, and b) young people who get a stroke might not know how to recognize it/what to do about it, so they may just
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by _bxg1 7y ago
The part about clots forming literally as the surgeon was operating seems much more exotic than something so simple as reduced activity.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I don't want to have to memorize a litany of new keyboard shortcuts to do basic tasks.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
It's what we use at my workplace; not my call to make
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> It's become increasingly clear that some activists think everyone should stay at home forever Who are these sinister activists that are just using the crisis as a tool to achieve their end-game of [checks notes] people never going
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Are there linters that will overlay compiler-tier optimization hints on top of handwritten assembly?

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