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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> What I don't follow is the jump some people make from reasonable moderation like this, to fascism. They see internet platform moderation as a gateway drug to a physically oppressive government. I don't see how this jump is po
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I'm so sick of "higher" educational institutions pretending they're some bastions of professional knowledge. I continue to toy around with the idea of going back to school for a PhD, but then I talk to friends who are or
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> like splitting Better Call Saul up multiple times This was the most annoying user hostile thing I've run into in awhile. I figured I would buy a months subscription and watch the last season then see if there were any other shows
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
Yep, I made the same mistake I was trying to call out here haha. Thanks for the correction!
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It would have to increase A LOT to significantly change the outcome. For example, according to this website[0] (no idea how accurate it is) Facebook users upload more than 300 million photos a day. At that rate, 2^32/300,000,000 = 14
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I'm just curious, I know it's a long running joke about how we're so stupid to think that we would never run out of unique digits with 2^32 possible values, but is this also the case with 64 bit values? Every new bit double
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
We use SPAs and a pretty strict typescript/react stack. And I still have to know: Cloud Tech (AWS) which also includes, lambdas, Iam management, dynamoDB, cdk or serverless, API gateway, S3, secret managers etc. Add to that list the te
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
Thanks for your work! Minecraft is literally the game that inspired me to learn coding (through Redstone and stuff). I also dabble in making my own minecraft clones now and I've realized how the smallest details can have a significan
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I especially love it when people with no knowledge of your code or the systems around it presume to know where the bottlenecks are and tell you to optimize a piece of code nowhere in the vicinity of the critical path. A huge part to optim
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Have you read a "tech" article on medium lately? I stopped reading them years ago because they feel like "the voice of a stilted 11th grader writing another stupid essay he doesn't care about at all". Now add all th
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> even at 100ms you can definitely see the animation happening See it happening is very different from noticing lag. Here's a gif I like to reference when trying to determine how noticeable a lag spike is in milliseconds. For me it
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> etc is seen by most people as something much simpler The solution here really is simple. Eat less move more, and preferably eat healthier. It doesn't mean it's easy. And this is coming from someone who's been about 50 po
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I think the third definition here sums up what complex means pretty well: > a group of obviously related units of which the degree and nature of the relationship is imperfectly known[0] It's impossible for any single person to under
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I was just talking to my friend about this the other day. Screw getting promoted. I want to sit tight at my mid level position and make sure that I get my job done stress free. The company's success doesn't hinge on me worrying ab
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
You seem to just not be the target audience for this blog post. I enjoyed it because it fits in with a lot of the subjects that I've been looking into and it resonated with me. Your comment is the equivalent of saying that some researc
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> The issue is not that nobody can hold these systems in their head, they can - they're just not paid to. As of 2022, the largest transistor count in a commercially available microprocessor is 114 billion transistors [0] According
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I was just about to comment on this same sentence. If your validation relies on views and likes on a video, what happens to your ego when you inevitably get haters, trolls, and 1% of people that leave cruel comments for no reason? I don&#x2
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My point was most people do cargo cult and that's bad, no matter what. And the notion that you have to go to space to know the earth is round is flawed, as I tried to illustrate using several examples that didn't necessitate trave
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> I believe the world is round This isn't an opinion or a belief, it's a verifiable fact. We know the world is round because: if you travel east you'll eventually arrive at your starting destination; if you stand on a ship
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> A software engineer from India says he was fired by Meta 2 days after he moved to Canada for his job
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You left out the last part of my statement, in context I said: > by far a highly preferred environment for C++ programming on Windows The survey doesn't split the responses up by OS. That's besides the point, I'm not try
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
This issue is asking Odin to move away from Visual Studio (by which I assume they just mean the MSVC toolset), which is by far a highly preferred environment for C++ programming on Windows[0]. Saying it has poor support for windows because
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> has few surprises C++ has few surprises? This is from Scott Meyers, author of several books on the intricacies of C++: > I no longer plan to update my books to fix technical errors.It's not that I'm too lazy to do it. It
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> People like the woman behind LibsOfTikTok are careful not to incriminate themselves From what I know, this person literally just reposts crazy liberal videos verbatim. The same thing has and will continue to be done to crazy conservati
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> In the US, we have had a sustained 400-500 dying a day. Are you saying this is still currently happening? If so, I'm curious where you're getting this number from. The CDC says the current 21 day rolling average is 358 deaths
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
There's plenty of non handicapped parking. Handicapped spots don't take parking away from the rest of the community.
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You have to learn the rules before you break the rules. The 5 paragraph essay taught me a lot about how to create a convincing written argument. The rules are: 1. Start with a hook. Engage the reader. 2. Present the ideas (2-3) that you wil
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
Ah thank you for the correction! I should have looked this up more thoroughly beforehand :)
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> Since reading the blog post's mention of Repl.it I went and downloaded their new Iphone app and used Modal.com to spin up 30-40 containers from a script doing sentiment analysis on ~30k movie reviews: IPhone processors run billion
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
Thanks for the clarification. It doesn't help that Twitter has removed this, so all I can find are long winded articles about him saying this without actually showing it. This is clearly an antisemitic statement. It would be helpful if

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