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by _pmf_ 7y ago
You think it is harder because you are not familiar with the depth of non-developer workflows. Developer hubris.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
I'd rather be treated by a doctor who knows his craft than by a doctor who is an expert in LaTeX and citation tuning.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Sometimes, that happens. But there's a mutual agreement that such change comes with significant cost, and it's this part that is missing in the software world.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
In the case of the Linux kernel, the internal APIs are much nicer that the user space POSIX API. People love to praise "everything is a file", but the other side of the medal is "every piece of configuration is a byte array&q
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
I've had exactly zero instances where I could copy and paste literally.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
No need for manipulation; cutting is enough. The turning point for me from "doubt, but verify" to "default to believing it's an outright lie" was the infamous fish feeding video[0]. If manipulation becomes commonpla
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> so at least he did get to split the work up between two projects. That makes him twice as productive, not half.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Expect massive push for goal post shifting.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Honest question: has this any relevance outside of academia?
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Integrated LINQpad
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> I didn't spend 15 years writing it. It's a part-time effort over 10 years. It's not that far off. I'm taking your example as rather confirming the point rather than refuting it.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Comma.ai kind of follows the "improving lane detection until it drives you completely" line, at least according to what I get from this interview with Hotz: https://lexfridman.com/george-hotz/ He's still
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
I don't know anymore, really.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Because having the inevitable dozens of "why JSON" discussions at the beginning is much less tiring than having tens of thousands of "why not JSON" discussions throughout the project history.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> I don't need another. That's for Lennart Poettering to decide[0]. [0] I don't make the rules
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Microsoft are somehow now expected to be the good guy, because everything else will harm your GitHub social credits that are required for hiring being hired in SV.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> Hilariously, there's no way anymore to get help from any "real" person over at Amazon anymore, even for Prime members. That's wrong (from a non-Prime member). I've had certain cases where I had to revert a refu
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> Basically, they can’t ask you to return it unless you offer. They certainly can ask.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Three things I do: - avoid left turns like the plague - always have a good grip on the wheel, mostly 2 hands (easier when I had a less comfortable car) - when stopping at a turn, put your steering wheel in an angle that will cause you not t
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Same. The thought of having to use public transport again (even for a short term when my car is in the workshop) gives me flashes of anxiety.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> I wonder if Vic was right about what would’ve happened if they hadn’t done Android? We'd have Windows Phone phones. Something like Windows 10 would have come around 2010/2012. Which would be good because we'd have 3 play
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
I'm referring to the very entertaining, but a bit truism-heavy and patronizing presentations of Clojure's Rich Hickey, for example "Hammock driven development": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
My dream research job.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Well deserved. No academic high browing, no armchair hammocking, just accessible pragmatism.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Additional info (known to most, but might be useful for someone): A* is not at all specific to path finding; it's a general strategy for optimized search across a problem space.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Just ask: why does an advertising company make a browser?
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Well, there's no harm for Google in publishing more since the project will inevitably be "sunset" and is an uneconomical research prototype, while Tesla's is a production version that people actually use.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Jon Blow addresses this in some earlier rant here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk His point being that now you're effectively implementing a form of manual memory management to circumvent the borrow checke
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Copyright? Maybe some groups were private at some point, or the copyright by posts was granted to Yahoo, but not any scraper? (I fully suppose maliciousness, but there might be plausible non-malicious justifications.)
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Ada is definitely optimized for readability (not you, Ada.Strings.Unbounded.To_Unbounded_String!)

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