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by achierius 8mo ago
People are afraid because they need to work to eat. People who don't need to work to eat are less likely to be afraid.
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by achierius 8mo ago
Stuff like constant folding won't take place until you hit an optimizing compiler tier. For the interpreter and baseline/template-compiler tiers, there's just not enough time to do that sort of dataflow optimization. So yes,
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by achierius 8mo ago
> No amount of baby cash, or white picket fences, or coercion, or lack of birth control, or whatever other set of schemes you can make, none of that matters. This is a profoundly unscientific statement. All of these things matter, you ju
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by achierius 8mo ago
Because beforehand engineers could be reasonably confident that their work would simply accelerate a the growth of a growing pie; today, most expect that further development will be used, first and foremost, to replace labor. Most sectors d
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by achierius 8mo ago
> iPhone and macOS are basically the same product technically This seems hard to justify. They share a lot of code yes, but many many things are different (meaningfully so, from the perspective of both app developers and users)
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by achierius 8mo ago
Lockdown mode costs ~nothing for devices that don't have it enabled. GP is pointing out that the straightforward way to implement this feature would not have that same property.
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by achierius 8mo ago
> Fermentation and pickling was dropped almost universally (in the West). What are you talking about? What do you think pickles are? Or sauerkraut, for that matter?
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by achierius 9mo ago
> Advertising is not a recent evolution of capitalism, it's a foundational piece of it What does that say about capitalism?
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by achierius 9mo ago
You'd be surprised how many Apple engineers are fixing many bugs, of this caliber, on a semi-regular basis. That "Human Hours Wasted" is not just sitting there because engineers don't care about it, it's because the
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by achierius 9mo ago
JavaScript isn't the only programming language around. I'm not the strongest around with JS either but I can figure it out as necessary -- knowing C/C++/Java/whatever means you can still grok "this looks better
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by achierius 9mo ago
Why? How is it "discrimination" if it actually corresponds to a single user, who has been doing bad things to your server (e.g. slamming it with requests)? Do you expect to be able to go and knock on people's doors all day an
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by achierius 9mo ago
I think most have moved past SWE-Bench Verified as a benchmark worth tracking -- it only tracks a few repos, contains only a small number of languages, and probably more importantly papers have come out showing a significant degree of memor
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by achierius 9mo ago
If monopolies are "non capitalistic", then why has every capitalist economy in history had such a tendency towards creating large monopolies? The same cab certainly not be said any those economies producing, say, worker control of
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by achierius 9mo ago
> The class conflict shouldn't be between workers and employers. Then why don't employers, the ones with essentially all the power here, tend to choose actions that go against the interests of the working class? Simple: regardl
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The Death of Software 2.0 (A Better Analogy)(fabricatedknowledge.com)
2 points by achierius 9mo ago|0 comments
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by achierius 9mo ago
What is this supposed to mean? Yes, people are unhappy with the choice of "high risk of losing 1/2 of your savings at an inopportune moment" and "watch it all decay away thanks to our inherently inflationary regime"
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by achierius 9mo ago
> For a lot of people, social media is the internet. They don't discover things on search engines, they are guided to them by engagement engines in walled gardens. Sure, this is true -- but there are also many (though nowhere near
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by achierius 9mo ago
I think it's very plausible, looking at the individual events of the revolution, that a different king could have averted what eventually came to pass -- certainly, it could have been possible to have a much more 'moderate' r
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by achierius 9mo ago
> and you'll be rehired and have to clean up the mess, then continue on Not how this works. Yes, it happens sometimes, but there's no guarantee. Alternatives include: - The rest of your team (or another tam) soaks up the additi
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by achierius 9mo ago
You really underestimate how much work goes into everything around you. You don't care because it just works : the stuff you use is by and large not crap, which makes the crappy stuff all the more noticable. Check out the housing code
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by achierius 9mo ago
Even if they're your boss? Remember that most people here are not independently wealthy, they're stuck answering to someone who may not have so level a take on these things as you do.
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by achierius 9mo ago
> Depression can be caused by a chemical imbalance And yet many other times, it can be caused or exacerbated by situational and psychological factors, including "being stuck at home all day". > One of the most frustrating th
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by achierius 10mo ago
Which multi-threading are you talking about?
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by achierius 10mo ago
But people's phones will scan a QR code from the camera: they're much more likely to do that then type in a URL while walking.
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by achierius 10mo ago
How do you mean 'a tmux session' to be something verifiable?
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by achierius 11mo ago
Nope, workers don't own the means of production -- this is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, baby.
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by achierius 11mo ago
Was this just 2 hours of the agent running on its own, or was there back-and-forth/any sort of interaction? How much did you have to set up scaffolding, e.g. tests?
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by achierius 11mo ago
> that's something you rarely see on Western forums. No, it's quite common.
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by achierius 11mo ago
Looks nice! Though I have to say, you should probably avoid sbreak even for small allocations -- obviously it's slow, but even beyond that you have to deal with the fact that it's essentially a global singleton and introduces a lo
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by achierius 11mo ago
What do you mean "perceive"? Why are there these "inner feelings" at all? They are not physical, and we can easily imagine a being that does not have them -- thus the whole p-zombie thought experiment. You're saying

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