akavi

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by akavi 3y ago
"More than 80% of Americans have an individual income such that if they were the sole earner in their household AND chose to purchase the median cost new car, they would be spending more than a threshold chosen fairly arbitrarily by Ma
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by akavi 3y ago
Universal Childcare at the margin means some people who would rather take care of their own children are pushed to take a job and have someone else watch their child. I fail to see why that's superior to a universal childcare subsidy,
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by akavi 3y ago
Just like you learn anything else. Flash cards, pure repeated exposure, reading about the symbols long enough that you have a framework to fit them into, etc.
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by akavi 3y ago
Non-rhotic accent, eh? Estuary English? "ˈθʌrə"'s was interesting to me, I'd render "thorough" in my ideolect (Southern-inflected General American) "θʌrow". Is your pronunciation "standard"
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by akavi 3y ago
Sounds to me like there’s demand for a second one then
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by akavi 3y ago
As someone who's familiar with Rust, but not at all with C++, can you elaborate on what situations Rust is less expressive than C++ in? My naïve guess is high performance data structures with reference cycles?
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by akavi 3y ago
And you can eschew the JSX syntax entirely with nothing but a small cost to dev ergonomics. A company I worked at had a O(1 MLoC) React frontend with no JSX at all for a long period of time due to the Typescript compatibility issue, just `e
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by akavi 3y ago
Love it, and love using plain ol' functions for it
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by akavi 3y ago
You're making the classic move of conflating developers with landowners. These are two very different groups, with two very different incentive sets.
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by akavi 3y ago
What's your corner of the world? I'm sure we can find hard data on the population growth vs. new building rates which might be illuminatory.
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by akavi 3y ago
Well yes, but the "other group" commanding them to do so is municipal governments, at the behest of existing property owners.
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by akavi 3y ago
Why would a south Indian meal involve naan and lassi?
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by akavi 3y ago
What does "dinner service" mean to you? I cook a fairly standard south Indian dinner of daal stew, rice + stir fried veggies a couple times a week in ~30-45 minutes of total work. Nothing preprocessed, premixed, or premade other t
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by akavi 3y ago
The sibling comments here are weird to me. IME the primary reason to us GraphQL is explicitly solve the dilemma of "ReST-ful" endpoints: 1) An endpoint returns a superset of the data any client may need, which means more data is l
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by akavi 3y ago
The tragedy of JS if blocks being statements not expressions is made explicit here
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by akavi 3y ago
Right, it would fail even before hitting the typing check.
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by akavi 3y ago
Japanese the language qua language is relatively easy from a language agnostic perspective. Formality levels are tricky, but the phonology is fairly simple (very few "weird" sounds) and the grammar is on the regular side. The wri
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by akavi 3y ago
Not for even the simplest schemas. Eg, given even the type: {"aLongerKey": "value"} The generation prefix: {"a would by your algorithm produce the following invalid output: {"a}
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by akavi 3y ago
Typescript's type system is much more expressive than the one the function call feature makes available. I imagine closing the loop (using the TS compiler to restrict token output weights) is in the works, though it's probably not
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by akavi 3y ago
Both a specific request here and a general proposal for a norm here on HN: Can you be more numerically explicit when you say "well paid"? Software development is a very segmented world. In the various social circles I'm conne
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by akavi 3y ago
This comment feels like a deepity[0] to me. Saying anything at all is "to deal with words". Discussing anything at all about your internal state is "to deal with... consciousness". Yes, it is deeply human to put to words
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by akavi 3y ago
The number of people who have even heard of "federation" or "Mastodon" is a vanishingly small fraction of the target audience for this app. Why waste precious page space on it?
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by akavi 3y ago
As an ABCD, likewise. My mom told me to specifically buy turmeric at western grocery stores (as opposed to other spices, which could be had for better prices at Indian grocery stores) because of concerns around lead.
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by akavi 3y ago
"De-facto industry standard" is heavily a function of what slice of the industry you're looking at. It feels like the dominant style of programming in the companies I've worked at (YC startups and FAANG) is "functio
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by akavi 3y ago
I believe Tiktok basically does that already.
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by akavi 3y ago
This feels like the job prospect equivalent of saying "there's a 50/50 chance the sun rises tomorrow, either it does or it doesn't". If by "big tech" you mean FAANG cos (and assuming "startup" me
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by akavi 3y ago
Bigger opportunity cost for cash buyers...
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by akavi 3y ago
Ceglowski is an absolute genius of the English language (one might say, a super intelligence) I endorse reading every essay on idlewords.com
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by akavi 3y ago
Interesting. Curious if that's cultural influence from the US (where it isn't taxable)
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by akavi 3y ago
I assume that cars are not seen as a taxable benefit in Belgium?

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