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by alternatex 1y ago
I'm pretty sure many of the Windows laptops with the Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite chip have the same or better battery life and comparable performance in a similar form factor. There are many videos online of comparisons.
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by alternatex 1y ago
You mean 15k / year in Eastern Europe whilst living in Toronto. Probably young and renting with roommates or family.
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by alternatex 1y ago
Isn't that the case for half of modern browsers APIs? Google develops whatever it needs for its own products into Chrome and then pushes it to W3C. Other browsers perpetually behind. They've gotten quite good at this strategy.
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by alternatex 1y ago
That's quite the list of languages. If you're interested in types I would suggest also looking into F#. Shouldn't be tricky for someone who has already experienced C# and is open to different approaches to programming. For me
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by alternatex 1y ago
You're not alone. The only reason I struggle to onboard to Zed is the design. They're doing an incredible job with the editor, but I have never seen a more bland design in any IDE. It's genuinely so bad that it affects my pro
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by alternatex 1y ago
I recall that he egged on the AI to admit what it did. So I don't think that can be considered as AI taking responsibility. It's just being a sycophant as usual.
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by alternatex 1y ago
I don't think people are claiming he was not experimenting as much as they are claiming he was overtly optimistic about the outcome. It seemed like he went in with the notion that AIs are somehow thinking machines. I don't think t
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by alternatex 1y ago
Teams came from Skype. Skype Lync was just a client (so far as I know). Don't take my word for it though, I was not there during the transition, this is just my understanding from talking to the ones that were.
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by alternatex 1y ago
Teams was built from Skype. The fundamental infra for communication (chat, video call) was pulled out of Skype as a separate component and integrated into both. Skype the client is completely sunset, but a part of its back-end will continue
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by alternatex 1y ago
I thought in this story the operator did let the person in, which if so was a grave mistake that they now have to carry with them. Though I wonder how you think an operator would know if people have metal on them? Definitely not by trusting
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by alternatex 1y ago
I think the argument is that growing up with something doesn't necessarily make you good at it. I think it rings especially true with higher level abstractions. The upcoming generation is bad with tech because tech has become more abst
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by alternatex 1y ago
All the memory usage of a browser with the added benefit of less security :)
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by alternatex 1y ago
The other inventions would have quite the adoption rate if they were similarly subsidized as current AI offerings. It's hard to compare a business attempting to be financially stable and a business attempting hyper-growth through freeb
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by alternatex 1y ago
I've never seen someone put having a high number of junior engineers in a positive light. Maybe with LLMs it's different? I've worked at companies where you would have one senior manage 3-5 juniors and the code was completely
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by alternatex 1y ago
Do strength training, as in compound leg exercises once or twice a week. Squats, forward lunges, (and many more you can find online for knee strength). The healthiest approach to running is not just running, especially if you're over 3
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by alternatex 1y ago
Raking in 100s of millions and not improving Firefox is one thing. Another is spending those millions on acquiring companies that produce no revenue, aka setting money on fire. Zen Browser has been producing the features people have been as
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by alternatex 1y ago
I wonder how a single handed savings of 10 mil might get rewarded in a company. Was there at least a pizza party? Where I work there probably wouldn't even be a promotion on the line, not in the same year at least.
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by alternatex 1y ago
I'll try a counterargument. If more code is more technical debt then writing more succinct code is less technical debt. But succinct code is often harder to grok and maintain than code written for the average Joe dev. So less code can
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by alternatex 1y ago
Those are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those numbers up.
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by alternatex 1y ago
Still quite the hot take.
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by alternatex 1y ago
Overflow/underflow does happen in C# though. You have to manually opt-out by using a `checked` block anywhere you do arithmetic.
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by alternatex 1y ago
Not sure if types are supposed to protect against overflow/underflow, it's more in the arithmetic territory. Interesting idea though, I wonder if some programming language allows overflow/underflow checks directly in the type
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by alternatex 1y ago
I mentioned elsewhere: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireChat Seems like people in this thread are inspired by this novel concept that isn't novel at all. FireChat was in fact used against dictatorial government
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by alternatex 1y ago
Not inspired by FireChat?
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by alternatex 1y ago
One day we will be able to self host our virtual wifu
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by alternatex 1y ago
Presumably the universe promoted by crypto enthusiasts. Which is to say the universe they don't actually care for, but act like they want because it can bring them more money in the current universe.
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by alternatex 1y ago
I have a feeling you don't know what the "claim to fame" expression means :)
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by alternatex 1y ago
How about a full glass of wine? Filled to the brim.
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by alternatex 1y ago
Signal, Mastodon
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by alternatex 1y ago
Depending on the interviewer, you could make a non-AI program pass the Turing test. It's quite a meaningless exercise.

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