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by amag 4y ago
But that's my point, when we get where we're heading you won't need a cooking recipe website, an AI will cook much better than you could. "Ok, great, then I don't have to cook!" Yeah, but what will you do ins
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by amag 4y ago
We software engineers have to be the stupidest "smart" people on the planet. No other occupations work so hard to destroy entire businesses including our own. I get it, I'm a software engineer who loves automation. "But
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by amag 4y ago
The other day I saw someone, who by asking ChatGPT a series of questions, had it carefully explain why abacus-based computing was more efficient than GPU-based computing. It's not your google replacement yet...
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by amag 4y ago
intpremium_t is only available to paying ANSI-members.
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by amag 4y ago
I'm trying to make it through your comment but get stuck at IC, asking the Internet gives me this list: https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/IC
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by amag 4y ago
I'm currently considering the Pentecostal church which sent missionaries to Congo to build hospitals and teach/train doctors, for instance dr. Denis Mukwege[1], who was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize for his work helping and saving
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by amag 4y ago
Or, you would have the same issue and the library developer wouldn't have time/care to fix it... Also good sweng practices would dictate to put it in one function that is used in all places so you only need to fix it once.
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by amag 4y ago
So is joy, happiness and pleasure. I feel sorry for you if your life is only filled with regret and misery. For most people there are ways out of misery but it all starts with the realization that it's not a necessity. When you're
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by amag 4y ago
Even so, that person will not be you. Even if they will go through exactly the same things you've been through they may not have the same experience. You cannot know if it was worth it for them. I think it's fine if people don&#x2
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by amag 4y ago
Not everyone who struggles in life would rather not live. I think it's quite arrogant to contemplate whether living is worth it for another human being.
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by amag 4y ago
There are very few projects for which the above CMakeLists.txt would be enough. Once your project reaches a certain size you will inevitably end up in a part of CMake that is confusing.
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by amag 4y ago
When I got my own office after having spent a couple of years in either an open-plan or a room with 3-4 other people, I remember thinking "Wow, this is what productivity feels like!"
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by amag 4y ago
There's a lot happening in the body and brain of a teenager. There can be a lot of anxiety and to some that can feel overwhelming. There's also a lot of peer pressure among teens. For most teenagers all that will pass even though
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by amag 4y ago
We need to remember to treat the Belters with the respect they deserve or else deflection technology can be used against us.
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by amag 4y ago
It's good advice but not enough. The whole article is about how not pointing the gun at someone can still kill. - "Hey, don't point that gun at anything you don't want to kill!" - "I would never! I'm poi
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by amag 4y ago
> Unless technology is created to immortalize Gabe in a machine Ah, this is what Valve is working on...
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by amag 4y ago
You wouldn't if all you want is to just increment all elements in a std::vector but for a more complex loop you might want the index...
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by amag 4y ago
ASFAIU the problem was that the application in question kept using oldptr, e.g.: int *oldptr = (int *)malloc(42); int *newptr = (int *)realloc(oldptr, 73); if (oldptr == newptr) { newptr[70] = 10; // ok because th
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by amag 4y ago
I connected a simple energy meter to my old (inherited with a house purchase so don't know exact age) 720p non-smart plasma TV to an energy meter just to get an idea of its power consumption. It was pulling between 350-400W! For compar
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by amag 4y ago
As others have said, the decline is much too rapid in the last couple of decades for it to be explained by evolution. It sounds more like a theory spouted by chemical-/food-/etc companies who worry about getting the blame.
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by amag 4y ago
Yeah, David Graeber has even written a whole book on the subject: Bullshit Jobs [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
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by amag 4y ago
They try to make it super easy: https://pi-hole.net/ and I have no recollection of encountering any issues. OTOH I am a software engineer working with Linux and network related stuff. The issues comes later when some pages
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by amag 4y ago
> For real world performance, benchmarking is the key. Only it's not enough. When you benchmark an O(N^2) algo may seem fine but then three years later the data has changed and is now an order of magnitude larger. So you need not on
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by amag 4y ago
Sure, but they have a lot to do with spending time away from my family. If I'm to spend time away from my family I want that time to feel worth-while. I have yet to go on a company retreat that felt worth it. The biggest boon to a comp
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by amag 4y ago
Personally, company retreats are generally a big turn-off for me. I prefer traveling with my family. And if I have to travel for work, I prefer it to be about the actual work and not about going someplace with the rest of the company to sta
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by amag 4y ago
It is different because even in offline-mode Spotify keeps track of the number of times the song has been played in order to pay the artist the correct amount.
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by amag 8y ago
I've found that adding my own aliases that sound more akin to what I'm trying to achieve has helped greatly with this, e.g. I have 'discard' as an alias for 'checkout --'.
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by amag 8y ago
...and what about search history? I don't use Facebook but do people also put their search history on display there?
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by amag 8y ago
Meanwhile in the plastic rings factory... Pointy-haired boss: "Carlsberg just cancelled the order for the 10 million plastic rings we produced, they're gonna glue the cans together instead!" Mid-level manager: "Oh, that&
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by amag 8y ago
Unfortunately at the cost of a lot of human suffering in countries where coltan[1] is mined. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan

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