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by amscanne 4y ago
I hate to break this to you, but engineers themselves are capable of running arbitrary malicious code on their own workstations, even if we ignore the dozen other ways it might get there (dependency attacks, social engineering, browser expl
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by amscanne 4y ago
Personally, I just skip them TiVo-style 90% of the time. As long as there’s nothing unskippable, it doesn’t really bother me.
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by amscanne 4y ago
I believe the underlying point is that the bigger the N, the more obvious it probably is. If you’re in 1000x territory, there’s a strong likelihood that the improvement is so obvious that doing the opposite might be called “stupid”.
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by amscanne 4y ago
> secularism, gun-rights, access to abortion, universal healthcare, labour laws, privacy and regulation I think most of these things are political rather than cultural. Specific laws take a variable amount of time to change/evolve,
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by amscanne 4y ago
The dynamics of the offer and potential reauction are interesting. Since the top bidder was essentially going to pay the 2nd bidders highest price (we can’t know what the top bidders price would have been), it’s very strange that they tried
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by amscanne 4y ago
Israel has only 9 million people, so in absolute terms it will still be small, but in relative terms, it punches hugely above its weight. It also depends on methodology; I am mostly familiar with Canada but am generally confused how 3446 wo
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by amscanne 4y ago
In this case, contrary to your assertion you are probably pretty heavily invested in tech giants that did layoffs, assuming some of those ETFs are index-based.
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by amscanne 4y ago
I know the whole “land shouldn’t vote” thing is used to criticize the electoral college, but within the state what exactly are you referring to? I can’t think of any mechanism that wouldn’t be a simple tyranny of the majority but it sound
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by amscanne 4y ago
That was the Bing preview, which is supposed to be an actual information product.
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by amscanne 4y ago
I said the truth is mixed and complex, not that it is "in the middle". The last few years provide examples of that which are as good as any other time.
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by amscanne 4y ago
"There's money to be made" isn't an argument. The world is not a binary, just because I am implying that some part of an industry is cronyism and grift, doesn't mean that I am asserting that it is 100% the case. I
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by amscanne 4y ago
From the original NY Post article, he was "managing director of food, beverages, and restaurants" so presumably the staff in question were food service workers, where they have to move around the kitchens or other areas as part of
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by amscanne 4y ago
I think you’re painting with too broad a brush. Of course Go has some idiosyncrasies, but I think the number is fairly low because of the relatively small number of language features. With frameworks you’re still making a bunch of parts imp
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by amscanne 4y ago
I don’t think any language can prevent poor structure or poor design. And it certainly can’t prevent debt like parameter inflation (rather than refactoring layers, using encapsulation, etc.). I think that the simplicity and explicitness act
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by amscanne 4y ago
I’m sure that the frontline workers for those organizations are earnest and genuine in their effort to help, but it’s also undoubtedly true that there’s a lot of money to be made (and it’s not really in the interest of those making the mone
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by amscanne 4y ago
It moves slowly for sure, but there are answers to your questions in plain sight. This might be a good place to start: https://go.dev/blog/toward-go2 (published five years ago, on the 10th anniversary Go).
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by amscanne 4y ago
This is a strange take to me. The last thing in the world that I would accuse the Go developers of is being frantic. There have been discussions about generics for a decade. See this post, for example, that goes into a bit of the history:
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by amscanne 4y ago
I don't think they need to counterbalance? It seems like they would just turn into very expensive, very bad roller skates when the battery dies. (They may still be dangerous, as roller skates can be, but much less than something that n
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by amscanne 4y ago
> The disruption was a $30bn charade though. Would these companies have succeeded if they actually had to make any money? I'm actually quite not sure how to deal with the concept of a company that's lost that much money and sti
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by amscanne 4y ago
> If just saying “let’s kill xy” is not okay, then somebody already decides what is offensive No, that is not disallowed because it is “offensive”. Someone (the courts and legal system) can decide if this was a credible threat, given all
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by amscanne 4y ago
Your experience with taxis was the polar opposite of mine, and I used to ride them pretty frequently. With respect to prearranged rides, I’d say that reliability was in the 50-80% range. My mother still refuses to use any apps, and calls th
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by amscanne 4y ago
Poppycock. Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece both had plenty of sophisticated bookkeeping and accounting methods — I don’t think you can even point to a single moment in time when double entry was “invented” (just standardized or popularized)
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by amscanne 4y ago
The 500 years thing is pretty tough for me. No love for the steam engine? mass production? Computers? The internet? Surely the internet has revolutionized the world more than blockchain will.
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by amscanne 4y ago
I think aerosol deodorants are less popular in the US. Are they popular in the UK? This may factor into the pricing. Marmite costs a fortune in the US!
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by amscanne 4y ago
The parent comment is referring to the iPhone 14's ability to reach emergency services via a satellite network; this is indeed something special.
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by amscanne 4y ago
Thanks, these are interesting cases. However, I suspect that these both hinge of the fact that they are related to specific training and internal promotion, which (to me at least) seems like it’s easier to judge that those not selected do n
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by amscanne 4y ago
I’m pretty sure that the law doesn’t allow discrimination to correct diversity imbalances. DEI initiatives are about driving recruiting efforts and targeting towards underrepresented groups (e.g. having recruiters reaching out to qualified
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by amscanne 4y ago
Putting aside anything relating to the underlying goals, the questions of employment law are really interesting. In Canada (unless it’s changed since I was there), you are allowed to state that a position has a preference for four specific
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by amscanne 4y ago
You seem to be bringing in piles of other things here: technical debt, complexity, cruft, etc. My post is about none of those things. You also note that the prevalence of those things is because no one will listen to engineers “with some de
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by amscanne 4y ago
I think you’re considering only literal cost, and not the opportunity cost (which is typically much higher, and what you’re using to make investment decisions). Suppose you’ve an engineer and they’re paid $100k. Now you’d be tempted to say

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