arghnoname

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by arghnoname 3y ago
Covid and other recent phenomenon have really turned tribal affiliations on their head. In America this is dems vs republicans, but there seem to be nearly equivalent factions in most western nations. I've had a similar trajectory to y
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by arghnoname 3y ago
I'm not sure what the exact amount of force is, but I took a more performance oriented driving course that included some hard braking at highway speeds. It's fairly violent. In normal driving we never do this, it would cause someo
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by arghnoname 3y ago
This view is under appreciated. I honestly do not care all that much if a news source has a political point of view, so long as it is _honest_. If they're honest I can deal with it. If I am interested in a labor dispute and I go to &qu
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by arghnoname 3y ago
The person you are replying to said neither of these things. Unions, like most human institutions, have their pros and cons. They generally try to pursue the interests of their members, but their members are human and as humans, sometimes t
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by arghnoname 3y ago
Like a lot of people, I waited tables for a few years in my youth and also did pizza delivery and was paid well under minimum wage if I excluded my tips. Tips largely shift salary burden from the employer to more directly from the customer,
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by arghnoname 3y ago
Sure, but you probably remember division. "I can't remember of n % 2 returns 0 or 1 on even, so in place of that I wrote (if ((n/2)* 2 == n) for even, assuming integral division"
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by arghnoname 3y ago
I don't even think it should be a design goal to perfectly simulate the Linux interface. MacOS nix underpinnings are much more BSD than Linux. Yes, a package system like homebrew needs to be installed, but on the plus side you can choo
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by arghnoname 3y ago
There are things I dislike about macOS, but most of them seem like issues of personal preference or just some difficulty remembering the macOS way to do things after many, many years using Windows and Linux. Occasionally there are head-scra
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by arghnoname 3y ago
FAANG don't typically pay someone with just a masters in CS $300K fresh out of school, perhaps excluding someone in a very in demand niche. I didn't get that from my offers and I had a PhD from a good school. Maybe I just suck, bu
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by arghnoname 3y ago
MSR can pay well, but top flight universities (in CS at least) do actually pay pretty well. But MSR is in some ways almost a university in and of itself. It has extremely good talent and is as competitive as many faculty departments. The ap
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by arghnoname 3y ago
My area was computer science and from my personal experience I saw a lot of what you're talking about. These people are hyper competitive and sunk a good chunk of their young adult life in this stuff. It is at that part a big part of t
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by arghnoname 3y ago
I got a PhD in computer science and considered going into academia, though I ultimately decided against it because there is only so much scratching and clawing that I am willing to do. I was a decent researcher and to be honest, not having
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by arghnoname 3y ago
It's pretty much the same. Tenured faculty have a set of prescribed duties, particularly teaching loads. If they have a lot of grants or other duties that they perform, the teaching burden can be lightened, but they can't just dec
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by arghnoname 4y ago
When people just ask chatGPT for solutions and there's no community, a la stack overflow, where will it get the answers to future problems? If chatGPT is too successful and people stop producing content because chatGPT is too successfu
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by arghnoname 4y ago
This is a good summary. What's interesting to me to observe here is your PT story is the system working as designed. This intention is not hidden. If one could just google the solution to their problem instead of using scarce resources
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by arghnoname 4y ago
Most work plans include a separate dental plan, for which I am thankful. However, near worst-case scenarios for dental issues are comparatively affordable ordeals. My routine dental care is covered for me, but it's affordable either wa
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by arghnoname 4y ago
Mandating a medical treatment may be in some cases ethically acceptable, but it should only be done if absolutely necessary. In our current context, this is probably about the COVID vaccines. They don't seem to stop transmission, so ma
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by arghnoname 4y ago
1password has features that are useful in a large corporation that keychain does not have, particularly around sharing passwords and password vaults. I haven't noticed even minimal credential sharing facilities in keychain.
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by arghnoname 4y ago
Any multifactorial ranking needs some way of ranking the relative importance of different metrics, and obviously not everyone will agree on these rankings. One reasonable approach would be to weight factors by the prevalence of individuals
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by arghnoname 4y ago
The problem is these terms are basically undefined and current 'left' and 'right' trends don't match historic left and right trends. Actual communists (e.g., Stalinist USSR) have had periods that were socially tradi
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by arghnoname 4y ago
I think they are analogous. One advantage in the programming language model though is you can pick your level of abstraction, from wysiwyg wizard time UI dialogs, to declarative languages, to languages like python, to C, to assembly, to FPG
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by arghnoname 4y ago
It's like WYSIWYG web page tools. It will increase accessibility to APIs for less technically inclined people, but for a technical person trying to make a sophisticated product, it'll just get in their way. The same can be said fo
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by arghnoname 4y ago
Yes, that sounds pretty cool and it doesn't take a lot of imagination to see the utility in this. I've done a lot work on lower level software, often enough on platforms where the debuggers are tough to get working well anyway. Th
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by arghnoname 4y ago
I am also this person. I'm a systems programmer (kernel and systems software, often in C, C++, golang, bit of rust, etc) What I find is that if my code isn't working, I stop what I'm doing. I look at it. I think really hard,
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by arghnoname 4y ago
Despite the many challenges, I like hydrogen as part of the solution to this stuff. It's easy to produce with commonly available inputs. If we had efficient central energy generation, it's a way of making that energy transportable
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by arghnoname 4y ago
Your line of reasoning is the one I always take on these sorts of things. If it takes X input energy to make energy saving Y, if Y is not significantly more efficient than X, it's probably a net loss. A lot of green stuff ends up being
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by arghnoname 4y ago
Okay thanks. I think we just live in different realities.
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by arghnoname 4y ago
Beyond patronage, one of the primary goals of ag subsidies is to prevent farm land from being converted to non-farmland. This effectively increases the ability to comparatively quickly put more crop acres there if for some reason (e.g., wea
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by arghnoname 4y ago
Is the salt a problem?
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by arghnoname 4y ago
Thanks for making food. I'm a fan. Like Bloomberg's statement about how easy it is to grow crops, you spend enough time in a city and you're prone to start thinking food grows on trees, pun intended. One of the things I'

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