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by arwhatever 1y ago
Some of the CEOs making comments such as in this article are certainly accelerating the downward spiral of bad faith between workers and employers as fast as they can. I wonder if there is any good way for either side (or both sides) to bre
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Perhaps the letter alone would be adequate. But frustratingly, the AT&T website appeared to allow you to replace your current (auto-pay) billing method with some other billing method, but I didn't see any way to remove all current
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by arwhatever 1y ago
My perception is that consumer protections are much weaker in the U.S. than in the E.U. It would be interesting if anyone has made any attempt at quantifying this. We all know that there are other countries where far, far worse abuses of
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by arwhatever 1y ago
Done, and done. 14 + 44 minute phone calls, gave all of my information to 3 redundant people, including explaining to confused agents that I don't recall the account pin, well you have to have the account pin, well actually the previo
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by arwhatever 1y ago
I'm listening to hold music right now, 30 minutes into my attempt at cancelling 3mbps home DSL service (not a typo), for which the price has crept up to $71 USD/mo. I first spoke with a customer service agent whose accent I couldn
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by arwhatever 1y ago
It seems like delaying enforcement of anti-scam(ish) behaviors like this increases the average profitability of scam(ish) behaviors, and therefore creates an incentive to engage in scam(ish) behaviors in the first place. It seems (to me) as
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by arwhatever 1y ago
That is hilarious and would be hilarious even without any context. If I don't bookmark it now then I'll never be able to find it again. :-)
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by arwhatever 1y ago
I’ skeptical when I see “% of code generated by AI” metrics that don’t account for the human time spent parsing and then dismissing bad suggestions from AI. Without including that measurement there exist some rather large perverse incentive
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by arwhatever 1y ago
I ran into that particular term oodles in Domain-Driven Design, Tackling Complexity at the Heart of Software by Eric Evans. Pretty dense, though. I’ve heard that more recent formulations of the subject are more approachable.
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by arwhatever 2y ago
The episode of the Search Engine podcast “The puzzle of the all-American bbq scrubber” goes into detail on an example of this, is very interesting and makes the same points you’re making here.
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by arwhatever 2y ago
Ah yes that is definitely a nice addition to the C# language, albeit still with a couple of shortcomings compared to F#: 1. It doesn’t support code blocks, so if you need multiple lines or statements you have to define a function elsewhere.
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by arwhatever 2y ago
if I may elaborate on "everything is an expression," F# allows you to do things like (with apologies for being a tad rusty with the syntax) let bar = if foo then 7 else 11 or let ba
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by arwhatever 2y ago
Unions remain the killer F# feature missing from C#. Also, basic object initialization in C# has turned into a nightmare with recent versions. You need a flowchart to select among the 18 syntax options which suite your current needs. With
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by arwhatever 2y ago
I am hard-pressed to think of a context in which .clone() is better-suited than in business apps.
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by arwhatever 2y ago
Notwithstanding the other comments about the effect GDP per capita might or might not have on individuals, how much of this GDP difference is driven by the strength or weakness of consumer protections within a given economy? Is higher GDP p
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by arwhatever 2y ago
"Where there's a will, there's a way."
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by arwhatever 2y ago
Might not be HN-worthy conversation, but I often reflect on how funny this piece of satire is: https://clickhole.com/i-know-this-sounds-like-spam-but-i-rea...
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by arwhatever 2y ago
He wants to defund U.S. support for Ukraine, but isn't can't directly own his decision like an adult, and so has to stage this baloney conflict of a press conference.
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by arwhatever 2y ago
Just mentioned to an acquaintance a couple of days ago that Entity Framework is the biggest flip-flop of my personal career. I was a _rabid_ supporter when it was released a decade and a half or so ago, and the appeal has decreased linearl
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by arwhatever 2y ago
I suspect that the place these removals came from was the desire to dictate other's behavior and/or to feel more enlightened than you, masquerading as protecting from hurt or offense, which is not really a very good place.
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by arwhatever 2y ago
“Sign up for a free trial to see the rest of the job match results!”
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by arwhatever 2y ago
-alate, -ster, etc. :-)
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by arwhatever 2y ago
Also importantly, it’s now quite good-looking, too.
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by arwhatever 2y ago
No doubt it’s harder to write structured code and assertions against a string stacktrace, but as a human reading it, the information is immensely valuable.
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by arwhatever 2y ago
There’s also (in C#) init, readonly, required, and quite a few more keywords and techniques, governing property mutability, private class field mutability, and so on. And then none of those techniques work as well as manually typing out a r
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by arwhatever 2y ago
I’d be eager to hear folks poke holes in this opinion, but it seems like C# has made a wild mess of class/record initialization in recent versions, whereas in Rust fields are either simply required or are optional.
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by arwhatever 2y ago
A funny quip from mst3k was “their whole family probably gathered in front of the tv to watch them deliver that 1 line.”
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by arwhatever 2y ago
… on top of circa 1997 Java syntax …
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by arwhatever 2y ago
Yeah I don’t seem to have as much trouble with LLMs getting angry with me for asking a question on their Q&A site.
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by arwhatever 2y ago
Uncle was proud owner of his own printing business. When I visited he wanted to give my branch of the family a tour of his facility with some new $1M+ printing machine. After showing us around, he drew in close and told us that he had been

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