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by asveikau 4mo ago
I also read another lesson from this. The performance review system was already broken in the pre-AI golden age the article describes. Lines of code written and individual impact should not have been the goal. Team cohesion, architectural c
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by asveikau 4mo ago
I have been flamed for saying this in public, and I do not know how it will be received by an HN crowd, but someone who enjoys being a meta employee is a red flag. Either they are actively a narcissist, actively immoral, not intelligent eno
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Visual Studio defaults to defining NDEBUG in release mode, and I think that default was pretty influential
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by asveikau 4mo ago
An assert is not guaranteed to terminate the process. In C, the most common implementation choice is to completely omit the check if you're not building in debug mode.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Yeah I agree. I own one of their devices but wouldn't buy another after this news.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
> Phase one (late 1970s to 2007): the founder as charismatic, mysterious byproduct > Phase two (2007 to 2015): the founder as parable. > Phase three (2015 to now): the tech industry as grift-adjacent. This pops out at me for a few
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by asveikau 4mo ago
It depends. If they have the foresight to know that alienating their existing install base is a bad thing, then maybe they will put in a shoestring budget to keep the lights on for the old stuff.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
You mean the comments that came in after the one you replied to here? The commenter asked a question and it was answered. I don't think your hostile reply was needed.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
These aren't subsidiaries of each other. They're different companies with different ownership. So the name Fox is ambiguous.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Should we expect the Roku apps for non-Fox content to break? That was kind of the selling point of Roku, that it was relatively streaming platform agnostic, not tied to one of the big players.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Yeah I know. I'm pulling that out as an example. It's also true that people in the psychedelic world talk about non-reproducible aspects of the trip quite a bit. "Set and setting" and so forth.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Ironically enough, the psychedelic field sort of defies some scientific analysis, so could be construed as "anti-science". I've seen some commentary that it's difficult to test. As an example, you can't really do a
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Yes, this is what I mean. They deny that Alfredo is Italian. But it's from Rome. It's just no longer popular with Romans.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Ironically Italians criticize Americans for non-authentic "Alfredo sauce" but that has its origins in Rome in roughly the same early 20th century time period.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Pizza is one of those things that is multi-polar, with different canons. New York pizza is not Neapolitan pizza for sure. Neither of those are the al taglio from Rome, i.e. even in the original country there's regionalism.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
I was under the impression that this person is pretty heavily dependent on Claude. And for example, it's a weird signal to me when somebody believes the reason X11 has baggage is because it does byte swapping for endianness. This state
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Outside the US, countries are doing a better job of electrifying. The US has deliberately retrograde policies right now.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
20% is still a huge number. (Your comment also acknowledges this of course. That just popped out at me.)
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by asveikau 4mo ago
The criticisms of STL and allocation are fair, though move constructors improved the shallow vs deep copy problem on resize. Smart pointers are good. People were doing them outside the standard in the late 90s. Lambdas are a good feature.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
> 124 days to get AMD to add an s to a couple of HTTP URLs! I disagree that they should only add HTTPS and call it done. They should also add some kind of signing check before running the payload. If anything I'd say HTTPS is optio
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by asveikau 4mo ago
This type of subscription model is a little less annoying, most "normal" people will sign up for the non-subscription rate, and frequent users are already frequent users, so they will be more OK with a subscription. Speaking perso
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Sounds like you only know the corporate or post-commercialized version, and not the original concept. The entire point of my comment.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Wsl2.0 is literally a Linux vm built into windows. I imagine some people are using that.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
When I first read about the hackathon concept, it was a bunch of OpenBSD developers getting together to work on stuff like cryptography or drivers. I think it was from Facebook where I first heard it as some bullshit corporate event. The id
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Aw shucks. You might turn out to need to do your own work. That would turn out so horrible for you.
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by asveikau 4mo ago
Excuse me, are you holding up the British as some kind of pure, undisturbed ethnicity? You mean the celts who were conquered by Romans who were conquered be Angles who were conquered by Normans? Who speak this bastard language we're
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by asveikau 5mo ago
This is like the old quote, "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"
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by asveikau 5mo ago
The open paren being part of the tokens was always weird. I could imagine that doing strange things for the parser; when it sees a close paren it needs to know that several of the preceding tokens may have an open paren even without having
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by asveikau 5mo ago
I was definitely around when that video was current, but I don't remember it. It's pretty amusing. Ironically I feel like it captures the spirit of the then-coming 2010s boom more than the climate in 2007, though some of the lang
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by asveikau 5mo ago
I guess one of Zitron's arguments is that the utility you see today is based on subsidized costs, that if you had to pay more it might not be worth the tradeoff to you. So the claim is the cost isn't coming down enough to make it

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