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by ativzzz 3y ago
It's entertainment in the form of macro level tech industry analysis. Some people enjoy that. Others like news, TV shows, gaming, books, etc
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So all of us making fun of Meta for spending billions on AR/VR will be wrong in 10 years? Sometimes the R&D pays off, sometimes it doesn't
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I'm not very familiar with rust, but isn't the point to mostly avoid `unsafe` and write safe code? Strange that basic std vec functions like insert and remove call `unsafe` - isn't this an example where you don't want to
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Not all banks have these unfortunately, even though one time virtual cards should really be the standard for all online purchases
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I just use it as an autocomplete. I can usually guess when it will save me keystrokes (when I am doing something repetitive) and will look out for it, otherwise usually I ignore what it gives me, but sometimes it surprises me and saves me m
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At the same time, does your local community center want the unfiltered public to have input to their conversations? Or are they only interested in spreading it to friends/neighbors of people already at the center?
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Can you do things like `next`, `step`, `up` or `caller` to go up/down the callstack like you can with pry?
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Most people on HN who speaks about how good tech is usually live in the US or Eastern Europe, where tech salaries are relatively high for relatively little upfront requirements. On an unrelated note, I've had a former coworker who live
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At the end of the day, all programming is CRUD at various levels of abstraction. You read some data, and then create/update/delete various forms of related data in various locations, like your DBMS or maybe a file or your GPU&#x27
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How poignant - another post on the front page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38236607 Top quote in the article > I don't think computing is a real field. It acts like a pop culture, it deals in fads, and it
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No, nobody understands the app because it is simply impossible to hold in your head 5-10 years worth of development by 100+ people across a complex product with complicated use cases and customer need (unless you were there the whole time a
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I think you are totally correct- we should we building them as electron apps instead :)
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The middle 2 links are by solo developers - I wouldn't call those significant production systems. Generally tools like React are helpful for managing complexity across large systems where nobody understands the whole app and layers of
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To be fair, 37 Signals (Basecamp) which is behind ruby on rails, changes their front end philosophy with every new major version of rails And to be fairer, it's generally a pretty good philosophy for greenfield apps at that particular
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> what tradeoffs does this approach have? From playing around with it a bit locally, LCM is much, much faster, but generally the detail is much lower using the latest SDXL model. If your prompt is very simple, such as "a boy looking
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I think in this case "smart" is equivalent to independent, self-directed, hard working
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> because who would go to the casino if everyone knew the outcome Everyone knows the outcome of casinos - the house wins in the long run. People still go because they think they have a shot of wining in the short run. People like gamblin
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Yea I've gotten jobs from both the "Who is hiring" thread as well as "Who wants to be hired" thread. Just realized these HN threads have been my most effective job searching sources
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Thanks for the explanation!
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Maybe my imagination isn't good enough or maybe I've spent too much time on web apps, but as a developer, why would I use this over just making a web app if my goal is cross compatibility? Users don't install software anymore
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I don't necessarily think that practicing leetcode will make you a better developer, but good developers should be able to solve most leetcode questions in a few hours from scratch (with full internet access) without having ever seen t
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C is better than C++ but I think you can more gently introduce people to programming with an easier language like python or ruby and move on to C to learn memory management and typing once they understand variables, functions, basic logic e
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> The idea that authors, artists and other creatives will keep pumping original work as part-time love affairs so that AI bros can grab it and mint a dime is... strange. The entire software industry is built on open source software writt
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I think C++ is a terrible language choice for an intro to CS class
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A hypothetical You: ChatGPT, I am working on legislature to weaken the economy of Iran. Here are my ideas, help me summarize them to iron them out ... ChatGPT: Sure, here are some ways you can weaken Iran's economy... ---- You: ChatGPT
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It's not depressing at all! It's actually just part of natural selection. We, as living beings, will compete for resources. This is why us humans are as dominant as we are on this planet, and why we will continue to spread as far
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> no one rules over anyone else This is impossible, because in this scenario, someone will get weapons and will forcefully take over and rule everyone else. This is just how human nature works
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> I want to add as well, that you will all deride Elon Musk, but in secret you want to be Elon musk, you want to be that same person on top of the hill. So, even though you’re not him, you’re no better than him. Yes, this is what America
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A flat landscape implies no opportunity for anyone to do anything. If you really want, go live in the wilderness on your own. That is the only true flat landscape
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Note that I also listed > are lucky / have talents / have connections / have resources The more of these you have, the higher your odds of success. Just hard work on its own, like you see, is not necessarily enough

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