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by azov 4y ago
> An AGI is an AI that can do everything a human can do, period. By that definition do humans possess general intelligence? Can you do everything a human can do? Can one human be a replacement for another? I don't think it makes s
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by azov 4y ago
I think this is exactly what’s happening. Physical manufacturing moving to low cost countries also plays a role. If we want to not lose (or should I say restore?) the ability to manufacture stuff in the US this trend has to be broken someho
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by azov 4y ago
> It almost always make sense to handle an error locally if you can Yes, but “if you can” does a lot of heavy lifting here. In most cases you can’t, and this is when Rust’s ? is used.
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by azov 4y ago
Depends on where you are. California LLCs are at least $800/yr and AFAIK don't give you much of a veil.
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by azov 4y ago
How is it in California/Bay Area? Anyone still does 1099 directly? What do you do for one-off short term gigs? Form an LLC with all the fees and paperwork that entails? Give a cut to a middleman?
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Yahoo will lay off 20% of staff, or 1600 people(techcrunch.com)
332 points by azov 4y ago|193 comments
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by azov 4y ago
Frankly, optimizing streaming for adult content might well be one of the most innocent things one can do in our industry :)
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by azov 4y ago
You may be interested in checking this out: https://www.dehancer.com/ . I believe they have Adobe + Da Vinci plugins for film & video (and maybe a standalone app as well. At least they used to when I played with the bet
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by azov 4y ago
> I'm really confused as to why there are so many people assuming I don't give a shit about quality when I have CODE REVIEWS. Having code reviews is an incredibly low bar. The very fact that you offer this as an evidence might
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by azov 4y ago
Well, here is one way to read your comment: "A feature not making it into a sprint" is your problem. You will get in trouble for that, it will make you look bad in front of your boss, etc. "Not following best practices"
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by azov 4y ago
I’m not sure if I understand what this article has to do with teaching?.. Oh, I get it now, sorry for being slow! Do you think we could rename it to "Don't be an asshole and lie about (not) understanding things" or something
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by azov 4y ago
I honestly don’t understand the use case. Let’s imagine the list is public and the process is transparent. Who would you put on it and for what purpose? Who are those people dangerous enough to never be allowed on a plane (despite being sea
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by azov 4y ago
"On their face, the benefits of using exceptions outweigh the costs, especially in new projects. However, for existing code, the introduction of exceptions has implications on all dependent code. If exceptions can be propaga
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by azov 4y ago
Indeed. It doesn't make sense to compare code designed to handle errors with code that simply ignores them - yet I see it all the time when people talk about C++ exception handling.
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by azov 4y ago
There is/was FireChat [1], which does exactly that. AFAIK it gained popularity during Hong Kong protests. Looks like it's now discontinued, not sure if there's a successor app. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by azov 4y ago
This is like saying "database normal forms are overrated - they make my SQL more complex and harder to read!" Well, yes, they do. They also make your database slower. This doesn't mean they are overrated - this means they are
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by azov 4y ago
> The robotaxi can only compete on price because that's its only advantage. With robotaxi you get a driver that: - never gets tired - never gets distracted - never gets drunk - never gets upset - never falls asleep
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by azov 4y ago
On the other hand it’s hard (and illegal) to create backup copies of cash :)
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by azov 4y ago
This is what you get when you missed a chance to namespace standard library many years ago. Should have been std.toml .
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by azov 4y ago
What's your mental model of a dog?.. What's happening inside when he barks or wags his tail? Why does he like carrots more than cheese? How does his memory work?.. The way you think of dogs is probably not very different from the
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by azov 4y ago
They have touch bar on some MacBook models. Or is it about the tactile feel of physical buttons?..
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by azov 5y ago
Coming up next: “We don’t use source control. Git just slows us down. Our engineers don't want to spend time writing commit messages when they can be writing features instead. We keep all our code in a shared folder and we trust our
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by azov 5y ago
> bear in mind that “free speech” refers to the government ... First amendment refers to the government not precluding your speech. "Free speech" is a much broader concept.
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by azov 5y ago
You can talk to your local repeater on a $30 radio that fits in a pocket (and the license is easy to get and super-cheap, like, $15 or so).
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by azov 5y ago
There is a law in Russia (going into effect next year) that large IT companies must have local presence, otherwise they will be banned from operating in the country. I believe this is inspired by a similar law in China.
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by azov 5y ago
There was no regulation prohibiting overland supersonic flights over USSR (and hearing sonic booms from military jets was pretty common in some areas)
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by azov 5y ago
Old Navy and Banana Republic are both owned by Gap.
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by azov 5y ago
Typing on real keyboard, for example, is much better than typing on a phone.
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by azov 5y ago
> The worst that could happen is that you accidentally toggle the language settings and all your menu options are in Russian. Did the author even try his own trick?.. Switching to Russian keyboard the way he describes will not change t
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by azov 5y ago
This is weird. Is there anyone even remotely familiar with free software for whom the Doctor part in "Doctor Stallman" sounds more credible than the Stallman part?..

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