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by blowski 3y ago
No, because the different trade-offs they make all have costs and benefits. For example, C’s precise memory management can give better performance compared to PHP, but also requires more expensive programmers to work with it. If all you’re
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by blowski 3y ago
Of all the incredible technology in a modern smartphone, it’s too hard to make replaceable batteries?
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by blowski 3y ago
Western economies are obsessed with why their productivity has flat-lined. Companies wonder why they have such high tech budgets and so little to show for it. Cal Newport says ”your tech people are spending 90% of their time context switchi
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by blowski 3y ago
I’ve heard of the 2010 one, not the other you mentioned.
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by blowski 3y ago
You get them free with Reddit Premium which does have other (dubious) benefits.
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by blowski 3y ago
I think people will gradually stop using it not as a political stance, but because the UX is so crap. Over time, that stuff matters.
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by blowski 3y ago
What kind of obligation is Reddit under to allow Apollo to continue? They’ve made a decision they think (rightly or wrongly) is in the long-term interests of the company. How long will Reddit survive if they don’t do this? I have no idea. B
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by blowski 3y ago
An SEO bot stole my blog post about Old Street in London, it was now about Ancient Road instead.
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by blowski 3y ago
I really don't understand your requirements.
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by blowski 3y ago
> a single person conspiracy is assigned 1.0 By definition a conspiracy involves more than one person.
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Keynesian Beauty Contest(en.wikipedia.org)
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by blowski 3y ago
> My Grandma went to her favourite store with me and my Mum. Or if you have an English major: > Encased in the golden fabric of familial bonds, my sweet mother and I stood by the side of my Grandmother as we embarked upon a journey to
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by blowski 3y ago
There's a waiting list to use the GPT-4 API. https://openai.com/waitlist/gpt-4-api Anecdotally (and unsurprisingly), they seem to be prioritising those with "value-add" use cases in a variety of industri
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by blowski 3y ago
If I could filter them out on Slack. It is a boon for the over-communicators.
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by blowski 3y ago
I would probably write more code as I wouldn’t need to sit in meetings! That said, I’d be pickier about who I wrote code for.
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by blowski 3y ago
I’ve taken the other approach - I rarely visit Reddit now.
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by blowski 3y ago
They’ve got rid of the alternative mobile UI (I.reddit.com). And a lot of links from old.reddit.com redirect to the main site.
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by blowski 3y ago
It's a source of truth about what code has been written.
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by blowski 3y ago
Crypto may not be a monolith, but the vast majority of it is combinations of bullshit, snake-oil, and techno-utopian dreams.
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by blowski 3y ago
I can play GTA on my Xbox for 3 hours. On an Oculus, my head hurts after 20 minutes.
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by blowski 3y ago
What was Facebook doing with all that money if it wasn’t trying to build a universe?
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by blowski 3y ago
As the old saying goes “simple as possible but no simpler”. There are likely some uses of JavaScript that make the UI simpler.
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by blowski 3y ago
I’m British though quite an avid follower of US news. I have listened to podcasts discussing book bans (e.g. Jon Ronson) and much of the discussion was around removing books from school libraries. Additionally, I searched “fox news book ban
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by blowski 3y ago
Thank you, that's brilliant feedback. Good point about the licensing, I hadn't thought of that. I guess I wanted to choose a game where I don't need to spend half the book explaining the game mechanics just to get the meat of
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by blowski 3y ago
Hijacking this to ask for help on my own side-project. I want to write a story to help young adults (i.e. 10-16 years old) understand how programs work, and the difference between traditional programs and machine learning. My idea is to tel
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by blowski 3y ago
A good Indian or Nigerian engineer is just as good as a Californian or British one. But there are outsourcing companies who put junior developers on difficult projects with almost no support and then overwork them. It’s not racism or coloni
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by blowski 3y ago
I had to check whether you were joking. According to Wikipedia, E. coli is named after “bacteria found in the colon”, whereas the “cole” bit of cauliflower comes from the Latin for stalk.
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by blowski 3y ago
I haven't yet seen anything that can scan an entire codebase and build, say, a data lineage to understand how a value in the UI was calculated. I'm sure it's coming, though.
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by blowski 3y ago
I’ve found it’s very useful for understanding snippets of code, like a 200-line function. But systems are more than “lots of 200-line functions” - there’s a lot of context hidden in flags, conditional blocks, data, Git histories. Maybe one
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by blowski 3y ago
Rhetorical and unfortunately polarising, with a lot of detailed and well-written responses from all perspectives.

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