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by blunte 6y ago
If the code were particularly bad, or there were much better implementation approaches, that can spark a nice discussion which might actually teach more than simply reading good code. Postmortems of failures tend to stick a lot more than go
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by blunte 6y ago
The value of reading code depends somewhat on the language and context. Some languages are so expressive and low friction that they read as easily as we breathe air. And some contexts are so well understood that we already know what is go
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by blunte 6y ago
I believe that many malevolent people, or at least their followers, would be much less malevolent or active if they had their basic needs met plus a little bit of cushion to enjoy life. To be more specific, many of the worst people have liv
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by blunte 6y ago
I just watched a not-incredibly-terrible Russian (English overdub) Netflix war film that featured a Boston Robotics dog with a mounted gun. Maybe it was a fake (probably). Either way, it's a bit like selling your sister into prostitut
695.
by blunte 6y ago
Sure, but the process of getting there will either directly physically harm some humans or just otherwise be highly financially inefficient (in the case of developing wartime technologies which have no wartime purpose).
696.
by blunte 6y ago
I don't look like a hippie, but I totally subscribe to the idea of "make love, not war". I imagine what the possibilities would be if we funded general non-military projects with the kind of money that goes into the military.
697.
by blunte 6y ago
Presumably we'll see (or not see, but it will happen) improvements in all steps of the process of packing, sending, and delivering goods. This is a... good thing. And perhaps with more automation and logistics improvements, reusable l
698.
by blunte 6y ago
You won't have to leave them, as within a year there will be nothing recognizable to leave. It will have been replaced with free content wrapped in a bow and pricetag, or simply the best free content redirecting to similar paid conten
699.
by blunte 6y ago
Fortunately there are a lot of people who travel, and modern phones take remarkably good photos easily. The biggest immediate impact the "photographer" has is on framing the shot; but with high res images and you being willing to
700.
by blunte 6y ago
Whether they can or not is less relevant. Getty has already demonstrated that it is willing to sell free works to people who don't realize they can get it for free (legally). I'm not even talking about where they take other peop
701.
by blunte 6y ago
nobody needs to say that anymore; it is a given. if you sell your company to a Getty or Facebook or Zoom, for example, you really were just selling your customers and eliminating yourself as competition, for probably a nice payoff. if you
702.
by blunte 6y ago
Ponzi which predictably collapsed when the rate of new funding couldn’t keep pace with the compounding interest payouts.
703.
by blunte 6y ago
Eventually they will need a solution which can grip boxes more like a human (especially being able to adjust grip to handle boxes that begin to deform). This one-side suction system will obviously fail if the box itself cannot hold its cont
704.
by blunte 6y ago
There are so many of these scams in the wild. I have a former client who is constantly spamming me with "can you check this out and tell me if it is legit?" emails. They are so formulaic and obvious, but people go blind with gree
705.
by blunte 6y ago
Let's say that an individual gets the recommended education and is given enough loans to leave school with 60+k in debt. Unless that person is able to get a _really_ good job, this debt will sap any momentum they might have otherwise d
706.
by blunte 6y ago
Is an education un-exercised worth having? The experience of getting the education probably has some (hopefully positive) impact on the individual, but if there is no real opportunity to use that education later, there may also be some psy
707.
by blunte 6y ago
The fact that an individual can accumulate that kind of wealth while another individual can work three jobs and barely live is an indication of some fundamental imbalance. I'm glad you used Warren Buffet as an example. He has made a p
708.
by blunte 6y ago
There's a lot more of their prior art in WSJ. At this point you could just use tune an AI writer with appropriate prior works and churn out opinion pieces like this, each unique, to send to every right leaning newspaper. Oh wait, tha
709.
by blunte 6y ago
They write these pieces for the same audience who watches Fox News and listens to Sean Hannity. This helps keep their base supporters (or supporters of people and policies they align with) speaking the same language and believing the same
710.
by blunte 6y ago
Phil Gramm and John Early have been trying to spin a story like this many times in the last several years on WSJ. Indeed there are always different numerical outcomes when you change your methods and definitions, so it is possible that by t
711.
by blunte 6y ago
That is tricky to implement. What consumption counts for tax purposes? Should luxury items be taxed higher? For example, poor people have no choice but to eat, and their food costs won't be that much lower than a rich person's f
712.
by blunte 6y ago
Also, these days the complexity of our creations is such that almost never could one person really personally succeed without the contribution of others. A common complaint among some groups is that they worked really hard and built succes
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by blunte 6y ago
I think it’s important to be specific. Probably it was not who we think of when we say “googlers”, but rather it was upper management within Google. Frankly, I see two googles: the people who make a lot of decent or great stuff, and the upp
714.
by blunte 6y ago
Ddg is usually adequate for my needs, but especially with code related searches, I often have to fall back to google. I’m glad ddg exists, and it’s nice to see them improving over time.
715.
by blunte 6y ago
Here’s an idea - try to allow the worker to work where they feel happiest and most productive. Have a decent office for those who like going in, and allow some to work remotely.
716.
by blunte 6y ago
I’m pleased with this, but it does remind me of Red Barchetta by Rush.
717.
by blunte 6y ago
Yes. And after the boat is righted, fire every exec from IT Director upward through CEO. That last part may not be necessary though, as customers will jump ship and the company will probably sink anyway.
718.
by blunte 6y ago
Yup, I tried two times on Amazon, and both times I received cheap fakes. One of the fakes I received was really low grade garbage, and the other is functional but certainly not as precise as it should be. I gave up trying.
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by blunte 6y ago
One would assume that SpaceX engineers would be smarter than the average person, but based on the details of this story he doesn’t sound very bright at all.
720.
by blunte 6y ago
Not speaking negatively about the author of this post, but union should have been the obvious tool to use in a scenario like this. SQL is very powerful and really not so complicated. Schema, index, and constraint design can be quite challe

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