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by bmitc 2y ago
I've never been truly impressed with an Amazon product. Is Amazon's engineering culture really that strong?
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by bmitc 2y ago
I interviewed there a couple of years ago. It felt like I was being interviewed by robots to be a robot. It was openly hostile towards my background and experience, and to be frank, my interviewers didn't really seem to know all that m
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by bmitc 2y ago
That sounds ... intense, to say the least.
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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. > every change needed to have an automated rollback process How did you accomplish that?
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Has anyone actually worked at a place where quality control was treated as important? I wouldn't consider this exactly surprising.
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by bmitc 2y ago
When I last looked into Lean, I was highly unimpressed, even for doing math proofs. There's no way I'd invest into as a general-purpose language. Idris at least does state that they what people building real programs with it and d
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by bmitc 2y ago
How many billions of both private and public funding has been put into public transportation solutions and technology instead of self-driving cars? The answer is basically 0. Self-driving cars is the most expensive Hot Wheels experiment eve
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> Today, they’ve proven to be safer. I haven't seen that data. Do these cars drive in rainy, wet, snowy weather or in cities with crazy streets such as the northeastern United States? Not that I know of. I think it's a wild lea
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I'd rather wait for the self-driving transportation we have to actually be used and built: trains and subways. It makes nearly zero sense to replace single low occupancy cars with the exact same occupancy but orders of magnitude more c
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Yes, it is true. There are indeed cases where you are not presented with SMS options. And I'm not going to purchase and carry around a hardware key just for the privilege of periodically logging into my Apple accounts. Maybe Apple shou
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by bmitc 2y ago
Apple is the worst about this. The only option is that they send a message to an Apple device. I only have an iPad and not an iPhone or Macbook, so I often simply cannot log into my Apple account because they refuse to do anything else besi
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In general, I really am disturbed that so many websites use my email and phone number for authentication. I use authenticator and password manager apps for a reason. Using my email and phone number is both unsafe and was never approved by m
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by bmitc 2y ago
I'd recommend taking a look at the Teensy. It's much more powerful.
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* pay for it
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It is a general problem in the Python ecosystem and places that use Python that Python is viewed as the only possible language to solve every problem. While saying just use C is very much unhelpful and not even recommended by most, there ar
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You can go to several dozen of languages from Python to get better and far more easier performance without having to go to C. C can have performance, but you have to pay with it.
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by bmitc 2y ago
I program all my personal projects, and I have been able to completely ignore the existence of FAKE and Paket. The only thing missing from NuGet, for me, is the ability to install a package directly from a GitHub repository instead of being
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by bmitc 2y ago
> Makefiles, which just works It should be a crime to mention "Make" and "just works" in a single sentence.
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I think he's afraid, and rightly so, of it getting adopted without being understood but then getting more popular than the original idea and drowning it out. It's the same reason people speak against introducing Douglas Engelbart
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Lol. I see where you're coming from.
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I was speaking somewhat generally because this is a card often played by corporations. However, I think your quotes dance around the issue. > > OpenAI said it complies with all copyright laws when training its models and that “we beli
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On a side note, does anyone use Google books? I haven't found useful information with it in a long time.
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I can't stand corporations with excuseses like this. "But we have too much scale to fix that." "But we need this data to operate." "We can't be responsible at our scale." I say too bad for all of it.
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by bmitc 2y ago
What do you mean by agent? Human, brain, some component of the brain, etc.?
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There really is more than one particular face of poor design in Python. I honestly remain confused why people use and love Python so much. It very much says something.
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Yea, the only way to get close to programming efficiently in Python is to turn MyPy and Pylint up to 11.
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> Because every option sucks for teaching. The answer is really quite simple: F#
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Then why teach Python? All of these issues are because Python is a ridiculously poorly designed language which is still having new features added to it. It's generally a mess.
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> Many of these students have not used the command line. Many do not understand the difference between a text editor and a word processor. After taking a course using Python?
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I don't fetishize physicists by any means, but Linux and Git are nerdy pursuits that caught on somehow, mainly as a revolt against paid software. Git is pretty bad at times, terrible UX, tons of edge cases, and treats the world as if i

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