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by camgunz 1y ago
To everyone's detriment, gofmt doesn't wrap lines. That's why--combined with the truly evil entrenchment of tabs--lines in Go code tend to be ridiculously long. I'm not saying it's an easy problem (my info comes fro
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by camgunz 1y ago
Whenever I find myself trapped in one of these arguments, I discover pretty quickly that the difference between me (an 80 cols person) and my adversary (someone much stupider) is that they're using 1 big beautiful buffer, and I have 6-
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by camgunz 1y ago
I googled "to whit vs. to wit" and can't find anything that substantiates this. I think "to wit" is actually correct.
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by camgunz 1y ago
> I appreciate your "there are two sides to every conflict" point Nope, deliberately not saying this. I super don't care what the "whose fault is this" tally is. I'm only interested in saving lives and figur
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by camgunz 1y ago
I spend a fair amount of time flagging stuff in those threads that's outright anti-Semitic or propaganda, and if that goes on too long I just flag the whole post and move on. It's one thing to have an in-depth discussion about col
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by camgunz 1y ago
Tech has to believe this. We're all victims of the Upton Sinclair "it's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it" thing. A lot of tech is just straight up bad. Th
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by camgunz 1y ago
My fave website of this ilk is superbad.com. I go back here and there and I'm instantly 17 again, hee-heeing at the postmodernity of it all
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by camgunz 1y ago
Isn't this what Reddit is for
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by camgunz 1y ago
This metric has obvious problems, but 120/134 of YC's S25 batch are AI-based [0]. 90% is, I guess, better than 98%, but woof. So, depends on what you mean by "thriving", but if diversity factors in there at all then at l
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by camgunz 1y ago
I think it's more likely the assumption is you'd expect a far more diversified market. If we're really in a situation where the rational, good reasons move is to effectively ignore 98% of companies, that doesn't say good
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by camgunz 1y ago
Maybe mild, sure, but it's a clear shilling accusation.
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by camgunz 1y ago
From the guidelines: Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and
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by camgunz 1y ago
It shouldn't be possible to do this. We shouldn't let companies save themselves by doing this to their workers. Those companies should just go away. It's not the 1800s anymore.
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by camgunz 1y ago
So many counter examples. Who wrote the unreal engine, or unity, or khtml, or Vim. How many people worked a regular 40 hour week at id Software? This kind of thinking is a disease and a race to the bottom. I don't think we should stop
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by camgunz 1y ago
The first link I posted does what you're asking; the only non English province is Quebec.
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by camgunz 1y ago
> PISA score is a form of grading, is it not? No, it's an independent test. You can completely "fail" the PISA and it'll have no impact on your matriculation. > I'm sure it doesn't just compare English pr
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by camgunz 1y ago
Some of TFA is pretty absurd ("knowledge of terms like neural network, large language model and graphical processing unit has become mandatory" graphical processing unit oh no! also it's graphics processing unit!), but the la
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by camgunz 1y ago
Grades have nothing to do with PISA scores.
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Do you think that makes reading pedagogy harder or easier?
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by camgunz 1y ago
It's definitely not innate. While phonics test scores are pretty high, PISA and KS 2 reading scores are down. The DfA on reading in 2021 is like, _solely_ about phonics. The 2023 update adds tons more guidance beyond phonics. Comparabl
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by camgunz 1y ago
Well, it's an old article. Comparable countries Canada and Ireland with more holistic approaches (including phonics) have way better PISA scores. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/656dc3321104c...
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by camgunz 1y ago
APM keeps pushing phonics, but the UK tried it and it's been a disaster: reading ability craters after a couple years. It's not the solution. https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10..
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by camgunz 1y ago
That's interesting, are there comparable examples? Like, I'm sure China could do this by telling everyone what home values will be for the next 3 years while they build literally millions of housing units, but I'm skeptical w
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by camgunz 1y ago
Oh I think it's getting way better. It's wild how fast this is all happening. People are alive today who remember when there were no highways and no commercial air travel. We're in extreme early days and iterating fast; I&#x2
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by camgunz 1y ago
Nah I think we need to go big. This will require a big investment and we won't recoup it unless a big part of it is redoubling our high-end manufacturing and agriculture. This is stuff like robotics, sensors/chips/solar panel
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by camgunz 1y ago
Hey I think she was basically right (I think her ideas on local control are applicable way beyond building neighborhoods). But we have to admit the ability to get up at some board meeting and veto stuff was her idea. It wasn't perverte
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by camgunz 1y ago
> SF is surrounded by water on three sides. Palo Alto was the suburb. San Jose was the exurb. You could build 50 story towers all over San Francisco and it wouldn't suddenly make it feasible to build on water. > New York has a si
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by camgunz 1y ago
The housing crisis is a cultural problem. We don't want to build density, and we don't want to build transportation, because this all lowers housing values, and besides the millions of homeowners you'll piss off, you'll
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by camgunz 1y ago
I am really glad you replied. > Sure, that’s sort of true but missing context. Bormann (and others) wanted to add things such as separate string and byte sequence types. The MessagePack creator refused for years. Fair enough it’s his f
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by camgunz 1y ago
Oh, I see this is less of a "look at ChatGPT go" and more of a "yawn we also do this I guess". OK fair.

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