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by clnq 3y ago
The statement could be seen as harmful. But if you put all statements ever said on a gamut between harmful and helpful, at the risk of being recursive, I’d say about 50% would be on either side. That’s why thresholds are important. The way
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> Kitchen knives are also unsafe and dangerous yet with their correct use we can create wonderful meals. This is very well put and mirrors my sentiment as a long-term C++ swe. I also think that the following quote is rather misrepresenta
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> You'd probably get a more meaningful discussion if you had instead asked what desktop environment they use. Possibly, but that’s not what GP wanted to know.
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There's a risk of significantly upsetting the employees by discriminating against remote work, so this experiment is probably not worth trying. Another reason it's not worth trying is that the conclusion might be already evident -
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> car centric transportation is NOT scalable. “When intentionally broken, this transport doesn’t work. So it is not scalable.” There are many ways to scale car-centric transportation that have been done successfully in countries other th
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by clnq 3y ago
$40k can build legacies much larger than a blog website. If one wants to buy legacy, this is a waste of money.
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Oh. Drop-down with stores then and the closest one picked by IP location or device location API. Still no need for Google maps unless a user wants to see locations on the map.
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Drop-down list with regions where the closest is selected based on your IP automatically? We used IP to determine regions before there even was Google Maps.
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There are some LoRa watches that last quite long. So I wonder if WiFi or 4g, at least at intervals, would make a week-long battery with low hundreds or slightly under a hundred of of mAh impossible.
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I’ve been dreaming of a truly programmable (not just apps) e-ink watch with 4g or at least WiFi for a while. A week-long battery life, cellular connectivity, visibility in the sunlight, and it should be cheap if it’s cost+ priced. Oh the th
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Don’t expect people aren’t doing these individual things. Reuse, buying ethical products, recycling, public transit, and so on. It’s just that you’d never see the needle moved this way, so you probably wouldn’t be able to tell how many peop
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It feels like people are downvoting this because it’s religious and not because it’s a bad discussion point, which this is not.
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With our highly individualistic and stratified society, I don’t think we have the voting power or any negotiating power against deeply capitalistic corporations. They simply follow the capitalistic imperative - optimize capital gains. We -
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Yes, but we are one proverbial red button away from nuclear hell on Earth no ancestor could have prepared for, where a lot of anxiety will translate into a lot of lives being saved. So we’re not too far from being adapted to the modern worl
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The author could implement the deep-copying pointer and share the .h on their GitHub. You don’t need a language extension for this in C++ as types can implement operator overrides and copy and move constructors. But I doubt many people woul
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It’s possible that certain “normal” things have become unaffordable for the middle class, but easy credit is temporarily hiding the new reality. If that’s the case, we might be giving a lot of credit to subprime borrowers at the moment. Inc
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> If you have type 1 diabetes, you will probably struggle to get any meaningful amount of life insurance. This is not true, and sadly it's a harmful myth in the T1D community. More info - https://www.diabetes.co.uk/d
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I definitely like that Copilot does as instructed without talking back or lecturing me.
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Worth is entirely subjective unless there is intrinsic value in these things. For example - if no one listened to or interacted with either, would we still say there's value in their existence? There is probably very little. Otherwise,
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Fortunately they didn't do that and instead got this in front of regulators.
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A lot of software wraps old code. There is no reason to replace what works and works well. Besides, modern doesn’t generally mean more reliable or performant. It’s often the other way around. Over the last few decades, embedded programming
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We definitely “Google” for information online and not “search” for it though. It would be interesting if Google lost its trademark.
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Where there is smoke, there is fire. In my observation, forced RTO in tech is just one symptom of larger inefficiencies and mismanagement. The whole RTO trend in software seems to be just friction-causing busywork for middle managers. Peopl
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I wish we could stop it from lecturing me about how unsafe what I do for work is. I am a SWE and I work close to the metal. ChatGPT is helpful, but it always says I shouldn’t do what I’m doing and I should use safer abstractions for my work
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It gets the job done in most cases it is used.
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The US. There is no other country.
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I wonder if Gmail data is considered publicly available, given that Google has argued in court that “a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties.” If so, how long before we can
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Dogs bark but the caravan moves on, as the (probably) Turkish saying goes.
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It’s very clear that in the interest of business, those statements should not be made by an employee. They are free to make these claims in a way that doesn’t damage the business. Like a second personal Twitter account.
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It has never happened to me but I did have days when it was difficult to get started and I didn’t do much . I guess you can just say you’re still working on whatever you were working on. There’s probably no value in emphasizing you were st

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