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by cwalv 2y ago
I don't know much about WordPress, but it's pretty amazing to me how much staying power it's had. It seemed crusty, bloated and not long for this world 10 years ago to me.
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by cwalv 2y ago
Nothing wrong with ignorance .. asking for a source, as you did, is implicitly saying you recognize that you may be ignorant. The only shameful ignorance is ignorance of ignorance. That said, I assumed the "You are getting a well-deser
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by cwalv 2y ago
No. If you're going to go thru the effort of air gapping, it should be clear that you need to prevent adversaries from getting physical access as well
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by cwalv 2y ago
> Python is a poorly designed language by many accounts Hubris isn't rare. > what language has it significantly influenced? I can think of at least 1 language designer[1] who doesn't think it's "poorly designed,&qu
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by cwalv 2y ago
> In any other language, async is implemented on top of the threading model There are a lot of other languages. Javascript for example is a pretty popular language where async on a single threaded event loop has been the model since the
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by cwalv 2y ago
> Just the basic assumption that the universe didn't come from anything That's not a scientific assertion though. It's just what many people would say many/most scientists believe
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by cwalv 2y ago
> how about also creating a more direct 'whistleblower' type of system There needs to first be a system of checks and balances for this to work. The people at the top already know and condone the behavior; who are the whistlebl
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by cwalv 2y ago
> with all incentives aligned to the outcomes we collectively agree upon Some things are simply not possible. > If humanity is to mature Recognizing and working within the constraints is maturity
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by cwalv 2y ago
Academia or journalism. Or maybe a lobbyist
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by cwalv 2y ago
It's only a problem if you're into virtue signalling your green cred by "swearing off air conditioning." There is a ton of low hanging fruit to make cooling more efficient, but people just don't consider it worth th
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by cwalv 2y ago
What is a 'half legal' immigrant?
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by cwalv 2y ago
Uber drivers themselves never seem to complain about this. It's almost like those labor protections come with a bunch of other baggage that makes the tradeoff not worth it to them. Of course, it's easy to explain away any perceive
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by cwalv 2y ago
> They quit and no one knows how it works Agreed, this is a very low bar for "amazing"
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by cwalv 2y ago
> The question isn't whether You Ain't Gonna Need It, the question is whether when you do need it will so much have changed that other design-aspects won't be valid anymore. This resonates with me. But IMO YAGNI isn't
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by cwalv 2y ago
That arguably ignores correctness completely
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by cwalv 2y ago
I remember feeling the same way the first time I went up in a small plane (Cessna 150). I had a tourist ride in a small helicopter later (R44) and it was so much smoother. But I was probably safer in the Cessna.
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by cwalv 2y ago
It checks types .. it doesn't check type annotations. Just try: $ Python >>> 1 + '3'
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by cwalv 2y ago
>> and the interpreter is not throwing an error which was my point. > That's true of most compiled languages True of most statically typed languages (usually no need to check at runtime), but not true in Python or other dynami
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by cwalv 2y ago
> A company called Ice Energy manufactures the Ice Bear, a unit designed to work alongside a traditional air conditioner Used to manufacture: they declared ch 7 bankruptcy in 2020
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by cwalv 2y ago
If the price does go up, did it "actually make money"?
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by cwalv 2y ago
IMO it should be 'fix anything when you feel like it.' "Sprints" have given agile a bad name (to the extent it has a bad name, as in gp's complaint). The point is to optimize for changes, as they're inevitable,
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by cwalv 2y ago
Really? Couldn't you just tape a piece of cardboard over it?
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by cwalv 2y ago
> Instead, it’s more appropriate to think of LLMs as always hallucinating. That matches my mental model as well. To get rid of hallucinations, "I don't know" would have to be an acceptable answer, and it would have to outp
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by cwalv 2y ago
What age of kids are you talking about? How much privacy do you think a 6yo deserves?
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by cwalv 2y ago
I'm completely dependent on my phone to remind me of when it's time for a meeting, or sometimes even the route to get back home when I drove to the present location . I once thought I should try harder to deal without these thing
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by cwalv 2y ago
The numbers are real. I was in a similar incredulous position 4-5 years ago. Hiring is still relatively weak, but you can always try to get an offer yourself. Or even just talk to and ask recruiters; they have no reason to lie. You don&#x27
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by cwalv 2y ago
The real gouging is in emergency clinics. They're board certified specialists, and/or you need the service now. $400 plane tickets won't help.
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by cwalv 3y ago
Python being slow, and working to speed python programs up, helped me immensely to build a mental model for what makes programs slow. After learning C in school, when I first learned how python was implemented, I was shocked that it was eve
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by cwalv 3y ago
You can squash commits with squashing unrelated commits.
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by cwalv 3y ago
> At this point I’m almost a specialist in doing deep dives and deciphering what spaghetti code is actually doing and why. I don't always read comments. But when I do, it's after reading the code.

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