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by danmaz74 7y ago
Tesla has more data only for the very few situations where you can use the autopilot.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
Data from people driving their own cars is much less relevant than data from your own autonomous driving system driving among real drivers in many different situations (eg urban driving). AFAIK, Waymo has much more of the latter.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
Even those estimates are good for people who have no clue if something can take 2 weeks or 6 months. They're not garbage.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
A friend of mine was raised by his Jehovah's witnesses parents, and absolutely does resent this.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
I saw cases where there really was a waste of stupid unit tests, and no significant tests for the interaction of those units, so I can see where the author is coming from. But my conclusion, after many years of developing with different lev
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by danmaz74 7y ago
Interesting: in America, a tentative proposal to split air-traffic-control services from the faa into a separate entity, as in the rest of the developed world, was last year grounded in Congress. Although big airlines, airports and controll
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by danmaz74 7y ago
I agree that writing them only to catch typos would be stupid. But if you're going to write them regardless, catching typos comes for free. Ps and luckily, even with dynamic languages any decent IDE will catch most typos
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by danmaz74 7y ago
Nowadays I write unit tests for any nontrivial code I create. It takes a little more time than writing type declarations, but IMHO they offer much more value.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
It's an enormous continent, but a lot of it is covered by deserts and other inhospitable environments
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by danmaz74 7y ago
Data oriented design makes sense in video games where perfomance Is very important, but in most business applications having good abstractions which are flexible and easily maintainable is much more important than optimising for cache usage
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by danmaz74 7y ago
In a purely oop language, data structures exist as an implementation detail, but you can never access them directly (as in, bypassing the object interface). That's by design.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
When thinking about extending and refactoring, you also need to keep in mind that static types add a whole layer which is pretty hard to change. There are advantages and disadvantages, having at static types isn't such a silver bullet.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
Less code doesn't imply lower quality code. A more expressive language + less boilerplate allow you to write high quality, readable code with fewer lines.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
The only thing I really don't like here is non indenting when inside case. I know that technically it's not a block, but in practice I find it much less readable
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by danmaz74 7y ago
Cost cutting can happen in the public sector too, especially with governments which only care about cutting taxes for the rich.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
How much of the administrative staff you mention is only needed because hospitals have to work as for profit organizations? And don't forget to add the administrative staff from the insurance companies themselves.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
Ms for sure improved as of late. My critique was against the idea that they always were dev friendly.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
Not the op, but: it's not that every piece of regulation is great, but regulation as a whole protects society as a whole
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by danmaz74 7y ago
> To be fair, I think Microsoft considered Installers a Windows "bug" for many years. And that's the cusp of the problem. A really developer friendly company would have given a simple solution to a developer who had finish
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by danmaz74 7y ago
> MS has always been a really developer-friendly company I beg to differ. Microsoft historically saw developers as customers they wanted to profit from - I remember how much Visual Studio and MSDN access used to cost back in the day, if
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by danmaz74 7y ago
Sorry, I should have added "Starbucks in the US" - edited :)
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by danmaz74 7y ago
Are Starbucks [in the US] open 24/7? Edit: added [in the US].
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by danmaz74 7y ago
The problem comes when people go from "good code needs few comments" to "never add comments to your code".
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by danmaz74 7y ago
It's not about underselling, it's about showing awareness that there are always tradeoffs. I'm much more receptive when they did their due diligence about those and the risks for the project.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
When somebody presents me with a new shiny solution to a hard problem describing it as a silver bullet, I immediately become suspicious. So, it depends a lot on how good Pat says that Y is.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
Automation usually reduces the number of jobs, but increases the pay of those jobs which remain.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
I only remembered because I read a book about Commodore a couple of years ago. At the time I had a C64, but had no idea who Jack Tramiel was :)
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by danmaz74 7y ago
I think it was Jack Tramiel? But the reference about him being the CEO in those two situations is interesting.
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by danmaz74 7y ago
Could be. Later I also worked with machine code on the 68K and it stuck to me less than the 6502, but it might just be because I felt that more like a chore than when I was dabbling with the 6502 (which I learned when I was just a kid).
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by danmaz74 7y ago
Not OP, but I learned assembly on the 6502, and its simplicity make it easy to create a mental model of the internals of a CPU - these relate very well with a low level language like c, even if today's CPUs are so much more advanced (a

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