dkarl

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by dkarl 2y ago
It's still a sea, even if you stay within sight of land.
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> very well-behaved CSV files You were incredibly lucky. I've never heard of anyone who insisted on integrating via CSV files who was also capable of consistently providing valid CSV files.
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That study looks exclusively at people who chose violence in situations where it had predictably negative consequences for themselves. I don't think studies of people who commit crimes in heavily policed societies and predictably end u
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> Maybe those organizing a concrete workplace would be able to give you concrete answers Maybe that's why I've never seen anyone trying to unionize a workplace I've been in. The abstract idea of a union has been enough to
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I don't see any argument or evidence for the assertion that people who engage in atypical levels of violence have atypical personalities. We would expect sociopathy to be a factor in making someone more prone to violence, but there&#x2
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I have a hard time with this pitch because I've watched people burn out working alongside me, on the same team, for the same boss, on the same problems, for entirely personal reasons. I've also been in shitty situations with shitt
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Hard agree. A library should not inflict complex use cases' complexity on simple use cases, but sometimes they do, either because they're poorly designed or because they're overkill for your use case. But often I see pain and
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> I think it comes from a fallacy of take a small 20-line function in C, it can be made bug-free and fully tested It can't. You can make yourself 99.9...% confident that it's correct. Then you compose it with some other functio
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I used to agree with you, but then I found out how most people get through audiobooks and TV shows. They just miss stuff! They zone out for a few seconds or a few minutes. They take phone calls and move the laundry into the dryer without pa
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Being "seen and validated" translates to "feeling superior" when people want to be seen and validated on a scale that very few other people are, and I think many people naively want this.
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It's a really fun idea and a terrible example of applying AI to a problem. An average person with an internet connection is going to do a terrible job of getting historical details right, and the only thing AI is doing better here is g
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Positivity has become politically suspect. It's doubly sad to be unhappy about how things are going in the world generally and also to be nervous about enjoying when something goes right. It's sad that making a positive comment ab
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> But absolutely worst of all is the arrogance. The hubris. The thinking that because some human somewhere has figured a thing out that its then just implicitly known by these types. I worked in an organization afflicted by this and stil
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A lot of people plan on living twenty years past retirement and leaving some behind for charities and/or younger relatives.
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> 20 years later, you realize you burned two precious decades accumulating money that, honestly, does not help you at all make sense or use of the next two. Ah, but it does. Speaking as someone approaching fifty, you feel every penny. Ev
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> Is it reasonable to assume that the natural decline in cognitive performance over time is offset by the gains in experience and expertise? It depends on the task, but overall, for the work I do as a software developer, yes. I would say
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This didn't sit well with me either. In the movie, Lawrence tries to resolve his apparent split loyalties by bringing the Arab and British interests into alignment and has a couple of initial exhilarating successes, but he ultimately f
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I tried Cruise in Austin, and it was nothing more than a curiosity. What should have been a ten minute ride took almost forty minutes because the car took a circuitous route with lots of backtracking, presumably because the cars were progra
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I agree that it's fluffy and empty. Utopia in art isn't worth much except for advertising. However... > Concepts like "Abundance without waste" are like saying "Humane torture", sorry that's an oxymoron
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I have an issue with Messenger notifications on one device, a laptop. The messages get delivered just as quickly on this laptop as on other devices, but the notifications can take minutes to come up. Also, the number of unread messages some
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It's hard to take that seriously as a vision of the future. As an expression of values and aesthetics completely untethered from reality, sure. It makes a great yogurt commercial. But realistically, as something to strive for? So much
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The code the author gave is Java, so the hash map is most likely a ConcurrentHashMap, and it's safe to access and modify concurrently. The author's code is simplistic and inefficient, but it won't deadlock, it won't corr
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Agreed. For readability, ignoring DRY, my hierarchy of preference is: 1. One reasonable line of code 2. Several lines of plain code 3. A function call, moving the implementation elsewhere 4. A gnarly one-liner (The tough part about this is
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Lately I've been thinking about the airplane design analogy for writing software. Supposedly (possibly apocryphally) Bill Gates said that measuring software development progress by lines of code written was like measuring aircraft desi
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We've forgotten what politics is. We think it's just about being right and having our rightness rewarded and memorialized by history. Less than 40% of the adult population has a college degree. Less than 45% of voters have college
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I always put IDE-specific ignores in a global gitignore since not every project gitignore has an entry for every IDE.
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How would you define the odds for the industry as a whole? The odds depend on the project, the team, the tech stack, and the organizational environment. No matter how long I work (twenty-five years so far) I think my personal experience is
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I've been trying for years to track down a quote I lost, and it sounds like something you might know, because I think it would have resonated with you. It was from Charles Simonyi, talking about how as he got older, his prodigious abil
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> Keeping the code organized is useful and is a part of basic hygiene, but it's far from the defining characteristic of the craft. I'm with you, but I don't think it makes sense to elevate one absolutely over the other as
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> Most people have been “just writing” on the web for over a decade. Look at where it’s gotten us. Writing on blogs creates some valuable content I benefit from reading, and a lot of content that costs me nothing because I'm never a

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