dmitriid

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by dmitriid 4y ago
Nothing in the regulation requires the dark pattern popups that the tech puts up. Literally nothing.
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All laws are implemented after the fact.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Why is that we still can't have a perfect or near-perfect text-to-speech Define perfect ;) Two different people will read the same text slightly (or not slightly) differently. A great example is this brilliant and funny rendition
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Apple is big enough they could just tell authors "here is our new narration feature for users. If you don't like it, pull your books off our platform.". You assume that it is authors who sell books on Apple platform (or
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I'm very surprised they make this a feature for authors, rather than a feature for users. Licensing. Audiobooks are a different license from ebooks, and trying to narrate an audiobook will infringe the licensing terms.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> If you are also able to prevent people and animals from accessing the roads and fix the weather. If all cars are "AI", and move in uniform fashion, and know each others' location, then this might be an easier issue to so
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> No I want to be served by a Robot, and hope mcd;s l Ah yes. Let's ignore the reality of the now and dream about this glorious robot future. > and none of it is relevant and most of them do not work for unions or need unions to
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Ah yes. The bad horrible no good government abuse of vacation, sick pay, overtime pay...
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> Would you rather drive on a road where every other driver is an AI or on a road where the average driver is a fair selection of the current drivers? Thing is, if the roads are made so that only "AI" cars can drive on them, yo
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Try Noita. No idea how people discovered all the ways to complete all the quests in the game. See e.g. https://noita.wiki.gg/wiki/Sun_Quest_Guide Same goes for Spelunky, or Caves of Qud, or nearly any modern roguelike&
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> But at least the unions guarantee certain things like Except in VFX which is as young as gaming industry and suffers from the same problems.
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Where as in a language that actually has blocks you don't need to make these arbitrary decisions and hunt for the exact way of copying a block of text.
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> The IDE doesn't need to figure out whether the program is correct. Only has to treat code blocks as defined by the language syntax. Exactly. It treats these blocks as such. And it will inevitably format them incorrectly from the p
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> That seems to be the sweet spot to not get abused, either by management nor unions. Startups suck, Huge enterprises suck In Europe I've worked for startups, I've worked for corporations. Everywhere I had the same situation: s
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I am unclear why I should not be? Because yours is a very narrow view that makes you blind to reality and externalities. You, and individual, don't exist in a vacuum. - when you go to your favorite restaurant or a burger joint, yo
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Forced vacations are also a way to ensure that the employee doesn't burn out
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by dmitriid 4y ago
What good is a high wage when you either don't have the time to use it (crazy working ours/short vacations) or still need to spend it on things like medical care? Not everyone works at Facebook or Google. A friend of mine works as
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> I have no children, I will never have children, and I rarely get sick, and I hate to trave Ah yes. Because it's only people with children who get sick, need time off work, wage protection or pay for overtime, how could I forget. &
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> If unions were effective I’d expect at least somewhat comparable wages… but that’s not the case. Because wage is all you care for. How about: maternity leave, paid sick leave, child support, paid vacation days, wage protections, etc. e
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Or you end up like Europe. With long maternity leave, paid sick days, overtime pay etc.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> The origin text that you're cutting will have a precise syntax determining where the block starts and ends. Will it? Are you sure? > Just copy it to the new position, and change the indentation level to that of the target posit
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by dmitriid 4y ago
> They are both correct, but have different semantic meaning. Exactly > it simply has to infer the semantic meaning of both, which is How exactly do you want the parser for the formatter to "infer semantic meaning"? It has n
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> So it's not ambiguous. It is. you can parse something given how it's indented. Doesn't mean that the resulting code is actually correct (from the logic point of view). And you cannot properly format it because the logic
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Of course it can't know about non-existent sources. But when the sources are there, it's light years ahead of a simple text search that is grep/ripgrep.
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by dmitriid 4y ago
All code I've seen that uses Ramda looks like the one in the example. No idea what your comment about jack shit is about. Haskell is often just as bad as Ramda. Edit. By the way. All the unusable and unreadable jargon that Haskell uses
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It can be parsed but you cannot reliably format it. IDEA with its powerful formatters frequently struggles to properly format either of them, resulting in invalid code.
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You greatly underestimate the complexity of games, and greatly overestimate the complexity of working with distributed systems over social graphs
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by dmitriid 4y ago
Just use a proper IDE. It doesn't care about how your code is structured and can easily show you what you look for in context . (And other tools like symbol search https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/searchin
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And Rich Harris who developed Svelte while working there (and used by The New York times)
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> I'm starting to have the same change of perspective for a different reason: widespread use of formatters. Formatters will no save you from the many, many, many cases where indentation is simply ambiguous. Edit: that is, if you g

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