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by dml2135 1y ago
> Literally everything we buy and use in the city gets more expensive because of this law. Aruguable. It’s very possible that the time saved by not sitting in traffic will outweigh the congestion charge for delivery trucks (which is what
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by dml2135 1y ago
> Part of that mitigation is accepting the possibility that if the Mossad want to murder you by blowing up your toaster, nobody's going to stop them. People are not accepting that possibility, they are assuming it will not happen to
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by dml2135 1y ago
> This is no different than, say, the typical anecdote of a junior engineer dropping the database. Should the junior be held accountable? Of course not - it's the senior's fault for allowing that to happen at the first place. I
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by dml2135 1y ago
You are moving goalposts significantly here -- a small CSS hack is a far cry from your docker infrastructure.
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by dml2135 1y ago
I mean, it's still a pretty good way to make money, when compared to other fields and not to other engineers at FAANG.
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by dml2135 1y ago
> Because the only thing people do on a Nintendo Switch is game. Well, this becomes a bit of a circular argument, but certainly part of the reason for that is the only thing one can do on a Nintendo Switch is game, due to its restricti
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by dml2135 1y ago
This is a result of there being a general consensus that video game consoles are "a thing" that we are all used to, and that the loosely-coupled movements of right-to-repair and antitrust are not seeking to disrupt the video game
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by dml2135 1y ago
I’m all for critiques of capitalism, but it’s extremely unconvincing to say capitalism must go, but at the same time, you don’t know what to replace it with. How are you so convinced that there is a better solution than capitalism if you ca
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by dml2135 1y ago
Honestly I don’t remember the exact price so I may be exaggerating the cost disparity… but I am not exaggerating the pile of fridges so the disparity was certainly there.
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by dml2135 1y ago
I remember that my school rented out mini-fridges to students. It was about $150 to rent a dingy, used fridge for the year. The cost to buy a similar fridge was about $100. So of course, students would buy fridges, then discard them at the
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by dml2135 1y ago
> My dad would joke that all the graduates would throw away their tie-dye shirts and go to work on wall street (not completely a joke). I had a friend in college that did literally this. Guy sold weed throughout his time there. While he
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by dml2135 1y ago
> Everybody talks about evironmentalism execept they don't actually practice it. My impression is that only about half the population, at most, even pretends to care about environmentalism.
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by dml2135 1y ago
> don’t mind imposing a $180 pay cut every month to the poor LIRR monthly passes are anywhere from $180 to $400+. Are you advocating for making those free as well, or is that different somehow?
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by dml2135 1y ago
It's new yes, but the comment you are replying to asked how it is different . It's simply another toll.
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by dml2135 1y ago
This is the same thing, except the different road is "the subway", or even the same road and "walking".
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by dml2135 1y ago
Why is it inevitable? Progress towards a goal in the past does not guarantee progress towards that goal in the future. There are plenty of examples of technology moving forward, and then hitting a wall.
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by dml2135 1y ago
> I am still trying to sort out why experiences are so divergent. I've had much more positive LLM experiences while coding than many other people seem to, even as someone who's deeply skeptical of what's being promised abo
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by dml2135 1y ago
And if someone presents a plan, explains that plan, and is completely wrong repeatedly and often, in a way that makes it seem like they don’t even have any concept whatsoever of what they may have done wrong, wouldn’t you start to consider
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by dml2135 1y ago
I think this is all a great argument for a strong social safety net. It’s not a great argument for keeping people in pointless jobs doing work that has been made obsolete by automation.
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by dml2135 1y ago
You don’t get 1/10 the chargers for 1/10 the money, thats not how projects work. You need to hire people, make a plan, and execute on the plan, and all of that has upfront costs. The same in government as in business — why do you
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by dml2135 1y ago
They didn’t spend most of that money yet. This is a story about a program not getting off the ground in two years and then being cancelled by the political opposition. Is two years too slow? You could certainly argue that. But this really i
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by dml2135 1y ago
Did you read the article? The program was just paused, and most of the money was never spent. > Approval of funding does not necessarily mean the money has been dispersed. Only about $500 million of the $5 billion allotted for NEVI had b
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by dml2135 1y ago
This has been my experience as well, and really leaves me puzzled as to what anyone is gushing about. Can I just about corral the LLM into producing working output? Yea, sometimes. From a technology perspective, that’s pretty cool! But is i
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by dml2135 1y ago
> If you love coding and you hate AI, you're probably more committed to some sort of ideology than you are the love of technology. As someone that you may characterize as one of these people, I can share some perspective. First, I w
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by dml2135 1y ago
Why should one be entitled to do one thing for their entire career? The world changes. Those changes cause a need, a job fulfills that need. The world changes again, the need disappears. Why should the job then persist?
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by dml2135 1y ago
It’s not automation that is the problem, it’s that the fruits of that automation disproportionately go to those at the top. Don’t blame software engineering for that, blame capitalism.
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by dml2135 1y ago
Can you share more about what makes a good audit log? My company doesn’t currently have one and I’m a little lost on where to start. Should this be at the application code level, or the ORM, or the database itself?
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by dml2135 1y ago
I think this is just the tradeoff you need to make. I’m not aware of a solution where you can mix-and-match drives but also get the write performance of a traditional RAID array.
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by dml2135 1y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean here? You seem to be alluding to a stance that Francis had towards Russia that I am not familiar with.
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by dml2135 2y ago
Lol yea this mostly worked out for cases where just a few chapters were assigned.

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