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by dwb 1y ago
I agree about Palantir but that’s a big deflection. And don’t patronise me. Paying your bills and paying enough attention to technical details to write good programs are in no way mutually exclusive.
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by dwb 1y ago
Well I just hope I don’t have to use any of the software you build. What a shameful attitude.
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by dwb 1y ago
You are in the wrong job if you don’t want to think about “nerd shit” while programming.
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by dwb 1y ago
The whole point is that string length doesn’t necessarily give you the “length” of a “word”, and both of those terms are not well enough defined.
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by dwb 1y ago
Don’t try and diagnose people like this please. Even if you’re qualified, and I doubt you are, it’s very insensitive.
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by dwb 1y ago
> Golang has syntax different from other imperative languages No it doesn’t, it’s very similar to C.
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by dwb 1y ago
It is all subjective, but if a large number of subjects have a consistent opinion then that is something to take seriously rather than dismiss with absurd hyperbole (“most garbage”, “mostly unreadable”).
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by dwb 1y ago
Readability debates are usually boring because it’s so subjective, but in this case it’s just your (admitted!) unfamiliarity. Lots and lots of people would disagree with you that Go is unreadable. Go isn’t pretty or cute, but one of its str
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by dwb 1y ago
Communism is very widely defined as a classless, moneyless, stateless society. So no, it has not existed in any modern society. Criticise the Soviet Union all you like – any good Marxist should do the same – but this is a very weak put-down
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by dwb 1y ago
The less the government meddles the better – except for at least two very deep classes of meddling? I mean I definitely agree that society should protect what you mention - so maybe the “free market” frame isn’t really useful enough. I’m ma
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by dwb 1y ago
> Safari (Kept alive by Apple cultists) This is a very silly thing to say given the widespread popularity of Apple products. There’s plenty of valid criticisms of Apple, but it being a “cult” is just not a serious or mature argument.
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by dwb 1y ago
A stream is not necessarily always better than an array, of course it depends on the situation. They are different things. But if you find yourself with a flow of data that you don't want to buffer entirely in memory before you process
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by dwb 1y ago
Kind of wish I had the time/energy to help out here cos I'm motivated and interested, but I don't, so I'll just say thanks for the effort and write-up! The emacs-devel thread is interesting too: https://lists.
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by dwb 1y ago
You need to read more carefully what I’ve written, I’ve never suggested that large-breasted women don’t exist or shouldn’t be represented, I talked about the trends and tendencies. I’ve been quite precise in what I’ve written. I’m also quit
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by dwb 1y ago
People have complained about the predominance of women characters in games with unrepresentatively large breasts. You keep conflating things (including your own sexual preferences) and being imprecise to make arguments seem unreasonable whe
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by dwb 1y ago
No one has asked for a breast slider with an unrepresentatively low maximum.
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by dwb 1y ago
> "attractive", "unrealistic beauty standards", "sexualized", or even call it "not having enough representation" These all mean different things.
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by dwb 1y ago
No-one has complained about “attractive women in games”, that is a mischaracterisation. “Attractive” is a subjective judgement anyway. People have complained about the predominance of women in video games adhering to a particular set of bea
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by dwb 1y ago
They serve you adverts even if you pay, so that disqualifies them for me.
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by dwb 1y ago
Yes, but not without something else lined up – it’s tough out there right now. There are absolutely companies out there with much more sensible AI policies. It is good to have experience with it, it’s a tool in the toolbox, but best to be r
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by dwb 1y ago
Cannot believe there are still people doing the “both sides” thing. Nothing remotely justifies the Israeli government’s actions.
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by dwb 1y ago
An economic or social class is a different thing to a race, nationality, or gender, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that it is treated differently.
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by dwb 1y ago
Rubbish - they could look up any unfamiliar terms. Look at how they understood the dinosaur reference. I do find the level of reading quite shocking – it’s not a difficult passage, and I’m not at all well-read in this area of literature.
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by dwb 1y ago
Accessibility isn’t something that can be judged by a program, not even close.
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by dwb 1y ago
I’m interested in capability systems, have wondered about a project like this before, and you may well be onto something, but the self-important (and, as far as I got, insubstantial) philosophy is extremely off-putting.
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by dwb 2y ago
Pointless, unless you’re a cynic and don’t mind relying on LLMs for the work you’ve “studied” for. Doing the work yourself is the entire point.
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by dwb 2y ago
Yeah, it's really really boring. LLMs are not quite nothing, I believe they have some decent uses and will probably come to have more, but I find the breathless hype very depressing. Engineering (as that is what many software developer
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by dwb 2y ago
> In other words, it's people being prigs about social justice. And that's the real problem — the performativeness, not the social justice. No, in almost every usage I've seen it's people objecting to the actual socia
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by dwb 2y ago
I'm not embellishing anything, I'm making my "actual" arguments. I've never argued against seeking a sensible middle-ground. I've said elsewhere that metrics have their place.
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by dwb 2y ago
Of course I agree that the right thing is some sort of middle ground, of roughly what you lay out. But the current hegemonic position is that of metrics-supremacy, so I feel I have to argue most strongly against that to get us to that middl

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