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571.
by dymk 2y ago
Yeah, how many bug out bags do you own? How many people do you know have one?
572.
by dymk 2y ago
> which is an extremely rare source of bugs. The vast majority of errors caused by shared mutable state are related to concurrency. Simply so untrue I’m not going to elaborate further
573.
by dymk 2y ago
Getting the job done is the hacker ethos. Sometimes that means buying a solution instead of spending a bunch of time (and money) building it.
574.
by dymk 2y ago
First rule of good design: misuse isn’t the humans fault
575.
by dymk 2y ago
That would indeed be a victory. Look at the status quo.
576.
by dymk 2y ago
Specifically, it's that these foreign workers are not afforded the same protections as American workers. If they were, it would be a much more even playing field, and corporations would not have a "second-class" set of worker
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by dymk 2y ago
Severance wasn't required in the first place, it's just a thing respectable companies do
578.
by dymk 2y ago
> Much of the creative work and important decisions _does_ happen face to face, let alone the ad-hoc ideation and brainstorming from being in the same space. Maybe for you. This is not a universal experience.
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by dymk 2y ago
I've had a disturbingly large number of friends cancel on weekend or late evening plans because something at Amazon broke, and they had to drive into a downtown office to fix it.
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by dymk 2y ago
Google and Meta have thousands of SWEs and multiple buildings up here, I don't know if I'd call that a smaller presence. Smaller than the bay area, sure, but still a major employer.
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by dymk 2y ago
That depends on if you think your dignity is predicated on not having a buttplug in your ass, or not doing acts for money, or some combination of both. At the end (ha) of the day, a job is a job. You get to decide if you think it's dem
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by dymk 2y ago
The next line is it catching its own mistake, and noting i = 9.
583.
by dymk 2y ago
That’s not anything like working there
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by dymk 2y ago
And they’re protected by a union
585.
by dymk 2y ago
Presumably, the tech workers at NYT have a better idea of if striking is a good idea, as they’re employed there and have better visibility into motives and margins
586.
by dymk 2y ago
It's a couple hundred bucks if you can DIY it, which most people cannot or are not willing to do
587.
by dymk 2y ago
You charge it for an hour before you go to bed. 23/24 hours is pretty good.
588.
by dymk 2y ago
Because they don’t have a spare few grand for an instant hot plus installation
589.
by dymk 2y ago
Healthcare, school lunches, diversion programs, research grants
590.
by dymk 2y ago
An explanation is not an excuse. It's tiring seeing people be so, so confident they know what's going on behind the scenes. In reality, they know just as much as everyone else.
591.
by dymk 2y ago
Everybody knows a company can’t be incompetent a bunch of times in a row.
592.
by dymk 2y ago
Query plans may depend on runtime information about a table’s statistics, though
593.
by dymk 2y ago
> Well, if a job can be done by a machine, it should be done by a machine This is an opinion, although I suspect you hold it strongly. > after all, if there is one thing common across humanity, it is the desire for progress. How do yo
594.
by dymk 2y ago
Please elaborate, this sounds fascinating
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by dymk 2y ago
C++ is a notoriously difficult language to parse [1], so hand-rolling a parser (even for a subset of the language) is an impressive feat. It's also interesting that they decided to implement their own tokenizer and lexer instead of usi
596.
by dymk 2y ago
It's really not with wasm. Sure, there is a performance difference. It is not a "whole other level".
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by dymk 2y ago
You are confusing "Number of steps" with "Easy". They're also the same number of steps. If I tell my OS to open an `html` file, it opens a browser window.
598.
by dymk 2y ago
A multi-platform, minimal dependency project such as this is a perfect fit for targeting wasm, which of course is "just" another platform (not sure what additional dependencies you think it would need?)
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by dymk 2y ago
The parser: https://github.com/tpecholt/imrad/blob/main/src/cpp_parser.h > Is the parsing part just to read it's own code it generates? It would seem so. Their hand-rolled parser handles onl
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by dymk 2y ago
Okay, for the sake of the argument, let's assume at some point you amortize the fixed costs of native compilation down to zero. Tell me how running a native binary is inherently easier than opening a webpage?

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