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by emsy 6y ago
My experience (I know a lot of people that are into conspiracies) is that if you show people they have insufficient knowledge to make their conclusions it makes them feel uncertain in their belief. They’ll draw back into the certainty of th
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OpenAI Model Generates Python Code(youtu.be)
3 points by emsy 6y ago|1 comments
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YouTube deleting Palmer Luckey’s comments about CCP’s Wumao division(twitter.com)
157 points by emsy 6y ago|57 comments
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by emsy 6y ago
I can see how the author thinks this is quirky but actually it’s just a mental obstacle that tripped me up while reading.
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by emsy 6y ago
Slightly disappointed to discover upon clicking the link that PgCon does not in fact stand for Paul Graham Con.
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by emsy 6y ago
Microsoft lost any trust I had in them for building hardware. Of the 5 people I know with a Surface, only 1 doesn't have any issues. The other 4 have problems with the touch input, boot loops and loud fans on low CPU load. Software iss
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by emsy 6y ago
The point is that for someone starting out, web development looks complex. And it is. I know it because I teach this stuff. Ignoring 99% of the industry and use the bare minimum to write a web app is something an expert does. When you’re a
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by emsy 6y ago
Yes, that’s correct. And also missing the point.
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by emsy 6y ago
> Developers wouldn't expect to be able to jump into kernel development, or database development, and find it to be a breeze. Yes, that’s correct. In my experience, in those fields the complexity of the solution scales with the comp
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by emsy 6y ago
This shouldn’t be the top comment. Yes, switching fields and expecting to just work professionally is naive and insulting towards the other profession. Has web dev a lot of legacy cruft and suffers from over-engineering? Absolutely. Even fo
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by emsy 6y ago
I know people like that.
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by emsy 6y ago
> you do a lot of disk writes and stat calls on tens of thousands of files. Found the root problem right there. What the fuck is going on in modern web dev.
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by emsy 6y ago
I loved MGS and ZoE growing up. But revisiting them, I found the stories to be cringy teen crap. The kind of stuff that makes one think “how could I have liked that?”. Death Stranding is in the same league. There’s nothing wrong with that.
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by emsy 6y ago
Oh yeah behind patents and embedded in corporate secrecy that is almost guaranteed to be irrecoverable once the people that created the technology leave or die. I don’t think cooperations are bad and they should be reimbursed for their expe
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by emsy 7y ago
I’ve seen enough colleagues who are just in it for the money and found a niche inside the company that avoids anything demanding. In that regard you can work in a mind numbing fashion that other, often lower paid, professions also have. I w
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by emsy 7y ago
But then it wouldn't be from scratch.
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by emsy 7y ago
I'd argue most programmers would have a harder time writing reliable audio code from scratch than the rendering part.
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by emsy 7y ago
And lowers the volume significantly. Especially on high impedance headphones.
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by emsy 7y ago
If it wasn't for the 16:9 screen I'd buy it in an instant. Specs are sufficient for me, the battery life sounds enticing and the screen is matte. I'm just curious if I'm the only one that has such a strong preference for
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by emsy 7y ago
Spotlight is better at understanding multiple languages (accidentally typing the English name on a German System often yields the right result), synonyms and results inside windows. I think this is mainly due to Apples accessibility efforts
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by emsy 7y ago
> Plus would it really be an "iPad" with you sacrifice the whole security model to allow debugging? The security model being that you need to be attached to a Mac to allow debugging? Other than that I'm totally with you. T
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by emsy 7y ago
This is below baseline. I still don't understand why it's important for them to make compromises at the keyboard, which is an essential part of the notebook experience. A keyboard has keys, keys have a certain height. Get over it
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by emsy 7y ago
Try pressing the windows key (granted, it's not as pretty as Spotlight).
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by emsy 7y ago
Right, but that doesn’t invalidate the previous decisions made at that time. And it’s not only a problem in software. Accidents can happen because engineers trade material strength to reduce weight only to find out that over a number of gen
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by emsy 7y ago
No, they did what good engineers do: They analyzed the problem and found a feasible and robust solution. Following rules without thinking is not what good programmers do. I’d argue that most problems of modern software development stem from
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by emsy 7y ago
Functions overbearing their purpose can be done in large functions too, arguably even easier because it’s harder to express the precise purpose in the function‘s name. And the turnover argument applies to any code convention, which makes it
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by emsy 7y ago
Since this comment finds a lot of agreement I'm going to play the devils advocate. Private function for the sake of documentation are fine. At least if they are all on the same level of abstraction. If you've ever worked in a team
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by emsy 7y ago
I finished it when it released and liked it back then. Recently, I got the remaster and played it about half way through until I admitted to myself that it's just not a great game. It's not bad either. But it doesn't really s
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by emsy 7y ago
The last of us is just a generic 3rd person shooter saved by its cinematics.
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by emsy 7y ago
Cache incoherency, which will cost us more and more performance as CPUs will improve slower in the future.

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