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by flukus 6y ago
China hasn't been able to keep it to zero, new cases have been imported and there have been flare ups but they keep them from growing with mass testing and lockdowns, the same as New Zealand is doing now. > but New Zealand is an isl
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by flukus 6y ago
On a computer yes. I think there's potential for chording to be a decent input method for a phone or AR display.
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by flukus 6y ago
Of course there's no single bridge building machine, but most of the work in bridge building is done by a collection of machines, usually with human specialists operating them. It's not the 1920's and most digging is done by
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by flukus 6y ago
Problem is most unemployed people don't have the specialized skill set to contribute to these projects and those that do aren't unemployed. The unskilled labor these projects require has mostly been automated over the last 100 yea
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by flukus 6y ago
> what would we do? Some combination of procrastination and denying the problem exists.
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by flukus 6y ago
If this is a common occurrence the former would almost always be better, the second would be absolutely glacial. > but the best would be abstracting away order fetching in application code to always fetch single orders and behind the sce
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by flukus 6y ago
As another outsider looking in I've been shocked lately by the state governors. I thought Trump was aberration, but seeing how many mini trumps are running states shows that he is more of the norm than I ever realized. If I was in one
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by flukus 6y ago
So a subway but only for 8 people?
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by flukus 6y ago
Me too. I've seen a few systems that replaced their simple request requiring 10,000 queries "optimized" by requiring 10,000 cache lookups when they should have just added some joins. The bottleneck is the network latency, not
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by flukus 6y ago
The two biggest features that made firefox what it is were extensions and tabbed browsing, both aimed at power users. Take those away and it never would have been used by power users and no one else ever would have heard of it.
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by flukus 6y ago
And it's going to take more than an afternoon to evaluate these parsers. You have to look at the options, evaluate the API, evaluate if they're stable and supported, evaluate if they integrate well with you're project, evalua
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by flukus 6y ago
And that we don't have AI that can handle these relatively easy scenarios is soft proof that we are nowhere near the hard scenarios of fully antonymous driving.
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by flukus 6y ago
We're only 6 months through the year and it took "massive economy-rocking" mitigation efforts to keep it that low. You're nowhere near close.
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by flukus 6y ago
Yes, sort of. There are many people that think of OOP as the goal and not the tool, that a more OOP solutions is better. Some of them equate complex class hierarchies with a job well done. I'm being a bit hyperbolic, but I've work
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by flukus 6y ago
I did the same, went without a phone for a few weeks (getting repaired/replaced) and it taught me a lot about how much I was overusing it. The most important change was turning off nearly all notifications (interruptions), but I'v
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by flukus 6y ago
Have there been large advances in noise cancelling since 3.5mm jacks started to disappear?
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by flukus 6y ago
What's the point of testing at all in places that aren't taking steps to reduce the spread? Testing isn't the goal, it's data to use for an informed response. If the response isn't going to come it's just a mor
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by flukus 6y ago
> The real trick is that caring about anything in the modern corporate workplace is a mistake If I could go back 20 years and give myself one piece of mental health advice, this would be it.
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by flukus 6y ago
> How do you handle input that does need to be dismissed? Hierarchy. You need someone to make the calls and the team to follow them, even if it's going to be wrong. That should be enough to break any perpetual design loop and move f
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by flukus 6y ago
> The idea that the person "needs to construct stronger arguments" seems to put the blame on the person with foresight when circumstances can vary a lot. It's also extremely dismissive of experience. Sometimes you just kno
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by flukus 6y ago
Much of this momentum was negative though, meetings and rituals were built around everyone being in the office and being face to face. Remote work relies on much more async text based communication and many companies are still building mome
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by flukus 6y ago
Some of the history is surprisingly recent too, still in living memory. My mum has a newspaper front page clipping of her friend being led away in handcuffs for the heinous crime of wearing a bikini. I think Grandma was the first generation
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by flukus 6y ago
> but the "climate" would be correlation, instead of causation. Two I've heard in the modern era are asthma and allergies. I'm not sure if it helps with asthma but different climates definitely affect allergies, parti
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by flukus 6y ago
Whoah! I didn't know about that feature. For most build tasks sh is probably best but this could be incredibly useful for some non build related things. "Build tools are only for building software" is probably another falseho
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by flukus 6y ago
They exact same disparity exists elsewhere in the world but the politicization is largely an American phenomena, so it's not the disparity by itself to blame.
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by flukus 6y ago
It also wasn't completely voluntary, they closed high schools, they banned gatherings with more than 50 people, they limited how many people could visit bars and restaurants and made them sit at a table. The government didn't sit
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by flukus 6y ago
> Is minimum wage workers affording an average 1-2 bedroom apartment with no other householders a goal we have set? It's not a goal we set but it's one we mostly achieved none the less, depending on your specific area and minim
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by flukus 6y ago
I think the bigger error is that they keep calling it a fundamental structure. It was my understanding that this structure is very much an emergent property and nothing fundamental.
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by flukus 6y ago
> Regularly weaseling out of tasks like this wastes the time of multiple people and either ends up back with the original dev or gets dumped on a more responsible worker. A lot of this depends on the environment and circumstances. If you
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by flukus 6y ago
"It looks different on my iPad, we need it to look exactly the same everywhere" No, No you don't.

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