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by galdosdi 2y ago
> If your language is written in itself, and you make changes to it, you're changing the language in which your language is written. Mistakes in this can cause hair-pulling bugs. Fair, but, hold on, shouldn't you just make sure
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Have a kid anyway, if you otherwise really felt driven to it. Reading the tealeaves in the news is a dumb reason to change decisions like that. There's always some disaster looming, always has been. If you raise them well they'll
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Mostly poor examples, because - The American auto industry was quite a wonder in its heyday, and that was also when unions reigned. The decline was correlated with the 1970s oil supply shocks, not union organizing - The best American states
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by galdosdi 2y ago
That would be delusional, since TikTok's success is due to first-mover advantage due to network effects, not any hard to replicate technology or other real moat. They can imagine otherwise but that is just stroking their own egos. They
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by galdosdi 2y ago
The way I think about this is: You already are in "debt" by being alive. You have the huge liabilities of needing food and housing and maybe sometimes some healthcare, in order to stay alive. By buying a perpetual source of one of
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by galdosdi 2y ago
A metaphor for cloud serverless?
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Because they are too busy watching TV or playing with their phones. Everyone used to have a lot more time, now "nobody has time" even tho life was much harder 100yrs ago yet those ppl found plenty of time for all kinds of social a
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by galdosdi 2y ago
To your point, I took a History of Math class in college, and one week we had to actually do calculus the way Leibniz and Newton would have done it. Some exercise that was easy in our modern notation was actually very painful using period a
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I think the apt analogy here isn't "old men yelling at clouds" but the historical way that one certain previous generation become more adept than those before or after at working with a certain then-new technology -- thus bec
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Excuse me? Do you speak English?
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Yeah. Google won this war already by getting Chromebooks into schools, which are mandatorily tied to a Gsuite account and thus have YouTube Shorts, drive, Gmail, etc access. As a parent, I hate google a lot more than TikTok. I can already b
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by galdosdi 2y ago
ok zoomer
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I am baffled that any thoughtful person would take a CEO statement at face value without considering incentives. 1) prior to bill passage, convincing the public that they will pull out is optimal as it helps argue against bill, regardless o
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by galdosdi 3y ago
The key thing you end up needing is a clock (along with memory of course, yeah) I still remember clearly the day I in college read the SICP chapter on simulating circuits and realized how computers work -- a purely functional circuit combin
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by galdosdi 3y ago
It's not slimy, it's called normal compromise, and it's been a basic building block of politics for thousands of years, but is often seen as slimy by people who are naive about it. If you and I are arguing and I want X and yo
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Well, maybe the US cultural status of caring about computer security in business is so decrepit that only a really major high profile incident will shift priorities. Maybe the most effective route from today's situation to a a world in
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by galdosdi 3y ago
That study does not match your tone, it implies that eating them together makes them very slightly less good and healthy across just one particular nutrient than they otherwise would have been separately, not that putting them together make
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Whaaaa? I will definitely check it out next time I have a use case. Thanks. How compatible is it?
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by galdosdi 3y ago
A quote I once heard applies here. "All a preacher needs is 4 walls and the good book, and willing souls" For most of school, all you need is paper and pens and a place where to meet. A notebook costs a dollar. You can also do qui
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Had. One of the most egregious destructions of great value in the modern world wasn't the collapse of the Key Bridge or the destruction of the library of Alexandria -- it was when Jython, a wonderful implementation of Python2 on the JV
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by galdosdi 3y ago
Learning Java will give you a leg up on Scala, as C would for C++. Even more so because Scala is still dirtectly implemented on Java at runtime, you'll be looking at Java stack traces and interacting with JVMs every day you work with
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by galdosdi 3y ago
No they don't, to my surprise (I was just looking for this yesterday and was disappointed to have to try sendgrid since CF does not appear to offer any email sending API) That's not generic email sending to any address, that'
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by galdosdi 3y ago
> I roll my eyes at this closing bit on "Americans are born so fortunate", "American Dream" stuff. Why do you roll your eyes? From experience, you or your parents immigrating and finding life is much harder? Everyone
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by galdosdi 3y ago
1) Maybe not "the" world as currently defined, but certainly _your_ world, ie your entire city or country, in a time in which it was hard to escape from or imagine much outside of that. So subjectively I don't see how I (or e
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by galdosdi 3y ago
No. I mean yeah, but no. Those things matter, but THIS change was specifically caused by the pandemic. All over America, many drivers became SIGNIFICANTLY less conscientious, for reasons left to the imagination of the reader who is assumed
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by galdosdi 3y ago
> Parents have less time for their children. Work may be one reason, but smartphones are another reason. So many adults spend so much time looking at them any time they feel they need a break, and it's so easy to spend longer than e
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by galdosdi 3y ago
As the other posters have alluded, read some history, and you'll find parallels everywhere. It's serious, but it's often serious. Previous generations managed to buck up and meet the challenge; what changed? Subjective mindse
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by galdosdi 3y ago
TIL about `git log -S` (and `git log -G`) from this article (list commits that increased or decreased the number of times a given identifier is found in the source code). Looking forward to needing to use it, that's a nice trick
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by galdosdi 3y ago
My pet peeve: people saying every previous moral panic was unjustified because "after all, our generation turned out alright!" But your generation didn't. 70 years of television destroyed the minds of the boomer generation an
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by galdosdi 3y ago
This is a common and ridiculous take, that could only be seriously proposed if one totally is ignorant of history. The burning-down-ness however measured has been as high and worse many times in many places. I mean, your great grand parents

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