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by gbear605 5y ago
If a method is part of an API that might be used by developers external to your team, they don’t want to be looking through your code to figure out how to use your methods.
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by gbear605 5y ago
I know that they aren’t, but that doesn’t mean that AI that doesn’t use those tools is impossible.
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by gbear605 5y ago
Unfortunately doctors are a lot less prevalent in a lot of developing countries, especially in subsaharan Africa. If an AI can do a third of the things that a doctor can do, that means that many more people can be treated. In the US, it jus
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by gbear605 5y ago
That’s fine as long as my job is willing to pay me in a constant amount of bitcoin and everything else I need to buy can be bought with bitcoin. If my salary is still in dollars, then what I can purchase for a day’s wages will vary hugely.
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by gbear605 5y ago
Shares, especially in big tech companies, are nowadays mostly valued as a commodity not for the dividend value. Even ignoring meme stocks like TSLA or GME, stocks like Facebook or Google are never going to pay back enough in dividends or bu
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by gbear605 5y ago
The problem is not that Ireland gives a good deal to companies in Ireland, the problem is that Microsoft can falsely pretend that their Irish branch is the one making all the profit and then not having to pay any tax elsewhere.
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by gbear605 5y ago
Technically planning unionizing inside of the workspace has always been legally dangerous - the correct way to do it is to meet outside of work, at say a cookout or over drinks. Those methods can work too, although being remote can make the
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by gbear605 5y ago
“3 hours is the norm” can both be true for people in a certain area while false for the country as a whole.
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by gbear605 5y ago
Map/filter closures almost always never actually enclose variables, instead just acting on the elements from the iterator. They’re basically a one-off nameless function. On the other hand, closures used for spawning threads almost alwa
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by gbear605 5y ago
On my computer, I can often click the “pay with Paypal” button and not need to type in anything. There should be an equivalent feature on iOS to redirect to another app to finish the transaction. After all, I already have an app for my bank
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by gbear605 5y ago
Yes.
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by gbear605 5y ago
The point of Apple existing is to make people’s lives better. That’s the only reason any company exists. If Apple is behaving in a way that makes people’s lives worse, they should have to change. That’s why we live in a society.
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by gbear605 5y ago
Lots of modern English words arose from misspellings (and mishearings) - if one becomes popular, it becomes an English word. That’s how languages evolve, otherwise we’d still be speaking Proto-Indo-European.
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by gbear605 5y ago
That depends on your translation - some translations will translate those to “They who do not”. Many of the ones who translate it as “he” are maintaining the Hebrew lack of gender neutrality, but that’s arbitrary. If the ancient Israelites
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by gbear605 5y ago
Ah yes, I really hate it when we have to put people in jail to protect ourselves from checks notes them smoking a joint.
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by gbear605 5y ago
Organized crime wouldn’t going to risk trading PoW cryptocurrency. There’s no benefit to them, since the value of a bitcoin would immediately plummet.
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by gbear605 5y ago
Suppose a future developer is working on a separate ticket that touches the same code. If there’s an inline TODO, the future developer knows that the TODO needs something changed, which can help them understand how the code works and they m
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by gbear605 5y ago
That’s not an Apple problem, that’s an Android problem. The ball is in Google’s court there.
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by gbear605 5y ago
In this case, you’re the courtier of King Cnut. I just did the search and the first correct result is the sixth and the first five are incorrect, including the seemingly definitive answer at the top of the search.
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by gbear605 5y ago
So fast food workers were “essential workers” but oil pipeline control system engineers aren’t? Projects that require a security clearance have to be done from inside of a secure facility. This clearly needs to be the same level.
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by gbear605 5y ago
The prices are similarly high across the country. They’re definitely a bit higher in NYC compared to Alabama, but not at all proportional to the minimum wage. In addition, NYC has much higher costs for properties so there’s an expected diff
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by gbear605 5y ago
Over the last twelve years, the federal minimum wage has been constant. Over that same time period, the cost of a Big Mac has gone up by about 25%. Since 1997, the federal minimum wage has gone up by 40%. Over that same time period the cost
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by gbear605 5y ago
Charities like GiveDirectly do it using various mobile baking programs along with physically driving shipments of cash to remote areas that don’t have phone access. It’s a complicated problem that involves a lot of human time but it’s also
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by gbear605 5y ago
I’m not saying that we will get this outcome, just that it’s the outcome that we need. Unfortunately I agree with you that we won’t.
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by gbear605 5y ago
I definitely don’t have a general case solution. A solution for this case would be something like “a provider of video hosting services is not allowed to take down videos automatically without having a human review each request.”
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by gbear605 5y ago
I don’t know how I did it, but I somehow managed to stay in one Docker desktop version (2.1, I believe) for over a year, then I had to update to fix a bug and suddenly Docker started automatically installing upgrades for me. That sounds lik
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by gbear605 5y ago
That’s why we need a regulation change to make it so that you can’t outcompete by being unethical.
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Do scholars follow Betteridge's Law? Questions in journal article titles (2016) [pdf](gwern.net)
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by gbear605 5y ago
It’s more similar to modern text editors, but yes it’s definitely more of a precursor
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by gbear605 6y ago
As a kid, I heard people say the phrase “legos my eggos”, (since the “leggo” had lost al of its association with “let go”).

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