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by gubbrora 7y ago
I have a big clunky deskphone. I have yet to make or receive a call on it. The desk real estate it occupies is a bigger cost to me than however many seconds I can eventually save.
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by gubbrora 7y ago
A person with strong opinions loosely held is unreliable. Today they fully agree with you and tomorrow you're the devil.
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by gubbrora 7y ago
This is highly codebase dependant ime. The less you have to read and think about wtf is going on the more you can write. And generally the stronger coupling the more you have to read.
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by gubbrora 7y ago
Tldr "So, should you stop using sunscreen? Absolutely not, experts say"
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by gubbrora 7y ago
Sad to hear. I don't know what exactly he did for python project, but if we take the pudding as proof of the recipe he did a lot of things right Edit: I meant I don't know what he did as a bdfl day to day.
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by gubbrora 7y ago
Too much repetition is inefficient.
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by gubbrora 7y ago
This wasn't a new bug in an experimental feature. It was a timebomb (accidental) that's been in the codebase a long time.
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by gubbrora 7y ago
Wouldn't that be more because people would expect the rejection to happen pre-offer if it's about anything other than compensation(turning down for compensation is normal, e specially with multiple offers)?
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by gubbrora 7y ago
Interesting but how will you determine not-null is the hot path? Getting it wrong coughs cost you
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by gubbrora 7y ago
To toot my own horn a bit, posted this exact idea in the previous thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19761577 The solution is simple in my view. Just make it dangerous enough that they can't get it no matter
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by gubbrora 7y ago
I'd argue that while RTFA had negative connotations, TFA never did. It was just a humorous reference to the former.
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by gubbrora 7y ago
If all goes well humanity will be way more advanced in 10k years, to the point that they will find our warnings laughable. If we want to put up warnings it should be for whatever remains of a failed society because they are the only ones wh
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by gubbrora 7y ago
It can be repaid in the sense that we stop being tired. This is what people mean by repaid. But the lost productivity from when we were tired can not be recovered.
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by gubbrora 7y ago
I reckon there are more Asians in machine learning than there are white people, so that example is misleading.
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by gubbrora 7y ago
I'd rather hypocrites shit on each other than keep quiet.
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by gubbrora 7y ago
Honestly, pretty much. It has a better chance of working then just trying stuff though. For advanced stuff a thought out model can bring up success rate from 0.0001% to 50%. And when it fails, you will learn more from the failure.
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by gubbrora 7y ago
Can we infect the viral population with cheaters to help the body?
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by gubbrora 7y ago
Languages change. In depth knowledge comes with an ongoing cost. For this reason I think it may be rational to only learn what will be used in the near future and spend the saved time on more timeless knowledge.
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by gubbrora 7y ago
>Escaping quotes might be annoying, but I can't think of a possible alternative format where escaping isn't required at all. One nifty way of doing this is custom quote sequence. In C++ it works like R"delimiter( raw_char
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by gubbrora 7y ago
> Fuck quoting/escaping, it will work 99% of the time. Encouraging this is why bash scripts scare me.
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by gubbrora 7y ago
Is a world where we build n+1 billion tv's for n+1 billion people better than a world with n billion people and tv's?
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by gubbrora 7y ago
Ime: available, away, busy - all mean "phone is on and person may or may not be available".
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by gubbrora 8y ago
(1000 to 15000) times n, where n may not be insignificant. And realistically the risk is low because the cost to Facebook for a review is low.
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by gubbrora 8y ago
But the yardstick argument assumes uniform expansion. Small scale structure like our yardstick is held together by electromagnetic forces which counteracts the expansive force. That's my understanding anyway. If we create a light year
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by gubbrora 8y ago
Aren't all rentals in mountain view rent controlled?
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by gubbrora 8y ago
Well in the hypothetical, whoever takes their advice would need to make a synthesis of it somehow. E.g. most perspectives agree so let's do it this way. Or this question doesn't matter that much from most perspectives and accordin
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by gubbrora 8y ago
Why should they agree? They could have produced advice of the form "from perspective A we should do x but from perspective B we should do y".
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by gubbrora 8y ago
I wonder if this means that Apple's positioning as the privacy focused choice is coming to an end.
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by gubbrora 8y ago
> What if you use your phone line to organize a crime? Is that a problem? Should we add word recognition to phone line to make sure this doesn't happen? Should we limit it to a series of specific words? Somewhere out there someone r
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by gubbrora 8y ago
Is the disposal rate of garbage bags 100%? Should we also ban them?

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