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by guhidalg 2y ago
Is that better? We need at least one cobbler sure, but if shoes are so scarce that we need to repair them like some communist country, are we better off?
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by guhidalg 2y ago
It's a mental model, not how it works. Your computer isn't actually executing C code, but it's helpful to think that it does. If you write React code that strays from that model, you better know what you're doing. When I
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by guhidalg 2y ago
I wouldn't call pattern matching intelligence, I would call it something closer to "trainability" or "educatable" but not intelligence. You can train a person to do a task without understanding why they have to do i
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by guhidalg 2y ago
I agree with you that the most consistent theory for explaining the current GOP going off the rails is a lack of compassion and empathy for their fellow human beings, replaced by a hope that Trump will smile upon them and be compassionate t
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by guhidalg 2y ago
I don't know if there's a name for it but essentially F# is where the language designers can push the boundaries and try extremely new things that 99% of users will not want or need, but eventually some of them are such good ideas
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by guhidalg 2y ago
In theory? In practice and when I have a choice, I will always pick mass transit instead of driving because I prefer to walk and avoid the hassles of traffic lights, risk of crashing or running someone over, wear and tear on my car, gasolin
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by guhidalg 2y ago
Don't ask me, I don't believe it will happen :) I think the deterrence to war between nuclear superpowers is the idea that both sides are capable of fighting that war. China and the US both have the industrial capacity to fight ag
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by guhidalg 2y ago
There are several places you can get this data, both historical and in near-realtime. I work on one of them: https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/catalog?filter=weath...
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by guhidalg 2y ago
> Is there not opportunity cost in both directions? Yes, but there are more working age people outside the US than inside the US, and they’re willing to work for less than people in the US. > At some point someone needs to have a reas
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by guhidalg 2y ago
I think most MAGAs have this idea that 1) manufacturing is a good paying job and 2) if the US isn't manufacturing stuff, that means China is doing it for us, which will lead to 3) when we decide to go to war with China we will not have
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by guhidalg 2y ago
I remember in 2020 how a career public servant, colleague to those in USDA, was contradicted by the president because it made the administration's COVID response look bad. Recently, the US president has decided he doesn't want to
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by guhidalg 2y ago
Yes. No other laptop can sustain peak performance as long as the M-series Macs. The only thing that competes is a dedicated desktop with a big cooler and fan. Mac laptops feel faster, even if the synthetic benchmarks say otherwise.
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by guhidalg 2y ago
https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com and it's free! Disclosure: I work at Microsoft on this.
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by guhidalg 2y ago
You are assuming that a product designer needs the product to last as long as possible given our current knowledge of physics, chemistry, engineering, and manufacturing at the moment. Most of the time, that's just not necessary. Things
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by guhidalg 2y ago
I mean, there has never not been some issue with Docker Desktop that I have to remember to work around. We're all just collectively cargo culting that Docker containers are "the way" and putting up with these troubles is the
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by guhidalg 2y ago
Yes but these comparisons of real cultures become very gross very fast. Japanese culture is orderly, neat, autonomous and their children are taught to wait at an early age. That's awesome! We should emulate Japan, clearly their culture
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by guhidalg 2y ago
All US government agencies are created through congress, by your elected representatives. It is the executive branch (the president, who is also elected) that is then responsible for carrying out the agency's mission. All the high-leve
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by guhidalg 2y ago
Yes! Phone screens are too small to show both the instructions and the ingredients at the same time. To address that in CookTime, I highlight any instance of an ingredient found in the recipe instructions and show the quantity if you click
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by guhidalg 2y ago
I'd love your opinion on my cooking site https://letscooktime.com/ Though I'm a software engineer, my main user is my mother-in-law who was a nurse all her life and now likes to bake. Check out for example, this m
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by guhidalg 2y ago
Also the people writing recipes (my parents for example) are _most definitely_ not going to learn a DSL, they just want a text box where they can type whatever they want. If you care about having structured data, other humans with more stru
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by guhidalg 2y ago
Take a look at my website, https://letscooktime.com/ and let me know what you think of the way I render recipes. There is an internal representation like this: 1. A recipe is composed of multiple components 1. A component i
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by guhidalg 2y ago
You are free to purchase as many Apple products as you want to offset any perceived revenue losses from promotional discounts. I'm not so sure why you would want to do this but I keep hearing that behavioral economics is a thing, maybe
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by guhidalg 2y ago
For both C# and F#, the version of .NET indicates the version of the build tooling (msbuild, compilers, nuget packages, etc...) that will be used to build the code whenever you invoke `dotnet build`. That means, for example, that the F# tea
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by guhidalg 2y ago
If that were true, why isn't my GPU running my UI loop or running my JS event-loop? Single-core performance is still king for UI latency and CPU-bound tasks.
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by guhidalg 2y ago
Government spending is just about jobs right? Don't you get more jobs if you give money to many different companies instead of one company?
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by guhidalg 2y ago
I've heard something like this before, but 5m is too small. The gold council reckons it's a little larger than that: https://www.gold.org/goldhub/data/how-much-gold
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by guhidalg 2y ago
> Have you considered that those people queuing outside Starbucks might be drinking coffee because they enjoy the whole experience? Not the OP, but to respond to your question I think that Starbucks is actually hitting its customers with
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by guhidalg 2y ago
Normal users who just want to run some code shouldn't need to learn why they need a venv or any of its alternatives. Normal users just want to download a package and run some code without having to think about interfering with other pa
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by guhidalg 2y ago
> Extremely lengthy spacewalks won't happen for numerous reasons (oxygen, battery, exhaustion, radiation, and so on) so that's not really even a desirable goal. You're not thinking creatively enough. When life support fail
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by guhidalg 2y ago
Call it what it is: slow. Slow software is bad software.

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