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by j_w 5mo ago
I think the parent would say that all those entities are perfectly willing to promise things that are not feasible/not happening in reality.
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by j_w 5mo ago
Does the event loop not exist? Go has parallelism where JS does not. Both are able to run concurrent actions (async in JS).
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by j_w 5mo ago
Low bar critiques: > For the last decade, fast-to-ship beat fast-to-run. Not anymore. Fast-to-ship didn't beat fast-to-run, it was "beating" "quality built software." It still is. Beating here implying that it&#x
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by j_w 5mo ago
You should just use objects/structs for function arguments when the arguments have any expectations of being expanded in the future. Use sane default behavior when new arguments/options are added to the function. Consumers of your
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by j_w 5mo ago
The university I went to established has a rule that was essentially "student made software is not permitted to be used." Professors couldn't actually use student made software, the software had to be wrapped up by a "co
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by j_w 5mo ago
I spent 2 years (coincidentally the same teacher for two years) in high school where once a week the only thing done that period was to write an essay (by hand) on some topic/prompt given immediately before beginning. The grading was t
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by j_w 5mo ago
Yeah, this is seemingly the only effective proxy for "write with some amount of depth." If the word count gets BS'd then it will be obvious when reading the output.
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by j_w 5mo ago
Likely "dump all your data into our system then we provide you AI tools." Typically how it goes with most fintech startups.
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by j_w 6mo ago
PM: "X party needs to know about Y thing" "Tell them [very specific answer targeted at X party]" PM: "They are still asking about Y, see their response with the follow up question" Then in the original send of
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by j_w 6mo ago
There is no such thing as a perfectly competitive market. I don't understand why people on HN are obsessed with this term. It strictly cannot exist in the real world. A perfectly competitive market requires the following (this is not e
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by j_w 6mo ago
A software engineering licensing body would require licensed individuals to understand things about security and accessibility, which would be a huge improvement. If you are responsible for a trivial security vulnerability you and the compa
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by j_w 7mo ago
Even if you believe that it is the case that she lived her early life as a male, at the point that a person has made it clear that they have some preferred pronoun/is trans would it not just be disrespectful to intentionally refer to t
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by j_w 7mo ago
> Interesting how it’s “unfortunate” if it doesn’t affect men. It's unfortunate because trans people are just as much people as cis people and deserve complete equality, but the reality of equality is that it can be very hard to do
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by j_w 7mo ago
Well I think it bans women that thought/think that they are cis but actually aren't, which is a bit of a different story. A fairly tragic one. Intersex/trans/anything else people just don't really have a clean fit i
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by j_w 7mo ago
Your original reply was: > Please make a list of things you don't need so that in case of any issues with the company or system that allows access to them you will know to just stop using them. If you didn't expect me to be int
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by j_w 7mo ago
TV can be a hobby, but hobbies typically have actual engagement from the hobbyist. There are a lot of people whom watching television/movies is a real hobby, and for those people you can tell that's the case. In my experience for
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by j_w 7mo ago
I have a TV though.
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by j_w 7mo ago
Replying to this comment since clearly the point is misunderstood. The core part of what I wrote was "need." If you believe you "need" as in "can't go without" a TV, in this example, then you probably shou
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by j_w 7mo ago
I've dropped many things in the past because of issues with the company/service. Amazon Prime, every single streaming service, I've been car free for over 3 years, and there are more. Are there some things I would struggle wi
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by j_w 7mo ago
If somebody "needs" a TV then they might "need" some hobbies. A disturbing proportion of my family spend more than half of their free time watching television (typically while doom scrolling tiktok). They don't &quo
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by j_w 7mo ago
This is what I do with the smart TV that I was given after a relative was tired of it freezing up/apps crashing. Haven't had any issues.
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by j_w 7mo ago
You don't need a TV. If there are only smart TVs then simply don't purchase one. Most consumers are unwilling to take an option that they perceive as inconveniencing them more than getting screwed by the company inconveniences the
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by j_w 7mo ago
I'm not sure how anyone can make that assumption. The drugs are not cheap enough for this to be the case.
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by j_w 7mo ago
This is not a statement of Republicans and Democrats being the same, but a statement of Republicans going off the deep end in during and after Reagan. Obama was a very moderate Democrat for his time. If you go back in time a moderate Democr
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by j_w 7mo ago
> Being fat is now a style a preference. > Being attractive gets you all sorts of unwarranted hatred, targets on your back etc. for doing nothing. I'm not aware of what fantasy land exists where attractive people are hated and be
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by j_w 7mo ago
Yes.
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by j_w 7mo ago
This isn't even true. OSRS was on life support with very few players for years until they started giving it updates. Turns out the 2007 version of the game was ROUGH for a lot of reasons - they picked the time because, IIRC, it was the
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by j_w 8mo ago
> Moreover it's unclear whether that excuse even works. If you make a low cost version of star wars, copying the screenplay exactly, that still seems like copyright infringement, even if "it's not a replacement for the ori
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by j_w 8mo ago
Yes you could be sued for anything though. If it never happens to anyone (hyperbole) then does it matter?
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by j_w 8mo ago
Clearly the team, if it is a team, that is entitled to the copyright is entitled to the copyright of the song, that's a silly statement to make. Copyright belongs to some entity, obviously. You were specifically calling out individuals

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