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by j_w 8mo ago
It's not that you can remember a song and therefore copyright infringement when you sing. For 99.999% of people that are singing a song, it's not a replacement for the original in any way shape or form, hard stop. Let's not p
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by j_w 8mo ago
my $x = 42; let x = 42 Well, when you add in the '$' and ';' tokens the "let" example is still shorter. Also as another person replied to you, those other two examples are declarations in other languages. So 0
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by j_w 8mo ago
"I'm against the solution which has been shown to work for [unsubstantiated reason]." Without providing any other proven-to-work solutions is basically advocating for the problem.
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by j_w 8mo ago
How is that snippet any better than: x := 42 Or let x = 42 Or x = 42 It seems like a regression from modern languages.
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by j_w 8mo ago
The anti-Establishment people that were only anti-Establishment until they had power, then they are very much pro-Establishment. The writing has been on the wall for years with a desire among states to identify individuals using the interne
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by j_w 9mo ago
HN isn't even absent of politics, just the front page is really. Everything we do is political. When we are making software and publishing it, whether or a company or ourselves, for sale or for free, there are political implications to
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by j_w 9mo ago
You cannot pin a certain version, even today, if you are using some vendor LLM the versions are transient; they are constantly making micro optimizations/tweaks.
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by j_w 9mo ago
> Demonstrate that one junior plus AI can match a small team’s output. I don't understand the take that a junior with AI is able to replace a small team. Maybe a horribly performing small team? Even then, wouldn't it just be lo
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by j_w 9mo ago
Sorry, I guess I read "protect from reassignment" as "protect the underlying data" then. I would argue that if you CAN change the underlying data, then the understanding of const by 99% of people is made incorrect. There
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by j_w 9mo ago
Doesn't protection from reassignment not exist in most languages anyways? In C++ you should be able to cast away the const. Realistically you probably can achieve this in any language with reflection. Unless a const is literally a comp
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by j_w 9mo ago
This understates the vegetable and fruit intake you should have. 3 servings vegetables and 2 fruit is under what you should aim for. 2-4 servings of grains is a lot of grain. Ideally the bulk of the volume that you eat should be vegetables
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by j_w 9mo ago
There are bad questions (and ideas, like you said). Stackoverflow tried to incentivize asking good, novel questions. You grow up often being told "there are no stupid questions" but that is absolutely not the case. A good question
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by j_w 9mo ago
Of course it's true in the case of sqlite. It's one of the most used pieces of software ever, and user cpu time spent is going to dwarf any developer time. Your example should instead be: - 5 hours of developer time to run in 4 se
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by j_w 9mo ago
Or you just make in person exams the majority of the work and make the exams brutal. If you can't pass the exams you don't pass the class, so you need to learn enough to pass the exams.
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by j_w 9mo ago
It's not that the oral format should be dismissed, just that the idea of your exam being speaking to a machine to be judged on the merit of your time in a course is dystopian. Talking to another human is fine.
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by j_w 9mo ago
Not all environments are equal. Some vendor systems have basically non-existent debugging capabilities that end up dumping you into the wild west when things go wrong. I have worked with more than one Fintech that provides no test systems&#
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by j_w 10mo ago
The comments about analog clock reading being not a worthwhile skill are telling, but not in a good way. Analog clocks are still very prevalent today. People buy smartwatches, but plenty of people also buy analog watches. Some people even d
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by j_w 10mo ago
For the Stormlight Archive: You have to world build. The first book definitely felt like a slog for the first half-ish. Not much that feels like major plot events happen yet, but if you look at it with the understanding that it's inten
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by j_w 10mo ago
Clearly Amazon doesn't care about that sentiment across the board. Plenty of their products are absurdly slow because of their poor engineering.
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by j_w 10mo ago
The issue with "removing the boring part of work" is that which part of the work is "boring" is subjective. There are going to be plenty of people that don't think that what they do is the "boring stuff that sh
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by j_w 10mo ago
Or they know that those parties are going to hammer their servers no matter what so they will at least try and get some money out of it.
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by j_w 10mo ago
IMO it's annoying to use at all. It just looks "good" (subjective). Larger images dominate and flashy images become more important to get attention (if bringing focus to an image is the idea). An extremely poor way to present
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by j_w 10mo ago
Well if they don't do SOMETHING with AI for their documentation how are they going to put it on their resumes?
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by j_w 10mo ago
Well, no. It was 49.8% of the people that voted from him, which was ~44.4% of the voting age population.
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by j_w 10mo ago
Much worse for the blue states with heavy immigrant/English second language populations, which is to be expected. "White students" is likely just the cleanest set of "almost certainly English native and parents are Engli
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by j_w 10mo ago
I like to browse what is there and make decisions on what I'll be eating based on what I see. Purchasing online feels more narrow and has me thinking more about things I've cooked before vs what I might want to try cooking/ea
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by j_w 10mo ago
Which is great. The redaction of information from places like Reddit that has taken place makes some discussion/references unreadable now. Decade old HN threads still retain all their juicy context.
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by j_w 10mo ago
What does DE mean in this context?
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by j_w 11mo ago
> > Now, you may ask, why did we go through all this trouble and allocate nearly a third of our investor-raised funds to produce and freely distribute 20,000 t-shirts? Marketing.
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by j_w 11mo ago
Seriously? On hackernews you're acting like a "box where you drop in tickets" would be an adequate description for modern bus/transit fare? Obviously they need a system that integrates with the other transit options in t

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