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by jacknews 2y ago
Did each company's MBAs get together and plot this out? It would be the long slow end of them both.
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"samples collected at the Huanan market by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention beginning on 1 January 2020" But there were cases in late summer 2019, and indirect evidence some researchers may have got sick aroun
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"Citizens will be on their best behavior..." ... and certainly wont be throwing IoT remotes against the wall in anger, publicly berating employees, or storming off angrily in their F1s, etc, etc. Hypocritical jerk.
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by jacknews 2y ago
You presume. But you are wrong. Decades of experience does not equal an old COBOL programmer. Personally I'm pretty up to date, with latest backend and some frontend frameworks and languages, rails, next, rust, clojure, etc, and even q
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by jacknews 2y ago
Except some of us with decades of deep experience are barely floating in the water, while the decks are suposedly crowded with those recent hires.
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by jacknews 2y ago
Prepare to be flooded with trite aphorisms, vacuous top-10 lists, queeze-inducing personal announcements and 'acceptance' speeches, and other toxic positivity.
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by jacknews 2y ago
"I believe it was Chris Okasaki who discovered that the thing that helped neophyte programmers go from not getting it to getting it in terms of blocks and scopes was semantic indentation." I don't believe a word, and it'
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by jacknews 2y ago
I wish they'd pick a better base watch, eg F108, W217.
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by jacknews 2y ago
This seems like a disingenuous answer to me - the rest of the team will take up the slack? And if they can't they must be a low-performing team? The OP may have some things wrong, but the 'constant grind' aspect of scrum spri
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by jacknews 2y ago
It should have been this from the start, the old method of having to share an entire library at a time seemd to be an obvious technical limitation rather than a good policy choice.
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by jacknews 2y ago
Kill it with fire. semantic-whitespace is the worst idea since ideas, or at least since null. Cut and paste, or just moving code blocks around, doesn't work smoothly, there's no way to check the semantics other than the formating,
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by jacknews 2y ago
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by jacknews 2y ago
"After your flight touches down, you collect a rental car. You flash a digital driver’s licence to unlock the door. You drive to your new home. On the way, you stop off at a store and bag up groceries," ... your phone screen crack
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by jacknews 2y ago
There doesn't seem to be much of a network effect to propel any given proprietary 'standard' to prominence, and so the only solution to this will be state enforcement. The EU is doing a decent job here IMHO, eg with mandatory
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by jacknews 2y ago
It's a good argument for very high taxes on excessive salaries. Free markets run rampant when they are not properly harnessed to the common good, and this is surely a case where they should be harnessed.
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by jacknews 2y ago
My argument isn't that all workers should be driven. The argument is that good leaders are usually driven by things other than a huge salary, and so long as the salary isn't an insult, will do what they do. So why offer huge salar
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by jacknews 2y ago
This is the same argument that says high tax rates will deter them from working. Driven people will work hard regardless, and in leadership, the right kind of leaders will work mainly for the reputation, fulfillment from a job well done, pe
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by jacknews 2y ago
The main draw here is modularity, but standard 19" rack rails, uprights, mounts, or whatever they're called, are ludicrously expensive.
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by jacknews 2y ago
Address the problem, or offload it? What if AI just says build more homes and make them affordable? Are they going to do that?
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by jacknews 2y ago
Your statement seems to me to assume that our current society discovers the geniuses and transports them magically to caltech, princeton or wherever. I would guess that many are actually making a living fixing tv's in a nairobi slum, o
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by jacknews 2y ago
lol But in theory, AI should be able to write directly in assembler. The 'stacks' would be merely layers of understanding in the AI, and it should be able to compress these down to tight assembly code that does the thing required,
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by jacknews 2y ago
"humanity could have less than a century of current-level innovation left, forever." Why? Instead of maintaining our current massive population, we should seek to improve efficiency. Ensure every child receives a comprehensive edu
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by jacknews 2y ago
Colossus ... didn't I watch a movie about this?
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by jacknews 2y ago
One problem with vegan is that it's influenced vegetarian restaurants. Most restaurants offer a vegetarian option, but now many of those options have become vegan, rather than having to maintain a separate vegan option.
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by jacknews 2y ago
Indeed, we can likely pinpoint the author's social circle to north-london politically-correct literati and media/arts "people-people". The piece seems to imply that this is the real society, and that the nerds and boffin
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by jacknews 2y ago
Or ripples in a table-cloth - the ripples gather the surrounding cloth, just like mass deforms spacetime. These models are also an intuitive way to illustrate why the speed of light is a limit. A ball rolling on a rubber sheet, or a boat on
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by jacknews 2y ago
lol proof for your assertion?
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by jacknews 2y ago
So these things are the 'what's different'. As a software example, 'ls' but written in rust. There's of course nothing wrong with re-implementing 'ls' in C with all the same patterns, and sure, that
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by jacknews 2y ago
I agree with the idea that many projects are just fun and stand on that basis, but the analogy doesn't work IMHO. When you bake a pie, it gets eaten, so who cares if it's just like another pie, in fact it's probably great if
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I’m wfh in a medium cost of living area. My salary is 140k and work life balance is great. I'm not seeing much to regret there. Try 'looking for work' for a year or more, with no income and mounting debts, in comparis

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