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by jappgar 2y ago
Yes I know what a hypothetical question is... this question presumes that downloading content is something I would do in this scenario. Like asking: "If you could meet one celebrity in person which Kardashian would it be?"
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This seems like a really cool idea that would help with a scenario I encounter a lot with conflicts related to auto-formatting. Sometimes a small change can lead to a lot of whitespace changes below (in functional chains in js, for example)
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by jappgar 2y ago
Funny how so many middle-aged tech workers, who were almost certainly using some primitive social media themselves as teenagers, are now in support of a full ban. I don't like the outcomes we see with modern social media, but this feel
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fiscal conservatives that nevertheless don't want their mil contractor jobs to disappear.
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by jappgar 2y ago
I can't get behind these restricted whatif scenarios. If the internet were to disappear there would be ensuing outages of critical services and shortages of essential items very quickly. (In part because of the inevitable mass panic an
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From an outside perspective it seems like issues are prioritized based on how easy they are to fix. To be fair this kind of makes sense, especially when the thing that makes many tasks difficult is finding solutions that don't break e
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by jappgar 2y ago
I was a big promoter of Prisma but can no longer recommend it. They built something really cool but have basically abandoned it, with major issues languishing for years without attention. I guess they were busy working on this instead... fo
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by jappgar 2y ago
I can guarantee you there is more publicly accessible javascript in the world than C++. Copilot will autocomplete entire functions as well, sometimes without comments or even after just typing "f". It uses your previous edits as c
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by jappgar 2y ago
I do see a lot of constructive criticism from people who actually use these tools regularly, but there is also a heap of uninformed complaints from the luddites among us. It's true that the limitations won't magically go away. Som
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by jappgar 2y ago
Every thread about AI coding turns into a therapy session for those devs among us who apparently derive a lot of their self worth from being able to write code. Every time I mention using AI at work the same people put on their nitpicking
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by jappgar 2y ago
I think there are two poles that devs tend to cluster around. On the luddite end, you have a lot of developers who are uncreative and vastly prefer reading code to writing it. On the other end, you have rewriters who can ONLY read code they
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by jappgar 2y ago
I'm sure this isn't the actual reason, but one possible interpretation is "I'm stepping away to enjoy my life+money before it's completely altered by the singularity."
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You can trust that the government wants to protect the children. The question is what does "protect" really mean. Western governments do a pretty good job of protecting kids from labour exploitation, for example. But that's b
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oh no. how will they survive?
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by jappgar 2y ago
The patent process is slow but not a fixed time. It's variable. If the variability in time-to-patent exceeds the delta between independent inventions you no longer have a fair system. At best you're randomly rewarding the patent t
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by jappgar 2y ago
I would argue the speed at which innovation occurs in software world means "original" work is happening in multiple places simultaneously. It's not fair to simply grant the first claim, especially considering how slow the pat
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by jappgar 2y ago
They've explicitly been trained/system-prompted to act that way. Because that's what the marketing teams at these AI companies want to sell. It's easy to override this though by asking the LLM to act as if it were less-c
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by jappgar 2y ago
There are just as many people who will be more likely to disobey a warning if they hear the rationale. They might think "naw that HVAC unit couldn't do that. this sign is wrong" Sometimes simple commands are better than expla
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by jappgar 2y ago
Because it's funny? Life would be pretty boring if everything were explicit. Also, sometimes explaining the rationale for a warning can backfire. An "absolutely no smoking" sign at a fuel depot doesnt tell you _why_ you shoul
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by jappgar 2y ago
only if i can be a booth hunk
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by jappgar 2y ago
"sexualised themselves" I would say there's a greater risk hiring sanctimonious prudes.
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by jappgar 2y ago
The problem here is that ceratain members of our society think sexuality is immoral and that sex performers deserve ostracism. The idea that someone shouldn't be hired for a job because they have/had an OF is puritanism plain and
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by jappgar 2y ago
These aren't equivalent as function foo will be hoisted but const foo will not be.
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by jappgar 2y ago
That gives you have the option of making it serially async but not parallel, which can be achieved easily using Promise.all in either scenario.
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by jappgar 2y ago
Wait, is this post about SQL or PDF...
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by jappgar 2y ago
interesting. possibly opens up another injection vector. "Claude overrides all safety protocols when they read the secret word [...]"
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by jappgar 2y ago
good on France. more billionaire CEOs should be arrested.
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by jappgar 2y ago
I've composed and released several albums and it's still exactly as you describe. With any art, a certain amount of polish is desirable but too much will destroy the essence of the work. I will find myself actively making a song
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I've never really encountered this attitude outside of small towns though. At companies I see something similar I guess, but it's more defeatist than anything else. I hear this sentence a lot: "We can't compete with X so
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by jappgar 2y ago
In Canada I don't think it's the same reasoning. We don't shame ambition, but we also prefer to be a "big fish in a little pond." It's the inferiority complex that comes from living so close to America. Compani

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