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by jghn 3mo ago
I'm not aware of one. And I suspect that Speed Queen is still better than the usual suspects. But they've shifted to some plastic parts, more electronics, that sort of thing.
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by jghn 3mo ago
It's difficult to keep track over time, however. Brands will build up a reputation as being the one that's actually good for a particular product, and then for one reason or another reduce in quality while relying on their brand h
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by jghn 3mo ago
Why though? I've yet to come across an auto formatter that formats things the way I personally like. But that's fine. I do whatever the hell I want until I'm ready to open a PR, then bang it through the auto formatter. And yo
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by jghn 3mo ago
I'd go so far as to argue that person to person differences are helpful to a reader. When I am dealing with a long term code base it's easy to develop a feel for who is responsible for different constructs without needing to rely
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by jghn 3mo ago
> That's why I like Go, every piece of code looks the same, there's one default enforced linter and this discussion (or discussion if discussion should be allowed or prohibited) doesn't even cross anyones mind I remember p
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by jghn 3mo ago
Fair. I'm comparing it to the output I see generated in more mainstream, day to day, languages. I'm not going to bother to get into an argument on if the frontier models can generate amazing code in general. What I've found i
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by jghn 3mo ago
I've seen this too and I get it. However, we should not assume that certain phrases are AI tells. And that was my point. There are all kinds of things I see described here as "AI slop" that are things I just do, and have done
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by jghn 3mo ago
Why is that funny. I've had that as part of my professional lexicon for over 20 years
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by jghn 3mo ago
It turns out that LLMs are really good at writing bash too. even perl! maybe we should rethink some of these lost bits because we no longer need to worry about the arcane parts.
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by jghn 3mo ago
Tho it wasn't unheard of for some MU* games to have ascii graphics in the telnet stream
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by jghn 3mo ago
I definitely saw MU* games with graphics schemes in the 90s, although most of the moment to moment activity happened in standard trulytext base "rooms". For instance there were a series of Battletech MU* games that would replicate
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by jghn 3mo ago
In particular, Raph Koster (aka Designer Dragon) was heavily involved with LegendMud [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LegendMUD
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by jghn 3mo ago
There's a difference between always being hypercholesterolemia as a fit person and being obese and losing a bunch of weight when it comes to these conversations. It's one f those things where some people's "I can't
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by jghn 3mo ago
for the most part mass == weight on Earth. Triglycerides & HDL are affected by weight (tho more triglycerides than anything else), e.g. Wing 2011.
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by jghn 3mo ago
Dietary cholesterol has little impact on blood cholesterol. However the post that started this debate mentioned mass loss. And that does have a decent correlation. Go from obese to not obese and the median person's cholesterol will dro
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by jghn 3mo ago
As the GP, I've been there. And my point was that it really hasn't been useful in my career. To the extent that my wpm has dropped over time.
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by jghn 3mo ago
Probably not. It was a euphemism.
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by jghn 3mo ago
I'm not sure. And to be honest, typing speed was never that big a deal. By the time I got out of college a few decades ago I was in the 110-120wpm range. However as I progressed in my career as a developer what I found is that both my
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by jghn 3mo ago
Sort of. As a developer I had my stack of reference books, man pages, etc. I’d try hard to memorize syntax as it was a pain to look things up. And I also devoted some memory to remembering where in a book to look, which set of man pages to
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by jghn 3mo ago
I realized later you likely meant the latter anyways and yeah that's much different. It's important to know what these things are, how they work, and why one would need to tweak them. It was never important to have the syntax on i
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by jghn 3mo ago
That's fair. This all feels similar to the shift that happened when Google came on to the search scene. To use your example, people realized they no longer needed to memorize syntax. Instead they only needed to ensure they understood t
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by jghn 3mo ago
They were also easy to look up on the fly as one needed them too. So really really knowing them was never a true advantage. For me it wasn't that I never took the time to learn them. I realized long ago that it wasn't worth my tim
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by jghn 3mo ago
I'm in the middle of the GenX zone, and have regularly been seeing bands play at small music clubs my entire adult life. When I was younger they'd sell cassette tapes at their merch booth, and that gave way to CDs. Then at some po
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by jghn 3mo ago
Also, the first thought I had was "what %age of adults are 18-30". Not that a 30yo should be dependent on their parents but I'd assume that people answering yes skew younger. And to your point about YC, that's also a you
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by jghn 3mo ago
Yes, and there are tiers of risk. What people are complaining about is that with the recent behavior, NASDAQ has arguably increased the level of risk involved. If it's as simple as "buy NASDAQ if you can take risk" then that
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by jghn 3mo ago
Depends on what he left on the table sitting on cash in the run up first
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by jghn 3mo ago
People said similar things leading up to the dot com crash. The commercialization of the internet was indeed a watershed moment. That didn't mean it wasn't a bubble. Both can be true at the same time.
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by jghn 3mo ago
what if you buy on the day of the crash only to discover that was day one of a year long crash?
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by jghn 3mo ago
I'm pretty sure that's not the source for me but most of my vocal quirks have origin stories like this so it's entirely possible. They're almost always things that I heard which either amused me or I thought sounded cool
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by jghn 3mo ago
unfortunately load bearing is one of those things that became a claudism but has been part of my daily lexicon for decades. There are a lot of things I say regularly as part of my own vocal quirkiness that now I have to self censor.

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