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by jghn 2y ago
It's "necessary" because the TSA is largely just a jobs program, albeit one that is palatable to the median American.
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by jghn 2y ago
I find them aesthetically displeasing and almost never get annoyed by having to twiddle a comma here or there. If I were to stack rank things that hinder my efficiency, they'd be down towards the bottom. I mean sure, if people spend mo
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by jghn 2y ago
How do you know that those confidence scores map to anything objective and weren't just created as part of the text generation?
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by jghn 2y ago
Because when you're just churning out the most likely set of next tokens, it's hard to understand "I don't know"
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by jghn 2y ago
Have written a lot of code over ~35 years. Not a fan of trailing commas in any language I've used.
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by jghn 2y ago
> Practically nothing Rust does is new That's my point in a nutshell. It's a cool language. But there's a growing number of converts for whom this is their first introduction to these concepts, and they don't seem to
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by jghn 2y ago
I'm more fed up with smug rustaceans acting like everything Rust does is somehow novel. Just because *you're* not aware that a language feature already existed earlier doesn't mean Rust invented it.
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by jghn 2y ago
My assumption has been that Rust's rise to prominence here has led people to investigate & reflect more on prior art in the realm of "safety" in the PL world. This leads them to Ada. And as there's a general trend in
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by jghn 2y ago
Python is roughly 35 years old. People still seem to use that one.
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by jghn 2y ago
The historic stance was that the right would never cut SS/Medicare because the elderly have some of the loudest political voices and would immediately switch sides. Whether or not this true, unfortunately I suspect we'll find out.
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by jghn 2y ago
> What really needs to be cut is spending on old people They've been making more noise and there's more smoke about this than usual. I did see today (yesterday?) Trump was on about them booting fraudsters off of Social Security
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by jghn 2y ago
When the right wing says they want to cut spending, they don't actually mean it. They mean they want to cut spending for certain things. The fact that those certain things are a rounding error compared to their untouchable bits is irre
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by jghn 2y ago
All I want is a replacement for my mini. Was waiting for a new SE figuring that’d be a reasonable substitute. Instead they roll out a phablet. Sigh.
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by jghn 2y ago
Yeah. I just wish that VSCode didn't feel so crude coming from 10+ years using JetBrains IDEs. Things I feel are table stakes like nice test run/debug functionality seem like big hurdles. Perhaps it's just a learning curve &a
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by jghn 2y ago
Yes, all of those have slower responses. It's part of why people who rely on things like anabolic steroids tend to have a lot of connective tissue injuries: they're getting stronger at an artificial rate and exceeds the ability fo
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by jghn 2y ago
My understanding is that *strength* comes back quicker. This enables mass to come back quicker, but the causation is reversed. A lot of strength is neuromuscular control over muscle, not muscle mass itself. So it doesn't take as long f
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by jghn 2y ago
Yes, and I think it goes beyond "healthy", depending on one's definition. Part of it is also that "cheap" tends to lead to monocultures and other patterns that are more easily disrupted. An example being the Cavendi
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by jghn 2y ago
You put your finger on what I think is the real issue: whether or not access to cheap food is a net benefit or not. I also won't claim to have the perfect answer but do feel we've gone at least a bit too far in one direction.
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by jghn 2y ago
Because in setups like I'm describing the farmers tend to start building relationships with their customers. Price gouging is generally not the best way to maintain those relationships. In previous egg shortages over the years the coup
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by jghn 2y ago
I live in a city and buy most of my fresh produce, meat, and dairy from local farms.
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by jghn 2y ago
This. I buy my eggs at the farmers market from a local, actually small, farm. I pay $8/doz. In normal times this is very expensive. But you know what? Tomorrow when I go to the farmers market they'll still cost me $8/doz.
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by jghn 2y ago
It comes from the FP world. It's one of those things like monads that seem obvious when explained but sound opaque if you're not in on it. Basically it's saying to create a formal set of types and formal rules about how they
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by jghn 2y ago
Define "code maintainability" in a measurable way.
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by jghn 2y ago
Both of his blogs mention Java at least once. It's a good bet this factors heavily in his day to day.
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by jghn 2y ago
Also old. Also can not read the fonts my earlier self would use. Still do not understand the love for narrow columns.
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by jghn 2y ago
Swap out "photography" for "enormous college debt for a degree that's unlikely to lead to a high paying career" and it starts to line up with the rancher example.
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by jghn 2y ago
I think you're making GPs point. We see this exact argument being used against more urban types? "If they didn't want to be saddled with crippling student loans, they shouldn't have gone to college to get a degree leadin
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by jghn 2y ago
You'd be surprised how much AWS, Azure, GCP, etc take in indirectly from research science.
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by jghn 2y ago
> Does the US government not use version control? Do they not have mechanisms I place to prevent an intern from destroying the universe? When you were working on a COBOL codebase that stretched back decades and intended to run on specifi
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by jghn 2y ago
I didn't say they shouldn't do anything. I said that them whining about the situation won't help. To be honest I have no clue what they *should* do, as I said before it seems they're pretty well fucked for now. They coul

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