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> In what world does a healthy growing business react to this by laying off couriers "in a pivot to automotive transportation". Millions of horses got shipped to the glue factory. And many more farriers and stablemasters got la
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Yes, it's sarcasm. I'm contrasting how Britain made their legal process gradual enough to match reality with the USA's demand that legal processes create reality. For reference, fully elective abortion legally doesn't ex
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The purpose of an assembly is to reflect the actual distribution of power in society, not what we'd like it to be. If interest groups do not feel represented by the system, they will destroy it.
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Because that requires compromise and Americans are raging absolutists that need immediate results. In 1791, abolitionists tried to end slavery in the British Empire but couldn't get it passed by the House of Commons. Henry Dundas chang
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In essentially every other profession the credential is gated behind years of work experience and often a degree or course. We already have such a credential. It's called "lasting two years at a FAANG+ without getting fired".
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The first pilot project to issue SSNs with the birth certificate automatically was in 1987. You can read the history here: https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v56n1/v56n1p83.pdf Prior to that, getting th
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Until 1986[1] most Americans didn't get a Social Security Number until their first job. In The Matrix (1999) there's a scene where Agent Smith explicitly remarks that Neo has an SSN as proof he's a law-abiding citizen in a wh
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Real ID only confirms one was lawfully present in the United States when the ID was issued, it is not intended to prove citizenship. https://www.dhs.gov/archive/real-id-public-faqs For example, DACA recipients, tempora
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More important than lack of voter fraud is proving to the population a lack of voter fraud.
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> Also would be interested in an example of "validation layers that trim hallucinations with handwritten linters" For code review, AI doesn't want to output well-formed JSON and oftentimes doesn't leave inline suggest
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I'm learning more than ever before. I'm not a master at anything but I am getting basic proficiency in virtually everything. > Do you ever take the time to validate what one of the agents produces by going to the docs? Or is al
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I coded a level 8 orchestration layer in CI for code review, two months before Claude launched theirs. It's very powerful and agents can create dynamic microbenchmarks and evaluate what data structure to use for optimal performance, am
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I shipped this parallel agent workflow with validator agents as an internal tool months ago. It got a 20% reduction in time-to-merge, had a similar cost, and left 10x the comments as any existing AI review tool. It's totally worth it.
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In this theoretical scenario where AI displaces everyone, the only thing with value will be housing and physical necessities, so I think housing prices will go up.
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Is there a clearer example where constexpr wouldn't work? > On the other hand, C++ template metaprogramming, as an esolang, is fun to tame and experiment with. Is it an esolang at this point? I feel old.
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if this is a C++17 library why couldn't you use `constexpr` evaluation and not murder your compilation time?
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nix has a cache too but only if the packages are reproducible. Much harder to get reproducibility with C++ than JavaScript to say the least.
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You can take a hybrid approach and use the rack for base capacity, cloud for scaling.
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I live in Canada so housing is uniformly expensive unless you live super rural. Best choice would be moving up north and slaving in a mineral mine along with everyone else that lost their jobs. Like the 1920s. I don't see myself being
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Realistically, I would die. A condo costs $2500/month so I will either be homeless and freeze to death or be euthanized. Maybe I'm a contrarian but I don't think there's hope for anyone that doesn't control resource
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AI only uses big words to engage in elegant variation, not to compress information. If someone calls an article like this a "jeremiad" I know they're a human.
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I daily drive NixOS. I don't have a global "userland". Packages are shipped from upstream and pull in the dependencies they need to function. That means unlike Gentoo, I've never dealt with a "slot conflict" wh
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Nix and Guix. Good luck convincing people to switch!
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Funnily enough, my Science Fiction class graded like that. If you didn't have high information density in essays you were torn into. AI was a disadvantage due to verboseness. Most people dropped the class and prof went on sabbatical.
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> At the same time I am confused about what you would like to achieve within the first year of your professional career. I am in great fear of ending up on the wrong side of the K shaped recovery. Everyone is telling me I need to be exce
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> Are you really recompiling 6000 things each time a dev in the company needs to add a line somewhere in the codebase? It happens when someone modifies a widely included header file. Which there are a lot of thanks to our use of template
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> I have never seen any performance problem being solved by running it on Azure's virtualization Sorry, I wasn't clear. I am not virtualizing the workspace. I'm using `recc` which is like `distcc` or `ccache` in that it wr
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The problem is the lack of experience compounds. Because AI accelerates the rate of knowledge gain, this gets even faster.
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I'm hosting a Kubernetes cluster on Azure and trying to autoscale it to tens of thousands of vCPUs. The goal is to transparently replace dedicated developer workstations (edit: transparently replace compiling ) because our codebase is
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> If you earned your CS degree (or any degree) before 2022 or so, the value of that degree is going to grow and grow and grow In my experience, target schools are the only universities now that can make their assignments too hard for AI.

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