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by jonahx 4y ago
The first one is 157 characters, and what it is doing can be grokked at a glance, in less than 10 seconds, by a competent developer. Choosing to format the body across 5 lines for clarity does not change that. I consider that "basical
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by jonahx 4y ago
> and then proceed to be publicly mocked on Twitter for their physical disability Today is my first time hearing about this scandal. Do you have a link to the mocking in question?
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by jonahx 4y ago
> Lodash is tree-shakeable... > Just use Lodash, it's better than having to maintain your own hodgepodge of poorly documented and tested utility functions. There are good reasons not to: - You don't want to add a build step
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by jonahx 4y ago
> There is nothing I find more fatiguing than pushing a bubble around underneath a rug in a system that eventually has to be carefully taken and inspected bit by bot Couldn't agree more > I’m afraid the ChatGPT enthusiast is goin
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by jonahx 4y ago
This is a false dichotomy. I'm acutely aware of ChatGPT's mistakes, have spent lots of time investigating them, and still find immense value in the tool. While it's true that many less technical people will end up treating
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by jonahx 4y ago
Reminds me of the mid-90s "it's just the yellow pages" hot takes about the internet.
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by jonahx 4y ago
I'm sorry, but it is as if you did not even read my post: > The artist is dead. That is why I used the word "posthumously". > This is absolutely being done with the permission of the copyright holder. That is why I said
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by jonahx 4y ago
> It can be a hard choice with young children. Is it though? A modified version of the scene seems like a dishonest solution to a problem that has good, straightforward solutions: - Don't show them (if its a conversation you don&#
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by jonahx 4y ago
> Everyone here is thinking "ZOMG Political Correct Censorship Claims Another Victim", but what we actually have is "Han Shot First". "Han Shot First" is the artist changing his own work . That is entirely
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by jonahx 4y ago
I take your point. And agree there is still a huge gulf. > Then the system is likely going to look a lot different than it does now I think I agree with this too, but to challenge the idea: I would never have thought "a fancy a
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by jonahx 4y ago
> has little to do with the quality of the output. Non-snarky question: What else can you judge by? Isn't any alternative just putting more precise conditions on the output? With ChatGPT, it's still easy enough to see it'
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by jonahx 4y ago
> Simplicity requires hard work to be obtained and education for its appreciation, and complexity sells much better. See, e.g., the ascendancy of Kubernetes.
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by jonahx 4y ago
The same culture way is playing out all over the world, especially in Europe.
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by jonahx 4y ago
While you are correct that solving this problem in the general case is impossible, the story isn't "silly" because we aren't talking about the general case but a specific and prominent one: - We are currently engaged in
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by jonahx 4y ago
rssoconner is saying that answering those questions becomes trivial when using the log scale. I find this argument persuasive despite having the same reaction you did to the original graph. The rewritten version is easier to understand im
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by jonahx 4y ago
It also assures customers who have concerns about the longevity of your company that, even if you folded, your product itself wouldn't just vanish. So it's a kind of insurance in addition to being a marketing strategy.
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by jonahx 4y ago
Good point, thanks.
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by jonahx 4y ago
Exactly. The lights create a kind of moral hazard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
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by jonahx 4y ago
That model sounds horrific. Pay $175/mo, the first $500 of every incident, and then when you do need money you have to beg the others members for it, and they'll decide if they want to "fund" you based on your own "
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by jonahx 4y ago
> Are recessions a healthy part of a normal economic ebb and flow? (Over the long-term) Ray Dalio discusses this in his video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0&t=483s And basically the answer he gives
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by jonahx 4y ago
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.
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by jonahx 4y ago
Even more so: When "ancillary work" to "task work" ratio is high. For example, to start you spend 20m getting the local developer setup for that repo working because the docs are out of date, and then because the repo is
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by jonahx 4y ago
I think it's interesting that the value here is essentially "a jupyter notebook" but... - Evaluations shown in a sidebar - Automatically figures out what is a calculation and what is a comment/explanation for you I am no
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by jonahx 4y ago
You can type the date in browser date pickers, including Safari's, even while the calendar is visible. But the UI is not superfluous for many use cases. Often, you want to see the whole calendar for context -- eg, to see the associate
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by jonahx 4y ago
You can like rails, but calling it boringly simple is highly misleading. I think, generously, something like "complex but fully-featured" might be accurate. As a reference point, the top 2 rails books on amazon are 900 and almost
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by jonahx 4y ago
> In Asia, there are street merchants who will throw grains into an iron vessel which is then closed and heated to create a similar pressure situation. When they release the pressure, there is an audible boom and the results is puffed gr
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by jonahx 4y ago
Also a good point. Do you know what the exact distribution would be when sampling randomly and rejecting all values below some threshold? You can tell it would at least be Pereto-ish in general shape.
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by jonahx 4y ago
You're right. I was thinking the "initial talent" might be normal in the way IQ scores are, but the parent was talking about actual performance, where history, training, etc all come into play. And empirically, you have Gret
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by jonahx 4y ago
Isn't the surprising part that it's fat-tailed rather than normal?
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by jonahx 4y ago
Small correction: hyper-neutrino is a code-golfer and user of Vyxal, but the creator of Vyxal is: https://github.com/Lyxal

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