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by jppittma 3y ago
Sounds like free money to me. You just press Ctrl+D, and you're out.
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by jppittma 3y ago
That's crazy. We had to learn the structure of all the amino acids in my biochem class a decade ago. I'm glad science has finally caught up. Maybe the advances could have happened faster if the scientists studied the structures of
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by jppittma 3y ago
I hope I never have to live in a world where I have to convince a united healthcare chat bot that I need pain medicine.
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by jppittma 3y ago
The workstations are the coding machines. You're not allowed to have google code on your laptop.
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by jppittma 3y ago
Why do we have to tell other people how to work? Why can we not just empower people to work however they'll be most productive?
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by jppittma 3y ago
A lot of people I know don't use them like that. They have a chromebook and RDP onto their cloudtop and never close it. One thing I like(d) about google is that they let you bring whatever workflow you're most productive with, rat
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by jppittma 3y ago
There's nothing inherently wrong with "pushing a view point." Any form of communication qualifies as pushing a view point. Criticizing people for "pushing a view point" is basically criticizing them for speaking a
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by jppittma 3y ago
Trying really hard to not be mean/offensive really is the same thing as putting people in camps for criticizing those in power.
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by jppittma 3y ago
Do people who do better on standardized tests make better doctors? I take the null hypothesis. One's grades and test scores in high school are poor predictors of one's professional efficacy after a certain point. I say, eliminate
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by jppittma 3y ago
This seams silly and nitpicks to my. In go, you have to assign the error, and if you assign it you have to use the variable. I've never seen this mistake before in my years of using go.
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by jppittma 3y ago
I feel like you're acting in bad faith conflating "public" and "state" in this instance. Wikipedia is an apt comparison that receives the vast majority of its funding through donations. It has received grants, but i
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by jppittma 4y ago
No it doesn't. Wayland is the window server. [DWM]( https://dwm.suckless.org ) allows new windows to automatically be tiled when created. It also allows you also to change the way the tiling occurs when new windows are opened
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by jppittma 4y ago
No matter how much you explain to somebody what an apple tastes like, they'll never be able to truly know without having experienced it. Language is reductive on experience. Likewise, we have models like gravity that describe planetary
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by jppittma 4y ago
But only one of those is a case where the federal reserve starts to take action. The degree to which this 6% inflation is treated as an emergency vs the 10% unemployment after '08 is eye opening. It feels like this is really about disc
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by jppittma 4y ago
Most people aren't. I understand the hype on one level. It's fun to do great work and build high quality things. OTOH, What most of the world needs is "good enough" work rather than great work.
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by jppittma 4y ago
Suppose you're the maintainer of a popular open source project, and you have a million users running a working, stable version using code generation. What priority would you assign a bug that migrates the existing, working code that ot
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by jppittma 4y ago
Seems to be what Larry and Sergey called penny wise and pound foolish. A few points in favor of the "lazy cafe." 1. Free food costs the company less to provide in bulk than it does for individual employees to acquire on the open m
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by jppittma 4y ago
No languages have readability on GoB. You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.
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by jppittma 5y ago
IQ tests are stupid and have large language components to them. The large language components of the tests mean they essentially boil down to culture tests. If your parents were in the in group, you speak scientistese. Your in group members
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by jppittma 5y ago
How many "ands" should a theoretical security threat have before you should just ignore the guy proposing it? E.g. If mercury is in retrograde and the stars are aligned and it's Tuesday and the hacker is in position with Wire
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by jppittma 5y ago
Go 1.7 is still around. If people can still run python2, by all means, keep fighting the good fight.
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by jppittma 5y ago
Can't you and yours just freeze at go 1.7? That way, you get your diversity. Pretend every code base that's using go 1.8 is using java or something. A lot of us who write go everyday think generics aren't complicated and are
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by jppittma 5y ago
You're missing the point. The government can and should print money to turn unutilized resources in the economy into utilized resources. What's best for the economy is for every capable person in it to be generating stuff. Everyth
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by jppittma 5y ago
As long as the value of the money that was created was less than the value of the goods that its investment provided, you're in the clear. Sure, home prices have gone up, but what would the phone in your pocket (and all the software th
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by jppittma 5y ago
I have no idea how anybody looks at Japan without realizing that the MMT people got it right. Thought experiment: If the government printed money to send unemployed people to uninhabited farmland to start cultivating it (in complete isolati
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by jppittma 5y ago
Patently wrong. Have you ever heard of the GNU operating system that avoided copywrite with a clean room rewrite of old unix tools? There's also the busybox coreutils on GPLv2 instead of v3.
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by jppittma 5y ago
They said blockchain/NFTs were a solution in search of a problem, and I think I've found that problem.
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by jppittma 5y ago
I can't believe I'm seeing junk like this on HN. I thought this forum was populated by people who actually work in tech?
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by jppittma 5y ago
I use vim. This is a bit of a troll, but the baseline feeling is that people who’ve used a tiling window manager (as a group) are probably more interested in computers than people who haven’t.
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by jppittma 5y ago
This is true on the iPhone, but I feel ownership of my Mac. It's just a unix box. I turned off tpm and have skhd and yabai installed, which is close enough to DWM/i3 for me. I wish they'd offer better out of box support for X

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