jshen

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   by jshen 5y ago

   Not buying a house doesn’t do anything to fix the problem.
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   by jshen 5y ago

   You can absolutely afford it on two tech salaries. I was exactly the person your describing 15+ years ago, but my wife wasn’t working so we only had one tech salary. Fast forward all that time, and the housing market you complain about will
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   by jshen 5y ago

   One thing to keep in mind about CA, once you buy that $800k house, your real estate taxes are more or less locked at that price and won’t rise as the value increases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Propos
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   by jshen 5y ago

   That’s not what I mean. When I see coworkers eating red meat on a regular basis, I believe they are committing a grave moral injustice. I do not believe that the work place is the right place to push them on that issue.
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   by jshen 5y ago

   I think eating a lot of red meat is one of the greatest moral problems in our society today from climate change, factory farming, and habitat destruction. I don’t think I should be haranguing people at work about it.
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   by jshen 6y ago

   gotcha, that makes sense. You might be able to get a cheap chromebook with a big enough screen that folds into a tablet form. One thing to be careful with on these is the brightness of the screens if you want to use it outside.
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   by jshen 6y ago

   I’m a developer that often does web work. I need to test on multiple browsers, which is literally impossible on the iPad for no good reason.
8. 548.▲
   by jshen 6y ago

   Why not a non pro iPad?
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   by jshen 6y ago

   That's fair, arbitrary wasn't the right word. They were chosen for the use case of a smart phone, not a general purpose computer. People pretending that they are reasonable for a general purpose computer are missing the boat IMO.
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    by jshen 6y ago

    yeah, I love the limitations in ios for my phone, but not for my computer!
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    by jshen 6y ago

    I hear this argument a lot, but I don't buy it. Let's flip it around, 99% of people will want to do something with their computer that will turn out to be a giant pain in the ass with an ipad compared to a mac or windows laptop. I
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    by jshen 6y ago

    ipad's limitations are arbitrary and have no strong reason to exist. I've been an apple fan for years, and bought my first PC in nearly 20 years recently because I shouldn't have to buy two very expensive apple devices (a mac
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    by jshen 6y ago

    Not if they help generate new housing, which it seems some of them do.
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    by jshen 6y ago

    My family is made up of poor immigrants, many of whom are back in their home country. Free communication systems are a godsend for them. While I love libraries and public broadcasting, I learned to code as a poor kid through library books,
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    by jshen 6y ago

    You have a very low opinion of humans. I happen to think people are a bit better equipped to make their own decisions than you do.
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    by jshen 6y ago

    A business model that will exclude the poor.
17. 557.▲
    by jshen 6y ago

    You think this type of lawsuit shouldn’t be allowed? https://abc7.com/lawsuit-virginia-police-threaten-pepper-spr...
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    by jshen 6y ago

    Thanks, I didn’t know it only applied to civil charges. “ civil suits are the only means by which individuals or their families can get compensation for the violation of their constitutional or civil rights. And, in practice, civil lawsuits
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    by jshen 6y ago

    So a police offer that kills someone will at worst be fired?
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    by jshen 6y ago

    I absolutely love this idea! I’d happily pay for this.
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    by jshen 6y ago

    Has anyone done, or seen, any analysis on energy used for ML training rather than clock time? I’ve done some of my own for comp heavy workloads, but it wasn’t ML on a GPU.
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    by jshen 6y ago

    Yes is 100% accurate, and still MUCH better than the situation with FB.
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    by jshen 6y ago

    I’ve been thinking about this, and I never thought of it before. I would love a language that is both dynamic and static similar to JS and TS. but, when the types are provided, use them to compile to fast code, while keeping the ability to
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    by jshen 6y ago

    Typescript is not clean because it has to accommodate every crazy thing people do in raw JavaScript. Having said that, isn’t Deno close to what you’re looking for?
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    by jshen 6y ago

    Please no, the migration from python 2 to 3 was a disaster and we’re finally on the other side of it.
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    by jshen 6y ago

    There are a lot of things python could do to be much better. Two examples, 1) dependency management in python is a train wreck compared to most modern languages. 2) the way package paths are done for imports is far more confusing than it sh
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    by jshen 6y ago

    Right, but some people are doing data wrangling by themselves with python in a jupyter notebook. These aren’t production systems, and static type checking slows you down without adding much value. That’s all I’m saying, the data analyst tha
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    by jshen 6y ago

    It’s not always bad, and dealing with it has a cost. The cost is not always worth. It may be worth it most of the time, but not always.
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    by jshen 6y ago

    Is it a bug if it never happens? Another way to say it, would you pay money to prevent a problem you don’t have?
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    by jshen 6y ago

    Ruby did it right.