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by kaashif 3y ago
> Obviously there are equations and pure facts. Those you should simply look up when needed. In math, at least, part of the difficulty of higher level problem solving is that you simply need to have a large number of definitions and theo
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by kaashif 3y ago
I never claimed we had a personal interaction, I only claimed you interacted with me, a person. I define it the same way any dictionary defines it: you acted and it has an effect on me. I agree that personal interactions are hard to come by
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by kaashif 3y ago
> Personally, I don't use tech to interact with people. I am a person. You have interacted with me using tech. How are you defining "tech" exactly? I use messaging apps all the time to organise things with friends or talk
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by kaashif 3y ago
The past 4 years includes a time when the market was red hot and great for software engineers - 2021-2. Not getting a raise during that time is due to something other than "job market is bad" because it wasn't.
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by kaashif 3y ago
> Creeps could go in public, see a person they like, and put porn next to them without anyone knowing. So uh, can't people already do this with phones? I could watch porn on the train in front of people right now? What NEW boundary
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by kaashif 3y ago
> A kiloton of TNT is 4GJ, so it’s also like a 500 kiloton bomb going off every second. Funnily, my first reaction to this comparison is that it makes it seem more plausible to me that this is possible. After all, a Star Destroyer can ta
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by kaashif 3y ago
They're saying the best price/GB is found in drives of size 14-20TB.
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I'm not saying using git blame is hellish, I'm saying always needing to do it because of all of the things you described sounds hellish. The original comment was that you should always do it, for every line of code.
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> If you change a line of code without doing git-blame on it first you're doing it wrong. Working on a project where this is necessary sounds like a hellish experience. The place for comments explaining why the code is needed is rig
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by kaashif 3y ago
I put that kind of thing in the pull request, since that's where the review happens. Every commit links back to a pull request, and people actually do refer back to it. Writing good documentation there is part of the job. No-one's
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by kaashif 3y ago
One, maybe two escalator repairs. After a few years of making us walk up stairs. Yes, I'm bitter. I don't know how these things are so expensive and take so long.
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How can your body distinguish between you thinking about moving your arm and you moving your arm?
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> Any effort expended on keeping languages alive is pointless. Pointless ultimately, maybe. But languages can even be revived from nothing to have millions of native speakers, see Hebrew.
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> You can neglect new hires just as effectively in an office, and you can support new hires just as effectively over Teams. My experience is that some people are just much less likely to ask questions over Slack or start a Zoom call, whi
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by kaashif 3y ago
What do you guys mean specifically when you say AD&D is less sterile?
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by kaashif 3y ago
Is there any way you could have a being like a human, who when asked would say they're not conscious? Is a definition of consciousness allowing that possible? I'm not talking about whether they are or aren't, but surely all
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by kaashif 3y ago
> Things that help that flow are selected for. I don't get this part, why does this follow? Why would life that transfers heat faster get selected for? This seems backwards to me: in reality it seems like life that is more capable o
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by kaashif 3y ago
Concentrated harm and distributed benefit is a recipe to have a few vociferous complainers and many silent beneficiaries. People who believe they've suffered a grave injustice will be much louder. The best algorithm and least complaint
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by kaashif 3y ago
Bella+Canvas shirts are great. Almost my entire wardrobe consists of Bella+Canvas shirts I picked up at conferences. I used to get others but most of them are too scratchy or bad in some other way. I used to still get them "because the
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by kaashif 3y ago
I just really don't like chalk dust, others have a higher tolerance I think.
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by kaashif 3y ago
> Technology has not improved on the blackboard at all. I think whiteboards are an improvement on blackboards.
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by kaashif 3y ago
> Fair enough, but Microsoft would be equally dead without Office and Azure revenue. Office and Azure make up half of their revenue, but their other revenue streams are actually different things, like Windows, gaming, LinkedIn, Bing adve
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by kaashif 3y ago
*until If people believe giving all information to one company and having it unindexable and impossible to find on the open internet is a way to keep your data safe, I have an alternative idea. This unindexability means Discord could charge
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by kaashif 3y ago
> 7th largest GDP This isn't relevant when we're talking about individual welfare. France is 23rd for nominal GDP per capita and 26th for PPP. Which is still good! A lot of the countries near the top are petrostates or tax have
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Then that country would become an extremely unattractive place to hire employees. Massive incentive to do whatever you can to only use contractors or whatever. Somehow classify your employees as self employed, something like that. Maybe it
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by kaashif 3y ago
It's not really possible to tell if someone saying "50% faster" means a 50% speed increase or a 50% time decrease. Even in other contexts it can be ambiguous. Yesterday I drove 60mph, today I drove 50% faster. Yesterday I got
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by kaashif 3y ago
This is the real answer. If they ask you why you didn't respond, you can honestly tell them you were waiting for them to ask their question. If someone says "how are you?" that doesn't work though.
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Or just break it now. It doesn't matter.
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Could be controversial, but I am actually against rape.
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The conclusion may not be defeatist, but the conclusion is different from the subtitle of the article (and the title of the submission): > Studies suggest that relying on will power is hopeless Which would indeed be extremely defeatist.

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