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by kaashif 3y ago
Is it a surprise that producers of X claim people really want X and only their X? If true no government action is necessary. If false then government action forces consumers to buy something they don't want. Note that sometimes governm
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by kaashif 3y ago
Yeah. For all the hate density gets, living in e.g. Manhattan has made it really easy for me to find like minded friends. I live within like 10 minutes of millions of people so it would be weird if I couldn't connect with people locall
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by kaashif 3y ago
So you're now comparing AI use to heroin use? Not the most accurate comparison if you ask me.
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by kaashif 3y ago
At the same time, China booming has brought hundreds of millions out of crushing poverty. There are obviously positives and negatives, we shouldn't focus on one side.
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by kaashif 3y ago
The top 50% of workers ranked by how hard they work, of course.
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by kaashif 3y ago
Rebasing to squash commits or even split commits up before/during making a PR makes sense to me and I do it all the time just to clean up my mess. The order of development and the state of the repo over time isn't faked, this is j
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by kaashif 3y ago
What does this comment mean? Can you elaborate?
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by kaashif 3y ago
Yeah, I've lived in London and New York (not in the suburbs of either) without a car and there was multiple of everything within a short walk, and huge amounts of stuff (literally thousands upon thousands of things to do) everywhere in
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by kaashif 3y ago
The doors were never open to Chinese immigrants except for limited periods. Mass Chinese migration to the US only really began after the Civil War, and was quickly locked down with the Chinese Exclusion Act [0] only a few decades after the
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by kaashif 3y ago
True. But it appears you have ignored half of the comment you're replying to, the part about the immigrants that moved to the US. It's entirely possible that the US would've also succeeded had it opened its doors to millions
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by kaashif 3y ago
> It takes barely more effort to make some scrambled eggs and toast/eggos Making scrambled eggs isn't all that hard but surely you see that pouring some cereal and milk in a bowl is a fraction of the effort, even if the absolut
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by kaashif 3y ago
> C++ versions are practically a new language. Last two Rust editions required no changes on any of my code. This juxtaposition kind of makes it seem like that new C++ versions did require changes to your code, did they? My understanding
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by kaashif 3y ago
Holy shit, how didn't I know they'd taken it this far? This is great! https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/nullable-ref... They actually fixed the billion dollar mistake...
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by kaashif 3y ago
This can never be as effective as changing the default reference type to be not nullable, which would break backwards compatibility, so you can never really relax. I know Kotlin is basically supposed to be that, it has a lot of other stuff
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by kaashif 3y ago
Nice article as someone familiar with sum types but not sum types in Java. I don't know if sum types alone are enough to get me to like Java, pervasive nullability is still around and even rears its head multiple times in this article.
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by kaashif 3y ago
> 90ies I've only seen 90s (nineties), never 90ies (ninety-ies). I am imagining the second one pronounced differently.
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by kaashif 3y ago
> it feels like it's aimed at people who consciously make themselves do things instead of enjoying them, it's not healthy... Needing gamification to exercise is sub optimal, but it's not that bad compared to just exercisin
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by kaashif 3y ago
> Maybe a retailer might have a zapzap machine but lots of cards aren’t imprinted these days so that’s a non starter too. When I Google "zapzap machine" this comment is the only result, but after looking around on Wikipedia, I
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by kaashif 3y ago
> It wasn't a bailout, it was investment money. Almost all bailouts are investments, whether it's a government or private bailout. The investments are questionable sometimes, but they're still investments.
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by kaashif 3y ago
If we're under attack, launch the nukes. Oh wait, forgot something: Think it through step by step. Phew, close one.
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by kaashif 3y ago
Build times can be the most important factor if they take like 20 minutes. Which I actually have seen before, I've seen some monster C++ and Java builds in my time. The developer experience is completely different in such an environmen
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by kaashif 3y ago
Also, having managed people, I don't really like it and derive much more joy and satisfaction from being an IC working on technical stuff primarily. Definitely "career limiting" but I just like it more.
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by kaashif 3y ago
> All cell phones must be turned off before the movie will begin. > Oh wait, nobody in the audience has a cell phone. Can the movie begin? That's a really good one. Admittedly, I've never had to actually explain why statemen
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by kaashif 3y ago
Thank you for your detailed argument. I am convinced.
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by kaashif 3y ago
Presenting some idea to the team on Zoom when everyone has their cameras off is really bad. People speak but you can't tell when they're going to speak, or who looks confused and might have a question on the tip of their tongue. E
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by kaashif 3y ago
The problem with that is that the generated child porn would presumably derive from training data containing real children and child bodies, so it's not completely "not real". This isn't the same thing as a drawing or 3D
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by kaashif 3y ago
Hmm, interesting, that hasn't ever happened to me. How would the toothpaste get from your mouth into your eye? Can you explain further?
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by kaashif 3y ago
If things slow down a bit then speed up again in a few years once economics improve or whatever, does that really make any difference in the long run? What's the long term solution here? We're not even talking about decades here,
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by kaashif 3y ago
A lot of people in finance are Excel heads and hate the web version. And they have a lot of money to throw around, surely Microsoft cares about them. I really don't see them killing the desktop version.
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by kaashif 3y ago
I have also seen refactor, refactor, refactor, oh actually it's now no better than before. Whoops! It's like imaginary tech debt.

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