kaashif

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by kaashif 3y ago
Something big, decades old, financial. Not pleasant.
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by kaashif 3y ago
Meanwhile as someone who had to deal with writing code for Solaris and using Sun's compiler, I think I've achieved my goal by seeing my last SPARC turn _off_! But yeah, nuclear fusion is cool.
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by kaashif 3y ago
Multiple seconds...I've worked on binaries that take 20 minutes to link. Having a ridiculously long cycle time massacres productivity and job satisfaction.
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by kaashif 3y ago
This hasn't exactly been my experience, Python isn't easier to learn than e.g. Java because of the lack of static typing, it's easier because the language is more expressive. I actually think there is literally no downside to
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by kaashif 3y ago
If it's available in Java, then it surely is usable from Kotlin and Scala. The others I have no idea about though.
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by kaashif 3y ago
Something about this interaction is funny to me. It's like an alien asking: but after you drink all that water, won't you die? And the human replies: no, I actually do that to stay alive.
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by kaashif 3y ago
It's not just inter Manhattan travel, getting anywhere on an express line is surely faster than a car a lot of the time. I can't read a book or completely zone out while driving my car either, there must be some value to being abl
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by kaashif 3y ago
Why do the ground floors have to be designated by the government as retail or residential? Is it impossible to say it can be either, as long as the requirements for whichever one (e.g. ventilation, fire safety) are met?
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by kaashif 3y ago
Also, they may be opaque even to software engineers, it's not like we have magic powers to look at a physical computer and know what code is running. Even if the code is released: (1) Who can read and understand tens or hundreds of tho
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by kaashif 3y ago
But is the most economically efficient number of deaths on trains really zero? If a million people get to work a few minutes faster every day for 40 years, is that worth one life? No, but I have actually heard this argument before and regar
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by kaashif 3y ago
Yeah, rail privatisation in the UK doesn't really allow operators to compete with each other. Since competition is the only thing that motivates good service, low prices, etc, that means those have been on the decline. Not even the fre
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by kaashif 3y ago
Maybe that's what they meant. If so, they are confused about what open source means. Selling open source or free software is fine. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
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by kaashif 3y ago
> I think they made assumptions that engineers cannot be trusted. I disagree, if you don't think engineers can be trusted, you wouldn't want to trust engineers to remember to close files or connections, you'd have some lan
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by kaashif 3y ago
It seems like it would be hard to automate being a plumber or electrician, AI isn't really being aimed at that problem. Jobs which are specifically about being a human seem like they can't be automated, like actors, waiters, athle
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by kaashif 3y ago
Let's remember that Adam Smith was against the idea of the joint stock company, a company where the shareholders and managers are different people. He thought that smaller, owner operated businesses would outcompete joint stock compani
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by kaashif 3y ago
Didn't it used to be the case that a lot of FreeBSD devs used OSX while OpenBSD devs used OpenBSD and this dogfooding produced better device driver support on OpenBSD? I heard that somewhere many years ago, but it may be false.
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by kaashif 3y ago
I find my job as a software engineer and programming for fun to be extremely different, to the point where my job hasn't damaged my passion for fun programming on whatever I want. It's like if you had a passion for painting and go
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by kaashif 3y ago
As a non-user of Instagram, I somehow thought Threads was new. I just missed the fact of its existence I guess. It's generally very hard for me to tell whether a social media app is popular, I can't even keep track of which apps e
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by kaashif 3y ago
I think most of the time people really want a sum type, NOT a tuple. i.e. you can get back either a value OR an error, but not both. In Go, there's the pattern of returning nil, err, which is a hint that we really want a sum type there
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by kaashif 3y ago
> add just enough of a tuple types feature to support multiple return values What's the difference between returning a two element struct and a pair of value and error? I never understood why "multiple return values" is a
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by kaashif 3y ago
Population increases in immigrant source countries have no impact on the economies of the largest immigrant destination countries?
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by kaashif 3y ago
I had a similar thought. I think it should be "PornHub blocks access FOR the entire state of Virginia". Or maybe "from", but definitely not "to".
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by kaashif 3y ago
> If you happen to have a necessity for such a thing, you're better off using Home Manager, else you would end up implementing parts of Home Manager by yourself. So if I need to do X then I should use Y, but why do I need to do X? M
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by kaashif 3y ago
They didn't steal it completely since it doesn't happen automatically. You can still forget to clean up and leak files or threads or what have you. I continue to be disappointed that only Rust and C++ have automatic destruction. P
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by kaashif 3y ago
To be fair, this video is literally on a nuclear submarine. Walking around and looking at all the stuff is 100% a worthwhile use of my time in my opinion, it's just really cool. A 1 minute video about it with some animations wouldn&#x2
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by kaashif 3y ago
> You get paid the same no matter what. You don't get paid more if you perform better? There are extremely obvious productivity and impact differences between some employees, and this should ideally translate into pay differences. A
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by kaashif 3y ago
> play tabletop games I've played hundreds of hours of Tabletop Simulator (a game on Steam, if that's not clear) outside VR and it works great. Tabletop Simulator also supports VR, I tried it a few times but it really didn&#x27
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by kaashif 3y ago
Interesting abuse of big O notation there, since O(100M) = O(10) = O(1). Your statements make more sense without the O.
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by kaashif 3y ago
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution are known as the Bill of Rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights So if you want to enshrine a right in US law, the highest place to do it is as
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by kaashif 3y ago
I'm pretty sure "person of colour" means literally the same thing as "non white" in the US, I find it hard to care about such minor differences in phrasing.

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