kaashif

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541.
by kaashif 3y ago
If you're leaving the community anyway, does it matter if you violate the CoC through being honest about your opinions?
542.
by kaashif 4y ago
Maybe those two versions mean the same thing in whatever idea vector space ChatGPT operates in, but ChatGPT's version is missing a lot. It didn't keep your "half the time, more than half the energy" bit, which I liked.
543.
by kaashif 4y ago
Isn't that what the comment you're replying to is saying? Maybe they should've been less subtle.
544.
by kaashif 4y ago
> If space were three dimensionally finite, then there must be a boundary. Not true, space might just repeat in all directions - a finite volume but with no boundaries. Maybe if you go far enough you always end up back where you came fro
545.
by kaashif 4y ago
This feels like you replied to the wrong comment, there's nothing remotely resembling a crime in what you replied to.
546.
by kaashif 4y ago
Oh, I guess I never even considered doing that for some reason. If you just run "pip install" doesn't literally tell you to use the --user flag or virtualenv? I guess it's probably an easy mistake to make.
547.
by kaashif 4y ago
What? Why? How? I always use the system Python plus virtualenv and that works fine, it's certainly never broken my system... I don't even know by what mechanism that breakage would happen.
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by kaashif 4y ago
Maybe one day AI will allow completely unskilled laypeople, ignorant of software, to build and deploy software end to end with no involvement from any software engineers, testers, SREs, anything. That would be the power loom of our time - t
549.
by kaashif 4y ago
In the past, when tools that significantly increased developer productivity emerged, like higher level languages (C, Java, Python), better IDEs, or better access to help (e.g. StackOverflow), the demand for more software has outpaced any de
550.
by kaashif 4y ago
What I mean is that their drive to monetize has actually produced a lot of revenue, i.e. was a success. People were predicting some kind of mass migration away from the now paid Docker products and it didn't happen. The pressure to mon
551.
by kaashif 4y ago
I still don't understand what the supposed value add of Docker Desktop really was for developers who just needed to run Linux Docker containers (I know there was some value for those needing Windows or Mac containers probably). A nice
552.
by kaashif 4y ago
> So, docker has, at the same time, "little to offer to commercial businesses" That's not what was said, you missed out the word "most", which changes the meaning of the quote: > Docker Hub has little to offer
553.
by kaashif 4y ago
I think the quote was paraphrased to make it more offensive than it really was originally. Originally the quote was about sloppy thinking, not "weak" minds. You're right that weak isn't a great word to use here. Maybe yo
554.
by kaashif 4y ago
This is an incredibly common experience, lots of people I've asked do this. When writing a StackExchange post asking for help, I want to include all relevant information and include a list of things I've tried, along with explanat
555.
by kaashif 4y ago
That works fine for some kinds of questions, but not for questions like "prove this group is cyclic" or "prove this function is holomorphic" - in those cases there is no answer separate from the derivation. And those que
556.
by kaashif 4y ago
If C makes developers 5-50x more effective compared to writing assembly, then you just need two devs instead of a team of 10-100. Obviously that didn't happen. And people actually made predictions like that once upon a time. As softwar
557.
by kaashif 4y ago
> It was the FED raising rates that pushed their solvency further out into the future. Not wholly on topic, but why do some people capitalize "Fed" as "FED"?
558.
by kaashif 4y ago
Are you talking about this comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35152388 That doesn't read like anyone is actually confused over the meaning of "billion" , it seems like people are just speculating o
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by kaashif 4y ago
What's really the difference between issuing a loan and buying the same loan issued by someone else? SVB bought a load of treasury bonds which is equivalent from a risk perspective from issuing a 10 year (or whatever) loan to the gover
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by kaashif 4y ago
Not correct, that post was about San Francisco only. The Bay Area is much, much larger, and has a density of ~1000 per sq mi. If the entire Bay Area were as dense as SF (not even close), that would be a megacity dwarfing NYC and Tokyo sever
561.
by kaashif 4y ago
If you consider the relatively low density, mostly restrictively zoned Bay Area to be "packed in", I'd hate to hear what you think of e.g. New York.
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by kaashif 4y ago
The incentives here seem worrying. Developed countries must keep other countries undeveloped to maintain the flow of immigration. If everyone develops, Europe and North America's power and share of global GDP will decrease significantl
563.
by kaashif 4y ago
I somewhat agree with the rest but: > In contrast, Apple competing with USB with their own connectivity standard has a negative impact on basically everyone. Does it? I haven't ever been negatively affected or even affected at all a
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by kaashif 4y ago
I find it crazy that you improve the readability so much and say readability hasn't improved that much. The order things happen in *this++ is not obvious unless you know a bunch of C-specific rules, while the ordering of multiple state
565.
by kaashif 4y ago
In that case, literally nothing is good money. I'm not sure that's a good definition of good money.
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by kaashif 4y ago
> Deflationary = good for regular people, companies are loath to invest. Saving is encouraged. You've explained why inflationary is bad but not why deflationary is good. The starting point has to be history, where deflation has been
567.
by kaashif 4y ago
> It's deflationary not in a USD sense but that over time there is less and less ETH because it's being burnt. This isn't what the word deflation actually means though. Deflation is when the purchasing power of a currency
568.
by kaashif 4y ago
I don't know whether you could or couldn't. But if I entered into such a contract, I'd obviously use a different pen, it's not that hard. Is anyone really running their side businesses from their work laptops? That seems
569.
by kaashif 4y ago
I read their comment as implying that Apple should distribute that cash pile to investors through buybacks or dividends. I don't know what about their comment implies they want layoffs.
570.
by kaashif 4y ago
I'm having trouble constructing a specific example that doesn't work, can you provide a minimal example that fails to compile? This compiles fine in Java 11, for example: import java.io.IOException; class Test {

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