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by kaashif 4y ago
> I don't understand. You're just denying that, before machine translation worked well, some people translated their websites into more than one language? Not many, but some did. No, I'm not. If the website was in a foreig
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by kaashif 4y ago
It's very, very surprising to me that that person has found a way to say that "everyone loses" with machine translation. If they wanted to look at a foreign website 30 years ago, what did they do? Call up a human translator a
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by kaashif 4y ago
> BOGO I always find this phrase funny. Isn't buying one and getting one the normal state of affairs?
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by kaashif 4y ago
There are a lot of "current" versions of Python, and most of them have subtle breaking changes going from one minor version to the next.
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by kaashif 4y ago
Such an incredibly large scale asymmetry would still be interesting even if it weren't global for some reason. Even if there's a sampling thing going on, why should this particular sampling method have an asymmetry? Maybe there&#x
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by kaashif 4y ago
> I'm starting to see ghastly echoes of this sort of thing as "MAP" ("minor-attracted persons," supplanting pedophile on the euphemism treadmill) becomes an acronym I see more and more often here in the U.S., and
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by kaashif 4y ago
If it's such a stranglehold on innovation, Android will out-innovate and outcompete iOS. Or maybe Apple provides a platform that some users and businesses still find it worth paying for. You're arguing for the government to ban pr
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by kaashif 4y ago
> News flash: no one wants to wear VR goggles Cutting that sentence off there paints a slightly different picture from the full sentence: > News flash: no one wants to wear VR goggles to spend any time in a digital heaven where the ro
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by kaashif 4y ago
Your comment still doesn't answer the question "Why do you need to ban other people from buying them?" I think it's a good question that deserves an answer.
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by kaashif 4y ago
The point they're making, I think, is that FTX bought various shitcoins from other people in exchange for USD. Value can disappear, but that's not what happened to the actual dollars they spent. I'm not positive this whole th
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by kaashif 4y ago
The person you're replying to didn't mention this, but I find the main utility of static typing to be that all variables and functions either have explicit types or their types can be inferred by the IDE. Great for readability whe
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by kaashif 4y ago
> But generally speaking the code is only 1/3rd of the size. So you have a lot less to read. Are you implying type hints triple the size of code? This is very far away from my experience, no idea what kind of monster types you'
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by kaashif 4y ago
Same, but the best software engineers write code that's maintainable and understandable by anyone, including themselves on 5 years. If you ever find yourself asking what's actually in this variable, and the code is too dynamic for
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by kaashif 4y ago
I don't think I've ever knocked anything over in TTS, nor do I know how that would really happen. I've never changed any settings. I always recommend TTS as exactly what you say it's not - no tweaking, no fiddling. Inter
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by kaashif 4y ago
Tabletop Simulator in VR is a terrible experience IMO, interacting with cards and scripting is much, much easier with a mouse and keyboard than with VR. And it is really helpful in a lot of games to zoom out or zoom in on various things whi
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by kaashif 4y ago
> low-level high-performance languages like golang This is the first time I've ever seen Go called a low level high performance language. Maybe compared to Python or Ruby I guess, which is fair.
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by kaashif 4y ago
> No, you can't increase your overall productivity after cutting 80% of your workforce. You might increase individual engineer productivity slightly Labour productivity is already a per worker measure. I've never heard it used
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by kaashif 4y ago
What was the deal with that, anyway? Like what actually happened there? The whole thing seems bizarre.
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by kaashif 4y ago
I don't think there's any debate that software engineers are paid much more on average in the US, or that the number of highly paid jobs is much greater in the US. Even at within the same firm, for the same job, it seems like UK e
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by kaashif 4y ago
> Good luck to native workers in the UK competing with an Indian on a work visa that has no working time regulations, holiday allowance, etc. There's an important point to highlight here: low paid workers from India working long hou
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by kaashif 4y ago
I moved from the UK to the US. Increased risk, increased reward. And if I'm fired, laid off, or deported, worst case I just go back to the UK having already earned hundreds of thousands of dollars more than I would have in the UK.
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by kaashif 4y ago
The UK is far from done, but the considerable number of good universities and good companies aren't, for whatever reason, translating into rising living standards. The current crisis can be blamed on energy, but the post 2008 period of
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by kaashif 4y ago
What's wrong with losing access to a giant talent pool of hundreds of millions of people who can move immediately, visa free? I think it's pretty clear.
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by kaashif 4y ago
> It's happening all over the western world. It's not really happening in the US. The US economy remains strong and may not even go into a significant recession in the next year. The US dollar remains the world reserve currency
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by kaashif 4y ago
> They incorporated in "Antigua and Barbuda" Why is Antigua and Barbuda in quotes here?
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by kaashif 4y ago
> Why is it that I need to do this stuff in my off hours as well? The comment you're replying to says they do it for fun. If you don't find it fun, of course you won't do it for fun outside work, at best you'd do it f
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by kaashif 4y ago
> So not just bad. And let's not forget that it's a small country. The US has 4x the population, even Japan has 50% more. To say nothing of China, India, etc. Yet Germany is still #4 in terms of GDP. This can be corrected for b
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by kaashif 4y ago
I find that ad funny. > Don't believe everything about Bavaria. Just believe the facts. Maybe it's because of the article I just read, but I'm reading that like "Don't believe everything you've heard about h
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by kaashif 4y ago
I agree completely. If people cannot provide for themselves, the state should provide for them. I don't think it makes any sense for employers to be tasked with that, since all that does is provide a huge incentive for employers to dis
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by kaashif 4y ago
The alternative to high pay is low pay.

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