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by kaashif 4y ago
Maybe this doesn't make any sense, but when I write a blog post, I don't necessarily want lots of people to read it. My blog is primarily for me, the public nature of it just forces me to think about what I'm writing a bit mo
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by kaashif 4y ago
I agree - my employer pays for IDEs and developer tools without question, and the main benefit goes to them. Some of it comes back to me in promotions and bonuses, but not all or most of it. Me paying for tools to increase my productivity a
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by kaashif 4y ago
I'm skeptical you need all of that to get a cup of coffee you'll like the same amount. Is there quantitative data out there on the kinds of coffee people like the best? I recall a TED talk [1] which claims (not as its main claim)
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by kaashif 4y ago
Yeah, I have an Amazon Prime subscription and a VPS for a personal blog, but that's it. I figure most people have like Prime and Netflix, or Disney+ and Spotify. Not all of the above, plus weather app subscriptions, and dozens of other
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by kaashif 4y ago
> I would say that proper password manager is the best investment you can do from any app. I agree but I think the point being made is that there are free password managers that do the job just as well. I use keepassxc on the desktop, it
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by kaashif 4y ago
Even if you don't think it's true that "spawning" is an achievement in and of itself, I think it benefits you that others do "spawn". If you society discouraged having children strongly enough, it would collaps
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by kaashif 4y ago
There is an even more callous meaning that you didn't pick up on for some reason - they're not suggesting the owners should come up with $5000, they're saying the owners should kill or otherwise get rid of their pets once the
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by kaashif 4y ago
> This is why medical care (human or pet) and capitalism don't mix well. If you are having a heart attack, you aren't comparing prices, and if your animal "child" is throwing up, you aren't calling around various
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by kaashif 4y ago
> my employer won’t pay for the license fees If it costs $200 or whatever and would clearly save you more than that in time ($200 is a few hours of developer time) then surely it's worth it. I guess the problem is that the process i
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by kaashif 4y ago
The name is "self" not "this". "this" is a keyword indicating it's the explicit object parameter, it's not even actually a type. C++ seems to be trying to maximise confusion these days.
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by kaashif 4y ago
Yeah, as someone with a math degree, I already know what the right half-plane refers to, I already know what zeroes and poles are (in a complex analysis way, not a control theory way), and I am just befuddled. The article doesn't reall
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by kaashif 4y ago
A more horrific and offensive version of the joke, which I actually saw recently as output from fortune [1], adds a part about the contour integral of the whole of Europe still being zero because the Poles are removable. [1]: https:&#x2F
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by kaashif 4y ago
I don't think a vague but more precise mathematical explanation of the terms zero and pole are even that difficult to understand, x has a zero, 1/x has a pole, people kind of know what that means if you look at a graph of a pole,
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by kaashif 4y ago
> A physicist or pure Mather social looks at Navier-Stokes and says, “Oh, we know how that works, nothing to do there I guess” I don't know if that's the best example, it's one of the Millennium Prize problems to prove tha
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by kaashif 4y ago
> Why does the teenager have that job, and would the teenager be happier without a job? Isn't the point here that the teenager has that job because there are no coin slots in carts, so there has to be someone collecting the carts? I
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by kaashif 4y ago
While the stock market may be stupid, it's not a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme involves a fraudster lying about where the money is going and coming from, and thus defrauding people. If people know what they're buying, and they late
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by kaashif 4y ago
> It’s like a decentralized Ponzi scheme A Ponzi scheme is a type of fraud where someone lies about where the money paying off earlier investors is coming from - they say it comes from investment in some kind of business or other busin
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by kaashif 4y ago
A path I have seen many people take, and one I'm going to take soon, is to work at a US tech company (not necessarily FAANG, lots of largish companies do this) and transfer internally from Europe to the US. There is no lottery for L1B
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by kaashif 4y ago
I was a bit sloppy and I apologise, but if you take a given cryptocurrency, it's not possible for it to be a volatile investment and a stable, useful currency at the same time, those are completely at odds. If you take Bitcoin as an ex
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by kaashif 4y ago
> i know this will get downvoted but I'd rather take an occassional 25% loss with the knowledge that I'll regain it in the future, rather than a guaranteed loss of 6%+ per year for the next 20 years that I will never regain. Yo
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Adam Savage's Rant on Laser Printers [video](youtube.com)
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by kaashif 4y ago
> And occasionally I'll have someone send me a note saying thank you for some helpful piece of information they found there. I do exactly the same thing! And for exactly the same reasons! I just occasionally write to crystallise my
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> A shift in the competitive landscape might encourage distributors to integrate better with aggregators or meta-interfaces of various sorts. Or directly with one another, in some fashion. That's a big "might" there, isn&#
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by kaashif 4y ago
> competition is worse for consumers in some respects here The implicit assumption here is that without competition, we'd have all (or most) of the same shows, just on a single service. I don't think that's true. I think c
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by kaashif 5y ago
Researching it now, I think Asimov actually had aphantasia, he talks about how he can't visualise at all: > IA: "I have no talent whatsoever for writing movie scripts." > Interviewer:"How can this be." > IA
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by kaashif 5y ago
I always found the most engaging fiction to be the ones that explore really interesting concepts, rather than ones that try to describe rather mundane things happening. I told someone I absolutely loved Asimov's Foundation series and t
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by kaashif 5y ago
> When working on a large codebase or trying to plan out something like this -- you can't really go off of visual imagery. There's no "picture" of all the ways that various things in a codebase will interact, design d
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by kaashif 5y ago
> Appealing to evolutionary biology - since aphantasia appears to be a persistent trait in humans which would seem to have obvious costs, it's logical to assume there are benefits somewhere to make up the balance. Is that logical? I
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by kaashif 5y ago
I don't think it's just age - people here have a tendency to live in a tech bubble regardless of age. I'm under 25 and I've never used Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and I think it's because I live in an out-of-touch
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by kaashif 5y ago
Git's user interface is very confused in this respect. You can tag a commit with a version identifier, and that indicates commits are snapshots or versions. But then you have cherry-pick, which seems to work by "applying a commit&

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