kayo_20211030

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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
Perhaps we should not grade students on weekly, or other occasional, writing during the term or semester. How about going back to the old system where, apart from experimental lab work, nothing is graded until the end of the term? All weekl
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
It's interesting to compare Owen's and Brooke's poetry (and even Sassoon's). Owen had lived through it all from '15 to '18, with some detours, and probably even as a patriot saw war for what it was. Brooke neve
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
Great comment. It's bananas. Chimps like bananas too, right?
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
I'm not disputing anything, but would it have killed arstechnica to include some primary source links to back up their assertions?
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
I don't get it, and I don't have a dog in the C/C++ vs. Rust race. Ladybird has ~1200 contributors with a predominance of C++ contributions, followed by HTML, and with "other" lying at 0.5%. That's a lot of peo
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
>they recently switched to investing in private equity funds That's not recent at all. They've, for a long time, had large allocations to PE funds.
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
"An engine not a camera" springs to mind. The truth machine will at some level shape the truth.
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
I point you to Nancy Mitford's piece (and others) on U vs non-U. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English This was a, tongue in cheek, distinction between the language used by the posh and by the aspiring
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
Complete madness! But, I love it.
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
> And culture is, by and large, random, arbitrary, and self-reinforcing. The best definition of "culture" I've ever found is "how we do things 'round here". It's valid in both the large and in the small
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
A great piece. Unfortunately, it's somewhat of a religious argument about the one true way. I've worked on both sides of the fence, and each field is equally green in its own way. I've use OCaml, with static typing, and Cloju
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
Yes, I think where we ought to point the microscope is important - that's the judgement. Let devs focus the microscope on the essential stuff, the business-existential stuff, and let the tools remove the burden of having to deal with a
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
> Converting instructions to code is essential complexity I don't agree with that. If I want to add two numbers I'd like to write `a = b + c`. I do not want to write the machine code that effects the same result on whatever com
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
Is this a replay of the comics and video games are doing irreparable harm arguments from not too long ago? I find myself in the uncomfortable position of sympathizing with both sides of the argument - a yes-but-no position.
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
I think a reasonable and sensible goal is for us to not mix the accidental and the essential. If we let AI handle what's accidental (as in not central to the solution of the essential problem) developers can focus on the essential only
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
> For instance, software payment-in-kind loan usage has risen to 11.3% in BDC portfolios, over 2.5 percentage points higher than the already elevated index average of 8.7%, according to Deutsche. It's under stress at that PIK level.
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
Intuitively, this seems correct. As an aside and generally, a problem that bothers me: the economics of AI replacing knowledge workers doesn't add up. If all knowledge workers become manual laborers the market for AI augmentation produ
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
ARY all the time, if necessary; AI or no. DRY is a comforting illusion, based on a misapprehension of how mid-scale enterprise code is actually developed. DRY's assumption is that there's sufficient organizational capacity to cohe
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
I like the gracious way that Gigerenzer ends the piece, acknowledging Kahneman's courage in continuing to engage both civilly and respectfully with his critics - separating the argument and the person. It reflects well on both men.
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
Sure, but seriously? Is this even coherent?
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
Holy crap. This is real? Strange days.
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
Nice. Very K&R-ish. Not a bad thing.
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by kayo_20211030 8mo ago
It was such a great product. Yes, I know they had one truly horrible year. But, they righted the ship. I worked for a company that ran 10bn in revenue, with thousands of users, and Heroku just hummed along. It ran our business. The benefi
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by kayo_20211030 9mo ago
Thanks for the reply. Appreciated.
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by kayo_20211030 9mo ago
Waaaht? And, why? Budgets? This is/was a wonderful resource. I'll be sad to see the back of it.
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by kayo_20211030 9mo ago
How do these managers deploy the code? Is it run locally, or sent to some server? Excel used to be, and probably still is, the primary competitor to enterprise-developed apps - a lot of businesses run on it. But, that was a locally deployed
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by kayo_20211030 9mo ago
Thanks. That was helpful.
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by kayo_20211030 9mo ago
Interesting. I looked through the docs and couldn't find an FAQ or anything that would answer my question of why Spritely decided to develop Goblins. Is there a doc for that? What's its differentiation from something like Erlang
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by kayo_20211030 9mo ago
Naw. I used to, but it's so long ago, I'm not sure I could do it now if you put one in front of me. What you don't use atrophies.
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by kayo_20211030 9mo ago
Brilliant! No idea of the background, but I hope all these fellas are friends.

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