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by kccqzy 6mo ago
Typically around 7%.
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
All of my employers, current and past, have or had only merit increases. COL increases are unheard of.
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
Yeah my large bag of whey protein (derived from milk) went up from $35 to $55. Same store and same brand.
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
Yes! In lazy but immutable languages like Haskell, it is totally fine to refer to the value itself during definition. This is really the same idea that a recursive function can refer to itself during definition. It’s common to define a vari
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
> AI builds features, not architecture. I see this in Claude too, but I also see this in junior engineers. In the case with Claude, I simply ask it to refactor immediately after each feature is done. The human is still responsible for th
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
Oh thanks! I didn’t realize there are two more parts; the link to the other parts were at the top rather than the bottom of the page.
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
That article had an unsatisfactory and anti-climatic ending. It ended right when the Secret Service arrested the counterfeiter, where a normal reader would expect more discussion of how the Secret Service found the man and how they question
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
The HRTB is probably the trickiest syntax for specifying lifetimes. It looks like `for<'a> F: Fn(&'a (u8, u16)) -> &'a u8`.
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
Imagine this rule back in the 70s. We wouldn’t even have Berkeley Software Distribution.
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
> Static things look static, dynamic things are obviously so, and it felt much less magic than regular React. Yes! The moment for me was when React introduced their notorious useEffect/useState hooks API. It immediately jumped out t
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
Ten years ago we were writing ClojureScript for the frontend at work. We weren’t a Clojure shop at all. As my then manager said, picking ClojureScript was part of the hiring bar: people who weren’t interested in functional programming tende
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
First time playing. 133 stations, 71.73 miles, 5:28, 4 boroughs, $3.00 fare My route was 6 to R to 7 to L to J to M to F to N to D to 4. The game was somewhat frustrating because despite the animation slowing down at transfer stations I sti
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
That number you quote was from the fourth quarter of 2025. EV tax benefits expired in the third quarter of 2025. People who were on the fence all bought during the third quarter. The market share was 29.1%. https://cleantechnica.
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
Yeah and for much of the HN crowd, we aspire to have better tastes than the average. So if the supervised learning uses average human trainers it will most likely be seen as having poor taste for much of HN.
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
For veterans engineers that might be true. But for a junior engineer pre-AI, velocity has always been technical. I know junior engineers who after a whole year of writing C++ still does not grok std::unique_ptr; and this person consistently
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
They don’t enforce in my experience. Just don’t bring a phone and they will bring you a paper menu.
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
Before the age of AI, most bots aren’t sophisticated at all. They might be a script running curl in a loop, or at best some standard browser automation tool like selenium or playwright. People couldn’t stop bots reliably but they could easi
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
Does reCAPTCHA ever claim to detect or block labor farms? From its old name it just seems to block bots only. (Bots are nowadays called agents.)
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
Exactly. These guided tours should be triggered by users, and never automatically. For example old school Windows apps have a question mark button on their title bar that the user can click to activate help for any UI element.
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
It is Control-Q Control-I. Control-Q is the quoted insert function, and Control-I is the traditional teletype way of typing a tab 0x09 (just like Control-C in a terminal results in 0x03 when not in a cooked mode). I only found this because
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
That’s anachronistic. For example you’d say macOS Tahoe but Mac OS X Leopard and Mac OS 9.1.
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
Yeah this is what I like to do. I don’t like to talk to strangers (maybe I should) but I much prefer striking up conversations with old acquaintances, even if we hadn’t talked in years. It somehow felt easier and more satisfying for me to p
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
Well yeah any glue is worse than screws: this I agree with you. But attaching a 9V battery to the glue is about the same difficulty as aligning the screwdriver with the screw and applying torque with a screwdriver.
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
It’s more about the calendric aging than number of cycles these days. My own stayed at 99% until ~400 cycles, and then in a few days it dropped to 94%.
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
I normally much prefer screws over glue but Apple has at least been using repair-friendly glue like the electrically debonding adhesive in use for iPhone 16e/17e.
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
Yeah this is the kind of programmer’s thinking that led to complexity that is present by default and sometimes not warranted. > meticulously hand place elements and align them You don’t need as much meticulousness as you imagine. Have yo
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
<button onclick="alert(1)">Click Me</button> The amount of paperwork is controllable. It’s just that most programmers have a tendency to prefer more paperwork because they believe it is a better software
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
This is more of a user preference. When I want to be informed my default is that chat bots should imitate the tone of Wikipedia. Not informal, but somewhat academic and in-depth. I don’t like it when chat bots explain things like an average
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
> HTTP 2.0 multiplexing is tcp in tcp It’s not. It doesn’t literally run another TCP congestion control algorithm inside a TCP tunnel. However I do agree that the implementation of multiplexing in HTTP/2.0 isn’t the best; it could h
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by kccqzy 6mo ago
The HTTP semantics are useful for anyone developing a web app but the wire protocol of HTTP itself is awful. Multiplexing didn’t arrive until HTTP 2.0 for example. So using HTTP for communication between a reverse proxy and a backend is ver

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