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by lancebeet 3y ago
I can really recommend following the "What's new in DevTools" series by the chrome team. Clicking a link to read release notes when you're in the middle of something may not seem appealing, but spending 5 minutes to skim
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by lancebeet 3y ago
There have been quite a few laureates who were awarded the prize for their activism against apartheid, some of whom also spent time in prison due to their revolutionary tendencies. Would you consider these prizes equally unjustified?
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by lancebeet 3y ago
>Max came across to me as a provacatuer, making proposals that are not sure things, but whose rebuttals will advance the field I think that's the problem with Tegmark. His curiosity and willingness to engage are attributes that make
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by lancebeet 3y ago
>How come I keep reading these types of posts, hearing these stories, yet I've never experienced anything remotely close to this? Well, because you're a software engineer and he's a writer.
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by lancebeet 3y ago
It seems like something is wrong with the links, at least on my machine. If I click the summary of the top article, I get linked to the second article. Clicking on the second article leads me to the third article, and so on.
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by lancebeet 3y ago
There seems to be a bug in the regex in the video as well as the text below. [a-zA-z] is going to include the characters between Z and a as well as the upper and lower case letters. The claim by GPT that it matches "any letter (upper o
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by lancebeet 3y ago
I'm confused by this sentiment. It's possible to illuminate the sidewalk without shining in through people's windows (or cause excess light pollution, for that matter), especially if the sidewalk is the only thing you need to
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by lancebeet 3y ago
Since you mentioned textbooks on differential geometry, I can recommend anyone interested Sigmundur Gudmundsson's lecture notes in introductory differential geometry as well as Riemannian geometry. You can find them freely available on
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by lancebeet 3y ago
It might not make sense on the macro scale, but it certainly does on the micro scale. Even if you only use the extra size of the car a fraction of the time, the amount of money and time you would spend to rent a larger vehicle the times you
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by lancebeet 3y ago
This article reminds me of an episode of Derren Brown's TV show, called "The Heist"[0], where he supposedly manipulates a group of ordinary people to commit an armed robbery. Apparently, in a more recent episode called "
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by lancebeet 3y ago
This reminds me of Steve Yegge's classic blog post "Programming's dirtiest little secret"[0]. Yegge's post is of course about touch-typing, but it essentially makes the same argument. Doing things slowly is a liabil
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by lancebeet 3y ago
I would argue that's not really a trade, at least not in the sense described in the article, since it lacks awareness and consent from one party. The bees never agree to the trade of providing us honey in exchange for the hive and prot
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by lancebeet 3y ago
An aspect of this that some people find problematic is that many employers use these services to do background checks on individuals before hiring. Background checks are of course customary for some positions, in which case official police
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by lancebeet 3y ago
I remember seeing a DW documentary a couple of years ago about how differently billionaires behave in Germany compared to the US ("The discreet lives of the super rich" was its name apparently). If one accepts the basic premise of
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by lancebeet 3y ago
I recall using XP x64 edition on an Athlon64. I remember it having such poor software support that it was barely usable. I heard it was actually a version of Windows Server that they put the XP GUI on top of, but I'm not sure if that&#
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by lancebeet 4y ago
There are niches in e-commerce based around specialized tools which require more permissions and user engagement than a basic store site. In some cases, such tools account for a significant portion of the total revenue. It's not surpri
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by lancebeet 4y ago
Interesting. It only seems to work in English. English texts that it successfully detects as AI generated are classified as human generated if you ask ChatGPT to translate them into a different language (or make the initial prompt in a diff
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by lancebeet 4y ago
I was also curious about this statement. According to wikipedia, one third of the Plötzensee Prison inmates are there due to fare evasion. Or rather, they were when the articles that wikipedia cites were written. Of course, being a juvenile
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by lancebeet 4y ago
The same author just published an article on a new open source language model that supposedly outperforms GPT-3[1]. Very curious. [1] https://therationalist.substack.com/p/glm-130b-an-open-bilin...
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by lancebeet 4y ago
That's pretty much what it costs to replace the windshield on a regular car, no?
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by lancebeet 4y ago
There are a couple of plugins that do this. For vim: https://github.com/wellle/context.vim For neovim (much higher performance in my experience): https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-
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by lancebeet 4y ago
Unfortunately I don't have any link to such a job post, but when I've seen them in the past they've clearly stated what they are about, so keywords like "COBOL" or "Mainframe" would certainly find them. So
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by lancebeet 4y ago
At least where I live, most/all established banks have COBOL training programs for new hires. A friend of mine started one just a couple of months ago. As I understand it, it's not easy for them to find people who are both skilled
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by lancebeet 4y ago
There are lots of articles about individuals in the US who have died because they were rationing or otherwise couldn't afford insulin.[1][2] How can this be the case if first-generation insulins are cheap? Are they rationing second-gen
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by lancebeet 4y ago
If the setup/teardown is expensive I would do it in reusable fixtures. The reason I wouldn't choose the latter approach is that it would usually be less convenient in the long run. You'd need to replace your asserts with expe
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by lancebeet 4y ago
That looks like a case where I would use a parameterized test rather than a for loop inside the test.
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by lancebeet 4y ago
I use mitmproxy (mainly mitmweb as a reverse proxy) on a daily basis to test and debug front-end applications. Mitmproxy allows me to reach application states that would otherwise be unreachable without modifying the application code. There
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by lancebeet 4y ago
It's also amusing given that Microsoft teams has at least limited support for markdown. Depending on how you define a markdown user, it may be a that the majority of people typing markdown have never written a line of code but have dis
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by lancebeet 4y ago
I can recommend Gary Bernhardt's execute program[0]. One of the courses offered is "Modern Javascript" which goes through additions in ES5 and ES2020. There are also multiple courses on typescript. It does cost some money,
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by lancebeet 4y ago
The way I see it, the pressure has been "outsourced" to the employer rather than being an implicit pressure on the employee. Western European companies can also require workers to be on pager duty or work outside normal working ho

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