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by locknitpicker 26d ago
> As a child I did not see it as violent That's the problem. Hitting a tied up animal until it breaks is clearly a violent affair, similar how hanging puppets in nooses or putting a doll in a guillotine. I'm sure that there are
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by locknitpicker 27d ago
> Highly optimized code in hot paths is rarely readable. ...unless it's supported by the language as a first class feature. See for example C++ and RVO.
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by locknitpicker 29d ago
This reeks of AI slop. Not worth a click.
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> My supposed "personal belief" is not normative it is descriptive. No, it is a expression of your personal and unsupported beliefs. Asserting that the whole world enforces a libertarian economical system is simply out of touch
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> Usually it is very expensive produce, avocados imported by air etc... This is like claiming seafood is very expensive to produce, and then give imported caviar as an example. I recommend you check any healthy eating table for vegans an
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> "Making money" is the incentive system of society. Technology has now aligned society's incentive systems to promote climate action. This personal belief is grounded on an assumption that all mankind follows a neoliberal
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> Or Bitcoin. Of which almost half is already under US control. This sort of opinion is laughably out of touch. Listen to yourself: oil markets will move away from the US dolar due to how the US governments destroying its value, and inst
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> batteries are the fastest response power. gas is high maintenance, & bad capex as an intermittent source. Batteries have a limited capacity and have a higher investment cost. Gas is the standard option for fast response. Pumped-sto
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> China is pursuing the strategy you're describing, but there's a reason they're also building nuclear, they're increasing LNG infrastructure, they haven't phased out coal, and they've built a huge amount of
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> So if the USA declares "ownership be damned", it would be a net win for the USA. This opinion is very naive. The moment the US declares "ownership be damned", the US dolar stops being the currency used in things lik
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> For most code that performance tax is not worth worrying about. Indeed, I agree. It's possible to go a long way in terms of performance with a basic understanding of passing by reference, without even having ro bother with move se
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> I can call a coworker right now and have a real time conversation with them without feeling like I’m talking to a frustrating machine. These machines were designed with the express purpose of being condescendingly sycophant to the poin
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> I'm saying that in order for me to go into the office with everyone, everyone needs to go into the office. No. You feel you need everyone around you at the office, but that is you and you speak for yourself. Others have a say on t
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> The fun thing about C++ is that it’s really hard. C++ definitely has a higher cognitive load than your average interpreted language. However, a big part of that cognitive load is due to support for highly optimized scenarios such as re
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> Template resolution solved that in the past, but C++ today allows auto in so many places that I'm uncertain that it can be done without some flow based support (if constexpr comes to mind). This concern is unfounded. The auto keyw
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> Unfortunately, I don't think there's getting away from just understanding value semantics to get the correct and/or performant behavior. This is not specific to C++ though. It just so happens that C++ developers who feel
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> Yes? Users often prefer a nice GUI but CMSs are effectively what you describe and run the majority of content oriented sites. I don't think you understood my question. I stressed the fact that complaining about the complexity of a
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> The parent is rightfully pointing out that most websites are documents and have no need for client side rendering or interactivity. Where does that html come from, then? Do you honestly believe all pages could be static html+css served
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> 99% of the time those sites could be plain HTML and CSS Some of that css and html doesn't run reliably and consistently on all browsers. A visit to sites such as canIuse helps build up an idea of the extent of the problem. Also, y
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> In that case, firing the "coordinator" person increases velocity because parts of the business processes they prop disappear. So you get rid of the coordinator. What then? Does this magically unblock people? Let me frame this
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> Sadly, and we all know that butt on chair while doing Teams calls with the offshoring and nearshore teams, is a large improvement in productivity. /s I personally liked how they claimed employees complained that they spend too muc
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> That's election blathering Your degree if denialism is really impressive. You dismiss, the mass killings, the push to erase a nation, and you even dismiss representatives outright admitting and acknowledging doing it. Where exactl
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> In-person team collaboration requires... well, collaboration. You're confusing things. Collaboration doesn't require you to be continuously in the same room with people 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, and your personal needs to
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> Speaking only for myself, I was fully remote for a few years and that was a miserable experience. Now everyone is mandated to be in office 3 days a week and that works better for me. If you feel you work better at the office, more powe
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
Thank you. Past HN discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337392 (884 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313477 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447600
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> If you don’t trust the company to keep their promise, don’t use their products. Your comment is perplexing. No company on earth meets your requirement. What are you expected to do? Move to a hut in the woods?
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> And it's all because of ads. Not really. A while ago there was a news piece stating that Israel was behind a series of fake think-tanks with very accessible websites which were created with the express purpose of feeding AI agents
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> What is that makes NVRO so much more difficult to implement? I recall reading that at a high level RVO is implemented by treating the return value as an external object. In simple terms (simplistic terms) RVO then works by - first inst
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> Are they? Imagine how the kids that get rejected are performing.
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by locknitpicker 1mo ago
> A hiring manager dropping a resume based on minor stylistic issues rather than actual competence of the person? Perhaps it is easier to understand once you acknowledge hiring managers don't handle a hand full of applications at a

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