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by lolinder 2y ago
How so? You can always deprecate the old functions and encourage people to use the new ones, it just doesn't automatically force everyone to do so immediately by breaking their compilation.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> In normal type coercion, the transformation is explicit and visible in the language syntax, whereas these “migrations” happen magically behind the scenes. I was assuming that the migration would actually alter the call site in a way th
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by lolinder 2y ago
It's not perfect, but Kotlin already has a limited form of this with its ReplaceWith annotation [0]. It allows you to mark something as @Deprecated and to specify what should be used instead. IDEs and other tooling can pick that up and
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by lolinder 2y ago
Right. The state made the decision to stop it from being added, which is what OP proposed. Did OP mean that municipalities should simply decide to keep adding or not? If so, how do we decide (from our various armchairs in most cases far a
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by lolinder 2y ago
What they're referring to is the fact that very few countries in the rest of the world even consider the possibility of adding fluoride to the water supply. It's basically just the US, Australia, and to a much lesser extent Cana
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Banning it seems like the wrong move to me...states should simply decide to continue adding it or not. Isn't that exactly what's happening here? A state deciding to not continue adding it?
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by lolinder 2y ago
The tools for scams are already built and in use, and they're way better than what I'm seeing here. The only example I see with a real photo is a static photo with a mouth wiggling and no other movement. The rest are cartoons, w
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by lolinder 2y ago
I'm not sure you can use personal anecdotes to come to any conclusions about broad trends. To look at some actual data, I took the 2008 and 2024 election results and compared them with fluoridation rates. The split is pretty even: The
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by lolinder 2y ago
I know the culture has changed dramatically in the last ten years, so I'll take this as a sincere question coming from someone who missed out: Back in the old days, before 2014, people used to make computers do things just for fun. We&
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by lolinder 2y ago
> most recycling is a scam anyway that either gets dumped in the regular rubbish or else gets shipped to a third world country I've never seen this credibly claimed about battery recycling. Curbside plastic recycling sure, but my un
551.
by lolinder 2y ago
What is Apple TV doing to accomplish that goal, though? Are you saying there are some fraction of Apple customers who would switch to Android or Windows if Apple didn't have a streaming service?
552.
by lolinder 2y ago
> as it's a good loss leader Brand maker is hard to argue with because it's so vague, but how does Apple TV function as a loss leader? Isn't the idea of a loss leader that it's supposed to help sell whatever actually
553.
by lolinder 2y ago
OpenAI's sales pitch to investors is AGI, which by definition is the end of all white collar jobs. That's the line they have held onto for years and still push forward today. And regardless, even if it were "marginal improvem
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by lolinder 2y ago
OpenAI has been pushing the idea that these things are generic—and therefore the path to AGI—from the beginning. Their entire sales pitch to investors is that they have the lead on the tech that is most likely to replace all jobs. If the wh
555.
by lolinder 2y ago
Yeah, this is one of those places where because RFK Jr took the anti- stand there's an understandable assumption that it's more nutty anti-science stuff, but it's much less clear cut when it comes to fluoridation. Europe has
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by lolinder 2y ago
Fluoridation of water isn't the best grounds for arguing the US is backwards, given that it has hitherto been an outlier in how much fluoridation is happening [0]. Most of the developed world doesn't come close to the reach that t
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by lolinder 2y ago
> most people joining Amazon don’t know about the oncall they are in for. In general people joining Amazon should be aware that they're joining a company that is fiercely and proudly opposed to work-life balance.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Vanilla web dev is great if that meets your needs, and that's still an option for people like Karpathy. But for many use cases 80% isn't enough, you need that last 20% in order to be viable. Most of the complaints about overengi
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by lolinder 2y ago
Like I said, that doesn't apply when money isn't free, and it doesn't apply when your marginal cost per user is so high.
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by lolinder 2y ago
OpenAI is spending $2 for every $1 it earns. It's certainly eating its investors' lunch, but it's not a sustainable business yet and from all accounts doesn't have a clear plan for how to become one. Meanwhile, the ZIRP
561.
by lolinder 2y ago
You can't compare Facebook with ChatGPT because the costs per user are in totally different orders of magnitude. One $5/mo VPS can serve the traffic of several hundred thousand Facebook users, while ChatGPT needs an array of GPUs
562.
by lolinder 2y ago
From the story it sounds like the direct reports generally did not want to work with Altman, Brockman excluded. Even Murati was one of the primary instigators of the firing, but she changed her mind for reasons that the article doesn't
563.
by lolinder 2y ago
It's been a few years since I tried Kotlin/Native but even then it was pretty good.
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by lolinder 2y ago
ChatGPT is already out when the story picks up, it's talking about concerns about GPT-4. And the story isn't about that single incident of Altman dodging review and working behind the backs of the board—it's about a pattern o
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by lolinder 2y ago
This is an understandable reaction to the ecosystem, but it also misidentifies the reason for the reaction. Rails, Laravel, and Django exist. Elixir's Phoenix exists, and LiveView gives it even more of a full stack feel than the others
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by lolinder 2y ago
The only way to make the sample better would be to also sample people who moved the other direction, but there haven't been nearly as many of those because software engineering jobs have been in much higher demand than other engineerin
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by lolinder 2y ago
> As a software "engineer" I do not envy real engineers one bit. Obligatory link to Hillel Wayne's Crossover Project [0]. The short version is that of 17 "real" engineers he interviewed who switched to software e
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by lolinder 2y ago
Yes, that's all that's there now. It has a link to the archive version that detailed the sins of the old w3schools.
569.
by lolinder 2y ago
No, I read that, and it's wrong. Can you point me to a single compound noun that works that way? A bluebird is a specific species. A blue parrot is not a bluebird. An aeroplane is a vehicle that flies through the air at high speeds, bu
570.
by lolinder 2y ago
No, it's really not. Joining words into a compound word enables the new compound to take on new meaning and evolve on its own, and if it becomes widely used as a compound it always does so. The term you're looking for if you car

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