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by lovecg 4y ago
Arguably a lot of newer additions are there as an alternative to past bad decisions, and things do get deprecated and removed now and then.
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by lovecg 4y ago
I think the ban on ChatGPT answers on Stack Overflow is a mistake. Sure, some of the answers might not be correct, but that's true for any tool. And the fact that ChatGPT answers are easy to produce means that more people can contribut
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by lovecg 4y ago
Oh I’m sure there are unit tests for new func and old func that test them separately just fine. The if statement is probably thought of as a temporary switchover kind of thing.
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by lovecg 4y ago
People used to have kids as a source of free labor, not as a money sink. I wonder if it’s still the case in many places.
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by lovecg 4y ago
And even if you do invest in proper documentation and support, you still have to overcome the hurdle that people just _don’t want to spend time learning your one-off language_ - there’s nontrivial opportunity cost in learning something that
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by lovecg 4y ago
Ever been on a team where a key person responsible for a piece of infra leaves suddenly, and next incident takes hours to resolve instead of minutes as everyone is running around trying to understand what the code is doing? It will be like
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by lovecg 4y ago
Attribution, not placement
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by lovecg 4y ago
And yet Apple is not the one getting anti-trust scrutiny… funny how that works.
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by lovecg 4y ago
But that argument is not limited to tracking, isn't it. For example if I use an application that integrates with Shopify or Stripe, by that logic Apple would also be in the right to ask for consent (while the integration with Apple Pay
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by lovecg 4y ago
I’m not so sure, they seem to be going after the big players (cynic in me would say to optimize the payoff). Smaller companies will fly under the radar until they get large enough, but then it’s a “good problem to have” sort of thing.
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by lovecg 4y ago
It’s a throughput play. Assuming population and economic growth continues that $100 one hour flight will run into airport capacity issues sooner or later. The train will start looking attractive when the flight is either frequently delayed
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by lovecg 4y ago
> It will invigorate Bakersfield, Modesto, Stockton, Fresno, Madera. “Monorail! Monorail!” Sorry couldn’t resist.
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by lovecg 4y ago
Can public transport be a cause though? I’ve definitely didn’t hold back my drinking as much when traveling somewhere I didn’t have to rely on driving.
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by lovecg 4y ago
Have a specific company done what you were describing in your example or was this a societal level ill? Also the way you phrased your question (“should the racist status quo be allowed to continue, or should it be intentionally corrected?”)
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by lovecg 4y ago
The flaw with this argument is that all the possibly reasonable examples of differences you mention don’t imply that all other observed differences are benign and there’s nothing to be done.
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by lovecg 4y ago
Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC?
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by lovecg 4y ago
Who installed the pirated copy in this hypothetical? If it was Microsoft itself for whatever reason, then yeah - it’s on them to make the customer whole.
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by lovecg 4y ago
I nod along with a lot of the things he says, but only because I’m already deeply familiar with them. I think for someone less familiar it’s easy to get an illusion of learning, as he frequently exaggerates to make a point and makes some ba
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by lovecg 4y ago
All the west “tried” in the 90s was to use dubious political techniques to support the guy who believed in democracy so much so that he shot at the parliament with tanks and installed a “successor” we’re all familiar with. The west’s meddli
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by lovecg 4y ago
But why do we need leap anything at all? Leap years are useful because the calendar drifts quickly (well, over centuries) enough for seasons shifting to become noticeable. Leap seconds correct for a problem that’s much slower, with already
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by lovecg 4y ago
Well, having worked on legacy systems it’s much easier to keep the existing protocol mostly unchanged than migrate the world to a different protocol. Even if the change is as “simple” as subtracting a constant integer everywhere. Just think
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by lovecg 4y ago
The Battle of Britain is generally accepted to have had a peace treaty with Britain as a (failed) strategic objective, thus putting it “out of the picture”.
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by lovecg 4y ago
See also: “advance warning” “past experience”
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by lovecg 4y ago
So is iPhone. You do have a point, though think a comparison to Sweden (only double Norway’s population, but with many worldwide household name businesses) is more fair.
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by lovecg 4y ago
To get back to 70s prices we should also go back to 70s building codes (less safe, but is something costing 2x, 3x, 5x really justifies the marginal safety improvements?) and 70s house sizes (smaller)
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by lovecg 4y ago
I like my reMarkable tablet, thank you very much
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by lovecg 4y ago
We don’t have to be absolutist about it. Houses are not nearly as volatile as stock, so evaluating and taxing them as wealth is pretty feasible.
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by lovecg 4y ago
A copy of your data that can be easily modified (whether through bugs, malice, or even just you mistakenly deleting a file and Dropbox happily deleting it everywhere for you) is not a backup. It’s definitely way better than nothing, but peo
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by lovecg 4y ago
There could be other reasons she stepped back around then. Her husband suddenly and tragically passed away - it’s not a mystery if one’s life trajectory completely changes after an event like this.
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by lovecg 4y ago
That’s a different problem though. In the original problem you don’t know the two amounts ahead of time. All you see is $50 in your envelope - you don’t know if the other one is $100 or $25 and you’re back to square one.

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