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by lumb63 4y ago
Ha! Thanks for sharing “enterprise FizzBuzz”; I’d not seen that before. I was digging through the code before I had a PTSD-related flashback from debugging some OO at my last company… My friend and I were working together, when one of our s
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by lumb63 4y ago
What? The company gets 100% of the benefit. Chances are, if you’re leaving a company, you want to leave, and if you’re starting a new job, you want to start it. Why would you want to delay that any more than necessary?
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by lumb63 4y ago
Do you have any references to support that “no matter how badly you punish the criminals will you prevent most crimes”? I would expect that more strict sentencing has diminishing returns. The difference between no crime, versus a crime and
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This is a straw man designed to appeal to people who are distrusting of government. Almost all states which have the death penalty deliver it by jury sentencing, and all but one require it be unanimous. In most cases this issue has nothing
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What’s wrong with “grep -i error”? That gets me to the source of the error, usually.
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by lumb63 4y ago
Good. Please expedite the fall of Windows. It’s slow, bloated, buggy, and sounds like it’s about to become more so. I know it isn’t feasible for non-tech folks, but I haven’t looked back once since I left Windows for good. I haven’t touched
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by lumb63 4y ago
I grew up in an American suburb and now live in Boston. I like that the city is more walkable, but still not very walkable. Transport is a hassle. The city streets are also often unclean, and there are some folk on the streets who most peop
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by lumb63 4y ago
Thanks for the in depth response. I agree with you that often when kids do not respect each other, they’re in an environment where they are not respected or see others not respecting each other. Often this is from a bad home life, in my exp
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by lumb63 4y ago
I worked at Raytheon for five years as a software engineer, and this article understates how corrupt and backwards the industry’s contracting dynamics are. There are some aspects that are directly opposed to efficiency. A few examples stand
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I agree with you that often people conflate respect and subservience with respect to kids. However, aren’t both useful (and probably necessary?) in a classroom environment? I don’t see why it is dangerous to expect children to, within reaso
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by lumb63 4y ago
I have several friends who work or worked in schools, and they all have told me that students lack respect. They cuss out teachers on a regular basis, are insubordinate, and do not respect authority. Teachers cannot discipline the students,
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by lumb63 4y ago
That’s the importance of having a unified approach, shared between the government and the Fed. It doesn’t help inflation when the country is running all-time-high (or close to it) deficit levels, especially if that money isn’t being appropr
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by lumb63 4y ago
> There has been a very strange desire by some to get direct access to kids and to influence them without parental approval or supervision. I’ve noticed this as well. One recent instance is opposition to the proposed Parents Bill of Righ
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This is huge. For one, it can decrease geopolitical risks for US-based firms. It also offers a chance to obtain higher-end silicon. Some companies can’t afford to use TSMC’s latest and greatest silicon because big companies have soaked up a
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by lumb63 4y ago
The two ideas aren’t necessarily in conflict with one another. In fact, they make sense to go hand-in-hand. Take for instance affirmative action or reparations. They’re instances of trying to correct for something that’s the opposite of how
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by lumb63 4y ago
Signals and systems was a tough course for me. It was what crushed my 4.0 GPA. Nyquist frequency was a concept I could not wrap my head around. I’ve improved, but it still doesn’t click as I’d like it to. When I took the course, it made no
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by lumb63 4y ago
Definitely agree. It’s not either or, and both issues should be given attention; however I think reducing the incidence of mental illness is more fruitful than correcting the negatives of it after the fact.
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An ounce of prevention is also worth a pound of cure. More important than investing resources into helping those with mental illness is preventing people from developing mental illness in the first place. Traumatic experiences like you ment
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by lumb63 4y ago
It’s worth pointing out that processes like meta analyses ought to be able to catch #2. The problem is, GIGO. A lot of poorly designed studies (no real control group, failure to control for other relevant variables, other methodological err
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by lumb63 4y ago
The other variable in pricing can be time of use. Not all providers do this, but it can be cheaper to use electricity when it is in low demand and opposite when in high demand. I suspect this will become more popular as EVs gain popularity
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by lumb63 4y ago
Until I started working in the energy industry, I never considered that even gas heating consumes a lot of electricity because of the blower fan and ignition coils. Our blower fan is 0.5 HP, which is over 300 W. The bulk of our electricity
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by lumb63 4y ago
Climate control is by far the biggest single line item in home energy expenditure [1]. Hopefully in more moderate climates people can consider heat pumps and other more efficient technology to help with this. [1]: https://www.dir
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This problem isn’t specific to AI. Luddites were concerned about machines taking their jobs. Marx recognized the role of “capital” (of which AI is the intellectual type) in suppressing the incomes of the working class relative to the owning
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by lumb63 4y ago
The tail end of this article, where the author talks about how many more patients he could see in his life if he had AI assistance, made me realize that part of healthcare cannot be solved by AI. The goal is not to see more patients; the go
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by lumb63 4y ago
I don’t disagree with you; I think personal liability is in order in some situations, too (see: 2008 subprime mortgage crisis). However, again, these actions attempt to equalize after the fact. I suppose they also disincentivize beforehand.
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It’s sad to me that situations where companies cause negative outcomes for people are paid for by fees and are labeled “the cost of doing business”. I saw a post here the other day that said that, rather than releasing products and later th
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by lumb63 4y ago
I’ve entirely stopped eating fast food because every time I go, I’m enraged by how I am charged full service prices for low-quality, greasy, garbage and poor service. I’ll instead make my own food, which is much cheaper and tastes much bett
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by lumb63 4y ago
This just in: the human body, after billions of years of evolving to be a active, walking organism, is not well suited to a sedentary, seated lifestyle. Seriously, why would we expect the sedentary, monotonous life of office jobs or being c
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Huh, I too dislike disposable culture, but it never occurred to me I could bring my own tupperwares to restaurants. I’ll try that next time!
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I admire Desmond for being upfront about the fact that his changes would cost the rich more money. I’ve always admired Bernie Sanders (though I don’t disagree with his policies) for being forthright about that as well. It irks me when folks

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