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by matrix87 2y ago
> But for some reason so many companies get greedy In a way, yes, but the companies aren't sentient. Seems like people in management have become more out of touch and shortsighted over the past 10 years. Almost to the point where de
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by matrix87 2y ago
> citation needed not a great citation, maybe like one textbook. Americans probably find the criticism more sensational than Germans https://www.studocu.com/de/document/schule-deutschland/engli... https:&
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by matrix87 2y ago
I find it kind of idealistic that these neoliberal publications think that a constant stream of well educated immigrants will always be available and the countries paying to educate them won't try harder to retain them (for example thr
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by matrix87 2y ago
> but suffers from “i am genius and you are an idiot” syndrome But he's still nowhere near as unhinged as the rabid AI bullshittery shitting up the airwaves for the past year Not a lot of room for nuance when the subject matter is t
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by matrix87 2y ago
Why blame people skeptical of psychiatry for affordability issues when you could just blame big pharma? Wouldn't that actually make sense? The fact that you mention the former but not the latter makes you lose a lot of credibility Or I
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by matrix87 2y ago
Microservices also introduce the issue of maintaining schema compatibility for messages between services which usually leads to additional code in order to maintain backward compatibility From a technical POV they are good for horizontally
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by matrix87 2y ago
> From experience, counting small stock (10s of pieces) in a warehouse allowed me to zone out into a high fidelity mental landscape. I wonder if this is what writing code for the feds feels like
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by matrix87 2y ago
> I can't take the hype cycle anymore. First it was big data this and big data that, now it's all AI. It's always about something other than crafting sensible solutions to real problems. I've thought the same thing. S
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Isn't the more parsimonious explanation that our culture is now composed of poor critical thinkers who are poorly educated, lack sophistication and nuance, and accordingly have terrible taste? On first read this opinion just sound
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by matrix87 2y ago
well technically you can count to 31 on one hand
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by matrix87 2y ago
Could just do null -> none, nonnull -> some, optional doesn't introduce anything new here. Either you null check or you optional check Optionals are just another outlet for "best practice" bullshittery and not much else
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by matrix87 2y ago
Probably not a bad thing from a software pov, both have been giving dimishing returns to users since like 2017
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Their shtick is privacy, but they still locally collect data on you and use it to serve ads in the App Store, and I believe a few other surfaces like News and Stocks. On mobile the only one that you need to interact with is the app sto
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by matrix87 2y ago
It isn't even that high of a barrier for entry though? If someone really wants a piece of software that does something, there's probably already some python library for it. calling some imported python function isn't hard i
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by matrix87 2y ago
the thing with "I have xyz ingredients, help me plan a 5-course meal for every taste bud"... I get the idea, it just doesn't feel like that's how people actually interact with computers. similarly with the bed time story
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by matrix87 2y ago
Don't forget that Hochul also neutered the right to repair bill before signing it into law [0]. She also vetoed the non-compete bill [1] and asked for it to be watered down It's a shame that the GOP candidate she competed against
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by matrix87 2y ago
Why would someone want to live in that thing and deal with elevators and congestion when land is cheap? Building up in Manhattan makes sense, economically speaking. Oklahoma, not so much
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by matrix87 2y ago
In theory, only the network boundary. Which allows you to independently scale different parts of the system In practice, a way of splitting work up between teams. Also it makes it easier to figure out who to blame if something breaks. Also
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by matrix87 2y ago
the author isn't left... > Conservatism and participation in its core institutions - marriage, church, and the military - are associated with better mental health also anyone who's trying to argue that widespread educational at
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by matrix87 2y ago
Why history major vs trades? Isn't that sort of a false dichotomy? Would you present it this way to your kids? Or just other people's?
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Candidly I would grant for many of them skipping school makes more sense than getting a degree that amounts to under water basket weaving when it comes to job prospects. If you have a degree and give people this advice then you're
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by matrix87 2y ago
for some reason in this culture, people think that working in an office, having a degree, living in a big metro area, etc makes them "elite". nobody ever called these people "elite" except themselves
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by matrix87 2y ago
The current generation(s) of graduating undergrads are getting utterly fucked. Especially the ones that took out loans. Because of the job market, they'll just sit there and accrue interest It's crazy how much influence interest r
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by matrix87 2y ago
I really don't get it: paying a couple hundred so you can spend 2 seconds reaching for your wrist instead of 5 seconds pulling your phone out of your pocket Like is the watch supposed to replace the phone? Or if not, why bother? If you
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by matrix87 2y ago
> I don't FrEaK oUt that my kids are going to die if I'm not tracking their every movement. I find it kind of hard to believe that they just happen to have location sharing on without any sort of incentive I'm not sure wha
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by matrix87 2y ago
Let me add a little context: the use case is mostly support when people are facing infra issues And "preferrable" meant it was preferrable to developers specifically , which based off of my experience nobody wants it there, it&#x
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by matrix87 2y ago
Funny. I sit next to someone at work on a distant team who spends all day in meetings talking about how chatbots for tech support are preferred over the real thing It's like some people have lodged themselves into this niche and want t
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by matrix87 2y ago
Not a hikikomori, I work and kind of look forward to the office and do fun stuff rarely... but I wish there was an easier way to find a "way in" in the bay area Also another weird thing I realized after moving: cultural distance a
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by matrix87 2y ago
It's kind of ironic: this state government will freak the fuck out if access to porn is restricted in school libraries, but restricting it on the internet is somehow acceptable? Where is the consistency here? If we're going to res
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by matrix87 2y ago
> but rates of people who never marry are on a steep rise restricting everyone's freedoms in order to shove marriage down people's throats is reactionary policy

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