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by mcguire 3y ago
Most developers and designers are unfamiliar with a major portion of their jobs. That says quite a bit about professionalism in the software development field.
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by mcguire 3y ago
Pro tip: Estate sales. Many very good, long-lasting pieces of furniture come on the estate market for very cheap because a) no one wants to move the giant solid-wood china cabinet, or b) you can get a $15 sofa or table mailed to you, why wo
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by mcguire 3y ago
Note also that "pseudo-intellectuals" is ad hominem.
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by mcguire 3y ago
" ...though it follows necessarily from the possibility of one essay being better than another. " This is false unless you further assume that "better than" is a total order.
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by mcguire 3y ago
It is a great way to prevent those currently deploying and using AI from being impeded by any icky current concerns.
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House committee demands SpaceX open Starshield internet to U.S. troops in Taiwan(cnbc.com)
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by mcguire 3y ago
Is Android Auto still a thing?
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by mcguire 3y ago
" Akin to being lost in translation, the model chose slightly wrong numbers, which produced word sequences that made no sense. More technically, inference kernels produced incorrect results when used in certain GPU configurations. &quo
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by mcguire 3y ago
Coincidentally, I was just watching Myron Cook's video on the Great Unconformity ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Unconformity , although that page only briefly discusses the "Snowball Earth" connecti
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by mcguire 3y ago
250 million years vs five decades.
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by mcguire 3y ago
Solipsism isn't even refutable.
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by mcguire 3y ago
If the result is a small number of trillionaires, it probably won't help.
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by mcguire 3y ago
That's a neat page. The data goes back to 1985. The homicide rate in 2021 was 6.8/100,000, which is the same as it was in 1997. 2022's 6.3 is the same as 1998.
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by mcguire 3y ago
AFAICT, the most expensive yacht is the History Supreme, which is only 100ft but is built from, among other things, 10 tons of gold and platinum. $4.8B. Then there's the 155m Streets of Monaco concept ( https://archive.curbed
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by mcguire 3y ago
Money is power. Of course, the people who think that's a super brilliant great idea are those with a lot of money or those who somehow expect to get a lot of money.
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by mcguire 3y ago
Want to know something weird? A convenience store or liquor store is much more likely to be robbed than a bank.
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by mcguire 3y ago
The neat part about it is that if my friend's buddy, Bubba (Yeah. He's an electrician.) goes to see a congressman, governor, or the president and says he wants something done, he'll get a big shit-eating grin and a "Sure
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by mcguire 3y ago
Implying that those who have never touched Rust cannot solve problems in Rust.
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by mcguire 3y ago
This was the reason I've mostly stopped using it. Still the best file sync tool I have seen.
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by mcguire 3y ago
So, no?
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by mcguire 3y ago
Who are we talking to when we talk to these bots? https://medium.com/@colin.fraser/who-are-we-talking-to-when-... " It is an intentional choice to present this technology via this anthropomorphic chat interface, t
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by mcguire 3y ago
Median household income in the US is $75,000. ( https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-27... )
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by mcguire 3y ago
But keep in mind, even the least-safe driver will get 99% of the loads to their destination. Dealing with accidents is a cost-of-doing-business issue for large companies.
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by mcguire 3y ago
This is one of those situations where a theory reasoned from first principles fails to match reality. Back in the 20th C., drivers frequently took amphetamines in order to spend more time driving. Forged log books are a significant incentiv
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by mcguire 3y ago
The key point of structured programming is that you don't need any control structures other than sequential composition, a conditional construct, and a (typically while) loop construct.
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by mcguire 3y ago
On the other hand, a program written without structured programming is insanely hard to check for bugs, modify, or get anywhere near right in the first place.
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by mcguire 3y ago
Much of the Design Patterns phenomenon involves convincing Java to do things that are idiomatic in other languages.
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by mcguire 3y ago
I can't speak for Dijkstra, but in my view it is mostly about how it is taught. When you're learning OOP, you deal with questions like "is a Circle an Ellipse or is an Ellipse a Circle?" F'in' neither, actually
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by mcguire 3y ago
That, as I have been told, is "object-based programming", not object-oriented programming.
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by mcguire 3y ago
Whenever GOTO comes up, I have to mention Knuth's beautiful paper that was part of that argument: "Structured Programming with go to Statements" (1974). Some quotes: " At the I F I P Congress in 1971 I had the pleasure o

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