mekoka

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by mekoka 1y ago
You may just be trying to disagree with the author for sport. > we carry around only... Not true. We can carry resistance to some ancestral pressure which isn't part of the current environment. > sooner or later... Yes, sooner wh
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by mekoka 1y ago
If we want to express ourselves using exponents, consider that 1000 years (1×10^3) and 9000 years (9×10^3) would be of the same "degree" of ancestry, while 100,000 years (1×10^5) would be of completely different (exponential) sign
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by mekoka 1y ago
I think it might be more useful to look at the author's claim from the other side of the lense. We do carry around barely useful traits, like resistance to toxins that we seldom come in contact with. We can assume that carrying such tr
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by mekoka 1y ago
> I would hesitate now to recommend any path into it except the top-school CS degree route. Sure, there will be exceptions, but you will have a vastly easier time if you follow that path. And how is this useful to someone who can't
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by mekoka 2y ago
I think you might have it backward. Luck here implies starting with exactly the same work ethic and abilities as millions of other people that all hope to one day see their numbers come up in the lottery of limited opportunities. It's
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by mekoka 2y ago
Do you have an official written policy for customers that forget to cancel? It could be as simple as "in case you forget to cancel and are later charged, please email us". You could then add a mention to every renewal email. If
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by mekoka 2y ago
Understanding exactly why before applying is not bad advice. But it takes time and can quickly become impractical when you're already pressed for it (like say, a small team startup already lacking a designer). In many cases it's b
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by mekoka 2y ago
Because regardless of what we're talking about, a bubble around a thing is still a lie. The faster one bursts, the faster truth lays bare and one can make an actually informed decision. LLMs are here to stay and have probably already f
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by mekoka 2y ago
> In English speaking countries (even in Europe) those are often considered weird, alternative or "arthouse". It's not that dubbing can generally be considered weird in a particular culture, it's that it's just r
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by mekoka 2y ago
I don't think you got my point. Perhaps I should have originally been clearer, but I have no clue what these "brain cycles" that keep being mentioned are. If it's some kind of CPU analogy, brains and CPUs are nowhere nea
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by mekoka 2y ago
You think you waste brain cycles on semicolons? Do touch typists make a conscious effort to "remember" where all the keys are? When you read, do you go letter by letter to make sense of words and sentences? Your brain is an incred
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by mekoka 2y ago
I'm a long time i3, tmux, vim/nvim user. You can see a pattern. When I write code, I typically have a bunch of i3 and/or tmux windows open with dedicated tools ready to execute the necessary commands. Linters, compilers, cont
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by mekoka 2y ago
I've been there. Some advice. So you found yourself with some safety net and are contemplating reinventing yourself in some way. Maybe working on a side project, or supplementing your skillset by learning something new. My first and to
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by mekoka 2y ago
Very reminiscent of 90s video game city sceneries. Car and motorcycle racing games come to mind.
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by mekoka 2y ago
For the past 4 years, most objections to HTMX have come in the form of your comment. A look from afar, trying to speculate on what development must be like. After 4 years of mature devs taking it for a spin and reporting back with a thumb u
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by mekoka 2y ago
> Also their customer support assist in preventing domain hijacks and recovering, which is pretty important if your domain is valuable. I might be missing something here, but why do you feel that this particular service is worth highligh
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by mekoka 2y ago
What is your comment directed at? If it's the article, I don't see hate. OP professed their love for Rust, but explained why they're moving on to C++. Mainly skepticism that it'll ever cross the chasm into mainstream.
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by mekoka 2y ago
The real irony being that they show up to work just to discover that it was a software programming position.
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by mekoka 2y ago
That's why I'm asking to clarify what they meant. Because from observing how quickly other animals (including other apes) acquire motor skills from birth, I don't see why we should attribute walking to a practiced skill for h
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by mekoka 2y ago
Are you saying that a human left to their own devices would not eventually walk? That walking erect is mimicry?
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by mekoka 2y ago
> Maybe it should be. Go and Rust do not provide implementation inheritance, and I think that's for the best. Few language features have led to so much spaghetti code. I agree, but there are reasons inheritance becomes problematic.
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by mekoka 2y ago
Inheritance is not a banned practice. It should just be your second choice when there's a better path through composition. Do you see one here? Interfacing to address Liskov's substitution is a perfectly valid reason to "exte
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by mekoka 2y ago
I feel that some clarification is warranted, because the wording in your various replies can be misleading. Although the term "assassinated" is not invalid in this case, based on what you seem to imply, your arguments for why it s
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by mekoka 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Shinzo_Abe
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by mekoka 2y ago
I suppose that's also why Japanese martial artists work their way toward a black belt.
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by mekoka 2y ago
Once in a while I try to click on the black band, hoping that my long awaited feature has been implemented. That it will point to a page that lists the memorials.
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by mekoka 2y ago
Did you ask why they chose the take home? I'd favor 1 and 2 over 3, because I feel that you understanding the problem I'm solving gives a better context to appreciate my approach. If I take it home and hand it later, you can compa
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by mekoka 2y ago
> No home study grind on puzzle problems is a substitute for years of practical experience, which is what most teams actually hope for in their higher-level engineers. Perhaps. I had 9 years of practical experience myself before going th
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by mekoka 2y ago
> IRL, this individual is a good but not exceptional engineer having worked with them on a small project. Have you worked with them since they went through this regiment? Doing a DS&A coding problem regiment + system design will cha
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by mekoka 2y ago
> By and large, Christians are extremely anti-intellectual and hostile to research into the origins of the Bible as they believe the Bible is divinely inspired. I have yet to find a strongly dogmatic tradition where this doesn't app

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