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by mhh__ 1y ago
The oxford and cambridge unions both solely function to facilitate the careers of people debating now (e.g. someone got a career out of the kirk one)
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The British government is much better placed to crush dissidents than probably almost any other of comparable maturity. They crushed the miners, they'll be able to deal with any nationalist movement if the institutional will is there.
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In naive political terms he wasn't all that important but I think two points in response to that: 1. He was influential in a influential circle of people who roughly speaking drive what gets discussed and shown to a wider audience. I
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by mhh__ 1y ago
Yielding to anything you say is a no-no because part of the deal is that you, as a geek, must bend over to their unilateral veto over everything in the company
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The infrastructure is the whole thing, right? When I say tesco I don't mean the shops!
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You've heard of "food" I assume?
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by mhh__ 1y ago
You're not taking into account how hard it is to get regulatory/planning approval to build anything in Britain.
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By definition every penny of profit always comes at someone's expense but I don't think we'd advocate for nationalising Tesco's?
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by mhh__ 1y ago
And at scale you even have a "sampling" of sorts (even if the distribution is very narrow unless you've done something truly unfortunate in your FP code) via scheduling and parallelism.
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by mhh__ 1y ago
A small point on formatting that I'm getting increasingly firm about as I "age" (still not that old): Formatting is very important, but if you find yourself complaining about what a formatter does to your code, the code be
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by mhh__ 1y ago
Some styles can actively make some people less productive though e.g. I really try to avoid allman braces because I can work a lot better with denser (for a certain definition of dense code) This, however, usually doesn't effect me if
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by mhh__ 1y ago
Foundational tooling not being written in a compiled language (fast is good, it could be jitted, but ideally it's a single binary) is actually a huge tax that I'm quite glad we're getting over as an industry. Python is probab
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by mhh__ 1y ago
You can see from how quickly the code becomes extremely busy and annoying to read that python being flexible is a blessing and a curse. Maybe curse is the wrong word, but none of this was really designed cohesively so it's usually ver
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How long ago? I was born after the pedants Millenium so I'm expecting my definition of back in the day is different to yours I think my time frame is firmly after the invention of excel but before the web was it's own thing
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I bet this was true of computers back in the day too. The processes that are native to computers are magical but adding computers to the old is actually quite bad e.g. paperwork is better done on paper
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I think this is more about institutional collapse. What's the mechanism by which I see jeff bezos and then want to go and rob someone? Keeping in mind that the typical criminal is a moron who literally can't understand delayed con
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by mhh__ 1y ago
Maybe I would think differently if I was a book author but I can't help but think that this is ugly but actually quite good for humanity in some perverse sense. I will never, ever, read 99.9% of these books presumably but I will use cl
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by mhh__ 1y ago
Yes I find the modularity to be a huge mistake (for a certain definition of modularity obviously). If nothing else the quality of documentation seems to drop off a cliff. Maybe I'm just going mad but it seems like simple OIDC integrati
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There are affordances in technology... dotnet is quite nice at scale but I find it actively repellent to start new projects in when it involves touching anything vaguely DI adjacent. Microsoft have no taste in designing these libraries at a
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by mhh__ 1y ago
Maybe there's a lesson there. It's quite difficult to be spontaneous in dotnet (i'm not just being snippy I can immediately tell a story in my head about starting doing this in F# or C# and then bailing and doing it in an hou
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by mhh__ 1y ago
Please do a SELECT * from this database
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by mhh__ 1y ago
Isn't the whole point of OOE that the design is inherently speculative otherwise there's basically nothing to dispatch?
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by mhh__ 1y ago
Everything is basically calculus and linear algebra under the hood (until it's not, at which point you'll know)
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I'd have thought that anyone doing serious scraping has been driving a browser for years at this point. you can even get a curl fork that drives a browser under the hood
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Memos and reports also ask the author to try to explain things clearly and at length, a PowerPoint, even a technical one is usually figures and bullet points Jeff bezos iirc speaks at length about this.
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the medium is the message
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If nothing else it's quite hard/uncommon to print out a PowerPoint and read it carefully in a quiet room by yourself, I do this with written stuff all the time.
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It also seems to react pretty aggressively with the various foibles of different programming languages e.g. I remain stunned how fiddly adding oauth/oidc can be to a dotnet application considering dotnets bread and butter is supposed t
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by mhh__ 1y ago
Everyone I've met in person from twitter has been very well adjusted, smart, and surprisingly good looking.
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by mhh__ 1y ago
I might just be projecting from a certain phase of my life but if I had to bet on what social media will look like: TikTok for an infinite content/drug experience Twitter+offline meetups for everything else. Look at Reddit today for ex

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