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by morelisp 4y ago
There's no loathing like self-loathing.
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by morelisp 4y ago
The node.js ecosystem is full of grindset Californians maintaining fashion pieces because if their GitHub star count drops below the last candidate the hiring manager saw they won't get the rest-and-vest job. It's not NTP, it&#x27
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by morelisp 4y ago
I... didn't say anything about the gold standard or austerity or whatever you think I implied. I also don't think the decade+ of ZIRP is a necessary consequence of fiat money or the fed or whatever; it's one of many possible
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by morelisp 4y ago
If you really need to support old browsers you might as well just write old JS anyway. It's not like you're going to get anything acceptable running with a modern team writing idiomatic CRA-via-Babel on these browsers, and writing
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by morelisp 4y ago
Bluntly, I don't agree, at least as much as "useful" means "improves developer efficiency or software quality". I think you can argue it was useful at one time - which I'd still probably argue against, there&
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by morelisp 4y ago
A dirty secret that's finally come to reckoning is that there is a ridiculous amount of "hyperscaled" "open source" projects just as there are startups. These exist primarily not to help software developers be more
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by morelisp 4y ago
Babel is not actually very useful and gets less useful every year. It's "used by millions" because the JS ecosystem is a shitshow. I would rather pay money to our dependencies that pull in Babel transitively to fully divorce
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by morelisp 4y ago
The USA elite wish they had something as conveniently entrenched as Oxbridge.
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by morelisp 4y ago
> There's no guarantee credit card fees will not increase in the future What kind of guarantee can be made except strong limits enshrined in law, which there already are? (If you don't trust the laws, you can't trust cash
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by morelisp 4y ago
I don't believe there's been any analogue to this in chess AIs in many years, if ever. Chess AIs are certainly getting stronger, but when is the last time someone found an adversarial strategy against them that even mid-level play
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by morelisp 4y ago
> It was not long ago that people here had kittens because MS was adding telemetry to VSCode. As far as I know VS Code never didn't have telemetry, and it was always opt-out. (E.g. comment from December 15th about the telemetry - h
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by morelisp 4y ago
I don't like the telemetry. I don't think they should add it, I will be disabling it, and recommending the rest of my team disable it. However > Introducing telemetry is not (contrary to the claims of Google) naturally part of
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by morelisp 4y ago
I don't find basic autocomplete useless, although I probably use it less than most people. (For example, I rarely write Java and when I do I don't use long names or deeply nested structures and I don't implement equals etc. b
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by morelisp 4y ago
This is such a bullshit answer. No, I don't use it daily because I tried it for a couple hours and it suggested nothing useful and several harmful. Why would I keep using it?
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by morelisp 4y ago
Whether you have at-least or at-most semantics is more related to when you commit relative to your other logic than whether you do it automatically or manually, but for common cases where you “do something” like an HTTP call or increment a
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by morelisp 4y ago
To the extent "Big Data" originally and is still often claimed to mean "data beyond what fits on a single [process/RAM/disk/etc]", it's always been strange to me how much it's identified with ana
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by morelisp 4y ago
It's both adtech and adtech's customers who are getting hurt. Small/mid sized adtech (and eventually any not directly attached to a platform) can't do shit anymore. Small/mid sized customers therefore have to go to
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by morelisp 4y ago
Although `go vet` is nominally a linter it's probably more accurate in relation to other languages to think of it as `-Werror`. Everything it reports should be considered a serious issue, and it runs by default during `go test`. They h
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by morelisp 4y ago
Additionally, the approach in the article doesn't support anything like unbuffered channels, which is the default (for good reason) in Go. Even for a first approximation, the return type of `write` needs to be `Promise<void>`. So
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by morelisp 4y ago
Then these guys dance off from that to a company that actually needs to store tens of billions of k/v pairs, HA, and can make a big mess there before anyone figures out they're actually clueless beyond `sed s/replicas: 3&#x2F
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by morelisp 4y ago
Finding a single counterexample does not disprove correlation or predictive ability. A hiring test can have both false positives and false negatives and still be useful.
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by morelisp 4y ago
Well, what it shows is that hiring tests are not useful as Turing tests. But nobody designed them to be or expected them to be! At best it "proves" is that hiring tests are not sufficient. But again, nobody thought they were. And
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by morelisp 4y ago
Translating an idiomatic structured loop into assembly used to be an "L3" question (honestly, probably higher), yet compilers could do it with substantially fewer resources than and decades before any of these LLMs. While I wouldn
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by morelisp 4y ago
While I think the jury is still out on whether ChatGPT is truly useful or not, passing an L3 hiring test is not evidence of that one way or another.
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by morelisp 4y ago
Quite a lot of L9s did start companies, which were then acquired by Google. Others are working on things that already require a large amount of capital or influence, or just otherwise want to keep working on projects rather than administrat
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by morelisp 4y ago
> Engineers: "And we get rewarded for making good products that work well, yes?" This is not what engineers say (nor what the company needs unless you take vapid definitions of "good" and "well"). The MBAs a
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by morelisp 4y ago
Engineers: "We want an engineering-led organization!" Google: "OK, here's some real responsibility over company direction." Engineers: "No, not like that." I mean, I work at a normal-ass medium-sized compa
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by morelisp 4y ago
> It is not helping anything for you to pretend you know why Drew was banned from the issue tracker This is extremely funny because a) it is true that we don't know why, there are several public and probably more private reasons he
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by morelisp 4y ago
Do you believe they faked the commit times on https://github.com/golang/go/issues/53644 , which added the behavior required for the fix six months before the sr.ht announcement?
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by morelisp 4y ago
Yes. As far as I can tell, the only relevant action sr.ht did was to open #44577 originally. Everything else since then appears to be sound and fury.

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