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by nirvdrum 3y ago
In case you didn't know, the PSVR2 has a button on the front right side that switches the display to that of a camera coming out the front face of the unit so you can see around. It's a huge improvement over the previous generatio
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
It looks to me like there's two different notions of cash tracking being discussed. One is tracking individual bills and the other is tracking transactions that involve exchanging goods or services for cash.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I think the charitable interpretation is there are a whole class of web sites/applications (news sites, e-commerce, etc.) that haven't appreciably changed in the last 15 years. Yeah, there's been some incremental improvement,
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Elsewhere in this thread there are comments about needing to continue pace to move beyond React. I don't think we've seen the end of the churn. I agree that React is a pretty stable base these days and you can just work with that,
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
For me, it's a matter of decency. If you're sending me an email and you're expecting that I'll read it, you're asking me to invest my time (presumably for your benefit). But, you're unwilling to make the same i
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I always thought it was a bit weird until I discovered people from the US are called "American" in other languages (e.g., German). I also think it's a little odd that we say US rather than USA, but other languages do that as
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
On the other hand, the Steam Deck goes the other way with docking. It doesn't improve quality at all.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I may be recalling it incorrectly, but wasn't the EU's stance on chargers the reason phones stopped shipping with proprietary chargers and started using USB? Accessories were big money for phone manufacturers so I don't think
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I found [1] to be a pretty good summary of the key concepts that support the claim. The article, unfortunately, doesn't come right out and say it. But, it talks about how object shapes (a common JS object model) can be used as guards f
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Obviously there's no universal agreement on which phrase is correct. Otherwise, we wouldn't be having a discussion. I don't know how many people we're even talking about. I'm certain the group that uses "compri
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Wouldn't this argument cut both ways? Presumably the people that started using the phrase incorrectly were bucking the trend.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
If words don't matter, then ignore the edits. People tend to copy what they see. If they see it written with the original definition, maybe that's what the hivemind will adopt. I don't see a problem with that and I don't
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Odds are really good that they'll be pressured to work on roofs and the employer will say "Well, they volunteered. I don't how old they are. Am I supposed to card all my employees?"
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
That'd work for this specific case, but I think that was just a simplified example. A Map can store a value of any type, while the dataset property will always be a string. If you're only working with strings, it's a great op
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Neither 24 GB nor 32 GB are base model specs; they're fairly expensive upgrades that you have to decide in advance because you can't modify the machine afterwards. You really need to know what your usage is going to be, otherwise
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
If you want a Mac, go for it. But if your opposition is to Microsoft requiring newer model CPUs, that seems like a weird turn to take. You can't even upgrade RAM or storage on any of the Mac laptops; you're supposed to just go buy
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
If the generated text is mostly correct most of the time, people are just going to stop reviewing it because it's cheaper for them to waste someone else's time than it is to spend their own. Even those that are more diligent are b
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
The article provides abbreviated definitions that might be less confusing to follow than the comprehensive Wikipedia page. But, I agree that calling them out a bit more clearly in the article would have been helpful.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
> 2) Chaudry ignores that you need a human in the loop to check an AI's work. You don't know that an AI's answer is always right. Even if it's perfect in 99% of cases, the answer could be jaw-droppingly destructive in
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I think the more charitable interpretation is more people signed up for the free option than they expected and fewer people converted. The post specifically calls out companies with large resources refusing to pay. Perhaps it was naive, but
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by nirvdrum 4y ago
I tried to make a warranty claim since I had a whole batch of bulbs die within a few months. GE required me to ship them the bulbs. I abandoned the claim, switched to another manufacturer, and don't put stock in those warranties at all
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by nirvdrum 4y ago
It seems unlikely to me that this technology has plateaued. The gains have been exponential. It strikes me as prudent to at least consider its continued improvement a possibility and try to work out what that means for society. The best thi
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by nirvdrum 4y ago
What's the solution when so much knowledge work is upended at once? When manufacturing jobs were lost, we callously told people to go to college to learn to learn IT. Whether it's art, code, marketing, or other applied knowledge w
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by nirvdrum 4y ago
Humans are allowed to be upset when their lives and livelihoods are upended. "Suck it up" doesn't really help anyone. We shouldn't accept maximizing profitability as the only worthwhile outcome. I'm a developer. I r
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by nirvdrum 4y ago
It didn't take the job in the sense that the OP is still employed. It changed the job into something that barely resembles what the OP was hired to do. It's not quite constructive dismissal, but many people choose fields for reaso
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by nirvdrum 4y ago
Then don't use them? As a reader, I certainly appreciate when people do. When writing documents or HTML I use them because it adds clarity. When typing on a web form, I'll usually use "--" because it's visually simi
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by nirvdrum 4y ago
To be fair, a venture-backed company remaining private for 10 years wasn't terribly common and probably wouldn't factor highly in anyone's risk assessment. If someone asked "what happens to these options in 10 years if y
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by nirvdrum 4y ago
Do you have a particular task in mind? The languages have different semantics and that has an effect on performance. E.g., in Ruby nearly everything is a method call. Ideally a JIT would eliminate that overhead, but you'll likely see v
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by nirvdrum 4y ago
For IDEs, Shopify provides the Ruby Extension Pack for VS Code [1]. Closely related to RubyMine is the Ruby plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. Those seem to be the biggest set of IDEs for several languages. There's Ruby support for editors like
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by nirvdrum 4y ago
https://ruby-compilers.com/ is a comprehensive list of the various Ruby compilers. There's a table summarizing them along with detailed descriptions for some.

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