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by pgwhalen 3y ago
> that's the way things will be for the long time. There are some changes coming where application developers will have to explicitly acknowledge that libraries they're using are using native code: https://openjdk.or
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
On the one hand, they're trending towards break-even. On the other hand, they're losing the price of a car amount of money every time they sell a car . Doesn't seem great for a car company.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
You can sell forever stamps. You can't sell airline points.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
For sure, it’s only partly hands off. But he is an engineer after all, he should be doing something outside of just managing.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
I don't think it's cynical, I think it's the point. Describing the problem is not easy, and to your point, is sometimes controversial. One advantage of focusing on describing the problem is that it naturally lets you have an
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
"Giving back" might be an understatement for Meta's open source contributions. They are the bedrock of so much OSS in the last decade, it's everyone _else_ that is "giving back."
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
I don't support allowing criminal behavior on the part of the airlines. But it's extraordinary hyperbole to suggest that too few customer service reps to quickly handle the needs of many travelers during an adverse weather advent
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
For the last half century of commercial flight, however, the airline passenger has shown nothing if not a desire for lower airfares at any cost.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
0% is a pretty low probability, I’d take the other end of that trade.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
The yield curve inversion to recession lag is typically around 18 months (with big error bars), so it’s not super notable yet.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
In my (admittedly limited) experience, American corporate culture is stronger than most with respect to encouraging people to say no.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
What industry were you trying to sell to?
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
As I mentioned in another reply, “power” doesn’t necessarily mean someone is a sociopath, it just means they like that they can have an impact due to the control they have. In my experience with Reddit mods, usually that comes from a good p
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
Yeah I’d agree with that too. People who care about something often like to be in a position where they can impact the thing they care about. “Power” isn’t a totally cynical way of describing it.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
> why be a moderator for a for-profit company if you aren't being paid? The same reason you'd be a moderator for a non-profit, which is power.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
There are many reddit clones. The value is completely in the communities and not in the technology. r/all subs like r/pics are completely replaceable, but something like r/personalfinance is an institution that is not easy t
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
What sort of account activity of yours was suspicious to them, do you think?
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
I wonder what that would cost the customer for it to be profitable. I doubt I'd pay 2x what I currently do for pizza delivery even if it was as I described above.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
> I fail to see how current pizza delivery can be improved ten times. Before reading this thread's comments, I would have agreed. But I have to admit, ordering a pizza and then ten minutes later receiving it at my doorstep having b
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
Fwiw, I am strongly pro universal health care, but agree with pfannkuchen’s framing of what a right is. I see it as clarifying position, not a muddying one. Healthcare requires resources, it doesn’t happen just because everyone agrees upon
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
> The example the author gives, throwing an error on the default section, is a bit contrived. I agree that exhaustiveness checks should be pushed into the compiler wherever possible and enums are generally less useful than they could be.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
> Once or twice a week my wife or I will go through their text messages with them and ask questions about anything that seems off. > When bad patterns start surfacing, we rein it in. Can you elaborate on what sorts of things you'
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
The article has a good picture of what areas are affected.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
Memes can get old fast: a few months ago, it was hugely popular for podcasters/journalists/etc. to use ChatGPT to generate some sort of introduction for their work.
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
> I don't think you understand what green threads are. Green threads are simulated threads that run on a single core. I guess this is just semantics, but it seems to be that this is an overly narrow and stale definition of green th
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by pgwhalen 3y ago
It’s worth noting that you’re sort of comparing apples and oranges, as VMFXX is not FDIC insured.
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
What is an example of an empire that failed liked this?
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
While this article is more about style of play than game length, it’s worth pointing out something that probably a lot of commenters in this thread don’t realize: as a result of the pitch clock (new this year), baseball games are now consid
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
Even as you outline your “simple” solution, you acknowledge in parentheses all of its hidden complexities. As Brian Goetz would say, this is a classic “why not just” take.
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by pgwhalen 4y ago
It sounds like you haven't taught or taken an intro to programming course using Java before. In that situation, instructors might spend weeks trying to get their students to understand variables or control flow concepts. Visibility ma

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