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by pharmakom 3y ago
I am not a Go user and the language has never appealed to me. On paper, it offers less than more established ecosystems for generalist backend development, such as C# and Java. Perhaps some Go users can weigh in?
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Tangential PSA: modern shoes damage people’s feet. Your own toes are likely curled inwards from a lifetime of shoe use. If your regular shoes have arch support, then your arches will likely have atrophied too. A raised heel is bad for your
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by pharmakom 3y ago
How can you prove they don’t privately have a long position?
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Yeah it’s remarkable how for its main use case Python … kinda sucks! It feels like R is in decline though.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
What are the practical advantages of Koka over say “IO a” or “Async<‘t>” in other languages?
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by pharmakom 3y ago
This is a deeply nihilistic article. The pinnacle of software development is definitely not simple languages and boring technologies. Have we given up?
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by pharmakom 3y ago
> hunters are using electronic calls to lure them back across the border for hunting What does this mean?
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by pharmakom 3y ago
It’s all about lock in. AWS has a bunch of features that you could implement yourself in an afternoon with a few EC2s, but it’s much easier to click the checkbox. Repeat this across an entire org for a few years and you are deeply coupled t
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by pharmakom 3y ago
The body has limits that can be expanded through training. However, exceed the limits and you will be injured. The key is to train up to your limits consistently. Given that most jobs with PA in later life are low pay, I wonder how much nut
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Homelessness Realism - the belief that homelessness is inevitable and nothing substantial can be done.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
It’s less than a mile. Just build a nice bike lane / footpath.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Totally agree. The biggest failings in the US are around public health. In the US, the path of least resistance is to drive everywhere, sit at a desk and eat fast food. It’s really hard as an individual to overcome these forces.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Stop it please! Just add the pipleline proposal and we can use a library or define our own function.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
I dunno, Apple has better market access and product execution so isn’t it a good thing if they acquire innovative tech?
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Unless you hold the majority of housing in the market, I don’t see how such a large scale collusion can work.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
I think it’s time to revisit those rules. They were developed in an era where: 1. Very few people had a camera on them at all times 2. Photos would take time and money to develop 3. Sharing a photo across the entire world was basically impo
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by pharmakom 3y ago
I don’t understand why someone would hold a vacant apartment. Why give up on the substantial rental income?
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by pharmakom 3y ago
I deeply disagree with this. With Good Old Fashioned Dev Tools like Zero TurnAround, ReSharper, PyCharm, Clang tools, etc. the tool was specific to the language stack. Esoteric languages would simply not have many tools. All the LLM-based t
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by pharmakom 3y ago
The latest LLMs are remarkable, but I think the AI Doomer claims are still a reach. My prediction is that the current AI boom will fizzle out into a handful of useful products and a lot of smoke from VC cash. Where are the moon bases? Supe
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Why do we think AI will have motivations like a greedy human might? Why do we think AI will have motivations at all? Why do we think such AI is a pressing threat?
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Terrain generation + LLM characters could be magical. Hope it goes that direction.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
You must understand, for your average wealthy SE UK voter, the UK is still a dominant world force, a peer to China and the United States. Brexit was quite popular down there, despite not being the majority. Of course, their worldview is abo
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by pharmakom 3y ago
With the cancellation of HS2 they will do even less than promised!
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by pharmakom 3y ago
I reported some neonazi content just the other day and YouTube booted it off.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
DayZ casts a long shadow.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
It takes decades for programming tools to settle. Consider that most working developers today are using languages that wouldn’t have impressed a PL researcher in the 80s.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
This comment has been repeated many times. I think there is even an XKCD. Anyway, it’s not very helpful. If the 3 existing solutions are all deficient in some way then a new standard may be a good idea. And besides that, we may not realize
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by pharmakom 3y ago
There will come a time when people say similar things about motor traffic in cities. So noisy! I can taste the fumes! How did people put up with this?
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Hard to bet against open.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Reversing decades of creeping car dependency will be difficult.

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