pharmakom

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by pharmakom 3y ago
Software trends seems to repeat themselves as we forget the lessons learned a decade ago. It’s more like fashion, in that sense.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
I find GitHub Actions incredibly counter-intuitive, personally.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
The lack of greenery is the worst aspect of New York for me.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
For GitHub, Firefox usage will be way higher. And besides “Microsoft <3 Open Source” right? … Right?
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by pharmakom 3y ago
In this vein, I can’t even register for GitHub on Firefox due to laggy animations. Works fine in Chrome. Did they even test it?
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Counter argument: we need blue light from the morning sun to wake up properly.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Man on the moon is such a fantastic (in the original sense) thing - I think it’s an end in itself!
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Not a carbon things (in fact may have made that worse) but plastic bag minimum charge laws have had a tremendous impact on littering. The usual suspects were all against it at the time but there is no major support for reversing the laws no
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Python has mutable data structures by default and you cannot have multi-line lambdas. The interpreter cannot optimise common functional patterns, so you pay a heavy perf cost. I could be wrong, but last I checked there is no TCO. Python is
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Sorry, but this is plain wrong. Clojure is a functional first language with an extremely powerful macro system. JavaScript has ad-hoc monkey patching and a heavy toolchain requirement to enable immutability.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
What’s also sad is people choosing between two very limited languages, Go and Python. Ultimately they both lead to the same place-orientated programming soup.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
If you have CI/CD then rebuild and deploy isn’t a big deal. If you’re mutating running systems in an uncontrolled way you’re probably doing it wrong
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Some things (e.g. Slack calls) will not work in Firefox. It’s pretty annoying. Personally I still use Firefox.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
https://archive.ph/sixSq
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by pharmakom 3y ago
The equation depends on interest rates and how liquid you want to be, so it’s a very difficult one to answer.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
The vast majority of child abusers are male and known to the child and family (not strangers), so there is some evidence behind the bias, I suppose.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
What? How? You can’t compare high school math to cutting edge AI work.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
I think the general public understand AGI as a conscious mind that is also intelligent in the AI researcher sense, like what you might see in movie. Lots of hype comes from this terminology gap.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Weird definition of intelligence.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
It sets a precedent that might be policed to future ads.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
It doesn’t work in the developed world either. We all hate pollution, sitting in traffic, lack of green space, obesity, lack of childhood autonomy … and yet society seems incapable of coordinating on solving it. Well, except for the Netherl
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Another approach might be for employers to allocate 20% of employee time to open-source work. Benefits: - recruit high quality developers - up-skill existing developers - devs will sometimes fix things that the company is using
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by pharmakom 3y ago
> Unfortunately, a system can be individually unsustainable while being globally sustainable. Wow this is such a great description of the arts, fashion, Hollywood, game development, startups (?), …
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by pharmakom 3y ago
I do free open-source work because I want to reshape the world, and this is somewhere I have leverage. If I was paid to do the work, then I would have to deliver what the customer wants, which is not always aligned with how I see things. It
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Why do people keep asking models about models?
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Please, please Microsoft start pushing F# as an alternative to VBA!
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Just chuck it in SQLite and move onto the next business problem. 20 mins, tops.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
The upper classes love to experiment with being in the lower classes, so long as they can retreat back if it gets too real.
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by pharmakom 3y ago
Async coloring is a good thing (imo)
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by pharmakom 3y ago
What does Go offer that C# does not? Both have actors, channels, threads, etc.

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