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by popularonion 3y ago
> Maybe it is a selection bias, but strangers who try to talk to me are almost always painful to talk to. They say things that make no sense, and leave me having to smile and nod at nonsense. You put my experience into words exactly. Any
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by popularonion 3y ago
We do Anglicize pronunciation of loan words, heavily. "Karaoke" is actually a good example of that: https://forvo.com/word/karaoke/#ja
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by popularonion 3y ago
I just looked it up and I was surprised to see Microsoft OneDrive launched only a few months after Dropbox. Seems like it did take a few years for the MS juggernaut to win out.
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by popularonion 3y ago
Yep, when MS + Apple + Google fully integrate ChatGPT and post-ChatGPT tech into their products, it’s basically game over for most “AI” startups. Same as how those same companies commoditized Dropbox into irrelevance.
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by popularonion 3y ago
GPT-4 has ingested all of Leetcode, you can literally just type "leetcode 100 python" and it will regurgitate a response for you. Only exception I found is with some of the Leetcode Premium questions, you might have to actually ty
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by popularonion 3y ago
I get a lot of mileage out of ChatGPT just treating it like an intern who turns around work instantly. You don't expect interns to write perfect code, but they can save you a ton of time if you set them loose on the right problems. Fo
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by popularonion 3y ago
> When the telephone came out, there was a burst of, "Well, that's it for people visiting each other in person!" Well, they were completely right, just a century or so off on the timeline…
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by popularonion 3y ago
It’s going to be Discord. Laugh at me now, but we’ll see in 10 years.
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by popularonion 3y ago
I don't know where this "softening EV demand" narrative that's all over the news is coming from, but I don't have the numbers at my fingertips so I guess it could be true. As a Tesla owner living in flyover country,
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by popularonion 3y ago
As someone who's happy with using VS Code for everything including Java projects, could someone explain to me how VS Code falls short vs IntelliJ? I think 5 years ago I would've preferred IntellJ, but VS Code has made a monstrous
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by popularonion 3y ago
It sounds like you have the mentality that everybody must be a front end developer. I work in a domain that's very much not front end development, I've participated in interview rounds for at least 100 different candidates, I do
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by popularonion 3y ago
That's because it is memorizing chess openings, or basically the same thing. Most Leetcode Mediums fall into the category where the type of solution is obvious (sliding window/graph search/etc), and the code isn't hard
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by popularonion 3y ago
I don’t think Exxon or Monsanto are hiring a lot of Rust developers
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by popularonion 3y ago
Basically nothing, it’s a format for things like small shell scripts to emit for consumption by some other reporting tool.
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by popularonion 3y ago
So what was your source of comprehensible input?
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by popularonion 3y ago
Tinder has become totally swarmed with these kind of scammers. It’s way worse than it was a few years ago. It’s becoming basically unusable unless you communicate with photo verified users only, but I’m sure a lot of photo verified accounts
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by popularonion 3y ago
I’m about the same age and my situation feels similar to yours in many ways. I was working remote and lost my job 3 months ago. I have very little desire to go back to work and I fully intend to take the rest of the year off. It seems like
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by popularonion 3y ago
I live in a flyover state, bought a Tesla in 2020. In my area they’ve added barely any new Superchargers at all since I bought the car. I’m sure it’s different in CA/TX/NY, but I’ve been really surprised at how stagnant the chargi
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by popularonion 3y ago
I’m trying to lose weight again, and it’s obvious there’s a few different levels to hunger: - I could eat something, but I’m good right now <- this should probably be what I feel like most of the day - Feeling hangry, don’t piss me off!!
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by popularonion 4y ago
Managers explicitly demand Type 1 thinking, because, you know, deadlines exist and stuff. If the author just wants to stop at "Type 1 bad, Type 2 good", you could just as easily say "Type 1 cares about shipping and Type 2 doe
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by popularonion 4y ago
Any kind of social matching app like this naturally draws in a lot of 18-23 year olds who don't want to interact with anyone older than college age. It might not be very nice, but I don't blame OP for it.
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by popularonion 4y ago
I wonder if that article has caused more damage over the years than it prevented.
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by popularonion 4y ago
As a teen boy in the 90s, console gaming with friends was way more common than playing PC games online. GoldenEye was THE multiplayer game that every boy with an N64 had to have. There was just nothing else like it at the time. The conspicu
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by popularonion 4y ago
The vast majority of the mainland US hasn’t experienced war in over a century, which is an extremely special geopolitical situation that hardly ever gets talked about.
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by popularonion 4y ago
Going by the stories I’ve heard from my dad and uncles, they all had lots of male friends and drinking buddies, guys they knew from the union, the bowling league, the VFW, the Lions Club, etc. All those institutions that have either complet
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by popularonion 4y ago
The question should be: Why WOULD anyone want to learn Java in 2022? It’s not at the front of any trends that young people care about. It’s not the go-to language for anything related to data science or ML, or webdev, or getting a job at FA
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by popularonion 4y ago
“If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."
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by popularonion 4y ago
When it came out 34 years ago, it was a shockingly modern (though completely TUI-based) development platform for what these days we call CRUD apps. I worked with AS/400s in the mid-2000s. I don't regret my time with it, but doom w
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by popularonion 4y ago
Japanese people could ask the same question about why English continues to have uppercase and lowercase letters. Actually when you look at the use of English in Japanese media, you’ll quickly notice a lot of unnatural-looking overuse of upp
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by popularonion 4y ago
I think of Satoshi Nakamoto. He seems to have gotten away with being anonymous. But that was 10 years ago, and he did everything an individual reasonably could in terms of opsec. Even then, he’s still been narrowed down to a pretty short l

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