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by roarcher 1y ago
This is a cultural thing as far as I can tell. My American coworkers always just ask their question in the first message, but I worked in an office in Portugal for a bit and every single chat would start with "hello". Drove me abs
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by roarcher 1y ago
Every field is "hobbyist level" before certain breakthroughs are made that allow it to take off. Look at computers before and after the invention of integrated circuits, transistors, or even vacuum tubes. In this case those initia
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by roarcher 1y ago
This comment always comes up. Yes, their knowledge was a huge help to the space program and we conveniently forgot about their crimes in exchange for it. But it was THE sole thing that made the moon landing possible? Not our massive industr
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by roarcher 1y ago
No worries, I didn't take it that way. I heard the same thing. Even if her condition were to be "cured", if it ever came back she'd be screwed. The system would take that as proof that her condition was fixable and was t
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by roarcher 1y ago
I'm a veteran and I know several fellow vets who openly admit to lying to the VA to get disability ratings for maladies they don't have. No, I don't have statistics about how many disabled veterans are lying (how would one ga
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by roarcher 1y ago
As a veteran I haven't heard of that particular one, but I've heard of disability ratings given out for trivial enough things that I think it's plausible. I knew of one guy who got it for PTSD after being stationed in Okinawa
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by roarcher 1y ago
I dated a disabled woman for a bit, and this is exactly how it was. Every possible solution to her situation had better be 100% guaranteed to work, because it was guaranteed to get her ejected from SSDI, never able to reapply unless she dev
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by roarcher 1y ago
The problem with this paper is its framing as a feminist issue. Claiming that programming language research is overly formal and rigorous is one thing. Claiming that this is a problem for women because they can't handle mathematical
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by roarcher 1y ago
You understand your coworkers' PRs as thoroughly and intuitively as they do? Any significant PR will contain things you don't even notice or think to ask about. And the answers to the questions you do ask are the end result of a t
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by roarcher 1y ago
You still didn't have to build the mental model, understand the subtle tradeoffs and make the decisions that arrived at that design. I'm amazed that people don't see this. Absolutely nobody would claim that copying a novel is
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by roarcher 1y ago
About as well as a beached whale, I'd expect.
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by roarcher 1y ago
China isn't a generation.
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by roarcher 1y ago
And those children will have to have even more children, and so on. The system is designed to work as long as it can grow forever, which it obviously cannot. Some generation is going to have to reckon with the demographic problem.
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by roarcher 1y ago
It's not political, it's just melodramatic. Some people choose to frame their life as a story about "overcoming adversity". Most of the time the struggles they describe, while genuinely difficult, are things that most pe
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by roarcher 1y ago
High-profile investors are not a signal that something will be successful, no matter how smart they may be in some other domain. Lots of people who should have known better invested in Theranos, too.
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by roarcher 1y ago
Recently I wasted half a day trying to make sense of story requirements given to me by a BA that were contradictory and far more elaborate than we had previously discussed. When I finally got ahold of him he confessed that he had run the ac
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by roarcher 1y ago
Don't they? As ill advised as these tariff wars may be, their stated purpose is to bring jobs back to the United States. Lately all the complaints of the form "Product X will cost $Y if made in the USA" have been coming from
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by roarcher 1y ago
Yeah, but humans can be made to understand when and how they're wrong and narrow their focus to fixing the mistake. LLMs apologize and then proudly present the exact same output as before, repeatedly, forever spinning their wheels at t
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by roarcher 1y ago
Why revert edits in the first place then? Do they think people are editing Wikipedia by accident?
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by roarcher 1y ago
I think the enshittification will continue no matter what. Amazon Prime Video used to be ad-free for paying users, until they made it "some ads" unless you paid for a higher tier. There is no amount of money that you can pay a mod
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by roarcher 2y ago
To me that just sounds like someone who arrives at his political views by thinking rather than blindly adopting whatever his peers believe. It's only odd because it's (sadly) rare these days.
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by roarcher 2y ago
That confirms a suspicion I've had for a while. These days I tend to assume that 95% of anything associated with cryptocurrency or AI is nothing but a hype-driven tool for extracting money from investors who should know better but some
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by roarcher 2y ago
Good god, this is the kind of shit that gets funded by Y Combinator? I had to double check that that page wasn't some kind of joke.
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by roarcher 2y ago
> I know that the core of the article is about millimeter thick inner panes Yes, those are new. That's what the article is about. Your opening snark makes no sense in the context of the article, which you yourself admit, but you wer
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by roarcher 2y ago
I used to have a cat like this. He loved to drink out of the toilet bowl, which he knew he wasn't supposed to do. I would hear him lapping up the water and as I approached the bathroom he would quickly exit, almost but not quite runnin
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by roarcher 2y ago
I suspect he doesn't do much engineering, which would explain why he's impressed by candidates who can quickly churn out small rote sample projects with AI. Anyone who actually writes software for a living knows that working on a
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by roarcher 2y ago
This is the sweet spot in my opinion. I haven't been in the .NET world for a few years but there's a very similar library called Dapper. Best "ORM" I ever used. https://github.com/DapperLib/Dapper
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by roarcher 2y ago
They are where I live. Guess it depends on the city. I can tell you where they most definitely aren't, though: downtown. Anybody who can afford that real estate is not the little guy. If they appear to be, that just means great effort
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by roarcher 2y ago
Those things are gone now because the only reason people were doing them downtown is because they had to be there for work. It's odd to suggest that people spending their money closer to home means shopping at large chain businesses, b
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by roarcher 2y ago
The answer is that it sucks to own one of those businesses, but things change and disruption happens. The answer isn't "the city's entire white-collar workforce needs to migrate downtown and back every day to provide an artif

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