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by saghm 4mo ago
Right? It seems intuitive that markets can eventually saturate, and that there's a floor for how low you can get costs, so growth can't be infinite. Maybe you could make an argument that you want to grow in scale with inflation
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by saghm 4mo ago
> Nintendo also shipped Metroid Prime 4, with massive delays and unsatisfied customers, following the same "interactive Hollywood" philosophy which disappointed Metroid fans. I'm not convinced that Metroid at least really
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by saghm 4mo ago
Yes, but only because the bar is so low. "We can't commodotize innovation" is not an especially subtle insight, and pretty much everyone other than executives at companies like this understand it without having to spend billi
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by saghm 4mo ago
Sure, giving agents a deterministic way to run linters is good, but that already implicitly accepts the premise that code hygiene does actually matter. If you agree with that, then you probably also recognize that there are some things that
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by saghm 4mo ago
Given who's sitting at the top of the judiciary right now, the main difference is that there are a slightly larger but still single digit number of buffoons who handed the buffoon you're talking about his get out of jail card for
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by saghm 4mo ago
> The problem with all of this is that there is this entire niche of the market that you simply cannot penetrate with policy. I don't really understand how the rest of your comment provides evidence for this claim. Not wanting to ad
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by saghm 4mo ago
So is the judiciary at times
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by saghm 4mo ago
There are hundreds of years of examples of it being used. How closely did you actually go through them before deciding that it's literally impossible for it to ever result in a just outcome?
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by saghm 4mo ago
Stuff like this seems like it might happen in any low-quality identity system (possibly aided by customer support who can't possibly be blamed for just trying shit and seeing if it works) regardless of whether it's based on some h
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by saghm 4mo ago
I was going to say the same thing. I've been using it close to a decade and I've yet to encounter a circumstance where anything I've used has even seemed aware of the fact that I'm using it rather than a more "tradi
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by saghm 4mo ago
I don't see why it's inconsistent to claim that programming is not engineering today while leaving the door open to the idea that maybe someday it will be. If anything, that seems in line with the criticism of the incentive struct
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by saghm 4mo ago
I don't recall any microwaves in any of my classrooms, but it's possible I just didn't notice them
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by saghm 4mo ago
Just blackholing the request would be kinder than taking it out on the person following the link, given that their gripe seems to be more with the one who posted it (and that as a deterrent, it doesn't seem to be particularly effective
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by saghm 4mo ago
> The nice thing about e-textbooks is not needing to carry around a bunch of heavy books. I remember the tomes I had in my college days, such as Stewart's Calculus. I'm not sure how relatable this is for people outside of my ag
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by saghm 4mo ago
I graduated a decade ago but there was a pretty decent post-semester market for people selling their textbooks to other students (mostly via posting in various Facebook groups). Given the cost of college nowadays, if that ends up saving stu
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by saghm 4mo ago
I'm not sure it's possible to force someone to learn who doesn't want to. From what I can tell, the article is basically saying that giving the students some form of agency and trust is a better way to motivate them to take i
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by saghm 4mo ago
> I know plenty of people that reacted with the desired fear, putting in long hours to avoid layoffs, willingness to accept lower pay because the job market sucks, etc. - but I think there are also plenty of the the mythical 10x engineer
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by saghm 4mo ago
Fair enough. All I know is living in New York, Spectrum is probably the worst ISP that I've ever experienced (and it seems to be a pretty common experience). I'm not one of the ones who downvoted you though, just someone who offer
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by saghm 4mo ago
Okay? My parents had me at 35 in the 90s, and I'm sure you've met plenty of people who had similarly aged parents. It's not like there's one perfect age for everyone to have kids, and my point is that if some people real
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by saghm 4mo ago
> I mostly use it for “sort these lines alphabetically” Vim gives you that by highlighting the lines and running `:sort` for free
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by saghm 4mo ago
There's a pretty stark difference been "someone died in this spot" and them still being there for you to see. Most people don't react nearly as viscerally to hearing that someone died as they do to literally seeing a cor
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by saghm 4mo ago
Maybe some people realized that they could wait a few years and still have kids later, and others didn't think about having kids purely though the lens of evolutionary biology.
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by saghm 4mo ago
Alternately (and appropriately related to smart phones and biology): https://xkcd.com/925/
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by saghm 4mo ago
At the apartment I lived at until last year, Spectrum only offered up to half a gig down unless you used their modem (which of course meant an extra $15 per month on top of the plan for a full gig already being more expensive). Of course, n
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by saghm 4mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a misunderstanding of the halting problem. You can prove that a program halts will halt; you just can't prove that it won't halt if it doesn't.
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by saghm 4mo ago
> (Sorry for the pun, I'll see myself out.) No worries, I can see the a-peel.
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by saghm 4mo ago
I'm aware. Being named as an inventor is a benefit we sometimes give to people, and the point the other comment was making (as I understood it) is that AI shouldn't be able to only take the good parts of being a person and skip ov
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by saghm 4mo ago
> So what was Zachtronics closing then? Him changing his mind and coming back a year later? Why throw away the brand? As cringingly shallow as that sentence was to type, a new "Zachtronics" game was a reflexive auto-buy for man
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by saghm 4mo ago
I did a whole Wikipedia deep dive on this several months ago. I vaguely remembered hearing how long it took for it to switch back, but the history around it is kind of fascinating; the son of the previous king was groomed to be the successo
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by saghm 4mo ago
I don't have any insight into what to call it right now, but I thought for several decades after WWII it was still fascist? If anything being a banana republic might not be as as bad as what it used to be

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