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by saghm 5mo ago
Interesting, I had no idea that existed! I still think there's a a difference between "here's a hook you can use to run stuff earlier" and "importing any module is fundamentally the same as running it as a script un
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by saghm 5mo ago
I mean, yes, demonstrably, the phenomenon you're describing happens. Your previous comment seems pretty sarcastically dismissing the idea that someone could disagree with this being a good thing though, and I was making a counterargume
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by saghm 5mo ago
Writing shell scripts to orchestrate things is not a particularly great experience. "Shell scripts are annoying to write compared to the programming languages we use for other things" isn't a universal opinion, but it's
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by saghm 5mo ago
Given that Hacker News somewhat famously was written in lisp, "an advertisement every couple of months here" probably translates to an order of magnitude less in places that have a lower density of long-time lisp fans from the ear
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by saghm 5mo ago
FWIW, I did suspect AI was probably used when looking through the README, but it also didn't really impact my opinion much because the value proposition of "I can use a Rust library to control this through the same primitives the
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by saghm 5mo ago
Somehow I have no trouble imagining this being used as a rationale to avoid unnecessary "magic" to the language for years
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by saghm 5mo ago
Is the biggest user larger than the combined set of individual users who had asked for (or would benefit from) the same thing? I honestly don't know, but I don't think that things are always as simple as you're implying in a
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by saghm 5mo ago
This seems a lot more due to an import running arbitrary code because stuff can happen in the top-level of a module rather than only happening in functions. From what I can tell, it seems pretty common for dynamically typed languages and pr
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by saghm 5mo ago
> These days I definitely believe that something needs to take up the role of fighting for the rights of labor, but I remain skeptical that unions, at least as they exist in the US, are the right tool for the job. What would you say are
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by saghm 5mo ago
I'll never understand why so many tech workers are so strongly against the idea of unions. I've yet to encounter a criticism that doesn't essentially stem from criticism of blue-collar unions, and regardless of whether I agre
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by saghm 5mo ago
I don't disagree, although I've also found that I'm often surprised by what people actually think is reasonable policy, and immigration in particular seems to evoke opinions that seem absurd to me but are held by a large enou
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by saghm 5mo ago
> But that is only a blunder if the counterfactual is that China would not have achieved that military aviation as fast. The picture drawn is that the Chinese had a sophisticated and intelligent organizational apparatus that knew to get
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by saghm 5mo ago
I had a friend working at a startup I interned at who had come over on a student visa, gotten a temporary visa to work, but then eventually was not able to keep it and ended up moving to Canada and working there. It's never made sense
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by saghm 5mo ago
> Given the numbers of people involved in the exchange the comparative value must have been quite clear to both parties. At least on the American side, it doesn't sound at all like this was uniformly agreed upon; there seem to have
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by saghm 5mo ago
I understood that as the actual thesis of the article; it discusses the highest profile example in detail, but the central claim seems to be that this was essentially the system working "as intended", and that it continued working
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by saghm 5mo ago
I feel like the existence of victims of women doesn't detract from the overall point I was making, which is that overall the distribution of people who exploit people like this is overwhelmingly tilted towards men being the dominant so
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by saghm 5mo ago
> if nobody can do it right, how is it even fair to blame the programmer? My point is that ALL It's fair to blame the programmer for the choice of programming in a language like this, if it was in fact their choice. As you've s
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by saghm 5mo ago
I've long said that the value a programming language offers is as much about what it doesn't allow as what it does allow. Efficiency aside, most useful programs could be written in most languages, but there are an infinite number
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by saghm 5mo ago
We can't solve the general problem of English syntax ambiguity in a HN headline, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to be precise about the literal names of things
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by saghm 5mo ago
> So for most people, especially if they keep getting what they need, it’s not worth rocking the boat. You’re more likely to just get steamrolled/destroyed if you try. some people will even actively encourage it, as long as it seems
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by saghm 5mo ago
> When you got everything you could possibly want in life or have enough money to buy whatever you want... then for quite a lot of people of either gender, the illegal and illicit becomes the next thing to obtain. But with a society that
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by saghm 5mo ago
> Do you think Trump has gotten where he is because these things are not happening? I don't even understand what you're trying to claim here. As best I can figure out, it sounds like you're saying that Trump made his money
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by saghm 5mo ago
You don't think that the CEO of Google might have some resources at his disposable to manipulate or threaten someone?
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by saghm 5mo ago
> Some of the loudest hostile voices were reserved for Schmidt’s comments on AI, however. “You can now assemble a team of AI agents to help you with the parts you could never accomplish on your own,” comparing it to a “seat on a rocket s
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by saghm 5mo ago
For what it's worth, this might not be a recent phenomenon only. My dad has been saying for decades that the speaker at my mom's college graduation (Paul Tsongas, if I'm remembering correctly) was incredibly depressing and ba
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by saghm 5mo ago
Even better!
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by saghm 5mo ago
There are also a lot more novels about writing than making movies and a lot more songs about music than plays. It's not clear that this is because it's actually the primary use-case or if it's just because people who work wit
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by saghm 5mo ago
What about "Meta blocks human rights accounts for audiences in Saudi Arabia and UAE"? I don't think "reaching" adds much to the headline
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by saghm 6mo ago
> My dad enjoy it especially credits with moose Apparently the moose in the credits was a bit of serendipity; it just randomly showed up on the day they were shooting, and they decided it would be perfect for the credits
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by saghm 6mo ago
My wife and I got our engagement and wedding rings from Krikawa[1]. The stones on her ring were synthetic, extremely affordable given the size, and visually flawless. (Not quite as related, but the process was also really easy; we were able

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