sambeau

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   by sambeau 3y ago

   Congratulations!
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   Court of appeal judge praises ChatGPT after asking it for legal summary(theguardian.com)

   2 points by sambeau 3y ago|0 comments
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   by sambeau 3y ago

   There's still argument about this. The oft mentioned Dodge v. Ford Motor Company 1919 covers much the argument for and against. But it's clearly not straightforward. My (IANAL) reading of it is that maximising shareholder value is
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   by sambeau 3y ago

   I found that statement to be the most informative part of the document. It made me stop and consider it as, yes, I wouldn't have believed it until it was so explicitly pointed out. Science is full of authors supposing what other people
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   by sambeau 3y ago

   This graph from the 2015 article "Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year" really rammed this home for me: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11&#x2
6. 156.▲
   by sambeau 3y ago

   Of course they do. Wasn't this always the plan?
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   by sambeau 3y ago

   Isn't this all just René Descartes's Demon, the 'Deus Deceptor' that he proposed in his 'Meditations on First Philosophy' in 1641. Are we doing anything more than updating his question to our latest technology?
8. 158.▲
   by sambeau 3y ago

   That's deliberate to stop you trying to compose functions that return errors. You should be explicitly handling the errors before you compose.
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   by sambeau 3y ago

   And, after all that, they don’t even handle the IO errors.
10. 160.▲
    by sambeau 3y ago

    I can think of two good reasons: 1. To look clever. 2. To make junior programmers look stupid.
11. 161.▲
    by sambeau 3y ago

    Exactly, I can’t wait to force this on my junior programmers and make them look stupid. cracks knuckles over keyboard
12. 162.▲
    by sambeau 3y ago

    I don’t know who to feel more sorry for: the junior programmer who has dutifully taught themselves idiomatic go and explicit error handling being shown a large unreadable codebase full of this nonsense on their first day, or the the poor so
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    by sambeau 3y ago

    I’m sorry, but this is just awful. func TraverseTuple10[F1 ~func(A1) IOEither[E, T1], F2 ~func(A2) IOEither[E, T2], F3 ~func(A3) IOEither[E, T3], F4 ~func(A4) IOEither[E, T4], F5 ~func(A5) IOEither[E, T5], F6 ~func(A6) IOEither[E, T6],
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    by sambeau 3y ago

    My most valuable piece of advice for parents is to keep your children informed about your plans for the day, especially things about to happen soon, and bear in mind that kids have their own plans and time schedules (and don't wear wat
15. 165.▲
    by sambeau 3y ago

    And yet people continue to inject it into their faces, because wrinkles. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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    by sambeau 3y ago

    It reminds me of my old Sun workstation at Glasgow University sigh
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    by sambeau 3y ago

    They were fat, hollow, metal tubes
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    by sambeau 3y ago

    I once sat and watched piles being driven for a small housing block, 4 stories high. These ones in fact: https://www.google.com/maps/@56.4618615,-2.9545922,3a,75y,26... Each pile was as about as high as the building. T
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    by sambeau 3y ago

    That is a policy where you reward the dilution of talent while simultaneously penalising loyalty. To get promoted, your best strategy is either to quickly employ a load of bozos, or to jump ship and take your talents elsewhere. Going by tha
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    The Expansion of the Universe Is Just a Mirage(popularmechanics.com)

    4 points by sambeau 3y ago|0 comments
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    by sambeau 3y ago

    Are you sure that's all they are doing? When a new coder joined our team they always got loads done as they were left to completely concentrate on their work on the board. Meanwhile, the rest of the team where dealing with support requ
22. 172.▲
    by sambeau 3y ago

    Am I alone in assuming that spraying heparin your nose would give you a terrible nose-bleed?
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    by sambeau 3y ago

    Carl Sassenrath, the creator of Rebol was head of OS at Amiga, and is the reason why the Amiga had real preemptive multitasking before Macs and PCs.
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    by sambeau 3y ago

    Turns out a simple Google search would have confirmed it rolleyes https://mcvuk.com/business-news/publishing/former-lego-dev-p... . > “It was all automated, but the human moderators were, if I remember correct
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    by sambeau 3y ago

    When I worked in games in the late 2000s the rumour* about why Minecraft was able to come in and do what everyone knew that Lego should have been doing (a multi-player online block-building game), was that they spent so long trying to creat
26. 176.▲
    by sambeau 3y ago

    From my scientific observations here in Brighton, U.K., it’s mostly chips (French fries).
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    Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he's found fragments of alien technology(cbsnews.com)

    5 points by sambeau 3y ago|2 comments
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    by sambeau 3y ago

    [cough-cough] I loved the round mouse. I could chuck it around with pinpoint precision.
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    Show HN: Tortoise vs. Hare, a Monte-Carlo Board Game Design(github.com)

    2 points by sambeau 3y ago|0 comments
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    You've Never Seen a Natural Pool Like This [video](youtube.com)

    2 points by sambeau 3y ago|1 comments