samhw

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by samhw 4y ago
Yeah, it mystifies me. One of my ex-boyfriends worked at a chain coffee shop. He was paid minimum wage, as the manager of several branches , for working insane hours, and (as he once said to me) the person three levels above him was paid a
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by samhw 4y ago
> the logical fallacy “X% of our floor workers become managers therefore if you join you have an X% chance of a promotion every year" Aside from the problem of induction, why would this be a fallacy? (I'm assuming you meant to
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by samhw 4y ago
That's become me, to be honest. Money has reached the point where it doesn't mean anything any more. For the last year or so I've taken cabs everywhere I've gone, even down the road to go to the shops. This sounds like a
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by samhw 4y ago
I worked at Monzo a while back, and, while the 'Platform' (~= SRE) team were brilliant, and did what you describe along with much much more, regardless the performance impact of thousands of microservices could be characterised
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by samhw 4y ago
I assume they meant "many tech workers / job hunters / the kind of people on this forum", not orphans in darkest Africa or Christian Bale losing weight for a role.
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by samhw 4y ago
On the bright side, has anyone else ever considered what an amazing amount of information there must be for mouse vets?
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by samhw 4y ago
I'm very confused by this comment. Memory safety doesn't mean "can't crash the runtime"[0]. That would exclude the most basic, canonical examples of memory unsafety: use after free, buffer overwrite/overread, d
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by samhw 4y ago
Realistically, no one is going to use this. Google Forms provides 400 form submissions per minute , unlimited per day, free of charge, and still more with their $8/mo paid tier (and that also covers all Google services, not just Forms
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by samhw 4y ago
Honestly, I say this as a big Rust user: ignore that shit. At the level of writing a desktop app, the truth is that you're already using a vast amount of CPU and memory, and eking out performance gains on that level is not going to mak
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by samhw 4y ago
In other words, a story? An account of something that happened to that person? Does he have to state the names of every road he was on and every cafe he went to? I like this site, but the one thing I'll never understand is the outrageo
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by samhw 4y ago
And good for them, but that doesn't affect the fact that they are doing you (/me, us) a favour, an act of supererogation. In any case, my point isn't really about whether they are being kind or not. That's a fortiori. It
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by samhw 4y ago
Hmm, I think we're coming up against the weirdness of racial categories here. I'd say Ukrainians - to much the same extent as Hispanics - aren't quite considered white in American terms (which has virtually zero to do with
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by samhw 4y ago
> any expected future contributors deserve, in comparison, pennies? No, they don't deserve pennies. Facebook has given its code to the world - if anyone wants to keep that code maintained, then they can do so, but (I'd have tho
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by samhw 4y ago
I just don't see how it's less valuable than not using it. That seems analytically true to me: if ever the debits do outweigh the credits, then one simply doesn't use it . After all, it's not like it's a library
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by samhw 4y ago
Google's workforce is 53.1% white, and 36.3% Asian (so, not far). 2.5% is black. Their marketing graphics - to put it charitably - bely those demographics. src=" https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/diver
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by samhw 4y ago
Nah, watch the video, he's Hispanic. (Of course racial classifications have no real meaning, but ime Hispanic people are generally - bar some Spaniards - 'typed' as non-white, comparable to Asians or Native Americans. And c
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by samhw 4y ago
> “In our research, we found that a lot of the time people feel they’re lumped into racial categories, but there’s all this heterogeneity with ethnic and racial categories,” Dr. Monk says. "People think we're lumping them into
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by samhw 4y ago
I think they meant 'the rest of the industry'?
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by samhw 4y ago
A white elephant, basically, you mean? I definitely understand that, but I'm not sure it applies here. Jest and React are exceptionally mature and well-maintained pieces of software. Many a startup has been built by gluing React to Exp
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by samhw 4y ago
It's not a question of 'sympathy', it's a question of recognising the neutral fact that a company providing its code to you free of charge is not further obligated - irrespective of whether you happen to like or dislike
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by samhw 4y ago
They are providing their code to you free of charge. They are already doing you a kindness. So certainly they are under no obligation to spend $22k, let alone more than that. Christ, attitudes towards open source have become seriously war
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by samhw 4y ago
Rubbish. Bob from the car factory can take a sabbatical without the free world sliding into tyranny. In fact, very little that I have done in my life - if anything at all - has had any appreciable effect on free society. This is the kind o
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by samhw 4y ago
> I think a lot of people are in denial about how much remote work is setting the stage for a flattening of global engineering compensation. Thank God someone said it. I have an odd quality – among my uncountable bad qualities – that I
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by samhw 4y ago
Yeah, I think I'm the same. For years I kinda awkwardly put up with it, semi-understanding the dynamic (revolutional paedophagy?), but I've got bored of it over the last couple of years. I've seen the same in people I know, a
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by samhw 4y ago
I think the real issue is that Go is its runtime, including garbage collection but also coroutine scheduling, syscall management (syscalls effectively enter 'gospace' before kernelspace), etc. Go's docs liken it to crt0, whic
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by samhw 4y ago
Gosh this seems like a brilliantly effective next step in the TikTokers’ campaign to drain life of any and all colour and playfulness and spontaneity. As an autistic person, I’d cast my vote for ‘occasionally misunderstand things’ over ‘hav
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by samhw 4y ago
Besides what pc86 wrote: there’s a difference between ‘not a real name’ and ‘a fake name’. A dog is not a fake cat. Being a fake entails pretending to be the real thing, which ‘pc86’ - as should hopefully go without saying - is not .
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by samhw 4y ago
Sorry - 'hit the nail on the head'. Literally: (you touched == tetigit (tangere)) ([the] point == rem (res)) (with [a] needle == acu (acus))'.[0] 'Point' (res) is already abstract - 'matter', 'thing&#
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by samhw 4y ago
If they said "buy once, get upgrades forever" and didn't provide that, then yeah, that's definitely a very plain example of immoral dealing. The future service is exactly what the purchasers were buying - not a nice-to-h
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by samhw 4y ago
I don't really blame them, and I think any group would feel the same to hear one of their personal attributes referred to as intrinsically 'toxic'. If we simply described the personality traits that we meant, we might actuall

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