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by sanitycheck 2y ago
Software engineers, when quoting for fixed priced jobs, learn quite quickly to estimate accurately. Software engineers, when pressured by managers to provide low estimates and/or to provide estimates quickly, will estimate inaccurately
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
All I'll say is that the I understand completely why the demo is time limited, however it took about 2.5 minutes to fully respond to my first instruction, though it did write some code eventually. There was no time left to see how well
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
It's quite easy to get devs on board, all they need to do is add some new rules for App Store submissions. "All submitted apps targeting Apple TV devices must also fully support Apple Vision Pro by the end of Q1 2025" (Maybe
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
I don't try to predict what Apple will succeed with any more, not after the iPad. A major use case for the personal computer is games too and they don't try to compete there either. They could turn this AR headset thing into a suc
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
This would also require Apple to start caring about (" real ") gaming and (" real ") gamers. Not a market they're remotely interested in, as far as I can gather. I think they don't like to be seen to be playing
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
Agree entirely about free will, though I think the continued illusion of it is probably necessary to keep human civilisation running. When I read about people (scientists, no less) apparently arguing that chimpanzees might not be conscious
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by sanitycheck 2y ago
It probably depends on the project? When I'm writing something from scratch in a few months I can bash it all out on a small laptop - it is (as you say) all in my head, I just need to turn it into working code. If I'm faced with s
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
Funnily enough, Roku now explicitly disallows this and will reject any paid app on their platform that tries to use it. (Although Netflix, Amazon, etc can do what they like as usual.)
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
It's too triggering to do any more than skim the article, but having got the general gist of at least some of it, I shall write my top tip here in case it helps anyone (who manages to do it): Negotiate prohibitively high overtime rates
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
I think you want "intelligent" to mean "ethical". Those politicians are definitely intelligent, they've devised a successful strategy to gain power. You could argue a successful sprinter doesn't need high intel
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
> If a person who didn't know about something just confidently made shit up, I wouldn't call them intelligent. It seems to be a good recipe for success in many fields (business, politics, art, apparently somewhat in social scie
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
I've wondered this. For the apps I deal with, switching to AABs offered no benefit to anybody and a number of drawbacks to us. My usual theory about stuff coming out of Google is that there's a big incentive for changing stuff jus
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
The freedom, such as it is, comes from alternative app stores. I trust F-Droid ( https://f-droid.org/ ) somewhat more than I trust apps on the Play Store so that's my first stop when I'm looking for something.
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
I just had a nice chat with Bing about this and Bing is adamant that it's because they are "essential for solving complex problems, advancing AI models, accelerating innovation, and providing competitive advantages in technology a
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
Perhaps the problem religion solves is that half of all people are dumber than the average person. Perhaps for a lot of those people "if you do bad thing big man in sky punish you" is the most convincing argument.
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
From the result of a quick web search which found this as the first result, yes: https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/renting/london-r... Not per person, I haven't ever been charged per person except i
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
I... Don't really see what your numbers could look like, here. Buying a cheap Android phone is $200-300 and selling an iPhone will more than pay for that. Switching from iCloud to something else for backups will actually save a little
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
I agree, somewhat. Wikipedia is hand-curated and it works. Perhaps it's time for a new DMOZ/ODP type effort from Wikimedia/Mozilla/similar.
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
Yes, all off and several google domains blocked with noscript too. I don't want anything to be automatically personalised, and Firefox already does a good job of keeping my browsing history & bookmarks.
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
Uh-huh. So it might be OK to, for example, construct an animatronic human centipede out of fresh corpses? Or perhaps not?
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
I use TS, I like it. I'm not sure you're 100% right about it overtaking JS for most of the industry. I wouldn't recommend it to beginners until they've learned JS because it's a lot of stuff to learn on top of JS to
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
A 4 hour lecture/seminar (it's not going to be a real meeting, is it) is just not ever a useful thing. Even if the information conveyed is somehow important and somehow can't be supplied as a document, everybody will be snooz
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
Pricing information is the first thing I look for, and if I don't find it I assume it's nowhere near reasonable and close the tab. Back to the topic of the post, I like the idea and it's definitely a good addition to the stan
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
Mr Musk?! Please stop wasting time on HN and attend to the small mountain of legal documents on and around your desk.
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
This can be terrible too - half of your 3-7 devs probably suck but think they're amazing and won't accept any guidance, plus you have little hiring/firing power. From above you're still receiving ill-conceived and/o
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
Perhaps the experienced folk are "difficult" and have "opinions" about the best way to write the new system which is somewhat at odds with what management think they they need. Difficult opinions may include "no, it
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
The obvious nitpick with the title is it should probably say "laptops", not "PCs". This looks like a nice device but the little USB modules still feel like more of a gimmick than anything. Give me twice as many soldered
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
Quite... It does seem that either the story we're getting isn't completely accurate or the support people who handled this need a little reminder of what's supposed to happen. I'm a paranoid person by nature so &quot
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
> "As creators of software and websites, we often get caught up in the never-ending pursuit of optimization. We constantly strive to make our code more efficient, our algorithms faster, and our page load times shorter." I reall
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by sanitycheck 3y ago
Marissa Mayer has claimed that Google's ads actually increase search result quality, based on an accidentally long A/B test.. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-google-getting-worse/ & Ctrl-F for &q

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