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by scuff3d 11mo ago
Their entire business model is currently based on legally questionable practices. I'd argue they wouldn't even exist without massive copyright infringement and utter disregard for software licences. To my knowledge there is absolu
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
At least those are obvious. Them sneaking ads in that don't look like ads are what I'm more concerned about.
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
Yeah this is the biggest problem with Discord (and similar platforms) as an alternative. Discoverablity sucks. Even if you are aware and have access, finding useful information is a bitch.
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
They'll be more employable, not less. Since they're the only ones who will be able to fix the huge mess left behind by the people relying on them.
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
Surprising or not, doesn't change what I said. And I this case it is a little surprising. Andrew is generally a pretty nice dude, has gone out of his way to try and make a fairly welcoming community. The Zig foundation also has Loris,
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
I like Zig for the most part but this post does seem needlessly mean spirited. I don't like Microsoft or GitHub either, but I don't see the point of taking pot shots at the devs who work there.
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
Ditto. I've never seen this before. They always have at least those sliding doors.
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
>Money goes from patient (or patient's employer), to government, to insurance, to health care provider. With a lot of opaque mechanisms and transfers in between. You're describing our current system in the US. It's so comp
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
If you want to regulate it the point where it's just socialized healthcare with extra steps, sure. The fundamental problem with insurance as a concept, is that their entire business model is structured around not providing the servic
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
I was a big believer in eliminating the health insurance industry and moving to some form of socialized system. And then my wife and I had our first child this year. After going through that experience, which is by far the most I've ev
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
These seem to be mostly related to difficulties around adapting to a new programming model. Which is understandable, but do you have examples of more concrete tradeoffs? For example, I don't think many would argue that for all the upsi
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
Management is always a huge problem, but software engineers left to their own devices can be just as bad. I very rarely hear actual technical reasons for why a decision was made. They're almost always invented after the fact to retroac
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
So what? Fuck 'em. It's your project and it's open source. If they want the feature so bad they can add it themselves.
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
I swear there are people who take a massive amount of pride in using languages or technology that are obscure. That thing use to be Rust, but now that it's become fairly mainstream they have to find something new to move to. I wonder h
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
Yeah the author makes a classic mistake of over arguing the point (potentially because the article was AI generated). Laser focusing on housing and childcare would have been enough to make the point. Throw healthcare in and it's a soli
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
Unless I need close to 100% memory safety with no compromise in performance I'd rather write Zig, Odin or Go. Zig and Odin are much more enjoyable to write and provide enough safety for a lot of applications, and Go gets you 90% of the
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
Is there a level lower than 0?
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
I can't take anyone seriously who uses prompt engineering unironically. I see those emails come through at work and all I can do is roll my eyes and move on
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
There's always someone who has to be pedantic
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
Plus the incentives are totally fucked. It's bad enough with search, it's far worse with AI. Nobody (referring to companies) wants the best model. Or the one that gives the right answer the first time 100% of the time. They want t
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
I was thinking about this while reading the article. 15 years ago I prided myself on actively searching out opposing views and engaging with them. I still do that in the small scale, talking with coworkers or friends who have opposing view
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
Jesus, they just ripped it off whole sale and claimed it was their own.
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
Bob: "Accessing instance variables has less overhead then passing arguments" Also Bob: Creates a whole ass new instance of a class to perform a simple calculation
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
Ireland has an insanely low corporate tax rate, and yet these companies still rip them off to the tune of billions of dollars. Doesn't matter how much you give, they always want more.
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
I don't get why so many people hate XML. I'd rather us it than YAML.
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
A platform owned and operated by a Nazi is full of racism and antisemitism. Shocker
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
It was the same thing with the dotcom bubble. People were talking about it 3 or 4 years before it actually happened.
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
The bubble is gonna burst soon and these companies are desperate to convince the government they are either too big to fail or too critical to national defense to fail.
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
It's amazing how many people utterly missed the point. I think the first 6 or so top comments just totally wiffed it. There is nothing wrong with planning/scheduling/marketing/whatever. But a LOT of people use all that a
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by scuff3d 11mo ago
I don't want to give any company that much access to my information. Privacy policy or not

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