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by sfn42 11mo ago
The first thing that comes to mind is one time when I was pretty drunk, in my late teens, hurt my legs trying a very ambitious(stupid) jump and then passed out at a bus stop. Woke up later, no phone battery, in the city about an hour away f
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by sfn42 11mo ago
No, I wouldn't. I have been working for years on the same codebase, it's not that hard to keep it clean and simple. I just refactor/redesign when necessary instead of adding hacky workarounds on top of hacky workarounds for y
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by sfn42 11mo ago
I enjoyed that but honestly it kind of doesn't really resonate. Because it's like "This stuff is really complicated and nobody knows how anything works etc and that's why everything is shit". I'm talking about
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by sfn42 11mo ago
I kind of struggle with this. I basically hate everyone elses code, and by that I mean I hate most people's code. A lot of people write awesome code but most people write what I'd call trash code. And I do think there's more
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by sfn42 11mo ago
Being able to update the code while it's running is useful for all kinds of use cases. Desktop apps, web apis, server side rendered web apps, .net blazor apps, etc. It's nice to be able to see what your changes do without rebuild
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by sfn42 11mo ago
There's hot reloading in .NET and Java
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by sfn42 11mo ago
Have you considered the possibility that 401ks and pension funds etc are included in those numbers? Open for the elite in the way that everyone else don't have enough money to matter. The richest people are so much richer than everyone
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by sfn42 11mo ago
I specifically meant live trees, didn't really occur to me that dead trees could be relevant. Not sure how common it is to find 12000 year old dead trees either but I guess it's more common than live ones. And of course geological
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by sfn42 11mo ago
I doubt there are any 12000 year old trees near the volcano.
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by sfn42 11mo ago
I would be so extremely out of there.
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by sfn42 11mo ago
Overcomplicated type system. Language server seems redundant to mention, everything has a language server. Everything has ide integration. Everything has decent compiler feedback. Everything has hot reloading.
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by sfn42 11mo ago
Typescript is a band aid on the gaping gushing wound that is JavaScript. It attempts to fix one problem JS has and it doesn't really succeed.
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by sfn42 11mo ago
This is such a crappy point. People say it's better now but even in java 8 it's just BS. Oh boo hoo I have to write a few extra words here and there. Woe is me. The IDE will autogenerate the boilerplate for you, you don't eve
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by sfn42 11mo ago
It's just too bad bun is based on literally the worst programming language that's in actual use.
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by sfn42 11mo ago
I'm happy to participate in good faith discourse but honestly the idea that LLMs are conscious is ridiculous. We are talking about a computer program. It does nothing until it is invoked with an input and then it produces a determinist
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by sfn42 11mo ago
> we do not have a way to scientifically rule out the possibility that LLMs aren't potentially self-aware/conscious entities of their own That may be. We also don't have a way to scientifically rule out the possibility tha
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by sfn42 11mo ago
It is not our job to disprove your claim. It is your job to prove it. And then you can go collect your Nobel.
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by sfn42 11mo ago
Yeah I get it. I just don't understand the public outrage. Why is everyone so worried about this? I write stuff knowing it's publicly available, and I don't give a crap about HN or Reddit or whomever's claims to my writi
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by sfn42 11mo ago
So they own my comments because they said so.
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by sfn42 11mo ago
I'm just wondering what gives HN, Reddit etc the right to our comments? If anyone owns this comment it's me IMO. So I don't see any reason why HN should be able to sue anyone for using this freely available information.
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by sfn42 11mo ago
I would say both are good, but collaboration should happen naturally. You cant force it. If I want help I'll ask for help, if I want to brainstorm I'll ask a colleague to brainstorm. Most of the time I just want people to leave me
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by sfn42 11mo ago
If there is a limit then it isn't unlimited. That's what the word unlimited means. Either it is unlimited or it is not. If you call something unlimited then there should not be a limit. You cant abuse it, it's unlimited. Th
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by sfn42 11mo ago
Carbon capture is a waste of time. You essentially have to suck the entire atmosphere through capture facilities. It's completely infeasible in practice, the largest plant we have right now is called mammoth and in order to offset our
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by sfn42 1y ago
> This is how it happens though No it isn't. This is not how you end up with 7 different frontend JS frameworks in 7 different web applications. Using python/matlab/r for data science is completely fair. These languages ar
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by sfn42 1y ago
Some of my coworkers are awesome. Super talented, super smart people. But most developers are pretty bad. I see a lot of developers who hardly do any work at all, and many who do lots of work but it's all trash. Buggy, overcomplicated,
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by sfn42 1y ago
Yeah, .NET is a truck and React is a bicycle. Nobody sad you can't use different tools for different tasks. I'm saying use one tool for one task. One type of truck. One type of bicycle. Maybe some companies need both a small and a
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by sfn42 1y ago
So you don't like .NET, that's fine. I'm not saying everyone needs to use .NET. I'm saying pick one thing and stick with it. That said I think you're exaggerating those complaints, the docs for C# are quite good imo
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by sfn42 1y ago
If you can justify with good reasons why you absolutely need this other tool then that's fair game - hence the data science example where I allow for specialists to use specialized languages for specialized tasks. I'm talking abou
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by sfn42 1y ago
> they can onboard people who know anything-not-C# and benefit from the .Net library I don't get this mindset. I'd much rather have the new guy spend a few months getting used to a new language, than have an organization where
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by sfn42 1y ago
No, the premise is that programming is the act of writing precise specifications, which is easier in a precise language. Similarly to mathematical proofs.

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