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by sfn42 1y ago
I love that essay. It's such a joy to read, and even though it is very short and to the point it says so much both about the topic itself and society at large. And its just so obviously correct.
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by sfn42 1y ago
> There is some nuance here that you fail to notice or you pretend you don't see it :D I could say the same for you: > I can't copy-paste a computer program and resell it without a license. I can't say "Oh I'v
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by sfn42 1y ago
I don't have any vested interest. I'm just a guy. Don't work on AI, don't use AI much in my day job. I just legitimately think the outrage is unreasonable. It is completely infeasible for AI companies to provide any mean
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by sfn42 1y ago
Well it certainly helps
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by sfn42 1y ago
Quite the lack of substance you have there.
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by sfn42 1y ago
I don't understand this outrage. People put things on the internet for all to see but now you're mad someone saw it and made use of it. If you didn't want others to read your information you shouldn't have published it o
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by sfn42 1y ago
If you don't make it clear people will think you're serious. Sarcasm doesn't work online, If I write something like "Donald Trump is the best president ever" you don't have any way of knowing whether I'm b
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by sfn42 1y ago
I don't see how you solve this with microservices. You'll have to take down your services in these situations too, a monolith vs microservices soup has the exact same problem. Also in 5 years of working on both microservicy system
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by sfn42 1y ago
That would be quite ridiculous in my opinion. Most of my peers hardly stay in one job for more than 2-3 years anyway, so unless you're retiring in the next two years I don't see why they would have a problem with it. Of course I l
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by sfn42 1y ago
My 40s aren't too far off. I don't expect to lose that much of my ability
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by sfn42 1y ago
I'm not really commenting on that, I'm saying the practice is good for me as an interviewee. However I do think it's a good way to filter candidates. I should clarify that what I'm talking about is fairly basic programmi
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by sfn42 1y ago
> why would anyone good want to work in an environment where much worse workers are protected The "much worse workers" are the majority. That's why you see everyone complaining about technical interviews and such - those o
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by sfn42 1y ago
Worse at what?
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by sfn42 1y ago
I've only used Azure, to me it seems fine ish. Some things are rather overcomplicated and it's far from perfect but I assumed the other providers were similarly complicated and imperfect. Can't say I've experienced many
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by sfn42 1y ago
There's been plenty of politicians trying to get single payer going, people don't vote for them. You can blame propaganda and stuff but at the end of the day people choose freely who they vote for.
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by sfn42 1y ago
First you create an API, then others start using it. So if you never allow mangled requests your clients will necessarily send proper requests. If you're maintaining an old api you can publish new versions of endpoints that don'
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by sfn42 1y ago
Yeah, as we all know the startup is the only type of software company in existence and the best way to ensure the startup's success is to act as if it won't exist next week.
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by sfn42 1y ago
I don't see a problem with that. This code would typically be inside it's own function anyway, but regardless I think your nitpick is less important than the readability benefit.
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by sfn42 1y ago
I would have written each statement on its own line: var users = db.getUsers(); var expiredUsers = getExpiredUsers(users, Date.now()); var expiryEmails = generateExpiryEmails(expiredUsers); email.bulkSend(expiryEmails); This is not only muc
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by sfn42 1y ago
"revisit it in the future" is exactly the reason your TODO list keeps growing rather than shrinking
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by sfn42 1y ago
While my partner was sick, not every day of the pandemic. So every day for about ~two weeks. Also tested whenever I felt unwell during the pandemic.
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by sfn42 1y ago
Yeah, did self-tests and have thought the same. I definitely followed the instructions and my SO is a nurse so she knew how to do it, but who knows. I also had some very mild symptoms at least one of the times. Could be something like our v
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by sfn42 1y ago
I don't know that I've had covid. My SO had it twice during the pandemic and i was testing myself daily but never tested positive. I like to joke that I'm immune. Of course I also had the vaccine but I understand that I shoul
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by sfn42 1y ago
Well yeah, a 2d grid of pixels also describes the result of rendering a 2d game. It matters how you arrive at that 2d grid of pixels, that's why you can't render Crysis on just a CPU. At least not in real time.
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by sfn42 1y ago
The original doom wasn't even proper 3d. It was a sort of 2,5d. And sure you can do 3d rendering on modern CPUs. It's just better on GPUs. Like thousands of times better.
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by sfn42 1y ago
They told us which chapters to read before each lecture, nobody else that I knew did it. I did. It was super helpful.
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by sfn42 1y ago
Literally the only reason to use "AI" (it's not actually AI so we should stop calling it that) is to inflate the profits of LLM companies. We already have reliable systems that do these things in the rest of the world, not to
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by sfn42 1y ago
As someone who has been fairly negative towards AI until recently, the problem is how you use it. If you just tell it some vague feature to make, it's gonna do whatever it's gonna do and maybe it will be good, maybe it won't.
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by sfn42 1y ago
Kratom definitely isn't legal where I live. And either way I don't see your point. I said things should be legal because prohibition only causes more harm - they said this legal thing causes harm - I said that does not disprove my
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by sfn42 1y ago
I already addressed this. Drugs are currently illegal and yet millions of people are destroying their lives with drugs right now. So clearly, prohibition does not solve this problem. I could buy heroin right now, on a a Sunday when most sto

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