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by shrimpx 3y ago
Bill Hicks was right.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I'd argue web dev is largely a solved problem for large complex apps, but largely unsolved for simpler use cases. The problem is the amount of boilerplate and tool complexity involved. In a large project, the boilerplate can become a s
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Perl5 was king in the 90s and early 2000s for building web apps, and as Perl5 faded, Python was the obvious contender and it took over. Perl5 was built more for CLI programs and text processing tasks, like Awk. As the internet got bigger, P
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by shrimpx 3y ago
In the end it comes down to poorly written laws. The laws overreach broadly with vague language, and then citizens and corporations are afraid to act due to fear of lawsuits. The idea of "guidance" is "hey, would you fine or
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by shrimpx 3y ago
SEC keeps insisting that “the law is clear” and they’re just enforcing the law. That their job isn’t to explain the law to people, or how exactly to behave to not break the law. Their approach is “if we think you’re breaking the law we will
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Are you using Copilot though? It's one thing to talk to GPT4 and another to use Copilot with inline autocompletions.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Unless it's an acquihire where you get ~nothing for your stock and you have to interview to keep your job.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
When args are positional-only, you can rename them without breaking callers. The names of the kwargs can be considered "external" and the names of the positional args remain private to the function. This gives authors flexibility
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by shrimpx 3y ago
If the function definition is `def f(x, y, a=None, b=None)`, you can already just call `f(*dict(a=1, x=98, y=99, b=2))`. So instead of using `0` and `1` for the positions, like the tweet author suggests, you can just use the parameter names
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Yeah, the OP's advice makes sense only if you're looking to get the theoretically highest possible offer, to where you surprise yourself, like holy shit I didn't know it was possible for me to land this number! If you know wh
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by shrimpx 3y ago
> questionable VC-backed companies with no real business model The gig economy is the poster child for this new style of VC.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
My example is incorrect because it doesn’t cover all the edge cases but you can desugar es6 to es5, except in es5 you can’t subclass builtins.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Thanks. It sounds like subclassing built-ins is where transpilers hit a hard wall. Other syntactic features of es6 can be transpiled.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
What else would 'syntax sugar over prototypes' mean?
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by shrimpx 3y ago
> aren't syntax sugar They aren't syntactic sugar? Pretty sure `class Foo { blah() {} }` is equivalent to `function Foo() {}; Foo.prototype.blah = function() {}`.
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by shrimpx 3y ago
> That’s a different problem. That's news to me. AGI (or strong AI) is typically defined as "human-level intelligence", or "perform any task that a human or animal can." Humans and animals often perform tasks tha
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by shrimpx 3y ago
AGI should have morals, opinions, self-reflection, learn continuously from sensor data, reason, realize when they’re proven wrong and update their model of the world, and be creative. So far LLMs exhibit none of those. But LLMs exhibit a di
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Even though this article isn’t well-argued, it hints at the core of the concern which is the collapse of downtowns. Lots of people, from real estate owners to governments, don’t want that to happen. Whether there’s a RTO “conspiracy” to avo
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by shrimpx 3y ago
How do you “leverage” the real estate if WFH is free in terms of office costs, and assuming there’s no loss of productivity with WFH?
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Companies who own city real estate are getting screwed. This includes all the big tech companies. That real estate is no longer an appreciating asset, and cannot be converted to residential, when the prospect is the collapse of downtowns du
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by shrimpx 3y ago
> you are actually more production when you are being interrupted That makes no sense. If you research the impact of interruptions on productivity you will find that interruptions unanimously destroy productivity. For engineers, it takes
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Can someone explain why companies want engineers to return to the office so badly? Engineering requires prolonged periods of uninterrupted focus. Working from home provides that focus. Who wants this return to the office so badly and why?
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I appreciate the detailed reply! Just to clarify: You only floss once every 2 weeks?
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by shrimpx 3y ago
So it's just holding the electric brush at 45 degrees against the gum?
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by shrimpx 3y ago
> the same cause What cause is that?
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by shrimpx 3y ago
I agree that difficulty isn't a virtue, and I'm a big fan of minimal art and music, but I don't think 1-4-5 power chord music is the pinnacle of musical achievement. But I think those simple songs were extremely powerful in t
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by shrimpx 3y ago
Wow this came out of nowhere. :( I had no idea he was struggling with a health issue. Some context: https://groups.google.com/g/vim_dev/c/ivkq22t3LQM
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by shrimpx 3y ago
> That is just an objectively wrong worldview—that Punk was just fashion and a mostly dull, amateur genre. It was dull and amateurish and "not very good" if you take "good" to mean the intricate, virtuoso, polished ma
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by shrimpx 3y ago
This is awesome. Also check out https://laravel-livewire.com (PHP) and https://hotwired.dev (backend agnostic; there are implementations for Rails and Flask) and https://htmx.org
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How do you pass the Turing test with “As an AI, I don’t have opinions and I don’t know shit after September 2021” The idea that GPT4 passed the Turing test is preposterous unless the test is a much more restricted version of what I think it

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