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by sidlls 4y ago
Hypothesis: the charge on an electron is X, as predicted by Y. Experiment: observe the charge on an electron. The experiment could have shown the charge to be other than X: in which case (assuming repeated experiments confirmed it) the hy
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by sidlls 4y ago
Yeah, just like "competitors are forbidden" from, say, inserting their tech, logos, etc., into, e.g., vehicles. You're not going to find Ford allowing Tesla to stick its stuff in Ford's EV fleet, and vice-versa. This who
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by sidlls 4y ago
It's not at all difficult ( https://pandoc.org/ ). However, I'd hazard a guess that pandoc written in Rust or C (with idioms appropriate to those languages) would be much more performant.
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by sidlls 4y ago
We've recently hired a bunch of ex-Googlers (as well as Twitter-ers and other laid off people). They seem to spend most of their time making sure everyone here knows they're ex-${big_name} and how awesome things were there and we
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by sidlls 4y ago
If the mechanics are tuned to assume you'll regain health this way, self-imposed rules add a pointless challenge. You're just "gaming" the game in a different way that defeats the purpose.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Assuming proper control for biases in the population, a sample size of 6300 is not tiny. The estimated error for such a population is going to be around 1% (give or take).
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by sidlls 4y ago
Their notion was to reduce costs, not (necessarily) to earn more profit. They wanted to reduce medical costs, and therefore their insurance costs, basically. I worked in a health tech company when this news broke years ago and was skeptical
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by sidlls 4y ago
Do you live in a place with no addresses? In CR they literally don’t have street addresses like “123 Main St”. Or at least not that people actually use.
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by sidlls 4y ago
It would require additional effort on Apple's part to keep third party tools' spam efforts at bay. At some point the cost of doing that isn't something Apple could justify, and at that time unsolicited messages absolutely wil
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by sidlls 4y ago
On the other hand, why is such a tiny, tiny fraction of people so insistent on invading the Apple ecosystem? I made my choice for Apple in part because of its relatively closed nature compared to its only meaningful competitor. But it was
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by sidlls 4y ago
That’s a great summary of my trip there, too! Getting around even within a city (even Alajuela/San Jose) was painful. I wouldn’t say it was as expensive as the Bay Area, though. You can’t find, say, a Baldi spa hotel like experience in
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by sidlls 4y ago
There are a lot of people who advocate "clean code" principles without ever having read or knowing about Uncle Bob, because those "enterprise java dev like 10 years ago" folks sort of seeped into the industry. It's
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by sidlls 4y ago
Like everything else in the software industry the context does matter: at larger scales small gains in performance translate to large savings in costs (infrastructure, maintenance, etc.). Also, "clean code" (as in from the "C
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by sidlls 4y ago
That sounds perfectly reasonable to me, and is a far cry from the OP's assertion.
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by sidlls 4y ago
You're saying that in France it's against the law to fire someone for performance related reasons?
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by sidlls 4y ago
Nah, there’s nothing less interesting and more irritating than bikeshedding of that sort. Nobody cares about some blowhard’s attempt to generate pointless “debate” over hypotheticals and semantics.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Then it's not a philosophical question so much as about the meaning of "sound". And "debates" about semantics are about as uninteresting as it gets.
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by sidlls 4y ago
That's not the reason why. The reason why is that the falling tree disturbs particles in the atmosphere while it falls (which makes a sound) and when it hits the ground (which makes another sound--both from the vibration of the ground&
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by sidlls 4y ago
I haven’t been shocked that fellow engineers don’t know how to use a debugger for at least ten years. Most jobs in the industry can be done adequately without getting into tools that low level.
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by sidlls 4y ago
We should only refer to Rust when it's included in positive events? How is it not relevant here? It was used to build executables to inject, likely for malicious purposes. Given its newness and all the other hype around it, I'd
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by sidlls 4y ago
The comparison would be more accurate with the relative sizes of each industry. Pretty sure there are more software engineers than people working in similarly skilled finance jobs.
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by sidlls 4y ago
The rate at which finance mints extremely wealthy workers dwarfs the rate at which software does.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Smart phones didn’t change anything here: 99% of their users didn’t care about the “open” nature of desktops before they were a thing, too. A vanishingly small percentage of computer users care about tinkering and openness. It’s been decad
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by sidlls 4y ago
The examples you gave were ones you said you used specifically: iteration over an array and filtering being two. These are trivial tasks that you, as a programmer, shouldn’t need to search for in your day-to-day. This isn’t an emotional res
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by sidlls 4y ago
Iteration over an array is literally trivial and takes next to no time as long as one is familiar with the language constructs required. It should take about as much brain space as single digit addition: sure one could use a calculator, but
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by sidlls 4y ago
This is exactly it. It's fantastic for churning out things for WordPress quality apps. For anything that requires more complexity or better quality its utility is limited.
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by sidlls 4y ago
The response time is longer than it would have taken you to just write the code.
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by sidlls 4y ago
As an early bird and someone who rarely goes to bed before 11pm, I had the opposite experience. I think there's a middle ground here. There's no reason for a class, work, or anything to start before 9am, or after 4pm.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Yeah, I know the joke. It’s an amusing one, but probably not for the reason some math people think.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Physicists don't have math envy; that's an invention of people who are jealous of physicists' "untrained" acumen. Next we'll hear of "computer science envy" because physicists employ programming in th

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