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by sidlls 5y ago
I'm in my mid-40s: there's nothing deep or mysterious to "get" about TikTok. It's short-form video snips/vignettes, mainly of people showing off for their friends, trying to cash in on short-lived audio trends
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by sidlls 5y ago
I’d like an actual citation for this assertion. Anecdotally, and counter to yours: I’ve generally found that people who focus on a language for the intelligence attributes it supposedly implies of users are often simply deep experts in that
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by sidlls 5y ago
It's easy to see familiar patterns even in "new" things, though: especially those things that typically bind social networks (primarily shared recreational experiences). There are only so many story tropes to fill books and m
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by sidlls 5y ago
I don't very much trust Elon's vision in this regard, with respect to the near-to-medium term (say, the next 5 years or so). It seems very unlikely that within the next 5 years technology will have advanced sufficiently to enable
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by sidlls 5y ago
My goodness you read far too much into my comment: acting as though I thought every piece of sensitive information should be closely guarded to the death is...less than charitable.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Of course it would: but I'm struggling to understand the relevance, here. We do this stuff. They do this stuff. We each want to stop the other from doing it. There's nothing contradictory about it, as I'm not making an absolu
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by sidlls 5y ago
I've personally witnessed Chinese national students attempting to acquire access to sensitive lab equipment and documentation their research wouldn't require (this is physics, here, not CS). I've been on the defensive end of
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by sidlls 5y ago
This is comically out of touch with both how schooling works now and how the adult world will react to these kids' experience when they mature.
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by sidlls 5y ago
That's a rare attitude to have in the Bay Area anyway. Unfortunately. Everyone wants lots of unit tests because they run fast and give (roughly) instant feedback. Unit tests paint an incomplete picture. Too little attention given to in
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by sidlls 5y ago
Anyone who believes anything said by a company from that region with respect to investments in the western world was always in for a surprise. It’s best to assume they think we’re all fat, dumb, lazy, and easily duped, and assume they’ll ac
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by sidlls 5y ago
This isn’t very charitable. When companies publish this sort of thing they’re generally committed (however tentatively) to within some reasonable percentage of the amount. Provided of course it makes financial sense after further diligence
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by sidlls 5y ago
If that feature was the one most recently deployed or updated? Yes, if possible. That could be a big if, though right? Maybe rolling back such a change isn't trivial, or imposes other costs to returning to service that are more expensi
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by sidlls 5y ago
How does it beg the question?
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by sidlls 5y ago
It’s inferior in every respect, quite aside from any “cool” factor. It breaks easily and it doesn’t support the non-plastic pieces (e.g. the monitor) well are two of the most important factors.
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by sidlls 5y ago
The price difference between iPhones and high-end, official Android (e.g., Nexus, Pixel) phones is negligible. It's simply not possible as far as I've seen to purchase a PC laptop with similar construction quality (when they'
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by sidlls 5y ago
I was purchasing them right off Google: Nexus and Pixel phones, very much the same price point as iPhone. I assure you, they were very poorly made (one Nexus had a faulty power button that caused the phone to constantly power cycle) and the
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by sidlls 5y ago
I can't disagree that Brand Prestige is a big part of their marketing and branding. I used Android phones and linux or MS operating systems on PCs exclusively for my entire life, until the last 2 years or so. I was also quite zealously
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by sidlls 5y ago
One of the major selling points of a robust (not "strong", necessarily, but at least...not weak?) type system is that an entire class of unit tests are no longer necessary (e.g., those that validate/exercise handling of cases
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by sidlls 5y ago
For the wealthy when people refer to growth versus consumption the context is almost always against the return generated from their portfolio, and the two are separate figures. That "4% growth above inflation" does not include wha
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by sidlls 5y ago
I guarantee you that almost nobody with a net worth of $11MM lives on the income produced from 10% of it and lets the rest sit as if it doesn't exist. They can--and do--live on much more than that (at least $300k/year, for ultraco
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by sidlls 5y ago
The GP wrote, "But there is always the niggling feeling for many (I am one) that while I may be making the "smart" choice the real reason I don't do something like this is that I am afraid." He or she seems to be pr
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by sidlls 5y ago
"Pure luck" is the source of almost every success story. The embellishments and particular details are often told quite well to cloud this.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Asserting most people choose the "smart" path as much out of fear of failure as by making a calibrated decision seems more like projection than observation.
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by sidlls 5y ago
I'm not sure in general "scientists" do what you suggest. Not all scientists are required to take them, but there are courses in the history of science. I took two semesters and it was quite enlightening. The texts we used we
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by sidlls 5y ago
I can't disagree with this more. Money is a means to obtain immense happiness. It is the medium one uses to secure housing, food, and the future ability to acquire the same without struggle. These are incredibly important things, and
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by sidlls 5y ago
I am rich, now, after an IPO. I am just an individual contributor at the company, not an exec or anything. I'd only been working here a couple of years when we went public. I have made almost $5MM this last year, and have well over ano
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by sidlls 5y ago
I don’t agree with this take. I have social anxiety and difficulty empathizing with people in certain respects. One of my children who is diagnosed has these two issues and some sensory and dexterity issues, issues with adapting to changi
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by sidlls 5y ago
Not exact in all cases, but in some and very close in most others. And it isn't "magic pixie dust"--it is a lot of hard work to implement generics in a way that is both ergonomic for the programmer and efficient.
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by sidlls 5y ago
No, it absolutely is the fault of the developer, both for poor practice of the craft and for contributing to a toxic, exploitative labor environment by giving away his work for free.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Can’t speak for the GP, but from my perspective: misaligned incentives (financial and technical), poor documentation, buggy important edge cases, toxic attitudes, egos, and so on. In short: it’s broken the same way any other development i

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