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by sidlls 3y ago
If their establishments are open to the public, generally yes, in my opinion, within reason. And that's okay: if an entity wants to operate a business open to the public, it should be open to all the public (within reason: obviously
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by sidlls 3y ago
And documentation could take a page out of other engineering disciplines. I do my part in both.
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by sidlls 3y ago
This is disingenuous. "Dogwhistle" rhetoric is a thing precisely because it is a "hidden message." It's not against community rules to point out that rhetoric is similar to dogwhistle rhetoric, especially when the c
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by sidlls 3y ago
Take a sheet of elastic material, like a balloon, but square. Suspend the corners in clamps on posts so that it’s “perfectly” flat. Draw a line that is the shortest distance between two points on the material: it will be a “straight” line l
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by sidlls 3y ago
These planes all come with handbooks that the manufacturer provides for anomalous situations, like when some landing gear don't work. Once the flight crew run through the checklists in the handbooks for the problem, that's pretty
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by sidlls 3y ago
How many of that 5 million are actually active users, though. I don't mean power users. I mean users that post/comment with some frequency greater than "rarely" and browse regularly. I'd bet the vast majority are us
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by sidlls 3y ago
So Brainfuck would be an acceptable choice for a language to use? My point is that there are extremes here that are worth considering: and Perl is on the bad side of any exchange involving the question of readability. The community doesn&#x
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by sidlls 3y ago
It's necessary to rule out mechanical and other system failures, i.e., to provide evidence that it was a disturbed pilot and not some other cause. Aviation incident investigations are quite thorough--orders of magnitude more rigorous t
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by sidlls 3y ago
This has been an ongoing issue in tech for at least two decades now. The workers in these places are generally not as skilled at software development. Their countrymen who are quite skilled have, to a large degree, moved to the US for work.
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by sidlls 3y ago
This is a bit odd. I have completely turned my life around in my mid-40s by "pining" (well, actually acting on urges) for my 20-somethings again. I was helped immensely by some extremely good luck in a choice of company to work fo
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by sidlls 3y ago
Polyamory is at best a rounding error in all relationships of any sort. The vast majority of people are monogamous, serially or otherwise. I've seen quite a few poly relationships: when they weren't shallow excuses for openly havi
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by sidlls 3y ago
The "big salaries" can only be a small part of it, because while the salaries are bigger than average in tech, they aren't that much bigger until you reach a relatively elite status (IC5+, e.g., "team tech lead",
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by sidlls 3y ago
This, a million times. Even in the Bay Area the non-FAANG tech companies (including stock contribution to compensation) is not the "retire in 5-8 years" levels people seem to think. I worked at non-FAANG for almost 6 years in this
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by sidlls 3y ago
Just search "rust" in HN comments (or on Reddit, or pretty much anywhere you see someone asking questions likely to invoke discussion about language choice): you'll find plenty .
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by sidlls 3y ago
The Rust community (in aggregate; I'd hope I wouldn't need to state the obvious that it doesn't apply to all individuals, but...Rust community) fosters this sort of melodrama. There is a core of extremely zealous "Rust w
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by sidlls 3y ago
"Please help me understand <interrogative>" "I don't think I understand this completely, can you tell me <interrogative>"
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by sidlls 3y ago
On the other hand, in this industry often what one engineer identifies as a mistake another might be neutral toward or identify as a best practice/correct. Our industry doesn't have many standards, and it's not nearly as obje
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by sidlls 3y ago
That doesn't seem that impressive. The likelihood of reading text having "sphere" in the same context (i.e. within some small number of tokens) as "roll away" is higher than by random chance, because humans have obs
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by sidlls 3y ago
Unused variables are an indication that the author hasn't completed their thought, so to speak, in the best case. In the worst case, it's a mistake and indicates the code is likely implemented in a way that it does something other
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by sidlls 3y ago
"duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction" is only true if the duplication: a) isn't also an abstraction (which, in go, it is in this case) and b) is "contained" (i.e. not overly used), which it often is
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by sidlls 3y ago
That it's not like npm, pip, or maven is a plus in my view: I despise all three of them. I don't like the proxy system at all . It is not , in fact, easy to set up a private proxy that "just works." Also, it is quite t
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by sidlls 3y ago
Some pros: * Go is "simple" (the language has a "small surface area", if you will) * Go has a broad and deep standard library that is generally well-documented * Go comes with a reasonably good general-purpose build tool
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by sidlls 3y ago
I used to use primarily C++ (haven't for a few years, at least professionally). Non-trivial Rust is not much simpler and easier to use or understand. It has different kinds of complexity that can easily make it as inscrutable as non-tr
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by sidlls 3y ago
Billing is incredibly complex, especially when insurance is involved. There only 68,000 ICD-10 codes, which will be what almost every care provider uses in billing. Providers notes supplement these (sometimes), but those aren’t always compl
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by sidlls 3y ago
It doesn’t work well. It’s the JIRA of CI/CD: it is entrenched and does multiple things but doesn’t do any one thing well, and the people that decide what to buy aren’t the people who are forced to use it so they don’t care about its q
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by sidlls 3y ago
Tenants don't have to be thinking about any of those things to maliciously destroy a property. None of them come into play when you have, for example, a tenant who hasn't paid rent in months, or who runs illegal businesses out of
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by sidlls 3y ago
A sufficient quantity of money, invested judiciously, can, yes. And that money can buy experiences as much as it can material objects. Deep companionship is something I’ve experienced both as a poor person and as a wealthy one. It’s not as
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by sidlls 3y ago
Humans change. A deep human connection at age 30 might not last through age 40.
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by sidlls 3y ago
Being not hyped up doesn’t mean it’s mainstream. Most backends are in Java, Go, or PHP. Python and Ruby take up most of those that aren’t. It’s rare to find node on the backend in comparison.
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by sidlls 3y ago
We need a better solution for housing in general. I don't actually want to be a landlord very much. I have a 7-figure portfolio including two rental properties, and I still rent. I'm not sure I could ever convince myself to buy in

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