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by smt88 2y ago
Not super interesting considering Ruby is a tiny niche at this point[1] 1. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology
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by smt88 2y ago
A) How can a stealth company be "anticipated"? Who wrote this fluff piece? B) It's amazing how much hype AI companies get when consumers' feelings about AI range from neutral to deep loathing. Only VCs get excited for AI
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by smt88 2y ago
There are degrees of bad. All code bases are bad. But I've been writing web software for 30 years and WordPress is among the worst mainstream applications. It's worse than its PHP competitors at the time, and it's worse than
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by smt88 2y ago
> I wonder to what extent that can be attributed to its ubiquity versus its quality Its quality is astonishingly bad. It was clearly developed by someone who didn't even have a basic understanding of relational databases. Unless s
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by smt88 2y ago
Getting Russia to give up on an invasion is a reasonable goal. Afghanistan and Vietnam "defeated" the US with the same objective, so it's far from impossible.
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by smt88 2y ago
That's his only bet
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by smt88 2y ago
Taking accountability can and should include admitting you're the wrong person for the job and resigning.
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by smt88 2y ago
I use as much off-the-shelf as possible. But there is real work involved in adapting software to a company's culture. If you do it right, 99% of the work has already been done for you by an existing SaaS or FOSS project, and "all&
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by smt88 2y ago
> From what I've seen / heard from others, it's generally better to adapt processes to the off-the-shelf tool I have never seen this work even once. I've actually built entire businesses on the concept that people a
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by smt88 2y ago
If you're trying to say that the labor market for programmers is immune to issues of over-supply that causes under-employment, you are delusional.
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by smt88 2y ago
TypeScript is one of the few languages (Rust being another) that should be a target of LLM-generated code, just because the static analysis is so strict you'd actually catch a lot of bugs before runtime.
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by smt88 2y ago
You can't have a "security checklist" with multiple Turing-complete languages involved. It's better to give up on security and tell the users that they're generating code at their own risk.
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by smt88 2y ago
No
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by smt88 2y ago
We know this isn't true because of the necessity of unions. Mining coal and many other trades are a lot worse than cleaning toilets, and people still had to do them nearly for free.
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by smt88 2y ago
Kaiser Permanente is an insurer that also provides health care and solves all of the aforementioned problems. Like almost all problems, it's a social/political mess, not something you can solve with better technology.
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by smt88 2y ago
> Clearly some people do like the terms of employment, otherwise they wouldn't work there. This is a deeply naive understanding of employment. Almost no one has a huge array of job opportunities, and they can select the one they
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by smt88 2y ago
I assume this is a generic LLM + RAG, so you can't prevent hallucinations and there's a chance (which gets better as the subject gets more complex) that the study materials will be wrong. And anyway, creating flash cards is a huge
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by smt88 2y ago
This is just an expected outcome of a free-market, capitalist society: the wealthier you are, the more you can buy yourself priority over others. It's been the norm in health care, food, and housing for the entire history of the countr
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by smt88 2y ago
> Age is the biggest factor. Not having a spouse or kids is a factor. Not hiring someone recovering from cancer or other health conditions could save on insurance. It's impractical to refuse to hire single people and illegal to re
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by smt88 2y ago
It's illegal for the company to ask people about their health preconditions and illegal to hire based on them. 40% of the US is overweight, so no company is going to have a policy that they won't hire overweight people.
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by smt88 2y ago
Everyone at the company can pay less for health insurance if the company has one of these policies. If it upsets anyone, the issue is that health care is tied to employment in this country.
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by smt88 2y ago
No, and it is obvious from my comment history on this site as well.
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by smt88 2y ago
I don't need to look it up because I've started two nonprofits and more than a dozen corporations. Nonprofits in the US literally are corporations, just with a different tax status. They need revenue that exceeds their costs. Many
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by smt88 2y ago
Nonprofits are businesses.
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by smt88 2y ago
> Success should be measured in usage/reach, not $ What? No. If a business isn't able to sustain itself with its revenue, it has failed and will need to shut down. That's the definition of failure. Lots of things can be
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by smt88 2y ago
He is openly pro-Putin.
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by smt88 2y ago
"Why do authoritarian governments secretly fund sympathetic media personalities in enemy countries?" seems like a question that answers itself.
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by smt88 2y ago
> Larger scales like 50k years are to be considered. The context of this thread is the effect of mobile phones on human health. That's a timescale of a human lifespan, not 50k years. But if you want to avoid all new technology for
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by smt88 2y ago
This is not "new technology". Cell phones have been around for 50 years and in widespread use for more than 25 years. Non-ionizing radiation (in the range of frequencies used by mobile phones) has been used for wireless communicat
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by smt88 2y ago
This is a review of thousands of studies saying that there aren't high-quality studies that "show the opposite".

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