snovymgodym

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by snovymgodym 14d ago
Frankly, many of these things should just be public utilities.
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by snovymgodym 24d ago
Impressive technology I guess, but god things are trending in such a soulless direction.
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by snovymgodym 25d ago
I think this article conflates GitHub and Git a few times, though the author definitely knows better. For better or for worse, I don't think Git is going anywhere. A lot of the recent developments in source control amount to providing
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by snovymgodym 26d ago
> theoretically In case you haven't noticed, all that our current system is able to do with increased efficiency is cutting staff and/or increasing the percentage of money that gets siphoned up to capital holders.
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by snovymgodym 1mo ago
With H1Bs you get people who will do anything to keep their jobs because that's what keeps them as a legal resident of the country, i.e. people you can underpay and exploit. If you try to make some College kid work 10-20 hours of unpai
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by snovymgodym 1mo ago
> It saddens me that the left no longer seems to care about protecting American workers. We basically do not have a left wing party in this country. We have a center right party with "progressive" social views that has a few ec
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by snovymgodym 1mo ago
They were two very different games and target audiences, with the incidental commonality that both are MMOs.
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by snovymgodym 1mo ago
Curious what is particularly notable about this? That's pretty normal upper level senior or staff engineer compensation at a FAANG (or whatever the acronym is now). Half of the stated total compensation being pre-IPO equity is kind of
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
I don't know about Mojo. I was just answering "...I can't think of obvious ways in which Rust's semantics (as opposed to syntax) are more functional than C++'s"
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
Why should being smart make you happy?
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
It's largely arbitrary. Your culture is what tells you it's acceptable to eat a dog but not a cow. If you lived in Belgium or Kazakhstan you'd feel fine about eating horse. If you lived in parts of India, eating beef would be
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
Rust's type system is very Haskell/ML inspired, specifically the first class support for algebraic types and pattern matching. Modern C++ has come a long way with typed optionals and variants, but it's very tacked-on and lack
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
lots of people have better things to do and still scroll the app
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
Society and your past decisions will put you on rails. You can get off them, but there will be sacrifices. I will always gladly post this. Not because I think it's good advice or because I think Ran is a person to emulate, but because
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
The US military industrial complex has been a scheme to sell expensive weapon systems with exorbitant maintenance contracts to the government for decades now. This works fine from 1980-2020ish when you're fighting limited intensity con
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
Bands yes, packets no. Big tech companies aren't like a Government job with rigorous pay grades based on role and seniority. You can have people even within the same role and level at big tech with multiple $100k pay discrepancies. If
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
In America we have amazing, reliable communication systems (postal, sms, email, telephone) that are rendered horribly degraded in terms of their actual usability because we allow them to be clogged with filth. When you buy a car in the US,
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
It's a big country. Even today there are wonderful places to live in the USA, and also terrible places.
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
You might not be able to do that, but you can visit the HN front page as it existed on pretty much any arbitrary date in the past. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2015-08-05
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
I have mixed feelings on this. Should old stuff be cheaper because it's old, or should it be expensive because you can't get it anymore? I've seen many things turn into "vintage classic collectible" after being &quo
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
Honestly, I don't think the average nostalgic Gen X-er is that interested in a sealed video game cartridge. I think the "sealed, unopened, graded" flavor of collecting is always more of a niche thing, and the actual market po
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
It makes sense. If we think about pre-agriculture human societies, you have many small groups occupying different economic niches who may trade, fight, or intermarry with one another but are generally constrained in size and power by a lack
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by snovymgodym 2mo ago
I wonder if they forgot they already used this bit in Seinfeld or if it's an intentional homage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBBQdFSvvTE
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by snovymgodym 3mo ago
People love these shows so I'm sure I'm the weird one here, but after finishing this one and a related one called Shrinking I walked away with 2 conclusions: 1. Actors writing for themselves is a mistake. 2. Bill Lawrence's
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by snovymgodym 3mo ago
That's great that this works for your family, but you should be careful not to project your personal experience onto others. An actual productive political discussion where someone changes their mind afterwards is very rare. It require
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by snovymgodym 3mo ago
What, a guy with a Slavic name couldn't possibly write good English? Even so, I've read a lot of stuff written by ESLs over the years and far too much stuff written by LLMs over the past 3 years, and I will take ESL every single t
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by snovymgodym 3mo ago
The figure might be misleading. It might not be. Either way, the idea that the natural and normal state of affairs is that every person can go out into the world and be a perfectly self sufficient but comfortable atomized economic unit with
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by snovymgodym 3mo ago
Sure, modern containerization is objectively good and should be used pretty much everywhere unless you have a strong reason not to, but the unfortunate reality is that it is nowhere near as universal as it should be.
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by snovymgodym 3mo ago
Modding a car to be louder is antisocial behavior and should be illegal.
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by snovymgodym 3mo ago
Yeah, it's pretty important if you are interested in the continued existence of your society

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