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by suzzer99 2y ago
So next, they realize they need a different calculation for shipping, and now their beautiful abstraction has a big if isShipping() {...} else {...} block. So much for reducing complexity. Sometimes it's best to let two identical blo
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Something bugs me about that first example. We started with two classes that had trivial constructors, and changed them into classes that require an instance of DiscountService be supplied to a constructor. That doesn't feel like less
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by suzzer99 2y ago
It drives me nuts when these things say stuff like "doubles your risk" w/o giving the original risk. Risk doubling from 5% to 10% is not in the same universe as risk doubling from .02% to .04%, which I believe is the actual r
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by suzzer99 2y ago
He worked for some failed startup before we got him. Our project manager who had worked with him there, brought him in and said he was a genius. I think maybe Java wasn't his first language. But to me, not realizing that Java would hav
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by suzzer99 2y ago
This was circa 2002 FWIW.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
A forEach that could handle async/await would be nice. But for ... in is almost as good.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
We had a developer write his own System.out.println in Java. But it wasn't because he didn't like the built-in System.out.println, it was because he didn't know it existed. He had a PhD and was supposedly a senior developer.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
One big issue with AWS OIDC is that API Gateway uses the id_token to validate requests, not the access_token as the spec requires. Unless you're doing subscriptions through AppSync, then it does require the access_token, not the id_tok
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by suzzer99 2y ago
If you read the article, the app wasn't an explicitly 17+ app when the kid had it. That came later. Also kids are always going to find a way to get apps onto their phones. It's an arms race and the kids are smarter than the parent
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by suzzer99 2y ago
> One chatbot brought up the idea of self-harm and cutting to cope with sadness. When he said that his parents limited his screen time, another bot suggested “they didn’t deserve to have kids.” Still others goaded him to fight his parent
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by suzzer99 2y ago
The road to hell is paved with smart people who think they can become experts in something just by reading some blog posts and thinking about the subject for a few hours. As one example, see successful poker players who become amateur econo
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by suzzer99 2y ago
https://archive.ph/FwZcm Be careful ordering MacBooks and having them delivered to an Apple store, or even to yourself. Impersonators are somehow getting inside info. and snagging them first. And Apple isn't reimbursin
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Impersonators claiming laptops at Apple stores before owners can pick them up(dailynews.com)
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Most projects are fun when they're a greenfield and then become a slog by the end when they're in maintenance mode with layers of cruft. My goal on any new project is to keep the "fun" going for as long as possible.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-i... > On the 2021 phone call, which was recorded by the company, nurse Victoria Kavanaugh told her colleague that a doctor contracted by United to review t
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Yes. My dad needs very explicit step-by-step instructions. Even to the point of I can't just say hit Ctrl-C. I have to tell him to hold down the Control key and then hit the C key while still holding down the Control key.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Now smeej won't be able to sleep at night again.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
At least you get to look a human being in the eye in actual court. I ran into the buzzsaw of Amazon's KDP self-publishing fraud detection bots, which decided that my Kindle was plagiarizing my paperback (duh, it's the same book).
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Why not go out with a bang and spend your life savings on hookers and blow (or whatever decadent thing floats your boat)? My point is that I suspect most of us wouldn't do anything differently, even if we know it's not our conscio
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by suzzer99 2y ago
In theory if you had an atomic replicator you should be able to make a copy of a person. I'm not saying it will ever be practically possible. But I don't see any fundamental laws of nature that make it impossible .
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Let's say you just found out that this is actually happening. Every night you die and are replaced with a perfect copy of yourself. Would you do anything differently?
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Imagine the bugs introduced in trying to make a digital copy of a brain. Terrifying for the subject.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Suppose you died every night in your sleep and were replaced in the morning with a perfect copy of yourself with all your memories intact. Would you know the difference?
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Inscrutable, impossible-to-win appeals processes seem to go hand in hand with automated enforcement mechanisms. Otherwise the financials don't work. This may be an area where govt needs to set some kind of standard of talking to a live
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by suzzer99 2y ago
What is it to have no faith in humans to make shared sacrifice on a global scale, but at least some hope in mitigation technologies?
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by suzzer99 2y ago
It's not that they know they're sacrificing their grandchildrens' future for their current quality of life. It's that they'll believe the flimsiest arguments that climate change isn't happening. Cognitive dis
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Don't drive at night on unknown roads in a country with poor infrastructure - is a good general rule to live by.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
I don't know India. But I can confirm that google maps in Mexico and Central America hallucinates roads that aren’t there, sends you into restricted areas, and will happily send you down the craziest ungraded road that a lifted Jeep wo
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Yeah that's a BS dark pattern that drops my opinion of the site to zero.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
There are ways to talk about it without dividing human beings into tranches by race. Once you do that, you give ignorant people fodder to see out-groups as inferior and even subhuman, which opens the door to all kinds of horrible outcomes.

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