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by suzzer99 4y ago
AI: "This is a bug" Human: "No it's not" AI: "I won't hurt you unless you hurt me first."
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Terrifying
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by suzzer99 4y ago
This is the flag required by our script to create and merge pull requests from one environment to another: MERGE_APP_REPOS_YES_I_ALREADY_MERGED_LIB_REPOS_AND_WAITED_FOR_THEM_TO_FINISH_BUILDING
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by suzzer99 4y ago
I think another big component is you can't sell a growth story to Wall St. with a skeleton crew keeping the lights on. You have to have plenty of engineers working on the next big thing .
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by suzzer99 4y ago
That there was basically no spicy food in the Old World before Columbus. All the heat in South Asian and Southeast Asian cooking comes from chili peppers imported from the New World. The spiciest thing the Old World had to offer was somethi
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by suzzer99 4y ago
I just learned from Wikipedia (via HackerNews) that flossing isn't really proven to be that beneficial. Blew my mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_floss
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by suzzer99 4y ago
You just blew my mind. The way dentists freak out about it, you'd think not flossing = guaranteed dentures by the time you're 50.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
I'll believe it when Google Maps stops asking me if I want to get off the highway, drive around in a big square, then get back on at the same exit going the same way. No google. I don't care if it's 8 minutes slower. Still no
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by suzzer99 4y ago
I use DisplayMaid which remembers the positions of all the apps I usually have open, one configuration for each combination of monitors I use (work, laptop only, home).
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Is it true that if the universe is flat, then either it has to have an edge (meaning a place where you see galaxies in one direction and nothing in the other), or it has to have an infinite number of galaxies?
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Infinite means infinite number of galaxies, right? I watch How the Universe Works religiously. Most of the astrophysicists on that show don't seem to think the universe is infinite.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Yeah this is what I don't understand. In order for this not to be true, space would have to be curved back in on itself like the surface of a balloon. Meaning you could eventually wind up back where you started. But do we know for sure
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by suzzer99 4y ago
The analogy that's usually used to help people wrap their heads around this is to think of the 3D universe as the curved 2D surface a balloon. As the balloon expands, every point becomes farther away than every other point. A bug walki
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Yeah I'd never heard LLM, and I know what ChatGPT is and read hacker news pretty much every day. Just as an example for future writers – one line at the beginning of the piece explaining the acronym and using the ChatGPT example would
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by suzzer99 4y ago
> but the average person realized the West had more material prosperity but they were under the impression the upper class folks were the only ones with real access to it This propaganda technique is called reverse cargo cult. They don&#
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by suzzer99 4y ago
The only way to write something super sensitive like this imo is to have the back-end API that retrieves full credit report be essentially hard-wired to a user access level of "FULLY_VALIDATED". That way no developer can come alon
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by suzzer99 4y ago
I'm still struggling to think how this could have happened. I wonder if it has something to do with interaction with annualcreditreport.com? Maybe originally the code had multiple levels of authenticating the user: 1) we know who you a
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Interestingly, the biggest bird of all, the ostrich, might also be the dumbest. Or at least ostriches are in the conversation with pigeons and turkeys.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
The latest scam is having to pay either a $1500 deposit, or $59 "deposit insurance", which I assume the host gets some kickback on. I know I'm not going to trash the place. But I also don't like just putting $1500 out th
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by suzzer99 4y ago
> I tried the new hotness recently - Kotlin Multiplatform. Sharing code was great, debugging sort of worked but not really, and it wasn't long before I was pen pals with an overseas developer - no documentation on the bleeding edge!
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by suzzer99 4y ago
I'm one of those ADHD people that needs chaos around me to focus. So open offices work great for me. I recently read that this is a thing with some people, but I can't remember the term.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Yeah that's basically it. I'm single/senior/ADHD/work-was-social-circle (at previous job). Hate remote full time.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
If a junior engineer isn't pestering me with questions, I know they aren't learning much. Also they overhear stuff and get drawn into conversations. Or more senior engineers join in conversations between them and another senior. A
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by suzzer99 4y ago
As a senior engineer I completely agree with this. A few days/week remote is fine. But full time remote is a disaster for junior engineers. As you alluded to, it's not just easier access to senior engineers. It's also feeling
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Falling off a roof was the slowest time I ever experienced.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Can confirm. Google maps was more than happy to send me down this "road" in Baja. http://ushuaiaorbust.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7956...
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by suzzer99 4y ago
My girlfriend was completely obsessed with getting the Waze badges for keeping it on while driving. And then she hit the final badge and that was it. She was crushed. Why can't they just keep making more badges?
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by suzzer99 4y ago
A huge part of my job as a developer is organizing the business person’s thoughts for them, and filling in the non-happy-path 80% of the app that they don’t care about, but their users do. And doing all that in a coherent way that’s ruthles
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Yes, that and both galaxies careening through space on different trajectories.
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by suzzer99 4y ago
Unemployment is at all time lows. What exactly is getting harder for people? I agree that people have more and more sources triggering their fears and prejudices for a buck, which is making them angrier and angrier.

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