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by tharne 2y ago
If anything it's easier for folks to goof off in the office vs. working from home. In the office, you have the appearance of being "at work". When working from home, you tend to be judged much more on your output rather than
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by tharne 2y ago
Rust is a promising language, but it's being hobbled by the culture of it's "community".
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by tharne 2y ago
> Ted Tso'o accusing the speaker of wanting to convert people to the "religion promulgated by Rust" Given the online temper tantrum thrown by marcan, Ted Tso'o's comment seems totally reasonable, regardless of on
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by tharne 2y ago
> Or the mission critical systems powering this airplane you're flying next week... to pretend like this will all be handled by LLMs is so insanely out of touch with reality. Found the guy who's never worked for a large publicl
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by tharne 2y ago
> Remember what we all see now is the worst LLMs will ever be This is exactly right. I could imagine a bunch of horse trainers looking at early gas-powered automobiles in the late 1800's and thinking, "This 'automobile&#x2
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by tharne 2y ago
> What you’re essentially saying is “cherish the people who care up to the level I personally and subjectively think is right, and dismiss everyone who cares more as insane weirdos who cannot prioritise”. Theses are bullet points express
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by tharne 2y ago
> What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI? Two main things I've seen: 1. Recommendations are a heck of a lot more important 2. Internal applicants are suddenly at a big advantage
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by tharne 2y ago
> In other countries and cities insulated from these changes, the criticisms fall flat. Yes and no. Much of the world does a better job with their cities than the U.S., and as a result there is a little more demand for that type of devel
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by tharne 2y ago
> But, if you could work from anywhere, why wouldn't you want to be in the coolest city in the world? Large cities are like black licorice. The people who like them, really like them, but most of us think they're kind of gros
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by tharne 2y ago
> If I had to think, I imagine the entire point of RTO mandates is to keep cities sustainable. Bingo
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by tharne 2y ago
> For such a forgiving God, he certainly seems to hold a grudge. Someone only read the first part of the book.
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by tharne 2y ago
At least in the U.S., many students are paying upwards of a $100k for a four-year degree. That better be one hell of a "campus experience" and some next-level "skilled tutors". Call me a hopeless optimist, but I think th
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by tharne 2y ago
Maybe so, but we shouldn't be doubling down on expensive and time consuming degrees in the name of ill-conceived credentialism. That hurts everyone except the universities profiting off of it.
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by tharne 2y ago
> Most undergrad CS students want a practical/engineering curriculum. If all someone wants is the practical benefits of programming and has no interest in the underlying theory, they shouldn't waste their their time and money o
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by tharne 2y ago
It was just a joke, and perhaps a bad one, poking fun at the propensity of Rust fans to insist on rewriting anything and everything in Rust :)
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by tharne 2y ago
That's a confusing title. I was under the impression that on Hacker news, every Rust rewrite is a successful rewrite.
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by tharne 2y ago
> Even our best AIs don't really understand, they just mimic their training set. That's true, but the same can be said about a large percentage of office workers.
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by tharne 2y ago
> People have been predicting this possibility ever since H-bombs existed. It's been a common trope in fiction First, this misses the point entirely. The H-bomb was just an example. The point is that technology allows an individual
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by tharne 2y ago
> I think anti-machine-learning suffers a similar problem to anti-GMO in that animosity directed primarily towards the technology itself easily loses aim on opposing exploitative power structures, sometimes instead even achieving the opp
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by tharne 2y ago
I've got bad news for you. I've worked in some of those those other disiplines, and the certifications/licenses/exams just make things worse. Instead of having a lot of unqualified people with big titles, you have unqual
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by tharne 2y ago
I don't understand all the hand-wringing here. This always happens eventually in every industry under the sun and is going to keep happening. Why? Because if you as an employer or manager don't inflate titles, you're eventual
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by tharne 2y ago
> The only acceptable "civilian casualty per targeted combatant ratio" is zero. A lot of German civilians were killed during World War 2. Would you have preferred handing the Germans all of Europe to prevent that? As others hav
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by tharne 2y ago
> Not taking sides on the attack, but, wow, you ommited half the text Regarding anything Israel/Palestine related, nuance and good faith left the chat a long time ago.
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by tharne 2y ago
> Leon Panetta, the former head of the CIA, said that the indiscriminate nature of these attacks makes him consider these attacks to be a form of terrorism: This was the exact opposite of "indiscriminate". The Israelis blew up
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by tharne 2y ago
> She may as well have complained about the printing press being problematic. Technology isn't always fractal, but you seem to be assuming it is. The internet is not just "a really efficient printing press", in the same wa
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by tharne 2y ago
What we normalize is not stopping the world every time someone gets the sniffles.
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by tharne 2y ago
If you don't like a particular post or the comments on it, just don't read it. Sheesh, no need for the melodrama. Plenty of other great articles and posts on here.
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by tharne 2y ago
Exactly. When people complain about not being able to afford a house in a place like the Bay Area or Manhattan, it's like saying you can't afford a car because Ferraris cost a fortune. Buy a different car.
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by tharne 2y ago
> To put things in perspective, Sweden's 2022 homicide rate (according to Wikipedia) is 1.1 per 100k people, which puts it in the same range as Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, and Greece. The US sits at 6.4/100k, with the safest
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by tharne 2y ago
I didn't see this comment when I first posted my own. Is that immigration and crime stat legit? How is that not bigger news? That's a worse increase than New York in the 70's or 80's when things were really going to hell

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