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by tugu77 2y ago
There is a whole usability universe between shift and AltGr, the former being accesible with the other hand.
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by tugu77 2y ago
German layouts with [ ] { } in such horrible positions are killing all joy when programming, especially in curly brace heavy languages. Changed to US qwerty 30 years ago, never looking back.
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by tugu77 2y ago
That catchy title is what brought it to the HN front page though.
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by tugu77 2y ago
Not every little idea, as useful as it might be, needs to turn into a hyper-growth business. Just make it an open source project on the side. If it gets popular then you get famous and hopefully some big company finds it so useful that they
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by tugu77 2y ago
Companies like that deserve to die out since the quality they bring to the market is horrendous either way.
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by tugu77 2y ago
> Moreover, common people cannot measure programmers quality as easy So you can't fire the bad apples because you don't know who they are, but you feel confident that you can pick out whom to replace by an LLM and then fire? It
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by tugu77 2y ago
That "need" is not as a helper but a cheap way to train the next gen senior which by the time they are senior know the ins and outs of your company's tech so well that they will be hard to replace by an external hire. If your
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by tugu77 2y ago
"For the price of a cab you can take so many ubers it's not even funny". Yeah, until the price dumping stops and workers demand better conditions and you start comparing apples to apples. Why do you have bad programmers on st
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by tugu77 2y ago
> Large companies are still thinking about privacy of data etc but all of that will simply not matter in the long run. That attitude is why our industry has such a bad rep and why things are going down the drain to dystopia. Devs without
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by tugu77 2y ago
> My prediction is that junior to mid level software engineering will disappear mostly, That statement makes no sense. It's a skill progression. There are no senior levels of anything if there isn't the junior level as a stagin
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by tugu77 2y ago
I'm quite disappointed by the article. It's not really about two Shanghais. Sure, it mentions an alleged divide, but it then doesn't actually explore the contrast but spends most of the time with skyscaper porn. I'm sure
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by tugu77 2y ago
Ironically, in the match that Gukesh won and that made him world champion, he lost rating points, inceasing his distance to Magnus.
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by tugu77 2y ago
Not when Hans or Hikaru are playing.
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by tugu77 2y ago
Automaton. The singular is automaton. Automata is plural.
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by tugu77 2y ago
Have you considered open sourcing?
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by tugu77 2y ago
The rules should bar contestents from saving entropy outside the payload of the file. Whether that's in a file name or some file system data structure or in some timing side channel is insubstantial. And once you ban that , it's
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by tugu77 2y ago
TIL https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+20A0 Even Bitcoin is there. And "German Penny Sign"?
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by tugu77 2y ago
Type system ftw? As long as it's a blob (unnormalized), it should have a blob type which can do very little besides storing and retrieving, perhaps printing. Only the normalized version should be even comparable.
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by tugu77 2y ago
Easy. Save the sha256 hash of original.dat in compressed.dat. The decompressor cats /dev/random until data of the right size comes out with the correct hash. Now there are two cases. 1. The reconstructed data is actually equal to
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by tugu77 2y ago
Mike thanked random.org for the data. It's exactly what they are doing.