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by usrnm 1y ago
The #1 resource needed for self-learning is motivation, and for many people it's a lot more difficult to come by than money. What you're paying $50 a month is not information, but a system that encourages you to keep doing it
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by usrnm 1y ago
How many people do you think the early steam engines killed? Or airplanes
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by usrnm 1y ago
> One of the hardest parts for an English speaker to learn about Hungarian and Finnish is that the length of a sound (how long you articulate it) is significant I'm not a native English speaker, but I'm pretty sure it exists in
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by usrnm 1y ago
Same as pix then?
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by usrnm 1y ago
That's not what I'm saying. What dotcoms prove is that some technology can be a bubble and a real technological revolution at the same time, there is no contradiction here. "AI is a bubble and I probably shouldn't invest
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by usrnm 1y ago
Are we in a bubble that's going to pop and take a large part of the economy with it? Almost certainly. Does it mean that the AI is a scam? Not really. After all, the Internet did not disappear after the dotcom burst, and, actually, alm
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by usrnm 1y ago
Every time I read an article like this I thank the day when I switched from C++ to go. I know why C++ is like this, I understand all the hard work that went into evolving it over 40 years, but I simply refuse to deal with all this stuff any
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by usrnm 1y ago
Only virgins
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by usrnm 1y ago
It's the other way around: some apes left the jungle and started our lineage. Erectus, who first left Africa, was a species of early humans, not the common ancestor of all apes, he lived long after we branched from chimpanzees
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by usrnm 1y ago
> Why were the previous expansions out of Africa dead ends? They were very successful, at least, some of them. Not as good as us, but expanding to another continent and surviving there for hundreds of thousands of years is not exactly a
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by usrnm 1y ago
That actually wouldn't be so bad, but in reality the number one usecase for raspberry pi is blinking leds for some time and collecting dust afterwards
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by usrnm 1y ago
How is the fact that it was a database change and not a binary or a config supposed to make it ok? A change is a change, global changes that go everywhere at once are a recipe for disaster, it doesn't matter what kind of changes we&#x2
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by usrnm 1y ago
A null pointer crashing your entire service in 2025 is a process problem
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by usrnm 1y ago
It's not that bizarre, it's exactly how errors used to be handled in older languages like C. Golang is not strange, it's just outdated. It was created by Unix greybeards, after all
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by usrnm 1y ago
As I understand it the outage was caused by several mistakes: 1) A global feature release that went everywhere at the same time 2) Null pointer dereference 3) Lack of appropriate retry policies that resulted in a thundering herd problem All
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by usrnm 1y ago
That all is correct and leads to a very simple conclusion: working for a startup has a very low probability of making you rich. Doesn't mean that people shouldn't do it, but it's better to have healthy expectations.
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by usrnm 1y ago
Custom allocators and arenas are possible in go and even do exist, but they ara just very unergonomic and hard to use properly. The language itself lacks any way to express and enforce ownership rules, you just end up writing C with a sligh
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by usrnm 1y ago
Millenials are not young anymore, haven't been for some time. We know.
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by usrnm 1y ago
I said it before and I'll say it again: it's high time we got the taste of our own medicine. Getting people out of jobs has been the main selling point of our industry since its first days, this is what we've collectively bee
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by usrnm 1y ago
It is a lesson all right. Whether or not it's learnt remains to be seen
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by usrnm 1y ago
> that means a massive reduction in software engineers That's exactly what everyone is hoping for. Well, everyone except software engineers, of course
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by usrnm 1y ago
KDE 3 to KDE 4 transition really was painful, it pushed me away as well, but it also happened over 15 years ago. I gave it a shot a few years back, and it was great, much better than modern-day Gnome in my opinion.
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by usrnm 1y ago
It still is a thing, though.
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by usrnm 1y ago
Most companies are exactly 0 CEOs away from that
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by usrnm 1y ago
> What is the difference? Neither Russia nor Ukraine are currently known for their bleeding-edge scientific research, and I'm saying this as a Russian myself. I'm sorry but almost everyone who was worth their salt left both cou
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by usrnm 1y ago
Hospitals, for the most part, are not sterile. Some parts of them are, like operating rooms, but the vast majority of the space is not and is not expected to be.
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by usrnm 1y ago
Don't need to go that far, std::map is a tree (the standard does not dictate it, but it is in all ilmplementations), and you could always traverse it. The whole idea of iterators was popularized by C++ and its STL.
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by usrnm 1y ago
Yeah, because it worked flawlessly the last time we tried (crypto)
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by usrnm 1y ago
It is creative to the same extent as any other kind of engineering is: somewhat, but not really.
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by usrnm 1y ago
Please, don't do any advanced shell scripting, period. I've had enough :(

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