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by waisbrot 1y ago
OP was alluding to Jesus
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by waisbrot 1y ago
I agree that suddenly adding a formatter to existing code could be disruptive. But how does "buy in from the team" work over time? If you hire someone new and they don't like the format rules, do you stop using the formatter?
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by waisbrot 1y ago
+1 For example, "nit: maybe call the function updateCreditCard instead of updateCard" If you disagree and think your function name is better (or that the two are equally bad), then I'm happy to go along with what you've
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by waisbrot 1y ago
> As an American, a lot of UK geography and history questions are beyond my ken But note that the UK-based contestants have no problem with sequences like "US vice presidents ordered by number of terms served" or "US capi
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by waisbrot 1y ago
That's covered in the blog post: First, that archers can actually be more effective against mounted troops than foot: the mounted troops ride close together, horses are hard to fully armor, and one horse getting hit in the leg can caus
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by waisbrot 2y ago
"Maybe the memes making fun of this person are, in fact, an exaggeration." Sure. I don't need much convincing that Ballmer was only "bad" rather than "uniquely terrible". It seems a pretty normal thing tha
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by waisbrot 3y ago
Maybe. In my experience, a more common case is that the buyer has no way to evaluate value other than quoted price and so they're actually _much happier_ with a huge price than they would be with a smaller price for the same work.
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by waisbrot 3y ago
IME you could have gotten the higher number if you'd avoided saying it. Because you surrendered a number almost immediately, they have decided that you're inexperienced and so deserve less money. I think a better strategy is to no
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by waisbrot 3y ago
Sure. Some candidates are extremely experienced in negotiation and know exactly how much they are worth. Those people should absolutely name numbers from the start to avoid having their time wasted. But those people also know who they are a
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by waisbrot 4y ago
OTOH, ChatGPT also agrees with kurisufag. I entered your prompt and got the same reply from ChatGPT. Then I changed "4 liters" to "4 gallons" and got this: To measure 4 gallons of liquid using a 3-liter and a 5-liter
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by waisbrot 4y ago
Every person in both the student body and the administration knows that nothing will be done to address this. There will be no action taken to reduce shootings. Since any apology letter is just mouthing lies, I feel like it's a sign of
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by waisbrot 4y ago
> a simple list of whoever I've last shared with would be better A decent AI system would include a heavy bias toward recent. Good "AI" should mostly feel like dumb heuristics. I think a good example is directions on my iP
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by waisbrot 4y ago
I learned to do `:wq` after I learned that `:X` encrypts your file. When typing without really paying attention to the screen, I've twice encrypted my file with password like `cd tmp`, then saved the config file, breaking my system. Af
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by waisbrot 4y ago
I felt like a missing conclusion was "Kafka is a critical dependency". They'd started out with the assumption that Kafka is a soft dependency and found this library bug that made it a hard dependency (which they then patched)
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by waisbrot 5y ago
That's good except, as you point out, in the US where schools are paid by the individual. At least some of the anti-diploma sentiment here in the US is because we understand that it would just result in "people born rich are the o
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by waisbrot 5y ago
Siri the voice assistant is disappointing, but I find Google's and Amazon's to be disappointing also and I think it's an inherent problem of voice assistants and AI. If Google Assistant can get basic tasks correct more often,
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by waisbrot 6y ago
I mean... there's very obviously a limit, right? You don't use an infinite number of programs. And it's not "all programs you use", it's "all programs that you use to make the Program ... available as a se
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by waisbrot 6y ago
Wikipedia is a well-known example of a vast amount of content that I can read without any tracking or targeted ads. In fact, there's very little advertising at all -- a few times a year they show me a banner asking for donations to the
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by waisbrot 6y ago
And pay. With the discussion in other threads about whether corporations should be able to compete with nations, is Amazon's wealth-distribution better or worse than various nations?
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by waisbrot 6y ago
I think the idea here is that if the payment for SLA breach is just "don't pay for the time we were down" or (as I've seen in other SLAs) "half off during the time we were down" that doesn't feel like much
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by waisbrot 6y ago
It's a pretty poor argument when your own summary of the opposing side > the only way to become a billionaire is by exploiting people needs to be revised to a keener straw-man in your very next paragraph: > the key to becoming a
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To make batteries a better investment, let them do more(arstechnica.com)
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by waisbrot 6y ago
You imagine Zuckerberg as pretty incompetent, but I think he's got some brains. It's not hard to imagine how to talk policy to Trump. "Wow, you are the best president ever. So smart and strong. Also very good looking. I will
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by waisbrot 6y ago
This is untrue. The XBox started out at a loss as a specific strategy by Microsoft to break into a market that was controlled by multiple established rivals. Other than that, consoles are sold at a profit. That is, the revenue Nintendo gets
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by waisbrot 6y ago
Not the article author, but: > - Google internally knows they can comply with the AGPL without trouble No, and I don't know where you got that. The article is talking about how start-ups can typically comply with AGPL without troubl
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by waisbrot 6y ago
By this reasoning, if I run some AGPL software on GCP, wouldn't that place all of GCP under AGPL? I've written "scripts to control" the AGPL software, so my stuff is AGPL and Google's cloud offering is to run my cod
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by waisbrot 6y ago
Why would you make this responsive? It doesn't make sense for any games to have the map/board be different based on window-size.
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by waisbrot 7y ago
> Why is the teenager who follows the Yang bots and MAGA bots "sad"? Is there a corollary teenager following Democrat bots? Are they sad too? Which party do you think Yang is running for? Anyway, the article was clearly describ
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by waisbrot 7y ago
Calling this a "chart" is a bit of a stretch. Several sentences and a picture of two flags.
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by waisbrot 7y ago
Poor little small businesses will always get crushed and it's just a matter of who by. I often see this kind of what-about argument trotted out against regulation (if we ban polluting cars, what about the poor folks who can't affo

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