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by wavemode 1y ago
All you're really highlighting is the difference (from an economic perspective) between needs and wants. The world needs petroleum. But once that need is met, extra petroleum production is pointless. Whereas the world (or, perhaps, a s
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by wavemode 1y ago
So it's no different from real CAPTCHAs, then.
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by wavemode 1y ago
I don't think he's saying that eloqdata itself contains AGPL code from Mongo. Rather, their other project, eloqdoc, contains AGPL code from Mongo, and a user might want to integrate the two, so for simplicity eloqdata is offered u
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by wavemode 1y ago
> Who's to say if a massive monument is better than ten thousand happy families? It's not. The pyramids have never been of any use to anyone (except as a tourist attraction). I'm referring merely to the magnitude of the pr
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by wavemode 1y ago
> What could have been if instead of spending so much energy and resources on developing “AI features” we focused on making our existing technology better? This is a bit like the question "what if we spent our time developing techno
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by wavemode 1y ago
I certainly understand why lots of people seem to believe LLMs are progressing towards beocming AGI. What I don't understand is the constant need to absurdly psychoanalyze the people who happen to disagree. No, I'm not worried abo
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by wavemode 1y ago
the article presents that as an example of bad advice
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by wavemode 1y ago
> "Good, fast, cheap. Choose two." I think many software companies would happily choose good and fast if that were an option. In reality it rarely is (see: The Mythical Man Month). In fact a lot of companies don't end up a
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by wavemode 1y ago
I'm literally one of the last software engineers my company (in the Bay area) ever hired. I've been here for 2 years and only 1 engineer joined since then, meanwhile dozens left.
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by wavemode 1y ago
Scala has the advantage (and disadvantage) of not caring one lick about backwards compatibility. They were perfectly happy to burn it all to the ground and redo the language's syntax in v3. And even point releases of Scala frequently h
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by wavemode 1y ago
No, you're thinking of the term "cattle". Calves are indeed cattle. But "cow" has a specific definition - it refers to fully-grown female cattle. And the male form is "bull".
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by wavemode 1y ago
There is such a thing as a Software Engineering degree. The fact that people keep buying the wrong product (Computer Science degrees) and universities keep selling it, doesn't mean that there's something wrong with Computer Scienc
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by wavemode 1y ago
NoSQL/alternative databases became kind of a meme once people realized that 95% of enterprises can do fine with just Postgres.
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by wavemode 1y ago
You should see the font on Paul Allen's card.
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by wavemode 1y ago
I'm worse than you - when I came across that article, I spent a while wondering whether "ulathrin" was the name of a company, or some new metal alloy. Your comment is what made me realize I misread it.
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by wavemode 1y ago
The hard things about flying any plane are 1. Landing. 2. Knowing what to do when things go wrong. Any time you read about jets avoiding near collisions, landing in heavy crosswinds, landing safely after engine failure, etc etc, you have ma
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by wavemode 1y ago
They said "there are possibly applications", not "there are possible applications". The former implies that there may not be any such applications - the commenter is merely positing that there might be.
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by wavemode 1y ago
The maker of the credential manager is still a "big tech company", and there is still lock-in. Before I ever use any passkey solution, I would need to be guaranteed the ability to export and backup my passkeys and migrate them whe
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by wavemode 1y ago
It's because they have a script but are bad at acting. Would've been better to just do a traditional marketing video rather than this staged "panel" thing they're going for.
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by wavemode 1y ago
Does it count if the impact is negative?
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by wavemode 1y ago
It's not just about wrapping. use-expressions, result.try and result.map eliminate the boilerplate of checking for errors entirely: https://erikarow.land/notes/using-use-gleam
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by wavemode 1y ago
> Very doubtful if you have been following this saga or dig around enough This is the first I'm hearing of any of this drama. Any links to relevant information indicating that the maintainer is being disingenuous?
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by wavemode 1y ago
> Talk to 5 potential customers who should, if the hypothesis is true, rip the product out of your hands. Record the conversations so you can review them. Whatever your product is, you should be prototyping it and putting it in people&#x
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by wavemode 1y ago
"T ∝ 1/L"
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by wavemode 1y ago
Part of the reason Boomers had it so easy was that they weren't all Psychology and English majors. They worked in hospitals, they worked in manufacturing, they worked trades - industries that are all facing labor shortages today becaus
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by wavemode 1y ago
so in other words, it's a convention
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by wavemode 1y ago
Yeah I'm aware employment contracts might stipulate it. But violating a contract isn't against the law. Worst case you could get sued (though with an employment contract, the limit of repercussions are generally just termination).
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by wavemode 1y ago
I'm speaking from the perspective of company A, who needs a feature added to company B's product. They could send their engineers to work for company B, sure, but those engineers' time is still costing money. And those engine
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by wavemode 1y ago
Can you cite the relevant law? I've never heard of it being illegal in the US to not tell your job that you have another job.
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by wavemode 1y ago
You'd achieve more by simply telling the company that you need a certain feature added to their product. If you're an important customer for them, you could probably negotiate a price for them to prioritize the work.

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