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by windward 6mo ago
Mercurial can't rebase without an extension, or force push. Are you using a definition of strictly superior that means it has fewer features?
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by windward 6mo ago
Isn't it kind of like how you don't care much about the oxygen content of the air around you, but you'd miss it if it was gone? I've done development with Mercurial, simple processes were irritatingly slow, particularly
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by windward 6mo ago
It's disappointingly difficult to get a positive case for what happened from deniers, that attempts to explain these things. Very eager to tell you what didn't happen, though.
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by windward 6mo ago
Many of those skills have temporary value before they're incorporated into the models/harnesses
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by windward 6mo ago
>Most tech companies in the last 2-3 decades lost money for years Yes >before making a profit. No
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by windward 6mo ago
>Why MS cares your private repositories? give a reason? Maybe using your code to train their programming robot, lol >Whether they will abuse the trust of having complete and total access to every private repo and all of the code insid
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by windward 6mo ago
Do you feel that television, video games and the internet had a negligible impact on our culture?
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by windward 7mo ago
Not to mention Windows 10 being sold as the last version
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by windward 7mo ago
So what happens for those enterprise customers now? Is there a meaningful fallout when these services fail to meet their SLAs?
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by windward 7mo ago
PC said logo T-shirt and cargo shorts because they are so un-individual that they have become cliche.
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by windward 7mo ago
Megacap investors already cargo cult business practices that reduce their own return and harm employees. This is why they all over-hired at the start of covid only to begin layoffs a couple of years later. In summary: billionaires aren&#x27
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by windward 7mo ago
The fatter I am, the more capital I have. History bodes well for capital in times of peace.
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by windward 7mo ago
40 years of an ego dependent on Russian roulette.
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by windward 7mo ago
If you still have a manager, it's not a bad layoff
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by windward 7mo ago
Indeed. It's hard to imagine the size of the carrot needed for me to take a job with C++11.
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by windward 7mo ago
I went through this reckoning when a company I worked for underwent layoffs for poor financial performance. Nothing I could have done since I started the job would have made it avoidable. I had the epiphany that I'd tied up my sense of
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by windward 7mo ago
My usage hit ~90% 5 years ago and hasn't shifted since. Apparently Google lack the means to see this line doesn't intersect with 100%, and no action is required. Thankfully they do have the means to change the wording of the email
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by windward 7mo ago
>And I feel like they plan for less I think this mentality must have its own imminent apocalypse. Gifted with an enormous increase in potential productivity, the decision is to do the same but cheaper? Who allocates capital to such spiri
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by windward 7mo ago
So I get to continue the hedonistic life without having to plan for a long slaughter? That's not such a bad way to go.
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by windward 7mo ago
Yeah, numerous times I've replied to a comment online, to add supporting context, and it's been interpreted as a retort. So now I prefix them with 'Yeah, '.
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by windward 7mo ago
And accuses you of being a linter
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by windward 7mo ago
A historical bawdy pun is one of the most Oxfordian things I can think of. If we can incorporate a man in drag, we're in real business.
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by windward 7mo ago
>Is AI just the excuse? When you're unemployed, it doesn't matter. When executives cargo cult, it doesn't matter.
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by windward 7mo ago
If you ask the chatbot for best practices it will tell you, including that you don't use a chatbot.
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by windward 9mo ago
Supersonic passenger planes failed commercially.
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by windward 10mo ago
Seems shortsighted (I'm not saying you're wrong, I can imagine Intel being shortsighted). Surely the advantage of artificial segmentation is that it's artificial: you don't double up the R&D costs.
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by windward 10mo ago
Bjarne's just a guy, he doesn't control how the C++ committee vote and doesn't remotely control how you or I make decisions about style. And boiling down these guidelines to style guides is just incorrect. I've never had
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by windward 10mo ago
A lot of words for a 'might'. We don't know what caused the downtime.
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by windward 10mo ago
Those aren't isomorphic. The C spec says `is_divisible_by_6` short-circuits. You don't want the compiler optimising away null checks. https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.
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by windward 10mo ago
A user naively snitching on the project between their 2nd and 3rd posts is a really great bit.

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