wizofaus

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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'm purely comparing Australia and the US. As a personal preference if we were given a choice to achieve an average material standard of living equivalent to the US, but the price was its measurably less egalitarian wealth and power di
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Why even call it a team then, and what would be the point of stand-ups for such a group?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I never said anything about preventing people getting rich. But a slightly lower material standard of living on average seems a reasonable price to pay for avoiding the least desirable outcomes from excessive inequality.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Yes, that was kind of my point. I'm not really seeing how many more people could have possibly become mega-rich just by having bought more of the shares that happened to make the few people that actually did mega-rich, which seemed to
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That's a definition of "team" I've never heard before - "people working on unrelated things".
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Many are. But I've been in more than a few that resulted in discussion that ultimately saved many many hours of time that would otherwise have been spent on something that wasn't necessary. Actually the only thing I dislike about
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Allen met Gates at the private school they both attended - surely being able to attend such a school classifies as "benefiting from parents' wealth"?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> Sure, and at that point we can shift the goalposts to some other task If you like. But I'm happy with where I have them. I'm also pretty confident I'll see that goal reached in my lifetime.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Pretty sure Britain's economic woes have not been tied to an excess of socialism on account of its governments, at least in the last few decades. At any rate, both the UK and USA (and arguably most other modern wealthy countries) are e
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I gather Musk did. But I'd agree the argument that the easiest way to become a billionaire, at least in the tech industry, is to be born to exceptionally rich parents probably doesn't hold water. Still, I don't think any of t
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Are you suggesting that if 100 times as many people bought those stocks at the right time, we'd have 100 times as many billionaires? What exactly would be generating all that extra wealth?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
What examples of "democratic socialist" countries do you have in mind that would be likely to achieve significantly greater economic wealth/material standard of living just by voting differently?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Given the number of possible alternative realities they could have been born into it, I'd strongly suggest luck has already found such people. It's even possible had they not been born into such an easy existence they might have u
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If your primary issue is read/query performance, then sure, well-designed indexes, partitioning and, as you say, carefully constructed WHERE clauses are often enough to maintain decent performance even with millions of records. But if
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by wizofaus 3y ago
And once have an AI engine that, given just the instructions on how to drive a car and a list of road rules, can operate one perfectly, I'd agree we're a huge step closer to an AGI (if it can also learn how to do all the other thi
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It's more that once it gets to a certain size (say, 100s of 1000s of rows), doing anything with the table is painfully slow, often requiring you to take your application offline for considerable periods. Even deleting rows can take 10s
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That article didn't appear to be suggesting single-table design was appropriate for general purpose RMDBSes (or any database other than DynamoDb).
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Can't say I've ever come across a scenario where a join itself was the performance bottleneck. If there's any single principle I have observed is "don't let a table get too big". More often than not it's h
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Might only be an issue for multichoice fields.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
But you can't even train current any current AGI candidates to drive as well as a human... In fact arguably that's the biggest thing missing from current AI models - you can't readily/reliably teach them new skills just
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by wizofaus 3y ago
If they'd never been inside a car before or watched others drive on TV etc. I wouldn't be so sure - fiddling with the volume knob seems a likely enough experimental approach.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
But it doesn't restrict you! You can create a choice field with a value that contains ;# and select it, but then it can't display correctly. Relatively minor bug as bugs go, but still...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The only thing defensible there is that channel names can't end with a period - the same should be true of all URLs. Kids especially when told to type in a URL will put the period/full stop after it in the instructions they'r
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Try creating a value in a SharePoint choice column that has ;# in it, and you might not be so certain this isn't being done because MS don't trust their own code.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Given the preponderance of 3 major operating systems, I'd think it's sensible for user-level applications to disallow creation of filenames that would cause problems on any of them. Except arguably that could even include using sp
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by wizofaus 3y ago
The problems show up when that name gets stored in a VARCHAR column somewhere...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
We didn't just evolve from apes, we are apes. Just as we are animals. But obviously we also frequently use the words "animals" and "apes" with an implied "non-human" qualifier. And yes, almost certainly
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Surely that's pretty much what you'd expect a human to respond though...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Yes, but from what I've seen, many OO patterns in F# are actually a good deal more verbose than they are in C# (whereas the reverse is true for functional patterns). And writing procedural/imperative-style logic in F# feels like
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Surely C# qualifies more as "multi-purpose" than F# does? It's certainly more of a multi-paradigm language - my own C# code freely mixes functional, imperative and OO- style (multiple implementations of the same interface etc

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