worik

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901.
by worik 2y ago
Are you sure? If you only say it once... "What I tell you three times is true"
902.
by worik 2y ago
My use of Stackoverflow is the main casualty of LLMs I used to use DDG for syntax problems (so many programming languages....) and it usually sent me to SO. Now I use DeepSeek. Much friendlier, I can ask it stupid questions without getting
903.
by worik 2y ago
> Has anyone found effective tools for... Managing management? Code comments and documentation make no money, only features make money. Bitter experience...
904.
by worik 2y ago
Read the bio of the author. It includes this: > I spend my time as a creative marketing strategist and technologist, growing public companies and startups. Sounds like they may know what they are talking about....
905.
by worik 2y ago
No. The purpose of "free speech" is to allow the spread of ideas. The purpose of advertising is to spread an idea. They are different things.
906.
by worik 2y ago
> The line is clear It is not. It never is. But that is not a big problem. Around the boundary cases there will be injustice and strife. But only around the boundary cases. We deal with this all the time in our societies. Some societ
907.
by worik 2y ago
> Maybe if advertising was banned, we'd each subscribe to one or two online newspapers and discover which ones are decent and which ones are crap. I keep hoping that decent aggregators will emerge - or I will find the ones that exi
908.
by worik 2y ago
Got what they deserve. Be careful what you ask for!
909.
by worik 2y ago
The subjects of His Majesty have never been free
910.
by worik 2y ago
This is a warning. Heed it
911.
by worik 2y ago
The writer does not discuss politics with their friends because they do not respect them
912.
by worik 2y ago
> My only point is that it's clearly a much harder problem than you pretend it is. Ouch! I am well aware that it is a hard problem. I am also aware that we are very smart monkeys. We do not need the social disruption, and material
913.
by worik 2y ago
Rent controls work in many cities around the world A simple cap on rent does not work, true. But comprehensive policies to keep rent down and local people housed, can work
914.
by worik 2y ago
> I'd love to rent out my current home Sell it
915.
by worik 2y ago
This. In New Zealand the only accessible way for the moderately wealthy to save is property (a failed financial system) So there is a proliferation of "mum and dad" landlords who have huge political power, two "investment&quo
916.
by worik 2y ago
> Problem is, some of those people are racking up high interest debt to do things like feed their kids. Yes that is a problem. Lending them money at ruinous interest rates is a cruel solution. Perhaps we could do something about poverty
917.
by worik 2y ago
> Until WG14 makes everything you love about C "undefined behavior" in the name of performance. What do you mean? I just looked up WG14 and I cannot see what you mean A link perhaps? Am I going to have to "pin" my C c
918.
by worik 2y ago
> ...people talk like oldsters can't understand technology IMO it is young people that have trouble understanding. The same mistakes are made over and over, lessons learned long ago are ignored in the present It easier to write than
919.
by worik 2y ago
That is a lot of effort, and expensive Probably ineffective too, as some part of your firm must hold the assets, and that's the part that gets sued
920.
by worik 2y ago
> they should rewrite the kernel in Rust I adore Rust Please don't! Can we get on with innovating on the backs of what went before, not reinvent it...
921.
by worik 2y ago
> drops items when you're done with them. That is what GC languages do. Too You can get serious resource leaks in any language if you are careless What Rust guarantees is you cannot derefernce a null pointer
922.
by worik 2y ago
This is on brand for Canonical. Bleeding edge beta (alpha?) software put in the core of their system Reminds me of when they switched Gnome out for Ubuntu One, no way back if you did 'aptitude full-upgrade'. It was a buggy leaky
923.
by worik 2y ago
> but damn. Wretched I am curious. I know no React. I am neck deep in vanilla TS (not JS, small mercies) What is "Wretched"? My needs are simple (nobody at my org gives a single care about beautiful pages, it is an interface t
924.
by worik 2y ago
> and takes way too many clicks. That is the space The performance matters much less than the UI And the UI sucks because if you know what your doing you can type a command But the people who write the cheques do not know that, and equat
925.
by worik 2y ago
Exactly "Jewish" describes a race (usually a cultural construct, but Jews seem quite fierce about maintaining the family ties through the millennia) "Zionist" is the political idea that jews should go to Israel... Ok,
926.
by worik 2y ago
Why do you need data for a philosophical distinction? Political Zionism (to be specific) is odious philosophically Right up there with the Afrikaans of South Africa and their racism And, theologically Jewdaism is fundamentally opposed to dr
927.
by worik 2y ago
> outed by Jewi-sh donors Tones of racism It is possible to criticise Zionism - and call out Israel for its racism and apartheid -without being racist ourselves. Israel really wants the whole world to conflate "Israeli", &quot
928.
by worik 2y ago
IP laws are not all or nothing. It is possible to have property law that allows the good things (personal property, rewards for innovation) without the bad (market domination, monopoly and oligopoly) We have not tried, and it is not due to
929.
by worik 2y ago
Apple is a poster child for why there should be limits on the power of wealth Closing your mind to the possibility that Apple is throughly rotton is probably soothing, but the possibility remains that we are right, you are wrong, and each t
930.
by worik 2y ago
> Human society's default is authoritarianism. I do not think so I think freedom

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