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by wubrr 1y ago
You're linking to pre-covid studies, that mention some types of benefits (for specific reasons like logistics benefits for businesses relying on physical materials/goos, or physical access to people for the purposes of networking)
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by wubrr 1y ago
nah also, where you are and who you know are very different things
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by wubrr 1y ago
The location you're physically sitting in doesn't really matter. Saying 'san francisco cause san francisco' is also kinda boring and meaningless.
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by wubrr 1y ago
> If Justin Trudeau is found accepting money from a bunch of Taliban involved in weapons trafficking, would the RCMP turn a blind eye? RCMP turned a blind eye to multiple corruption scandals involving bribery, fraud, embezzlement of publ
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by wubrr 1y ago
That's arguably negligence (though such blatant negligence is evidence of corruption), but there are corruption scandals involving straight up fraud and embezzlement of public funds by the top levels of government almost every year. h
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by wubrr 1y ago
The fact that he is even going to jail, or that there was a trial at all, is amazing. In Canada, top-level corruption like this just gets covered up by RCMP (who are directly top-down controlled by PM) - many cases of this.
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by wubrr 1y ago
Some 'regional' AWS services still rely on other services (some internal) that are only in us-east-1.
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by wubrr 1y ago
I think it's inevitable that most jobs will be eventually automated away (even without AI), and that's going to come with major class struggle and restructuring of society.
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by wubrr 1y ago
I think you're greatly overestimating how much ownership the general public has. The bottom 90% of the population own like 12% of all equities, while bottom 50% only own 1% [0] [0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/we
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by wubrr 1y ago
> A lot of "the rich's" money is actually backed by the pension funds, 401k and similar investment vehicles. Not really clear what you mean by this. But arguably all of the rich's money (and all money in general) is b
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by wubrr 1y ago
Maybe you should have googled 'concurrency testing' before telling me a story about how you worked at every tech company for 76000 years and never saw any concurrency testing lmao.
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by wubrr 1y ago
For any 'non trivial' program there exists an infinite number of ways your program can be wrong but you still believe it's right. Testing is not a perfect solution to catch all bugs. It's a relatively easy, efficient and
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by wubrr 1y ago
It's not about making sure your system is 100% perfect. You cannot do that on any real sufficiently complex system. It's about testing the core functionality in a relatively straightforward and reliable way (including concurrency
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by wubrr 1y ago
It will obviously not catch all bugs. Nothing will. But it is a relatively easy and reliable way to catch many of them. It works.
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by wubrr 1y ago
I gave you several concrete examples. Your claims of 'very few companies have...' aren't very convincing, and the apparent popularity of concurrency testing isn't really a strong argument for or against it's effecti
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by wubrr 1y ago
No, it's called testing many concurrent operations. Implementing a complex concurrent algorithm based on your understanding of it, without proper testing is called luck, and often called delusion.
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by wubrr 1y ago
Every place I worked at, that had any kind of reliable, high-throughput concurrent system had an extensive suite of concurrent tests. https://github.com/postgres/postgres/tree/master/src/test/is
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by wubrr 1y ago
> He said he wished he hadn’t hurt his family, or his victims He literally says he has regrets in the first sentence of the paragraph. > All that around is just PR, he's a serial manipulator and there's no reason to believe
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by wubrr 1y ago
> Testing concurrency is extremely hard Writing a non-trivial concurrent system based on your understanding of the 'algorithm' , without relying on testing is much harder. > I truly wonder if there is real world tests around
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by wubrr 1y ago
> and express no remorse for the clear destruction they caused to other people’s lives. They obviously do multiple times in the article, including the same paragraph you referenced in your comment. "He said he wished he hadn’t hurt
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by wubrr 1y ago
I mean, in your example you just have an incomplete test suite. (Though writing a complete one is often unrealistic) While understanding algorithms and data structures is important, the only way you really know how well it works, and how we
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by wubrr 1y ago
Because you should never just 'trust' random 'research'. Good analysis in this case will clearly explain the problem, the analysis methodology, findings, net effects, resolution, etc. Something you can read, and decide f
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by wubrr 1y ago
the vibes are just a collection anecdotes
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by wubrr 1y ago
> Understanding twos complement representation is an essential programming skill. It is completely irrelevant for the vast majority of programming.
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by wubrr 1y ago
Right now, it is basically impossible to reliably build full applications with things like DynamoDB (among other AWS products), without relying on internal behaviour which isn't explicitly documented.
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by wubrr 1y ago
> Nevertheless, these seemingly "worthless" forms of sense-stimuli are supporting a huge portion of our livelihoods at the moment. 'supporting' in what way? > By the way Saquon Barkley can squat 600lbs. Surely that
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by wubrr 1y ago
> Sports have been the ways of life for many many people since forever. People identify themselves with, and bond via the sport teams they support. Obviously not since forever, and big difference between playing sports and watching other
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by wubrr 1y ago
> If so, then why does no other sport match its popularity in the US when NFL football isn't in season? What does popularity have to do with artificialness? But, anyway, this is where it would be helpful for you to know a little bit
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by wubrr 1y ago
NFL is artificial and arbitrary literally by definition. > I enjoy NFL football because it is a showcase of brain You enjoy it because you were brought up by society to enjoy it and it was pushed on you from all sides. If you grew up in,
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by wubrr 1y ago
> You said that they don't sacrifice anything. No, I clearly didn't say that.

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