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by xmprt 4y ago
I read that more along the lines that loneliness is a choice we made but the fact that we've chosen isn't good. Not that alternatives to loneliness are better but rather that we shouldn't drive people towards specific styles
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by xmprt 4y ago
How do you think TeamTrees raises funds?
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by xmprt 4y ago
The cost of supporting Babel (and other open source products in general) is more an administrative and political cost than a financial one in a lot of places.
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by xmprt 4y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the punishment. For needs-based programs, a lot of the time, you either get the $500 or you don't. There is no gradual falloff like there would be for taxes. So if the cutoff is $X and you earn $X-1
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by xmprt 4y ago
It's a good philosophy to have although I think the parent commenter was referring to microcontrollers specifically. You're better off getting a decently capable one for a little more than trying to make do with the cheapest versi
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by xmprt 4y ago
The flipside is that it's very difficult to get promoted as a manager. As an IC you can at least show some skills to prove that you deserve to be at the next level. A manager can usually only get promoted if there's enough scope o
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by xmprt 4y ago
It depends on your end goals. Drawings can be beautiful too but if your goal is to write an instruction manual then you don't want to make something that's open to interpretation.
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by xmprt 4y ago
When you're angry at a group of people it helps to think of whether this issue happens in other places and if not then consider that it might be a systemic problem and that you should be angrier at the systems that led to this problem.
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by xmprt 4y ago
Well what else are you supposed to do? Fly your private jet to Bali and then not have a megayacht sitting there waiting for you? There's no way I'm waiting a full week for them to sail over from the Maldives so I need to have at
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by xmprt 4y ago
I've noticed that cultural difference too. I think there are things to take away from both approaches. Extremely knowledgeable people with a lot of background in theory should get better at understanding and creatively applying that kn
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by xmprt 4y ago
> The automatic tip calculations are wrong Wrong implies that there's a right way to tip and that it isn't just a way for employers to get away with paying employees less.
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by xmprt 4y ago
That's interesting. I was going off this post from a while back. https://jameswillia.ms/posts/chatgpt-rot13.html Perhaps it's been fixed now?
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by xmprt 4y ago
I suppose beginner programmers might find all the different kinds of brackets in C++ confusing but after some experience, it helps a lot with readability. If I see `a[1]` then I know that `a` is probably an array. If I see `a(1)` then I kno
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by xmprt 4y ago
I think the most surprising thing here for me is that this is news. This is extremely impressive but it sometimes surprises me that despite how powerful robots are these days, they're still incapable of things that you've assumed
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by xmprt 4y ago
Safer than human driving isn't the bar that needs to be cleared. I consider myself a much safer driver than the average human (which also includes 70 year olds with driver's licenses) and I don't drive when I'm sleepy or
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by xmprt 4y ago
Netflix doesn't give you that option because even if you have a beefy internet connection, streaming high bitrate 4k content costs them a lot too. In Netflix's case (and a lot of streaming providers for that matter), I think the b
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by xmprt 4y ago
When I say simultaneously I mean typing something on a file on my laptop and then putting that away and making more change on my phone a few seconds later (sometimes the gap is even longer than that). Sync is pretty slow especially since it
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by xmprt 4y ago
That's true but that saying breaks down when you're investing money into and benefiting technology that makes the world less open and sustainable and then proceed to talk about everything you're doing to make the world more s
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by xmprt 4y ago
I love Obsidian Sync as well but to be devil's advocate, it doesn't "just work" as a lot of people claim. It's still a bit rough around the edges. For example, it doesn't sync settings or starred files immediat
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by xmprt 4y ago
Maybe the Ritz Carlton is a little excessive but I've seen a lot of companies that deny international business class flights for anyone below the director level even when I know many coworkers who regularly fly business class for perso
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by xmprt 4y ago
Quality of life is a thing that a bunch of people miss though. If you're active in your middle ages then you're going to be able to do so much more as an 80 year old. You can also play it risky and be super shitty to your body in
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by xmprt 4y ago
I won't make as strong a claim that they've lobbied developers to make sites Chrome-only, but they've created a lot of tools for developers to check how performant their website is and how SEO friendly it is. Most of the time
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by xmprt 4y ago
This reasoning has been used so many times and while it makes sense on the surface, if you think about it for a little longer, then you'd realize it's probably not true. For example, in this case, the bad grammar persisted even in
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by xmprt 4y ago
That's a fair point. I think I was looking at it from the other perspective where the author was claiming that he had never approved a contract with Mojang and therefore deserved additional compensation which is pretty far from true. B
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by xmprt 4y ago
They had a long conversation over email and an exchange of payment for the right to at least use the poem. Whether you like it or not, that can count as a contract. It might be different in different jurisdictions but here's the US def
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by xmprt 4y ago
He also made it clear that he had an agent. And he had worked with large corporations in the past given his background so I'm surprised he tripped up here. It's not like this was some first time author learning about how cruel the
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by xmprt 4y ago
> I also find it notable that when you asked for more detail, the AI was correct up until the last sentence. I actually think that makes the AI look worse. If it did the human mistake of alphabetically ordering things then it would be fi
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by xmprt 4y ago
I don't think the GP is underestimating programmers in the 1950s but rather commenting on their definition of AI. Back then first order logic was considered AI to a lot of people. I feel like in 50 years, AI models will become so compl
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by xmprt 4y ago
It's really hard to prove that this is a result of deliberate algorithms and not simply that Chinese culture promotes things like science and technology whereas the US promotes more dumb things. For example, someone like Logan Paul wou
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by xmprt 4y ago
Another moral of the story could be that sometimes it's best to have a people solution to a technical problem.

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