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by xmprt 11mo ago
The author addresses that in the article. Python can scale but then developers would have to work with unintuitive async code. You can think of it as a form of tech debt - every single decision they make will take longer because they have t
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by xmprt 11mo ago
There's an argument to be made that if everyone is doing it then it will stop being effective and brands will have to start reaching for more honest forms of marketing/advertising their product. I think we've already gone thr
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by xmprt 1y ago
On the other hand, Adobe Photoshop has been amazing for years and I'd argue Affinity has already beaten them at their game. Now Adobe is pivoting to integrating AI tooling into their programs which I don't want and so if Affinity
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by xmprt 1y ago
Your implication is that pyenv, virtualenv, and pip should be 3 different tools. But for the average developer, these tools are all related to managing the python environment and versions which in my head sounds like one thing. Other langua
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by xmprt 1y ago
> having developed with it for a decade now I think this is the reason why React feels normal to you. But as someone coming into it fresh, React felt like there were always 4 different ways to do the same thing and 3 of them are wrong be
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by xmprt 1y ago
I think you have a misunderstanding of the types of things that LLMs are good at. Yes you're 100% right that they can't do math. Yet they're quite proficient at basic coding. Most Excel work is similar to basic coding so I th
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by xmprt 1y ago
That gives even more reason to study the history of CS. Even artists study contemporary art from the last few decades. Given the pace of CS (like you mentioned) 50 years might as well be centuries and so early computing devices and solution
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by xmprt 1y ago
That's pretty unfortunately but if you articulate some of your issues with the options, I'm sure I can find an Android option for you that works. Despite Google's attempts, Android is still quite open and many phones allow yo
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by xmprt 1y ago
I don't believe that consequence. It's never been easier for someone at home to make short videos - see TikTok and YouTube. In fact most people consume most content on those platforms. Yet there's still high demand for movies
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by xmprt 1y ago
Not the best comment but I agree with the sentiment. I fear far too often, people complain about price when there are competitors/other cheaper options that could be used with a little more effort. If people cared so much then they sho
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by xmprt 1y ago
You are typically the average of the people you keep around you. If you feel like you're going to get ahead by tricking your friends/peers then it likely means that you're not going to gain much when compared to the rest of t
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by xmprt 1y ago
There are are a 100 different ways to struggle to learn. Some of them are better than others. I don't see how that's pseudoscience.
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by xmprt 1y ago
What I've heard is that there's been an undersupply of HDDs in the market for the last few years.
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by xmprt 1y ago
If you hire hammer experts then you're going to end up using a lot of hammers in your construction. The Azure experts aren't pitching Azure because they're trying to sell more Azure products. They do it because that's al
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by xmprt 1y ago
It's crazy how the same property investors and mega corporate landlords who apparently stand to gain from this were fighting it tooth and nail for the last decade...
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by xmprt 1y ago
It's because the triangle is missing the secret forth vertex: single family housing with a big private backyard and a lawn in the suburbs that's only accessible by car.
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by xmprt 1y ago
> Can't have nice things This is unironically the current state of things. If you want to live in a semi dense suburban area which is within walking distance of transit, restaurants, and parks, then you're pretty much out of lu
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by xmprt 1y ago
There is a real difference though. Individual investments might lose all their money but as an aggregate VCs make money by investing in dozens or hundreds of companies. No VC is losing all their money across all their investments but that&#
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by xmprt 1y ago
My first thought was ore mining before crypto mining. I think I've recovered from the days of crypto induced mania where every other article on Hackernews was cryptocurrency related.
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by xmprt 1y ago
I'm not super familiar with SF construction materials but I wonder if that plays a part in it too? If your neighbors are separated by concrete walls then you're probably getting less interference from them than you'd think an
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by xmprt 1y ago
Anthropic has generally been more focused on AI interpretability and safety research than OpenAI. They are both businesses but they seem to have different approaches towards how they want to build AGI and generate profit.
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by xmprt 1y ago
Naming names is exactly what prevents a witch hunt. By keeping it vague, everyone here is wondering which company this is and whether they're currently doing business with them.
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by xmprt 1y ago
I get why your staff would be pissed because dealing with a crappy printer/scanner is the bane of a lot of office workers' existence... but they must have been able to find a better vendor or something off the shelf which supporte
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by xmprt 1y ago
Watching that video with a couple year's hindsight and cracks are starting to show. The rest of the world is slowly getting rid of their dollars and his points about the international stock market are no longer as valid. International
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by xmprt 1y ago
We should add 2020 to this. I read this article earlier and thought there had been some updates to the architecture.
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by xmprt 1y ago
Have you tried using Ladybird recently? Admittedly I haven't but I've seen the rapid progress they've made over the last year. They might just be targeting this arbitrary metric but I'm inclined to believe that they&#x27
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by xmprt 1y ago
The US has some broken incentives where if a small company fails then it hurts the shareholders but if a large company fails, it's "too big to fail" and ends up getting bailed out by the government. That's why it's
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by xmprt 1y ago
If you're ever been to a third world country then you'd see how this is completely untrue. The dotcom boom has revolutionized the way of life for people in countries like India. Even for the average person in America, the ability
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by xmprt 1y ago
What happens when the independent legal entity stops getting funding and has to shut down?
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by xmprt 1y ago
If a significant amount of your business is cash based then the risk is much higher. If you're doing $100 worth of cash transactions per day then your registers and safe probably don't have much and you can probably get away with

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