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by yen223 3y ago
(Not the OP) The "C" and "A" in CAP theorem have very specific definitions in the context of the theorem, that isn't the same as, say, the "C" in ACID. The CAP theorem in its original formulation makes no
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by yen223 3y ago
Here's a fun nerd-snipe problem: if we keep the terms of the bet, is there any period in which Buffett would have lost the bet?
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by yen223 3y ago
If the company value stays flat, that means its valuation at liquidation time is equal to $Y
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by yen223 3y ago
Reading the 2020 thread makes it clear that we absolutely suck at making predictions
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by yen223 3y ago
HN has swung pessimistic for a while now
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by yen223 3y ago
This is true. Especially considering a "week" isn't tied to any specific astronomical phenomenon, unlike the day, month or year. Maybe it succeeded because it's not tied to an astronomical phenomenon, and so we aren&#x
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by yen223 3y ago
We added daylight savings time, so yeah...
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by yen223 3y ago
The OpenAI moat is that most people have heard of ChatGPT, and not any of the hundreds of AI products out there
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by yen223 3y ago
Looking at the comments here, almost everyone here are saying "you must ALWAYS use foreign key constraints", which I think is also not correct.
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by yen223 3y ago
The `deleted_at` column approach to soft deletion has enough downsides that I would choose to just move "deleted" records into a different table. Having a separate table for deleted records means that - FK references to the main t
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by yen223 3y ago
Humans were hallucinating responses given a prompt long before LLMs were a thing. Just look at any comment thread.
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by yen223 3y ago
Some mechanism for preventing accidental flags and hides. Perhaps a confirmation button or something. This is not an uncommon problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37208812
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by yen223 3y ago
My issue with this is that there's a lot of times when it's faster for me to just build the thing. And building the thing is going to uncover problems a lot faster and a lot more accurately than me sitting down and trying to imagi
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by yen223 3y ago
I am starting to believe that "system has to be rewritten from scratch in the future" is not nearly the dealbreaker people make it out to be. Especially if it didn't take that much work building the v0 version. You should alm
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by yen223 3y ago
Design documents are my bane now
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by yen223 3y ago
Just like every game, there are people who play to win, and there are people who play for fun. Both are fine. Sticking with one really good word raises your chances of not losing, but it does get boring after a while.
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by yen223 3y ago
Yeah, I remembered always installing a specific Firefox extension to get the unified URL + search bar I think it was called Ubiquity?
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by yen223 3y ago
Stainless steel pans are basically as durable as cast iron pans, while being lighter in weight and quicker to heat. I am finding it difficult to justify keeping my cast iron pan around. Carbon steel is fine.
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by yen223 3y ago
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by yen223 3y ago
Having worked at a place that went heavy into microservices, this story was incredibly relatable. The hard part isn't implementing the change - although having to implement it in n different places doesn't help - the hard part is
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by yen223 3y ago
Divinity: Original Sins 2 had a magic mirror, that let you respec almost everything about your character or your companions. It didn't stop the game from being enjoyable to me.
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by yen223 3y ago
I can see this being useful in strongly-typed languages too. There is a massive class of logical bugs that will type-check correctly, that will still result in wrong results being returned.
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by yen223 3y ago
"Fast-paced" fields are often only fast-paced at the margins. The foundational work that underpins most of the interesting AI/ML work have been fairly stable for the past decade or so. Focus on those instead.
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by yen223 3y ago
Having worked in software for a while, I realise now the answer to questions like these is almost always "there were more important things to worry about"
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by yen223 3y ago
Crucially, that number could represent the number of seconds, or the number of milliseconds since Unix epoch (e.g. Date.getTime() in Java) You kinda have to guess from context that if it's a 10-digit number, it's probably second
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by yen223 3y ago
The reason why it's so tempting to just use `<div>` everywhere is that `<div>` elements have very simple and predictable behaviour with regards to styling, composition and event handling. Same cannot be said for a lot of ot
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by yen223 3y ago
I've only ever known the language as being called "Farsi". I don't think I've ever heard the language being called "Persian".
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by yen223 3y ago
One of the biggest problems when discussing code quality is that there are almost no objective standards. What looks like "good well-named" variables to one person is "overcomplicated garbage" to another, and there'
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by yen223 3y ago
Welcome to the world of consultancies!
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by yen223 3y ago
"Dalio would often review the results in his office ... chewing on Scotch tape, as was his habit when he was concentrating..." This article really buried the lede here

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