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by zachmu 3y ago
Except craigslist makes a ton of money
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> But we already have a co-piloting AI tool; it’s called GitHub Copilot! Microsoft launched it 2.5 years ago, and it became the leading AI coding assistant almost overnight. Today, more than 1.3 million developers pay for it (!!) across
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by zachmu 3y ago
Most cannot
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by zachmu 3y ago
How much of hiring practices are just about legal liability? If firing someone when they don't work out is a massive potential liability that requires 6 months of extensive documentation to fend off lawsuits, you design processes with
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by zachmu 3y ago
I'm pretty sure computer science has a universities problem. Even before this most recent surge in enrollment they were churning out graduates who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag.
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Rare but difficult to precisely quantify. We know the rate of mesothelioma in people with no known occupational exposure, but we have very little quantitative data about how much a given amount of asbestos exposure might increase one's
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by zachmu 3y ago
There is no contradiction there
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by zachmu 3y ago
Mesothelioma from household exposure is very rare, nearly all cases come from industrial exposure, involving chronic exposure to concentrations of airborne particles millions of times higher than you would ever find in a residential setting
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by zachmu 3y ago
That's nice for you. We got starlink for our rural property. We were previously paying over $200 a month for vastly inferior service (long range Wi-Fi), much slower and dropped out all the time. If you can get a wired connection, get i
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by zachmu 3y ago
The ways to make it available involve stringing hundreds of miles of line. Of course it's possible, it's just prohibitively expensive because of the extremely low density.
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by zachmu 3y ago
Neighborhood congestion is the bane of every ISP, and starlink is no exception here. It definitely gets slower during Netflix hours, but it never becomes unusable.
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Latency is surprisingly good, usually under 20 milliseconds. Not the same as a wired connection obviously, but plenty good enough for almost every application.
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by zachmu 3y ago
It doesn't have to be better than fiber. 100 megabits is more than enough bandwidth for almost anyone, especially people accustomed to having no bandwidth. Talking about what people deserve is a fun way to avoid the actual question of
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by zachmu 3y ago
Why are we pretending starlink doesn't exist?
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by zachmu 3y ago
Over the lifetime of a code base, most of the value of a test is not in verifying functionality. It's keeping you or someone else from accidentally breaking it when you change something.
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by zachmu 3y ago
A lot of people seem to be convinced widespread remote work means everyone making SF incomes and with SF career opportunities. It's probably more like everyone making Pittsburgh incomes with 60% of SF opportunity.
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I learned to code with hyper card and the examples give me a very warm fuzzy feeling
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by zachmu 3y ago
Can't we just skip to the part where the signalling value of the certification is severely diluted and they backpedal? Elite colleges literally just went through this with standardized tests.
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by zachmu 3y ago
Take people out of the sign up flow. Have a form where you can enter the company credit card number and start receiving service.
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And as far as the legal question is concerned, so far federal courts have ruled that the government's actions do in fact violate the first amendment: > he court found that some of the communications between the federal government an
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by zachmu 3y ago
Right. We're betting there are a bunch of people like you, hence the investment.
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Whether or not the involvement documented rises to the level of a 1A violation is an interesting legal question but ultimately not the one that I'm primarily concerned with. The question I care about is: is the government taking a dire
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by zachmu 3y ago
The federal government just pointedly asked why certain users haven't been kicked off the platform, what's the big deal https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/1607383214452080647 They're just angrily
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by zachmu 3y ago
I agree that specifics matter, but we don't need to argue about semantics. Thanks to the twitter files we know how this played out in practice. And it wasn't how you're describing: it was federal agencies acting as de facto c
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by zachmu 3y ago
> whether Biden administration officials may contact social media platforms to combat what they say is misinformation. What a delightful euphemism for federal intelligence agencies strong-arming social media companies to censor American
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by zachmu 3y ago
Style which can reliably be achieved by running a script is not really what I'm talking about. I like Go's auto formatting. People go way, way beyond that.
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It's not that "style" doesn't matter, it's that you hit quickly diminishing returns after the bare basics of a formatter and maybe naming conventions. And most people who are enthusiastic about "style" pus
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by zachmu 3y ago
Go is a language made for people doing systems programming who like static typing. Compared to popular alternatives like C# and Java, Go is a breath of fresh air.
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by zachmu 3y ago
We're writing a postgres-compatible database that doesn't use any postgres code: https://github.com/dolthub/doltgresql/ We're doing this because our main product (Dolt) is MySQL-compatible, but a lo
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Amazed this doesn't happen more often given what's at stake and how cheap to buy off employees apparently are.

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