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by zaphar 4y ago
Anonymity is not binary. It's a spectrum. Phyical cash mailed to a company with only an account number is significantly more anonymous than a check or credit card they bill. Perfect anonymity is probably impossible because information
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by zaphar 4y ago
I'm actually surprised I was so close on my estimate. The point still stands. You could triple that return and it would still make almost no substantial mitigating impact.
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I suspect the in practice effect of something like this would result in people getting a 10 dollar check once a month or something. Which would be something, but wouldn't actually mitigate any of the assumed harms of automation. Taxes
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Exactly. You also need to learn word definitions as well as grammar and sentence structure. Leave out any of the pieces of the puzzle and you are handicapping the student.
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by zaphar 4y ago
There is pretty strong evidence[0] [1] [2] that phonics is a critical part of learning to read for everyone no matter who they are or what their personality is. It's not the only piece of the puzzle but if you leave it out you will h
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by zaphar 4y ago
Phonics based approaches to reading have been a mainstay of private and home school programs for decades. It creates a silly disparity between those who can afford or are willing to sacrifice enough to put there children through them and th
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by zaphar 4y ago
You are correct. No one is forcing them to add sesame. They are just forcing them to pick between doing one of two extremes an expensive and a cheap one. The middle road is not longer available. A large portion of the companies are as one w
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by zaphar 4y ago
It already has interop with python via: https://juliapackages.com/p/pythoncall . It's pretty seamless for the most part I think.
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by zaphar 4y ago
On the chance that this is a real cry for help and you are in a really bad place, please seek help.
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by zaphar 4y ago
I am imagining the kind of documentation most developers write and I just can't see this actually working. Maybe it's just because I'm old.
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by zaphar 4y ago
This isn't about language use. This is about what is possible with a simple setup. Single service in language of your choice and just sqlite. The idea being that unless there is a good reason you probably don't need k8s, A high av
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by zaphar 4y ago
I have similar sounding goals except my first goal is this instead: 1. That the other person know they are valued by me as a person and feel safe talking with me. It shifts the goal from one that is about me to one that is about them. And t
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by zaphar 4y ago
I have observed multiple instances where someone had proposed that and been shorted down by the crowd e saying, we don't believe it trust you because you (work in govt, represent a company, are in $political party). Clearly that doesn&
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by zaphar 4y ago
Supporting and encouraging community can't be the responsibility of an economy or a government. It has to be hyper local and bottom up to work, which means the society has to place importance on community as value. That is something th
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by zaphar 4y ago
If you only ever need to build Rust code then cargo is all you should need. However if you need to build Rust, C, C++, python, and JavaScript all together in one build then Cargo is inevitably going to make you sad. That is when you reach f
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by zaphar 4y ago
I was there roughly about a decade ago. At that time Google was a fantastic place to work. I didn't have toxic teams nor was I asked to overwork. I left the office at 5pm nearly every day. Google at least in the Chicago office deserv
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by zaphar 4y ago
Technically it started my career. I was doing stuff with code and blogging about it and a recruiter found my blog and put me in the pipeline for my first Full time job. This was a long time ago but it did it's job at the time. There we
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by zaphar 4y ago
It's not exactly what you want but you get most of the benefit by just wrapping types in enum variants.
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by zaphar 4y ago
If you define "doing fine" as only available to a limited few and barely sratching the surface of what was possible with the technology then sure. But to scale it to a broader audience and to empower more business models than just
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by zaphar 4y ago
This is a silly distinction. All things being equal most would probably prefer the poverty in modern day America to the "Equal" poverty of preindustrial experience. The real reason people get upset about modern poverty is because
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by zaphar 4y ago
Honestly, I think they should go with opt-in and make it clear to the community that the public dataset will be the sole source of decision making for future deprecations. If you want your favorite pet feature still enabled and no one using
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by zaphar 4y ago
Honestly, I don't front to upper management either. I ask what the strategy they want to try is and if they ask me if I think the strategy is correct or not I give my honest answer. If they don't get honest feedback from us then
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by zaphar 4y ago
I'm a manager and I refuse to sell loyalty. This is a business arrangement, loyalty has no place in it, but integrity does. I tell it straight and when I can't share some details I'm honest that there are things I can't
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by zaphar 4y ago
Well, yes. But the difference between a JSOn object graph and an XML Document Object Model is night and day in terms of size. Not even close to comparable.
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by zaphar 4y ago
Probably true but also DOM parsing is usually not necessary and streaming parsing is not that hard so why not just skip the DOM and go straight to streaming instead?
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by zaphar 4y ago
It's not the standards fault per se but that doesn't change the fact that the standard now has a reputation whether it wanted it or not.
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by zaphar 4y ago
This is true but in the early days XML framework libraries gained a well deserved reputation for poor performance because they would parse into a DOM first and then serialize from there. I improved the runtimes of several projects from hour
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by zaphar 4y ago
XML get's used in a lot of places it shouldn't be used. It also has two competing standards for parsing one of which is far too heavyweight for many of the use cases it has been used in. 9 times out of 10 for data transport you wa
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by zaphar 4y ago
In Rust they are really rare. Like vanishingly small numbers of them. C++ definitely. SegFaults happen. Sometimes they are even in prod. Rust not so much.
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The point of safer languages is that it can protect you from the person writing the code. Sometimes that person is someone else. Sometimes that person is you. But no matter who the person is they will eventually have a bad day and some of t

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