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by zdragnar 1y ago
I got a "sign in or start a free trial" wall that blocked most of the article. I suspect these sites don't put up that block until articles reach a certain popularity. That encourages early readers to enjoy and share the arti
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I think the cube rule should really be amended such that toast is actually "open-faced sandwich". Toast is just bread. Toast with toppings, such as pizza, is actually an open-faced sandwich. It might be casual heresy but it is rig
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by zdragnar 1y ago
This is true only so long as employees are actually producing things. Case in point: I'm working for a tiny company building an internal tool for a very very large company because their internal team isn't getting the job done. Ha
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The article incorrectly conflates "cares about productivity" with "cares exclusively about productivity". SWE salaries are a massive cost. Improving productivity is one way of offsetting that cost. The examples provided
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> Now, if we can figure out some form of suspended animation You'll still need someone awake to pilot the ship, otherwise you'll end up crash landed on a planet with Riddick running loose.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
This used to not be true- once upon a time, Internet Explorer kept memory separate for DOM nodes and JavaScript objects, so it was very easy to leak memory by keeping reference cycles between the two. Now, with all the desire for WASM to ha
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by zdragnar 1y ago
You can share things with anyone, even if you're using Google drive with a normal Gmail (non-workspace) Google account. My drive are files you created / uploaded (and thus count against your space quota) and shared is where things
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The borrow checker just verifies that you're handling the concept of ownership of memory correctly. The actual management of memory- allocating, reclaiming, etc - are all handled automagically for you.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
And yet, that one manual override and an auto-generated lockfile require basically the same level of effort, and serve the same purpose. Edit: actually, depending on the package manager, the auto generated lockfile takes less work than the
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by zdragnar 1y ago
We are discussing whether or not it is safe for a company to reply to an applicant with "we didn't review your CV". The crux of my point is that the potential for a perceived grievance is sufficient to trigger legal action. W
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by zdragnar 1y ago
But how will you control people if you haven't put them in little boxes first?
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> You can then add a <dependency> override in your pom.xml file specifying the one you want. Isn't that basically a crappy, hand-rolled equivalent to a lock file?
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I dunno, it seems like everyone should have learned lessons from the sordid scala and node drama incidents, but instead they're just forgotten. Don't make in groups and out groups. Just have a "be nice" rule and leave it
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The first company I worked for (a smallish business) interviewed a guy who seemed normal and knowledgeable enough in the screener call. At the time, they just asked that people being in code samples to discuss in the second interview (this
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Unfortunately, "we didn't review your CV" is a great way to get sued in the US if the name of the applicant is in any way potentially indicative of the applicant's gender, race, religion, or any other protected status.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I try using an LLM for coding now and then, and tried again today with giving a model dedicated to coding a rather straight forward prompt and task. The names all looked right, the comments were descriptive, it has test cases demonstrating
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The meaning of words can change over time and across space. The meaning of left and right in US politics encompasses more topics than the matter of who may legally own things. Pretending that those referred to as left and right are all the
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I do feel bad for junior developers. I'm at the point where I won't consider a job unless it came through my professional network. I did a bit of job hunting during some downtime after my last gig just to be diligent while my curr
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Simple: you don't get promoted for maintaining legacy stuff. You do get promoted for providing something new that people adopt. As such, developing a new API gets more brownie points than rebuilding a service that does a better job of
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> when you can just do the work Careful there- I believe a number of jurisdictions will consider using someone's work before you've hired them to be very illegal. You could take this to the logical extreme and just not hire any
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Unforced errors will continue to happen, not for want of existing examples of a thing well done, but because politics lives on perverse incentives.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
What they're doing is having someone else manage their stocks, but by some strange coincidence their manager makes amazingly successful trades. Sensor Scott opposes the blanket ban because insider trading is already illegal, and thus t
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by zdragnar 1y ago
You've got all the players named, but I do believe there was a time inbetween where Sketch was noteworthy, if not as a market leader, then as the most notable rising star.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> Israel has absolutely zero intention of handing over control of Gaza, The charter for Hamas for years called for the total destruction of Israel. That's been recently removed, but their actions haven't changed. Why would any
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Capturing soldiers, sure, but that's not what happened. The whole point of capturing soldiers is to keep them from returning to the field. You deny the other side fighters. Hamas raped, murdered and kidnapped civilians.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
States such as California were allowing them access to Medi-cal, their version of medicaid. Many get free housing- NYC entered into a $980 million dollar contract to house people in hotels. Federally, no, they aren't getting assistance
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by zdragnar 1y ago
You'll have to forgive me that this line: > so I visited ChatGPT and asked if there are documented cases in the UK where these things have happened, and I was met with a deluge of well-documented cases does indeed sound exactly like
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Lawyers have gotten into trouble using chatGPT for legal research because it hallucinated court cases. I'm certainly not trusting what a random person on the Internet says it came up with. That isn't to say the core assertion is w
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Have you tried reason? Seems like a step in the direction you're looking for anyway
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I suspect the GP meant the working class are being tricked into thinking the "illegals, poors and ethnics" are the evils that are holding the working class back by Republicans. Nevermind the fact that casual bigotry against workin

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