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by zer8k 3y ago
Anecdotally, but the private schools in my large city are miles ahead of the public schools. The difference is so dramatic. I graduated from the same public school system. The children that went to private schools ended up in a far better p
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by zer8k 3y ago
I'm a very experienced developer. Sometimes I have questions that are easier to ask a person than go dig through miles of documentation. I could easily frame a question correctly to get a response but even I feel extremely unwelcome th
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by zer8k 3y ago
> They used stack overflow to make their case, and report that user engagement has gone down after the release of ChatGPT. Could it not be the case that SO is less adept at finding related/duplicate questions than ChatGPT? Given the
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by zer8k 3y ago
The OP article seems to be someone trying to cram modern concepts into a language that explicitly rejects them. A symptom that the OP should've probably just used another language.
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by zer8k 3y ago
> For example, if someone on a motorcycle chooses not to wear a helmet and not to have health insurance, they could incur millions of dollars of costs that their other people have to pay for. It's reasonable, then, to force people t
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by zer8k 3y ago
Almost have it right. The problem is regulatory capture. Regulating an industry that can easily kill people is probably smart government. The problem is this creates a system that allows companies like Pfizer and Moderna, or Siemens, or GE
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by zer8k 3y ago
Piggybacking this to say I will never be extremely productive when all my job boils down to is shifting code from one place to another, or building yet another braindead CRUD endpoint. My mind begins to wander and think about other things.
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by zer8k 3y ago
The west is post scarcity. Obesity is an epidemic, diabetes in children is at a record never before seen, and people spend more time sitting still than moving.
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by zer8k 3y ago
Insult them? Exercise won't cure genetic diseases or cancer. It absolutely cures metabolic syndrome in all but the most severe cases. But sure, exercise won't fix disease states like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, joint p
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by zer8k 3y ago
Fructose is also highly correlated with NAFLD and other liver diseases. It's probably one of the worst things you can put in your body.
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by zer8k 3y ago
There are plenty of cases for exercise curing disease. Metabolic syndrome is basically cured exclusively through diet and exercise until it becomes too late to stop. Physical therapy is exercise and certainly that is curative. Exercise alon
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by zer8k 3y ago
Because it makes you sound important. If you have a mentor you are important enough for special teaching. If you are a mentor you have some special guarded tao of your field a mere mortal cannot understand. Same reason every Cxx on the plan
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by zer8k 3y ago
This is absolutely peak HN. I thought I had seen everything. A person is asking HN how to contact a cartel in order to improve their business "for safety". I am strictly commenting here so I can return to it in the future for a go
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by zer8k 3y ago
I've never sold an enterprise SaaS but have procured them. Rarely, if ever, is it a simple pricing situation. A big thing for me is always SLAs. We will pay more if we can get a good SLA and a guarantee that your end will take care of
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by zer8k 3y ago
I didn't intend for you to design the system but rather demonstrate every single hurdle it would have to overcome. As for your hypothesis, I'd go the opposite. Dynamic typing would basically be untenable. I would NEVER sign off on
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by zer8k 3y ago
This doesn't answer any of the questions I asked. 1. What language will be blessed? 2. What compiler will be blessed? 3. What does a PE look like? 4. What does pay look like after bonding and licensing? 5. What do we do about H1Bs and
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by zer8k 3y ago
Your opinion is admirable but you're missing something. I, as a software engineer, sign nothing . I do not have a license, I do not have a labor union, and I do not have the "professional stature" to tell my boss to fuck off
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by zer8k 3y ago
BSc CS is an accredited degree in the US. It is very math heavy. Most of my peer graduated with minors in mathematics. Majority of us did discrete mathematics for most of our degree and numerical analysis in electives. Abstract algebra if y
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by zer8k 3y ago
I'd agree it's not really an engineering major. I have an ABET accredited CS degree and the majority of my BSc in CS was done on paper. It was a majority of proofs and mathematics (though, focusing on the discrete side). The amoun
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by zer8k 3y ago
You do realize you can sweeten more than beverages right? What if a diabetic wants a cookie? Or ice cream? This is why hazard ratios are important.
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by zer8k 3y ago
This is simply conjecture but there have been numerous studies done it. Moreover, it's the most consumed artificial sweetener in the world. In this case, you'd think at least some cases of cancer would appear even by chance relate
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by zer8k 3y ago
If the CEO walks the company can very reasonably find another stiff in a suit that can run the show. Maybe at a slightly slower or more conservative pace but life moves on. If 80% of the engineering team walks your company catches fire and
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by zer8k 3y ago
Of course this is likely an oversight of fast typing that is getting me downvoted.
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by zer8k 3y ago
I am a professional Python developer. Having a good LSP is critical but it doesn't fix Python's biggest problem - the space scoping. It never gets easier you just eventually "get used to it". Keeping methods to a size th
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> Nonetheless, I think we were all glad we went through this process. Above a certain level, leadership promotions have to be about what the company needs, not the individual, and it was valuable to imagine together what a great VP of En
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> After a while you merit your position by not running the company into the ground, but instead making it succeed. Apparently whoever wrote this has not worked at a somewhat stable company. C-levels get a lot of undeserved respect when i
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by zer8k 3y ago
It enabled corporations and other entities to freely dump almost unlimited money into politics. The capital a mega-corporation like Google, or ByteDance, trounces what citizens can do by an order of magnitude. These entities were always all
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by zer8k 3y ago
It is somewhat unusual given that chevron deference is regularly abused by the EPA and ATF. We also didn't seem to mind allowing the CDC to temporarily be able to declare moratoriums. This isn't a commentary on the EPA, ATF, or CD
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by zer8k 3y ago
Yet again proving Citizens United was likely the worst piece of legislation written since the PATRIOT act and 1994 crime bill.
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by zer8k 3y ago
"Yikes" really puts me off for some reason. I don't. Except this isn't an uncommon opinion. There are literally tomes of knowledge (available via nostarch for example) describing firewall configuration and many other asp

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