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by zeroname 8y ago
Everyone is fired. If you insist on pushing out hundreds of packages on npm, then drop support for them and hand over rights to random strangers, you are acting completely irresponsibly. You shouldn't be given a pass because you'r
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Being pro-choice doesn’t require nullification of an unborn child’s rights. It’s the recognition that the mother’s right to agency over her own body takes precedence. > That does not imply that a doctor or researcher has the right t
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by zeroname 8y ago
> The problem is that we don’t know whether this would prevent diseases with any reasonable certainty, and using non-consenting human beings to try to find out implies a profoundly dangerous devaluation of human life and individual right
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by zeroname 8y ago
> But my domain model is... No it isn't. That's the model for the representation of the actual domain model. The actual domain model may well be "idk everything" (then you're SOL) or it just may not be formalized
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Software changes too fast to make a static snapshot of it. Architectures don't really change that fast or often, except maybe in the initial phase. That's why most UML diagrams are a waste, they are concerned with low-level d
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by zeroname 8y ago
> If "the" popular platform is X, and you're not using it, you're missing out. Missing out on what ? What good opportunity comes through LinkedIn? By my account, nobody actually likes LinkedIn and nobody takes it ser
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by zeroname 8y ago
> ...re-igniting competition for web browsers, moving the web platform forward I fondly remember when the selling point of Firebird/Firefox was that it isn't a bloated, sluggish piece of crap unlike all other major browsers (in
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by zeroname 8y ago
> And what about members? Presumably, they agreed to this. > It's utterly horrifying that a professional has to sell themselves on glorified social media and all its nefarious practices just to give themselves a change on the jo
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Thankfully Sweden got GDPR, which protects from collecting data "just because you can". Not really. https://blog.instantor.com/ultimate-guide-gdpr-impacts-on-cr...
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by zeroname 8y ago
> The shelves are empty because all of the goods are elsewhere. We've already established that. No we haven't. I can assure you, the "shelves" of developers that companies in Europe have access to are far from empty.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Look, if you want to talk economics and get taken seriously, you need to get your terminology straight. It's not an economic shortage when you're in a store full of goods that you can't afford. It's a shortage when the
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by zeroname 8y ago
> I'm no professional economist or anything, so I'm sure I'm missing some of the nuances of the situation... You could've just looked up the economic definition of "shortage". What you're describing is
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by zeroname 8y ago
> I've heard this argument applied before to many different things in many different situations before and I view it to be just as much of an intellectually and morally bankrupt position to take, as when I first heard it. I don&#x27
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by zeroname 8y ago
I didn't say you can't criticize it. I said you can't expect anything else. Are you going to go down the list of companies from A to Z criticizing everyone of them? Is that going to fix the problem?
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by zeroname 8y ago
> ok, here's a citation: Google made this change to their rules in the first place because a bunch of their employees got angry and shamed and criticized them publicly, which those employees were encouraged to do by the past 1-2 yea
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by zeroname 8y ago
> actually, this sort of criticism and shaming is exactly what causes things to become illegal. [citation needed] > meanwhile, market veneration is both economically illiterate and used as ideological cover for massive crimes. What&#x
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by zeroname 8y ago
Forced arbitration should simply be illegal. As long as it's legal, you can't expect individual companies to not make use of it, that would be a competitive disadvantage.
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by zeroname 8y ago
You still get a trophy for participation.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> This is why I constrained my argument to only consider children ages 0-12. I don't see how that changes anything regarding what I said. > Regardless of whether "people actually demand the education the public system forces
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by zeroname 8y ago
> However, San Francisco is currently experiencing a teacher shortage of several years [1], so that vice versa I mentioned above is simply not true. The city is offering cash bonuses for teachers now, and it introduced some legislature t
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by zeroname 8y ago
> I can focus on my train of thoughts and links to pieces when I am drawing freely and not having to context switch to moving and selecting using a cursor. Do you really know that for a fact or do you just assume that? What program wit
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by zeroname 8y ago
> And yet just doodling something raw and having something presentable come out is way more fun than choosing stuff from drop down menus. It's fun for thirty seconds, after which it is just tedious. If you actually want to "get
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by zeroname 8y ago
If you can classify houses, trees and boats, you can classify "problematic" things. That would actually be somewhat useful. In practice though, if somebody wants to deface something, they'll find a way to do it. You can'
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by zeroname 8y ago
> But it's someone else's vision, why does it have to conform to yours ? I didn't say it does. I'm giving an opinion. > Also, the classification is super useful for technical flowcharts and designs that can be dood
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by zeroname 8y ago
I guess the world is "full".
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by zeroname 8y ago
You didn't create a house boat. Somebody modeled a house boat, gave it two parameters to slightly tweak it. An ML system was trained to classify scribbles as (among others) a house boat. You scribbled something that the ML system class
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by zeroname 8y ago
Acknowledged. I would say even Scribblenauts might've been actually a better game without this gimmick. It wouldn't have attracted the same amount of attention though.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Exactly. I was hoping for something like /r/place. It's just a demonstration of the impressive but ultimately rather useless "drawing -> shape classification" machine learning application. It would be massively b
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by zeroname 8y ago
> ...so so so much process waste is because developers have to re-implement static pictures of designs. Okay, but did you attack that problem in a way that actually is more efficient than established UI paradigms? Let's split the
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by zeroname 8y ago
What a poor comparison. Have you actually used any CAD software? None of it works like Sketchpad. Design software in general doesn't use shape recognition, that's a pointless gimmick. > The way forward to visual programming mig

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