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by zxcvbnm 1y ago
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1552055/general-rant-about-t...
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by zxcvbnm 2y ago
It seems I'm in a minority thinking this is not that great... wind can blow the hat (or the thing from the generalized idea) into traffic, or onto a baby, or any other place to upset people. Also, if the recipient can't/doesn
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by zxcvbnm 3y ago
Wrong, errors should not go unnoticed, let alone helping them to propagate. Cascading effects should be kept on a short leash. System takes one step in the wrong direction, kill it. The two most miserable things are, things not happening an
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by zxcvbnm 3y ago
Uhm so why not not-use that font, and switch to another mainstream one? Who cares, it's just a font? Or is it heresy to ask this?
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by zxcvbnm 3y ago
Ask it for a racist joke.
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by zxcvbnm 3y ago
Get another job first, only then quit this one (then it doesn't matter if u pay them, in the grand scheme of things). Best case you find one. Worst case you don't, then you still have this paying your bills, be happy about it.
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
Yes. Also, back then in the offline-ish times people shipped working software. Nowadays stuff is huge, slow, craps out all the time, and the risk of stuff breaking with a next update is comparable to the security risks of turning off update
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
Everyone used pirated software, Bill still got rich, software developers did make a living, and software prices did not cripple companies. Good old times.
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
Recruiter: <buzzwords, no pricetag> Me: ok how much are they paying Recruter: keep BSing. Or reveals a salary that is laughable compared to what people throw in at HN. Me: disillusioned. I guess should be happy to have my current job.
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
So then don't torture students by making them write long essays and waste their valuable time. Make it the task expressing the argument on a back of a napkin. More thought, less time wasted on writing text-amount. Also less of the teac
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
So then don't torture students by making them write long essays and waste their valuable time. Make it the task expressing the argument on a back of a napkin. More thought, less time wasted on writing stuff no one ever read properly.
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
when you program a computer usually there are instant feedback tools like graphic output, debugger, beeps... what I really miss with genetic hacking is this immediate feedback. Did I shake that liquid enough? How degraded was that agent? Wh
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
Agreed on getting excellent hints from it, shortening the time to figure out stuff. But eg. just now it gave me an example algorithm that, only at 2nd look, turned out to be complete nonsense. You know That colleague, who shines in the eyes
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
Agree if no consequence. But imagine, what if there is. And the debate's winner gets to implement his BS.
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
Insu
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
Exactly. Eg. at some point Ubuntu (true also for Win) decided no proper borders around windows and giant title bars. Now I always struggle findig the border, to grab, between two partially overlapping black terminal windows. And wasting scr
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
I give ChatGPT a question on how to do X in some programming environment. So far same as googling. But then ok, for me that solution gives errors, or function doesn't exist, 2nd question to ChatGPT, bam half the time it gives something
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
ChatGPT
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
Fetching 50k rows is a nobrainer, neither speed nor memory wise. Relational db-s are super fast when used properly
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
wow you have money for a therapist... I have zero sympathies for people with such problems and such means to address them.
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
Aren't all founders doing this on some level?
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
managers tend to /want to/ over-simplify things. SWEs have to bear the consequences of every exception to an over-simplified rule, that non-experts did not want to know about. Yeah there's a 1% problem, complex, unrewarding,
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
This is why you never let inexperienced people to come up with standards, patterns, and api-s. It is impossible to get rid of crap once it is widely adopted.
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
because it's an overengineered hype that does not reduce complexity, only shovels it around, turning simple problems into obscure ones
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by zxcvbnm 4y ago
Caveat: intern doesn't comprehend the problem, goes crazy with decomposition, there's an overengineered mess in the end. Now there's a 2nd puzzle: how is this mess supposed to solve that task. Which of the thousand-possible c
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by zxcvbnm 17y ago
love in the cancer ward (english) - http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1091702.html
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by zxcvbnm 17y ago
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/arch/ArchSearchResults... haaretz search results for june 10th (hebrew only). google phrases for the full stories.