EliRivers

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by EliRivers 4d ago
the entity needs to be able to solve your problem. People have fixed software bugs with zero knowledge of what the code is doing and no knowledge of the programming language at hand, purely by statistical pattern matching. Solving the pro
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by EliRivers 20d ago
They sure do. US law presupposes that a tourist is secretly planning to stay in the US, and must demonstrate otherwise to the satisfaction of the assessor. There are a number of factors assessed, including things like ties to the applicant&
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by EliRivers 20d ago
Is that true? Immigrants into Ireland hold an Irish Residence Permit, which is renewed in Ireland, at the office in Ireland. No need to leave Ireland.
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by EliRivers 22d ago
I've heard such people referred to as deadbeats.
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by EliRivers 1mo ago
I suspect but cannot prove that a lot of the issues the US is experiencing right now exerting itself around the globe, such as lack of regional logistics ports and long supply lines and less enthusiasm from allies to join in, would apply in
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by EliRivers 1mo ago
To a degree, this is Australia in this case, no? Resources are extracted from Australia, exported to China, turned into high value goods and sold back to them. In this case, it's exactly what OP is happy about!
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by EliRivers 1mo ago
It's that which is still there even when we stop believing in it. If every living creature on earth ended tomorrow there would be no individual realities, yet actual reality would continue.
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by EliRivers 1mo ago
Fines? The business pays the fine, I want personal responsibility. Prison time.
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by EliRivers 1mo ago
This all sounds very hypothetical economic universe. In the real world, rich people do buy expensive things and do nothing with them.
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by EliRivers 2mo ago
In some places it is. Some people can indeed be "prescribed" (it's not a prescription, it's a referral) exercise and a low-cost arrangement is made with a local gym and appropriate fitness coach. In the UK, such schemes
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by EliRivers 2mo ago
A google search for the creator of the Comic Sans font, Vincent Connare, triggers a fun google Easter egg.
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by EliRivers 2mo ago
"If something actually saves money then it doesn't require a subsidy because people would be doing it regardless." Yet people frequently don't. This assertion and reality disagree.
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by EliRivers 2mo ago
A rebase that can't just fast-forward? That you know what that is makes you the right kind of person to be delegating it to an LLM; you can be trusted to use the LLM for this sort of thing because you understand what the problem is,
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by EliRivers 3mo ago
Purely for the fun of thinking about it, and not just to be awkward: We owned a heavy, wooden CRT TV set from the 1970s or 1980s that hid all buttons behind a fake, black "speaker" that you could press to pop open. A decade or tw
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by EliRivers 3mo ago
(I find ways to make it worth my while..) I understand that somewhere is Australia is a supermarket which appears to be generating its own carrots in that it sells far more carrots than ever arrive, but is a black hole for parsnips; the s
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by EliRivers 3mo ago
A friend of mine prepared an arsenal of hooks and the like to address this and LLMs still disobey them at times. It's a model of language, yes? Trained on a big corpus of text. I have read a lot of stories and accounts in which peopl
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by EliRivers 3mo ago
each time I become familiar with a business it seems like we're actually causing most of the problems we solve. Do you mean, in general, as a society/culture, or are you just having an incredible run of jobs where each time that
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by EliRivers 3mo ago
extremely biologically conserved process This seems just plain wrong. It is not at all extremely biologically conserved. Pregnancy and birth varies wildly across species. Not conserved. For primates, it's got problems; in humans, pre
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by EliRivers 3mo ago
"it is that in practice there is probably going to be a soft ban on this sort of space" I looked around in my area, and the is not a soft ban on this sort of space. No need to guess about probabilities. How about in the country wh
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by EliRivers 3mo ago
Who has cavity wall insulation removed? The effect on your heating bill is going to be much worse than a small amount of mould Some of these houses have been transformed into being unfit for human habitation due to the damp and mould. In
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by EliRivers 3mo ago
If you like that, you'll like this: https://www.filfre.net/2016/10/how-jordan-mechner-made-a-dif... And an awful lot more written by Jimmy Maher on that site.
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by EliRivers 3mo ago
"We required the students to buy the book" This was always so odd to me. I used to think it was just a US weird thing but I understand it happens in many more countries as well (and maybe in my own country as well; I did go throug
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by EliRivers 3mo ago
Code reviews. Code reviews in theory done by humans, but containing copy-pasted inane statements of the obvious. Questions that really did no more than demonstrate a lack of context. Code reviews no longer an educational opportunity for the
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by EliRivers 4mo ago
How should you allocate these highly coveted game dev jobs? Would the company not conduct interviews and pick out whoever seems like the best candidates?
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by EliRivers 4mo ago
That requires explanation of a mechanism that would generate wealth for yourself Acquire it from other people. That's how I do it; my day job pays me less money than me just swapping stocks around. The companies whose stock I buy and
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by EliRivers 4mo ago
So your claim is that wealthy people aren't interested in generating more wealth for themselves? They're interested in getting more wealth for themselves. The easiest way to do that is not to generate new wealth.
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by EliRivers 4mo ago
Ah yes, VC++6.0 It had such a long lifetime. The last time I used it in anger to release commercial software was round about the year 2020, at which point the dev environment for that particular piece of software that customers were still p
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by EliRivers 4mo ago
To what degree do they really invest it? A lot of rich people just buy shares (other than at an IPO) and just move money around each other's pockets rather than investing in something wealth creating, or just swap already-existing over
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by EliRivers 4mo ago
Physical sales are dead. Well, 80% of sales are physical rather than digital. In what way is that dead? The evidence indicates that you are incorrect, and while I appreciate your passion, if I must choose between you and reality, reality
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by EliRivers 4mo ago
You already have the answer, contained in your own question; because I'm not so sure. Puts are a dangerous game. I'm sure enough that the UK consumer is getting poorer to divest of shares; not sure enough (especially on timescales

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