Gene_Parmesan

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by Gene_Parmesan 3y ago
I'm a lawyer. I've explained this so many times it's starting to bore me, but I have to keep doing it. Jury nullification has never existed as a right in any common law system. It is merely a descriptive term that lawyers u
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by Gene_Parmesan 3y ago
> I’m sure they won’t even talk to anyone not willing to pay $100k+ per year. Wouldn't surprise me. We had a vendor whose product we had used at relatively reasonable rates for multiple years suddenly have a pricing model change. It
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by Gene_Parmesan 3y ago
I found the early game changes incongruous with the core design of the mod as well. The mod is about logistical challenges - specifically where trips are high volume but high cost. I don't know why a mod about that in the context of sp
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by Gene_Parmesan 3y ago
There's a lot of theorizing that early sapiens intentionally set fires to clear thick, impassable forests and kill game in the process. The cleared areas would make post-fire hunting easier as well.
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by Gene_Parmesan 3y ago
I don't know if this is the same wave, but a few years ago they declassified footage from military planes actively tracking UFOs. In the wake of that there was a bit of a flurry of naval and air force personnel saying they've &quo
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by Gene_Parmesan 3y ago
> Having the same shallow conversations over and over with different individuals I'm ADHD-neurodivergent so I get the point here, but think of this phenomenon as verbal handshaking. The point isn't the subject matter of the con
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by Gene_Parmesan 3y ago
I simultaneously agree with you (tor being another prime example of this -- they may not be able to see which tor sites you're visiting [unless they control the exit node] but they sure as hell can see you're using tor), and also
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
I think dev wages will stagnate across the board. I think the simple existence of the fear of being replaced by never-tiring, always-working AI will subconsciously prime devs to be willing to work for less. Devs have been in a market with a
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Especially when the system we're discussing is literally the most advanced AI model we're aware of.
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Still not enough. Seriously. Once information is out there it cannot be clawed back, but legal agreements are easily broken. I worked as a lawyer for six years; there are extremely strict ethical and legal restrictions around sharing privil
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Yes, this is exactly my issue. Libertarianism only lasts as long as it's not your $3bil at risk. Then it becomes "oh but the government can't let ME fail."
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
So isn't it on the programmer to ensure the safety checks are enabled if appropriate? I agree with the gist of your statement, I'm just not sure how this is the responsibility of the language itself. It ships with the option to bu
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
I see an unfortunate number of people who seem to think that the only way to not get taken advantage of in life is to be cynical, and that living with empathy and joy is equivalent to allowing yourself to get walked over. In my worldview&#x
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
> even more extreme I'm a musician & amateur home producer, and this extreme approach of yours is exactly what I recommend to people (and what I do myself) to overcome the feeling of "I can't get started because what I
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Failure as a VC-funded enterprise != failure of the underlying 'thing' as a concept. A programming language seems to be a weird fit for the VC model in the first place, no?
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
I'll be interested to see if these layoffs do eventually hit technical workers in non-big-tech sectors. Are these layoffs simply the chickens of large scale "blitzscaling" coming home to roost? Or are they a leading indicator
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
If the primary reason for this is the emissions from increased energy requirements, then we can find ways to reduce this load by (as the article suggests) using renewable energy sources, which has the additional effect of reducing the load
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
For me, it comes down to the fact that static typing completely eliminates large classes of bugs. It therefore dramatically lowers the testing load. The compile step essentially performs its own tests. Think about all the test cases I save
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Guess we should shut down open source then.
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Decent doesn't quite cover it for people unfamiliar with the size of the state. The island that this volcano is on is bigger than the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
IMO Rust is what you'd get if you took a functional lang designer and forced them at gunpoint to create a procedural systems lang. It's not functional, but you can tell it was largely inspired by ideas from the paradigm -- immutab
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Same, except aged 28. I completely randomly happened to stumble upon a detailed description of inattentive ADHD, and had the thought, "Hmm, I wonder how doctors are able to differentiate between someone who has these symptoms and has A
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Criminal sentences for first time offenders very rarely follow the sentencing guidelines, and in some ways you can consider them to be a starting point for negotiation. When I was a prosecutor, fully 90%+ of the ~750 cases I handled in the
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
No, and this is a core misunderstanding of the profession. The job of software engineers is to design and implement solutions to business problems with technology. The job of a software engineer is not merely "write code." Writing
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Saying "we are materially changing the terms of your employment, you can accept them or quit" is constructive discharge. Besides, unemployment is one thing that is usually very liberally decided in the employee's favor, given
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
There's a The Smile song called "You'll Never Work in Television Again." Last week I said "play <name of song>" and Alexa responded that it could not find a playback method called "television."
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
This is one of those situations where it's a clear documented (via study and real world experiment) benefit to both workers and employers, so you wonder why it's taking so long to spread. One problem is I genuinely believe it has
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
Same! You're definitely not alone, even if I do feel like a rare species these days. I really wish we were all going in two or three days a week. This constant wfh is driving me crazy.
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
To the point where it feels like they have pretty obviously intentionally gimped the mobile website to drive you to the app - which just makes me way less likely to install it. Page loads take absolutely forever, videos almost never work fi
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by Gene_Parmesan 4y ago
In fact, this is one of those truisms about the "down" side of the classical business cycle - that recessions partly function as an excuse to cut inefficiencies. How accurate this truism is, I don't know.

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