SketchySeaBeast

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by SketchySeaBeast 1mo ago
A plant? You've lost me.
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by SketchySeaBeast 1mo ago
Sure. We're all going to die some day, but I'll bet you still look before you cross the street.
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by SketchySeaBeast 1mo ago
I think you're missing my point though - no matter what we're walking towards extinction. You yourself are suggesting we delay matters by fleeing the planet, but it isn't stopping heat death. I'm also aware that one day
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by SketchySeaBeast 1mo ago
Even if we leave the planet we're going to go extinct anyways, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to slow it down.
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by SketchySeaBeast 1mo ago
How long until he names a company "E" just so he can giggle about the name?
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by SketchySeaBeast 1mo ago
> I still learn new stuff, but I’m afraid it won’t have any value in a year or so. This is silly. This would be like arguing that encyclopedias made knowing things pointless. I learn new stuff for me. Professionally, it's importan
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by SketchySeaBeast 1mo ago
Good luck to future models figuring out which weird section of code are bugs and which are features.
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by SketchySeaBeast 1mo ago
Isn't it also not the direct customer purchasing the insurance, but their employer, who also has to pay into the pot and so is incentivized to find cheap options? (I'm not 100% on this - I'm not American.)
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by SketchySeaBeast 1mo ago
> Do you think that there is some health care system in which all requests for care can be approved without limit? I'm not going to wade into the murder tag, but is this the actual incentive? The health care execs don't have e
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by SketchySeaBeast 2mo ago
There's nothing stopping the use of decimal points for Celsius. Though there's also nothing stopping decimal points in Fahrenheit, the rare instance where an imperial sub-unit doesn't make things go fucky.
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by SketchySeaBeast 2mo ago
I understand that entirely. I'm saying that the way that GP is presenting their information it sounds like a "one neat trick", which of course it isn't because nothing ever is, which you and I are in agreement upon.
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by SketchySeaBeast 2mo ago
Wireless would be ideal, assuming there's still some way to connect to my PC.
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by SketchySeaBeast 2mo ago
That would imply that red meat eaters would be less likely to get cancer which doesn't seem to be the case. I'm not saying that zinc isn't a factor, but I think that saying a blanket "Zinc is needed to prevent cancer&qu
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by SketchySeaBeast 2mo ago
Is it hard to get waterpoof, considering that every modern smart phone is both usb-c and waterproof? Important to note that this watch doesn't claim to be waterproof.
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by SketchySeaBeast 2mo ago
I do like the idea of USB-C, the garmin's power plug is nothing but annoying. It's really just a matter of battery life and what sort of software integration it has. Although, it's hard to beat the Garmin ecosystem.
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by SketchySeaBeast 2mo ago
I don't know about Claude, but I know that $20 of Copilot doesn't get you very far these days even when you know enough to tell it what to do.
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by SketchySeaBeast 2mo ago
There should be a sign somewhere: 934 days since people first started threatening that devs would be replaced by AI in 365 days. 0 day(s) since Anthropic posted a developer job posting. Only one of those numbers would need to be dynamic.
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by SketchySeaBeast 2mo ago
Let's be honest - they're also still hiring software devs. AI still requires skilled humans in the loop and that's not going away.
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by SketchySeaBeast 3mo ago
Yup. I don't normally eat vegan but, if I'm drinking a latte, it's gonna be oatmilk.
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by SketchySeaBeast 3mo ago
Great programmers write code that makes you wonder why everyone doesn't do it like that.
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by SketchySeaBeast 3mo ago
I feel like you keep missing the point and are more interested in gotcha's.
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by SketchySeaBeast 3mo ago
Triffid music.
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by SketchySeaBeast 3mo ago
I don't know enough to speak about that particular domain, but if the junior is writing something the senior can't understand, that's always going to be a problem. That code becomes the team's responsibility, and that c
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by SketchySeaBeast 3mo ago
If the code is so smart that it's not easily understandable, it's not easily fixable. My transition from junior to senior was accompanied by the realization that simpler is nearly always better.
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by SketchySeaBeast 3mo ago
I'm a simple man. Promises of utopia are well and good, but it would appear the way we get there is by corporations hoovering up all the new means of production, at which point they somehow decide to share it all with the rest of us
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by SketchySeaBeast 3mo ago
In your future, when does it stop costing $500 to buy 32GB of DDR5? Or are the companies still leasing us the compute?
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by SketchySeaBeast 3mo ago
I think we've all seen by now that the majority doesn't much matter if you have a rabidly zealous minority.
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by SketchySeaBeast 4mo ago
Few Albertans. The Forever Canada petition got over 10% of the entire population to sign it. Considering that it was a grassroots effort and that you had to sign in person, meaning you had to go out of your way to sign an entirely optio
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by SketchySeaBeast 4mo ago
Speaking as an Albertan, it's only a very loud and vocal minority. The UCP government has seen that the premier only stays in power if they cowtow to the fringe crazies in the party, and that's what she's doing.
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by SketchySeaBeast 4mo ago
It also doesn't qualify how or how often the users use the app. Online games like to do this too - "40M registered users!" when the number of players with an active subscription are a tiny fraction.

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