Tommah

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by Tommah 2y ago
I'll add my two cents here. A lot of the work that goes into a codebase doesn't necessarily appear in the final product. Sometimes code is hastily written to get the system working, and then it has to be rewritten to be faster o
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by Tommah 2y ago
Django has the function render (it used to be render_to_response ) that takes a template and converts it to HTML. So it isn't just the JS people who are using the idea of rendering in this sense. More generally, rendering doesn&#x
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by Tommah 2y ago
You're right about D, but Rust is drawing some people away from C and C++. Something may emerge that will do the same on the JS front-end. In fact, I'd say that the TypeScript/React combo is more susceptible to being replac
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by Tommah 2y ago
This is pretty poor writing by PG here. What is "neutral opinion"... fact? Or the people who answer "I don't know" in political polls? And saying "Actual frauds are usually pretty conspicuous" is silly.
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by Tommah 2y ago
Here's mine: https://www.amecy.com/404
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by Tommah 2y ago
My Chrome installation updated itself recently, and when I restarted it today, it asked me whether I wanted to enable new AI features. I told it no. In retrospect, if it were really intelligent, it would have known I was going to say no.
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by Tommah 2y ago
Don't worry. There will be a few witless attempts too.
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by Tommah 3y ago
"So what makes you think you're a good fit for this job?" "I already have it."
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by Tommah 3y ago
bee_rider already touched on this in another comment, but the theorem makes sense if you consider a matrix with large diagonal values and small off-diagonal values (in magnitude). If I have a matrix with 1,000,000 on the diagonal and 1 eve
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by Tommah 3y ago
Ahem, you mean alluding, not eluding.
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by Tommah 3y ago
DOTA 2 gets rebalanced constantly; certain characters are made stronger or weaker. Overwatch also received some major changes relating to team composition.
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by Tommah 3y ago
Maybe they just wanted 3,158 Hacktoberfest T-shirts.
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by Tommah 3y ago
Yeah, I think they're trying to say "Stop writing in C and C++, blockheads!" but in a more diplomatic tone. Most of the common languages today are memory-safe. Really, which ones aren't? C and C++ are the big ones. I
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by Tommah 3y ago
I still see a lot of outdoor signs that alternate between showing the time and the temperature. They're usually outside banks, and near apartment buildings sometimes. Libraries probably still have clocks; they want people to know how
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by Tommah 3y ago
One of my startup jobs paid us through ADP. While our ADP account was being set up, my boss told us to be on the lookout for an email from them. So one day, I'm in the middle of programming something, and I check my email. Lo and be
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by Tommah 3y ago
Once the Supreme Court ruled that money is speech, this was the next logical step.
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by Tommah 3y ago
I was doing something like this recently, where I implemented movements for the kings and rooks. I didn't even implement check or checkmate; basically, you win by capturing the king. I think that took me about 2.5 hours.
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by Tommah 3y ago
> For example, a prompt seeking images of America's founding fathers turned up women and people of colour. I smell a sequel to Hamilton .
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by Tommah 3y ago
Next thing you know, they're going to tell us that he didn't really hunt vampires. You can't trust anybody anymore.
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by Tommah 3y ago
> My bet is that the next "hip" thing will be either off-line or off-tech. IME, the Internet was much cooler when it took real-life things and improved upon them. If you're a writer, you can post something on a blog, and
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by Tommah 3y ago
> Just glue an envelope with a CD to the backcover Those CDs have a way of disappearing. My local library used to have a lot of tech books that were missing the accompanying CDs.
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by Tommah 3y ago
> They have providence , maintaining custody from manufacturer to store shelf. That's called provenance, not providence.
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by Tommah 3y ago
Linear algebra was the first math class I took in undergrad. I thought the next one was going to be non-linear algebra! But it wasn't.
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by Tommah 3y ago
There's only one way to know for sure.
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by Tommah 3y ago
Years ago, I worked for a startup that was trying to build a recruitment platform. We fed résumés into a few different SaaS résumé parsers, but the results that we got were generally unsatisfactory. They worked perfectly on maybe 5-10% of
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by Tommah 3y ago
I think it's résumé-driven development taken to the extreme. Someone at Instacart just added a line to their résumé: "Integrated generative AI into core product, increased media coverage of company by 300%." Now they just h
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by Tommah 3y ago
Back when Facebook games were really popular (Farmville and Bejeweled Blitz come to mind), Facebook was infamous for making breaking changes constantly. I remember this specifically because my friend told me that I should move one of my ga
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by Tommah 3y ago
Reposting my comment from a couple of months ago: At one of my jobs, they used Asana when I started. It was too full of backlogged issues, so we moved over to Jira. Then Jira got too full. A month before I was laid off, one of my coworkers
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by Tommah 3y ago
It works fine for a small team (probably three people or fewer), especially when you're still building the product and don't have it deployed yet. Breaking things isn't a major concern at that point. After people have start
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by Tommah 3y ago
I usually just hit >> and then <<.

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