all_factz

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by all_factz 5mo ago
They would have to trade off building new features for refactoring. It seems they consider shipping more important, and that as long as the existing features mostly work, that’s good enough. As customers, we have to ask: do we agree? Do we
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by all_factz 7mo ago
“Which side”? What other side is there in Iran? You think there’s some shadow government that can realistically topple the mullahs from within? The only way the Shah comes back is with US boots on the ground, which would be a disaster for o
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by all_factz 8mo ago
VENI/VIDI/VICI are easy for anyone who studied Latin (as indeed used to be common), and ARIA is similarly easy for anyone who knows about opera. Basically, the crossword is for snobs.
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by all_factz 9mo ago
Sure, I agree. Kneejerk condemnation and othering is bad. But there’s a need to balance even-handedness with a healthy skepticism of those in power. Otherwise you risk becoming an apologist. No one is saying not to do your homework or not t
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by all_factz 9mo ago
“I reject demonisation of the wealthy” is quite an odd thing for someone identifying as “far left” to say. But then you go on to identify as a “left liberal” - canonically not considered far left - so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised. Whether
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by all_factz 9mo ago
Sure, and for those cases I’d rather tell the agent to use htmx instead of something hand-rolled.
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by all_factz 9mo ago
React is hundreds of thousands of lines of code (or millions - I haven’t looked in awhile). Sure, you can start by having the LLM create a simple way to sync state across components, but in a serious project you’re going to run into edge-ca
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by all_factz 11mo ago
We need dinners, we don’t need AI
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by all_factz 1y ago
Meh, sort of. Just because LLMs let you output reams of code, doesn’t mean you should use them to do that. As always, you should make the smallest diff that would accomplish your goal. Working this way, LLMs don’t really accelerate my workf
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by all_factz 1y ago
That’s a little simplistic. Iranians feel, somewhat justifiably, that they and the Arab world have been pushed around by the West for over 100 years. The Jihadism we bemoan today didn’t arise in a vacuum - it is at least partially a reactio
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by all_factz 1y ago
It’s not a justification, obviously. But it is a (partial) explanation. Israel wanted to keep sweeping the Palestinian issue under the rug, and Hamas and its sponsors were not going to allow that.
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by all_factz 1y ago
Because Rooney writes dressed-up romance novels. They’re mediocre. But to the author’s point, at least they’re readable and touch on real emotion, even if I find them a bit trite. Some balance could be struck between Rooney and the more hig
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by all_factz 1y ago
October 7th was a reaction to Trump’s “Abraham Accords” which benefitted Sunni countries at the expense of Iran.
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by all_factz 1y ago
Have you been to Israel? I have cousins there. When I was 14 and visited, my 19 year old cousin told me we need to kill all the Arabs because “if we exile them, they will just come back.” Do you really think (a large segment of) Israelis ar
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by all_factz 1y ago
Iran has shown itself a rational actor time and time again by not escalating against continued provocation by Israel and the US, knowing that to do so would be to enter a conflict it can’t win. That’s not the behavior of an irrational actor
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by all_factz 3y ago
> Letting the structure emerge requires people thinking in depth about the underlying principles of what the code does or should do. Right, yes, but those principles are often still very much in flux in the early days of a feature. Once
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by all_factz 3y ago
So much this. It’s hard not to lose the forest for the trees — we are craftspeople after all — but at the end of the day the overall structure of a program is so much important than whether there’s a bit of duplication here or there. Better
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by all_factz 3y ago
I would be much more sympathetic to this stance if you weren’t implicitly endorsing the rights of companies like Meta/Alphabet/OpenAI to profit from the disruption of copyright law. If we’re talking ordinary people being able to b
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by all_factz 3y ago
Actually, C-level execs are among the most privileged professionals on Earth. Once their salaries take a hit, we can talk about mine getting cut as well. Till then, enjoy being a shill!
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by all_factz 4y ago
If you clicked on the “biological daughter” link, you’d see it links out to a Twitter post where Pavlo shares a paternity test he had to take for some reason. So it’s just a joke, not a commentary on other children he may or may not have.
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by all_factz 4y ago
Trying to understand: what’s to prevent someone from calling an FFI-defined function on a free type without going through the whole linear types rigmarole? E.g. could I call `fopen` and `fclose` directly to circumvent the whole `File` inter
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by all_factz 4y ago
It’s not the same outcome at all - severance pay is often the difference between needing to take out a loan or not when embarking on a job search after a layoff. Lack of that stability will have material impact on many people: they might ha
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by all_factz 4y ago
Wanting to retain a benefit you had for years is whiny? What are the execs giving up in exchange for asking their employees to work harder? Way to punch down, dude.
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by all_factz 4y ago
There are many reasons someone might want to remain at their place of work and still retain improved benefits and treatment from their employer. As an adult, it’s not for you to judge others’ reasons: who are you to say I should quit my job
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by all_factz 4y ago
In 2019, SF Gate found a household income of around 200k a year was still “middle class” ( https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/amp/SF-househ... ). I’d wager that’s a fair bit higher now. Even among those
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by all_factz 4y ago
There’s a qualitative difference between having a couple thousand RSUs and having a voting stake in a company. Tech workers are well off, but they’re nowhere near as well off as C-level execs and even less well off than major shareholders i
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by all_factz 4y ago
If you have to work to live, you’re a worker, sorry. 500k a year is a lot but in many places it’s not enough that you can stop working. So yeah, if people who make 500k a year know what’s good for them, they should totally align themselves
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by all_factz 4y ago
“Gosh just be nicer to the CEOs!”
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by all_factz 4y ago
Fair - people definitely have different paths, and I don’t mean to suggest that therapy is a panacea. I will say however that not all therapy is focused on trauma; it can also address patterns of thought and behavior which are not conducive
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by all_factz 4y ago
This is a bit of a chicken-or-egg problem. If you’re depressed, you don’t have the energy to do the beneficial things you’re recommending above. So I come back to the idea that you need to look inward, into the core causes of your depressio

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