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by bmy78 3y ago
They should have made the bit about Boeing instead.
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by bmy78 3y ago
No one says you have to subscribe to ALL of the streaming platforms at once. If cost is an issue, pick 1 or 2 services, watch the shows you’re interested in, then cancel those and pick 1 or 2. Rince and repeat. You have choice with this app
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by bmy78 3y ago
Lord no I am not putting my financial information on that cesspool of a platform.
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by bmy78 4y ago
Teams is the result of Microsoft taking a look at Slack and saying, how can we make this feel more like Excel?
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by bmy78 4y ago
Ok, if you get into Harvard, go to Harvard. Your opportunities in the long run should outweigh any sort of student loans you have to pay back. If you're going to NoName Private College that's 90% of the cost of Harvard, go to stat
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by bmy78 4y ago
JavaScript is a dynamically-typed language. Parallelizing the type checking with bundling gives you the best of both worlds: the speed when writing in a dynamic language and the type safety that comes with a static-typed language. For me, I
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by bmy78 4y ago
That “sink or float” metaphor was clumsily written and reminded me of someone wanting to convey something important, but didn’t know how or what to say. I’ve only watched one episode, but that episode was not good. In contrast House of the
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by bmy78 4y ago
“This Naked Mind” by Annie Grace takes a similar approach with alcohol.
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by bmy78 4y ago
Yes, LaMDA is not sentient. But this begs the question: as these models become more sophisticated, and we did end up creating a sentient AI, how would we know?
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by bmy78 4y ago
As someone who lives in the US Northeast with its biting winters, San Diego and Los Angeles's yearlong climate seems like a dream.
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by bmy78 5y ago
Actions speak louder than words. If she were truly sorry, she would’ve reverted the PR and have it go through the normal process. Instead she wrote a really long message about how the .NET Foundation owns your project.
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by bmy78 5y ago
As someone who has a liberal arts background, software engineering has a lot more in common with writing than most admit. Sure there is grammar and syntax but good writing can be as varied from William Shakespeare to Stephen King. Same with
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by bmy78 5y ago
I live in the NYC area and I can tell you no one cares about jaywalking.
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by bmy78 5y ago
I was an early employee (#20-something) of a startup that was acquired. The founder received 1 billion, the 2 other founders received 100 million each. I got about 80 grand that took 4 years to vest. You have to be grateful for the opportun
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by bmy78 5y ago
Now how would you do this with a wife that works and two young children in tow?
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by bmy78 5y ago
No.
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by bmy78 5y ago
Because it’s assumed those private methods’ usage happens within public methods, which should be tested. By testing the public methods and all of its use cases you are also testing private ones. That way you can arbitrarily modify private m
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by bmy78 5y ago
The introductory section talks about a 7 year old working on the quadratic formula. What?? At 7! “Calculus for 7 Year Olds (Who Are Geniuses)” should be the title.
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by bmy78 5y ago
I agree with so much of this! I think it stems from so many software engineers have a quantitative background, where solving for x is either right or wrong. Much of “good” software engineering, however, is subjective and I think many of the
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by bmy78 5y ago
The author uses a small subset (positive psychology and its nebulous definition of happiness, although the he doesn’t address that those psychologists do define that term) of psychology to denounce the whole field as “not science.” String t
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by bmy78 6y ago
Is it an alien cat?
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by bmy78 6y ago
John Adams’ greatest contribution to the presidency was that after losing the election to Thomas Jefferson in 1800, he stepped down and power changed without bloodshed. I’m not so sure that will happen should Trump lose this November.
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by bmy78 6y ago
It's easy to say that when you're afforded the comforts of a Western democracy.
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by bmy78 6y ago
While this does seem like a heartfelt apology from the CEO, this incident is a reminder of how much of our privacy we willingly hand over to companies and how much power they wield over us. It is immensely disturbing. I will not be using Tr
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by bmy78 6y ago
So where’s the free tier?
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by bmy78 7y ago
He didn’t really leave society though because his livelihood was entirely dependent on it, without contributing back. He just pitched a tent and didn’t talk to anyone for 27 years. He really just claimed his own campground for a long time.
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by bmy78 8y ago
This. Holes in the conventional theory do not act as evidence for alternative theories because you end up inadvertently filling up those holes with presuppositions to support those theories. Case in point: a very plausible explanation for t
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by bmy78 9y ago
This is the world in which we live. A very select few feast while the rest fight over table scraps. And then we argue over those table scraps while those who feast couldn't care less.
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by bmy78 10y ago
It's not "tricking", unless you're letting your toddler dictate whether you should leave the house. Toddlers don't have a choice over that; instead, you're giving the toddler a choice appropriate to their level
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by bmy78 11y ago
Wow, a Microsoft product that doesn't reference other MS products! I'm so used to the 'click a button' in Visual Studio to publish your C# / ASP.NET code to access SQL Server in the cloud supported by Azure.

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