irishloop

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by irishloop 3mo ago
Too many abstractions are bad. Too many code duplication is bad. Part of being a good engineer is finding the right balance. I know engineers who would gladly duplicate code all over the code base to avoid creating a new abstraction. I know
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by irishloop 4mo ago
I think there are a few things that make it "worthy" of literary consideration: 1. Read a straight horror story, it's quite a surprising twist at the end 2. A critique on the senselessness of following tradition just for the
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by irishloop 5mo ago
> with a pre-built you're at the very least paying for someone to assemble it for you, so it's always going to be more expensive as a baseline Except isn't it possible that pre-built companies actually get better deals on
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by irishloop 6mo ago
Ruby has "undoubtedly" been dead for at least a decade now, or so I've heard. Glad to hear Python is undoubtedly joining the party.
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by irishloop 7mo ago
Surely nothing has ever done wrong with this limitless source of clean energy to give people pause? There's no uninhabitable areas of the Earth due to this?
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by irishloop 9mo ago
Looking through this list makes me feel as if I am not a terribly good programmer, as these all feel well beyond my capabilities.
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by irishloop 11mo ago
Or maybe their actual problems are caused by automation, tax cuts on the rich, and a lack of social safety net that lets people live in dignity, but the media they consume mostly blames immigration and crime. Political "reality" i
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by irishloop 1y ago
Yes. But also, all technologies will eventually be used as weapons. And so its important for us to understand how they can be weaponized and to consider the social cost of that weaponization.
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by irishloop 1y ago
> If you don't own your infra, you are dependent. You're dependent regardless. You are dependent on your service provider, your hardware, your UPS battery backup, your RAID drives being easily replaced, your backups. It reminds
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by irishloop 1y ago
Do you think there's a way to train focus?
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by irishloop 1y ago
I think I'm at a stage in my life where I can accept that I am not, nor will I ever be, one of the best programmers
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by irishloop 1y ago
> I think we exist to bring new things into existence. If you ask me, to the extent there is a meaning of life, that’s it. We exist to create. It lights us up in a way nothing else does, putting something new into our world—and in doing
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by irishloop 1y ago
"Wherever you go, there you are" No amount of fame or success will alter who you truly are inside. If anything, laying your happiness at the foot of external validation from others in the form of critical success or fame is a pois
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by irishloop 1y ago
Nihilism can take many forms and is not necessarily indicative of a optimistic or pessimistic worldview
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by irishloop 2y ago
Join my startup, where we harness the power of HackerNews arguing about 10x engineers into a new form of renewable energy
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by irishloop 2y ago
Yeah I never really learn something until I actually hack away at it, and even then I need to really understand things on a granular level.
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by irishloop 2y ago
They're paying for Pro
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by irishloop 2y ago
Being compensated fairly is important. But so is empathy from management. So is being flexible when I have stuff going in my life or need a mental health day. It all adds up.
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by irishloop 2y ago
Meat and dairy specifically accounts for around 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). If people collectively just ate a bit less meat and dairy, it would go a long way. Don
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by irishloop 2y ago
It seems the author has given their own meaning to Senior Engineer as a sort of weird gatekeeping, "you aren't a REAL senior engineer unless you're done X, Y, and Z" My counterargument is that the very few job titles in
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by irishloop 2y ago
From the NYT: > For now, the announcement is largely symbolic. Israel is not a member of the court and does not recognize its jurisdiction in Israel or Gaza, meaning that Israeli leaders would face no risk of arrest at home. The US is al
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by irishloop 2y ago
No, you "shouldn't" feel vindictive. Vengeance doesn't really help anybody. We are all wronged, and we all wrong others. None of us is perfect. Some are worse than others, and we have laws, and punishments, etc. But I be
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by irishloop 3y ago
Netflix tried to do this, but then studios wanted a piece of the pie, so they all spun up their own streaming services and then stopped licensing to their competitors. Also, artists make virtually no money with Spotify, so it "works&qu
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by irishloop 3y ago
Almost 3 in 4 Palestinians believe the October 7th attack was "correct" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/poll-shows-palesti...
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by irishloop 3y ago
Israel is a close military ally and Palestine is... not. There are no true neutral countries in the world. Everyone has allies who they treat differently than enemies. There are no good guys or bad guys. There are only countries which do go
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by irishloop 3y ago
The Palestine/Israel conflict is significantly longer than any of the examples you gave. Which is not to say that its impossible. But the older I get, the less hope I have.
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by irishloop 3y ago
Surely there's a scale? Technically, any "killing a member of a group" would be a genocide under this definition. Even if someone commits a mass murder against a group, we typically call it mass murder or a hate crime -- not
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by irishloop 3y ago
I once gave an Airbnb 4 stars because I was annoyed they had no way to make coffee, even though it was basically a hotel being run as an Airbnb. Like, not even a cheap Keurig in the lobby They DMed me and told me that was bullshit and if I
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by irishloop 3y ago
Yes but aren't artists now compensated for their art being used in sampling? At least when it makes a profit? I haven't heard of anyone being compensated for their works making profit for OpenAI
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by irishloop 3y ago
I... don't know what I expected

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