jgon

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by jgon 5d ago
My ideal tool would be less tooling, which I know is not a great answer. But what I mean by this is that I can probably cobble together a build pipeline that handles most of this stuff if I spend enough time working with Gradle. And the rea
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by jgon 6d ago
jpackage is heavily oriented around installable artifacts, it creates a .deb or .rpm for Linux for example. So if I wanted to throw someone a cli utility I can literally just send them the binary if I’m working in Go, whereas Java they need
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by jgon 6d ago
I completely agree. I know that there has been some work on command line ergonomics for this stuff, but my hope is that after the bulk of the Leyden work is done, another project starts up aimed at unifying all of the various disparate tool
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by jgon 2mo ago
Its also described as a provincial problem but all of the provinces receive a substantial amount of funding, particularly for healthcare, via the federal government. People say "oh its the provinces fault, they just need to spend more&
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by jgon 2mo ago
You've come into this thread, which is about an article where a doctor talks about insurance denying care for her husband, ultimately resulting in his death, to basically say "This doesn't prove anything, and also in systems
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by jgon 2mo ago
You've dug through tens of thousands of code bases? 30 years would give you ~10,950 days, so you'd have to be digging into 2 code bases per day, every single day without any breaks for 30 years straight, to get to "tens of th
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by jgon 3mo ago
Sweet thanks, I guess I never really thought about moving to the Rust Belt and then taking part in its thriving economy to get the sort of job that would allow me to support a family of 5 and own a house on a single income. I would guess at
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by jgon 3mo ago
That's actually a really great suggestion. It would be great if you could throw together a list of these many, many places and post it here, so we could think about what sort of moves we could make. Thanks in advance!
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by jgon 3mo ago
If you make 5 of a product and put a bunch of marketing behind it you can sell out too. People are going to use "selling out" as some sort of barometer of success but its like the lizard-man veto in politics. You'll always fi
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by jgon 3mo ago
Right, but also a big part of the "Theranos situation" was a tech company coming out and saying "We've got this revolutionary medical technology that the multi-hundred billion dollar medical industry has overlooked but w
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by jgon 4mo ago
Lol, why do you think the C series was divested to Airbus? https://www.reuters.com/article/business/trump-administratio...
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by jgon 4mo ago
You literally compared them in your comment.
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by jgon 4mo ago
"Wrongthink". Lol man, if you think that taking money from a country whose head of state has recently said that they may need to forcibly annex your own country, and then using that money to illegally obtain the personal informati
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by jgon 4mo ago
I mean one of the opening paragraphs of that article is as follows: "This is not because Alberta’s grievances are illegitimate. They are not. Albertans have real and long-standing concerns about energy policy, federal–provincial relati
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by jgon 4mo ago
You're misunderstand my point here. Alberta, until the most recent seat redistribution, had the largest federal ridings by population. Now they're only the 3rd largest. That means that the average Albertan's vote was worth fa
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by jgon 4mo ago
I'll try one last reply in the hopes that you're not just playing willfully ignorant here. Alberta doesn't send money but "Albertans" do. Sorry for not being insanely pedantic with my terminology. Critically the fed
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by jgon 4mo ago
Respectfully, as an Albertan who still lives in Alberta, and who wants to remain a part of Canada I don't think that the persecution complex is 100% bullshit, and dismissals of it as such by eastern Canada only serve to reinforce it. R
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by jgon 4mo ago
Equally, you are being fed a narrative. Yes, yes, every Canadian pays into federal taxes that are then dispersed amongst provinces to give a relatively "equal" standard of living, hence the term equilization payments. But why does
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by jgon 6mo ago
The standard TI graphing calculator offered to schools is the TI-84 Plus CE, which is generally 140USD and up. This calculator is currently offered for 89USD so you're already immediately incorrect on the pricing. The battery in this o
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by jgon 7mo ago
Based on your replies here, one thing it really doesn't seem like is a community of people trying to earnestly exchange ideas or points of view. It really seems like you're viewing this whole thing as some sort of debate contest o
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by jgon 7mo ago
You’re asking what motive the author has for the tone of this comment because that is wrong-headed because the author of the comment was an LLM. The real question is why the author would think it’s appropriate at any time, let alone on a th
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by jgon 7mo ago
I always like to do a little digging when I read one of these articles. The first point I come to is that the author is employed by a16z ( https://a16z.com/author/david-oks/ ) and so you have to immediately apply th
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by jgon 8mo ago
Of course there's a heavy dose of childhood nostalgia driving this, but I do love everything about this design style and outlook. It ties into the "early" days of the internet and web, when the vibe was around having a "
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by jgon 9mo ago
This is vibe coded slop that the author does not understand and even their comments seem to be generated slop showing no real understanding of what people are saying to them.
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by jgon 10mo ago
One of the short stories in this collection "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole" by Isabel J. Kim, won the BSFA award for short fiction, the Locus award for Best Short Story, the Nebula award for Best Short Sto
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by jgon 11mo ago
Just a few days ago this company came up on HN as part of a substack post which pointed out the numerous warning signs that this company is likely a scam, so its crazy to see them given so much credulous reporting from mainstream media. Aft
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by jgon 1y ago
This book was generated by an LLM, and if I look at the Github organization that manages the repo, it looks like a bunch of other written material, all generated by LLMs. I scanned through the material a little bit and it seemed like exactl
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by jgon 1y ago
I’ve added the book to my queue, and if you’re so inclined I’d appreciate hearing what your other four are.
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by jgon 1y ago
It's not an ad-hominem. When people are talking their book, you should know that they're talking their book, and that knowledge doesn't have to negate any sound points they're making or cause you to disregard everything
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by jgon 1y ago
This comment is completely untrue, the place I had read the information was incorrect and I was wrong in passing on second hand information I hadn’t personally verified. One of the people in question has clarified and corrected this comment

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