mikebenfield

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by mikebenfield 14d ago
I find the usage bizarre and confusing, as others also clearly do. There’s nothing wrong with pointing this out.
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by mikebenfield 27d ago
I like self-checkout lines, as do I'm pretty sure most people I know. And I’ve never met a person who consistently enjoys Uber driver conversation; in fact I’ve often seen it used as the canonical example of a human interaction people
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by mikebenfield 1mo ago
I think I’m pretty skilled, or at least I was, but much of my work now looks like this. The fact is in many cases Claude can diagnose and fix the issue quicker than I can even read it. It would be crazy not to take advantage of this. Of cou
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by mikebenfield 1mo ago
There are a lot more Americans than immigrants moving to California. And the number of people moving to California combined with Californians’ pathological resistance to building an adequate housing supply is what pushes up housing prices
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by mikebenfield 4mo ago
Having worked at two big tech companies, I’d say one was the most laid-back, stress free environment I’ve ever worked in, and the other was pretty middle of the road.
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by mikebenfield 4mo ago
I'm all in favor of talking about drawbacks of AI coding and potential future problems. No problem. But at this point just the blanket statement that you'll never use it is not reasonable. It's the equivalent of a master car
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by mikebenfield 5mo ago
> What is hard about it? Young children seem to pick it up with ease. It cannot be that hard? They do? I've known plenty of kids and young adults who utterly failed to become even borderline competent at programming.
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by mikebenfield 5mo ago
> artificial deadlines preventing me from writing proper unit tests, or the requirement for code review from people on my team who don't even work on the same codebase as I do on a daily basis I have never experienced this, and it s
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by mikebenfield 6mo ago
You've missed the point. The point is that the women in question demand it. There is no shortage of women on social media ranting about how lazy or cheap men are who want to do coffee or drinks for a first date. Or especially a walk. I
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by mikebenfield 6mo ago
Practically that would be very likely to be the case to the reader, but grammatically no, it's still ambiguous. > They went to Oregon with Betty, a maid and a cook. Betty could be both a maid and a cook. So there is still ambiguity.
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by mikebenfield 1y ago
What's much more sensible than taking an IQ test is looking at your experience with math to date.
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by mikebenfield 1y ago
Or more. Actually some of them seem inverted. Simple compiler takes 3 months but a GameBoy emulator takes 2 weeks? That’s not my experience at all.
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by mikebenfield 2y ago
C++ has indeed added many features that help with memory safety, at the cost of getting increasingly more complicated and harder to work with.
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by mikebenfield 2y ago
I think the idea that Lisp was so much more productive than other languages originates from a much earlier time. But now the most important features of Lisp - like garbage collection - are commonly available in most languages.
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by mikebenfield 2y ago
I always thought calling it Xbox One was the most bizarre choice in the history of branding and marketing. Given how common it is to retroactively refer to the first item in a series as "One" (Rambo 1, Rocky 1, Playstation 1, etc)
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
I tried to use a CPAP machine for a while. I honestly could never figure out how I was supposed to breathe with it. At all. It seemed to be physically impossible. I'd try for a while each night, then get frustrated and stop so I could
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
Big O notation deals with asymptotic behavior of a function - in other words, as N goes to infinity. If we're accepting the premise that N has an upper bound, the rest of the discussion is meaningless. Presumably the argument is an abs
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
> Working at an office sucks because of some combination of {long commute, open office plan, team not being there} Working at an office sucks because it is a massive constraint on where you can live, even if you can tolerate a long commu
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
I think I'll grant that there are more educated and competent people than there used to be. But broadly the gap between scholars and "the public" is as massive at it's ever been. Meet a few members of "the public&qu
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
> driving through mostly forested areas Yeah, well that's just not the case at all here. The drive from Stallings to downtown Charlotte is almost entirely on Independence Boulevard, which is very much a stroad ( https://e
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
The only additional point I’ll make is that places like Stallings (the first link I posted) are absolutely considered suburbs. For instance the Wikipedia article on Stallings calls it a “suburban town” ( https://en.m.wikipedia.or
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
So there's a pretty big push for urbanism the last few years. There's lots of YouTube channels and other social media stuff dedicated to the idea that the US needs more walkable neighborhoods, more bike infrastructure, less car de
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
To be honest this is one of those Internet comments where I feel like the commenter is in a different reality than me. None of the dozens of suburban US people I've known has ever found it feasible to walk to much of anything - yes, ma
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
There are sometimes apartments spotted around in a suburby area, but due to the nature of US suburbs they don't really get many of the advantages density should bring - everything you might want to go to is still at least a moderate ca
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
I don't really see how you can choose one without at least a rough idea of the other. How do you know what data structure to use if you have no idea how you'll be accessing the data?
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
> Is this deep deep flaw endemic to humanity across cultural lines? Yes, almost certainly. > Are millennials/ Gen Z the first generation where men anre (perhaps?) allowed to be almost as emotional as women? This does not appear t
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
> Talk to your local politicians about fixing service so that is an option. Lots of people have been trying to get decent public transit in US cities for decades. There is so much resistance it often seems impossible. So, yes, obviously
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
I don't know, but I see unnecessary all caps in other words too - it's not infrequent that I see JAVA and sometimes RUST (for the programming languages). Kind of irks me, but obviously doesn't really matter. Ultimately I thin
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
> building more housing doesn’t reduce the demand for housing This is so obviously contrary to experience and common sense I'd characterize it as delusional.
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by mikebenfield 3y ago
> in scripting languages, a statement does not depend on the following ones to be executed, meaning that the code can just be read through I'm pretty sure this is nonsense and is not a consistent way to distinguish languages that ar

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