pathseeker

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by pathseeker 11mo ago
programmers are introduced to CS history, it's just mostly irrelevant or poorly contextualized so there are no useful lessons
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by pathseeker 11mo ago
This has been going on forever. That just means the people that "worked it out" were shitty teachers and/or bad at spreading their work.
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by pathseeker 4y ago
That's not true. Significant amounts of lobbying and palm greasing happen in person, explicitly off of cell phones. It's not a coincidence that all of the companies that receive massive amounts of federal government money have hea
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by pathseeker 4y ago
>What neighborhoods are there where rich people reside who have no more social or political influence than people living in The Projects? Compared to this one? Nearly all of them. The neighborhoods in Mountain View are filled with afflue
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by pathseeker 5y ago
The navy was in a conflict with illiterate goat herders?
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by pathseeker 5y ago
Rust and Go pull in some stuff from functional programming (first class functions) but are not really designed around functional programming as the way to get things done. Most go programming I've seen is like python where you are slin
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by pathseeker 5y ago
didn't dark sky used to show these uncertainty ranges?
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by pathseeker 5y ago
>When the towers were first built, one of the design questions was whether or not they could survive being hit by a 747 no, it was a 707 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eE8d94qGPo&t=232s
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by pathseeker 5y ago
It's not difficult, it's reckless bordering on incompetence. The shared kernel is just way to much attack space and shared resources to make it tenable in the face of adversaries.
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by pathseeker 5y ago
candidates != qualified candidates A shit ton of people apply to FAANG companies because of the money on the table despite having no professional experience as a software engineer nor writing any code.
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by pathseeker 5y ago
Not everyone is selling a product nor do they care about catering to the lowest common denominator.
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by pathseeker 5y ago
no it's not "identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations."
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by pathseeker 5y ago
I love these idiom screw-ups. One of my coworkers once tried to use an English idiom and it came out, "let's not beat a horse to death."
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by pathseeker 5y ago
Those are based on the assumption that votes are equal. There are a lot of people I just don't have any interest in hearing from. No automated system is going to fix eternal September style problems. And before you suggest that I could
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by pathseeker 5y ago
Right, and GPL is making all of us open source devs rich. I can't fathom getting into open source and then getting mad when people use your tools to great success.
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by pathseeker 5y ago
>hyper programmable middleware to stitch together multiple vendor solutions well if that doesn't stir excitement I don't know what does!
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by pathseeker 5y ago
>My guess is that they would reset your isolation duration You do know that quarantine isn't supposed to be a punishment, right? Resetting your isolation duration is punitive and has zero relationship to your ability to spread covid
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by pathseeker 5y ago
"democratize" is double-speak for "closed source".
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by pathseeker 5y ago
> So how would a scientist prove conclusively that other humans are conscious and self-aware and not just very advanced automata that behave in ways which mimic consciousness and self-awareness? That's not the topic we're discu
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by pathseeker 5y ago
Selling unsecured credit default swaps.
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by pathseeker 5y ago
>Main reason being this: Most schools teach basic nutrition, i.e that eating less/more food than you need, can/will result in losing/gaining weight. In this day and age, it is common knowledge that eating junk and being se
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by pathseeker 5y ago
Financial literacy means not losing your paycheck to payday lenders, pawn shops, etc. Knowing how to invest when you have spare money is only a tiny portion of it. Dollar stores survive entirely on financial illiteracy. Everything at them c
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by pathseeker 5y ago
> got charged an overdraft and then a convenience fee for an account below minimum balance and then and then and then and it all turned out to be way worse than just paying for a single financial service. That's a fun anecdote but i
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by pathseeker 5y ago
Arrested for what? "Climate activist" seems like emotional manipulation.
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by pathseeker 5y ago
>Between the mass pollution tainting our world, impending global warming and increased civil unrest, I figure the odds that my animal reaches 70 are not very high. You are living in approximately the safest time ever. The Internet has ju
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by pathseeker 5y ago
>If the global internet goes down and stays down It doesn't take anything this drastic. All it takes is the country you are in deciding to cut off access. This has happened in various unstable countries many times over the last deca
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by pathseeker 5y ago
So? It would be even higher if it grew at the same rate as a typical Google SWE's comp did from 2010 to 2020. Some industries are doing really well.
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by pathseeker 6y ago
It only costs them a single lookup
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by pathseeker 6y ago
>Except that as we keep trying to point out, 90% of EV charging occurs overnight at home Most people don't buy vehicles for 90% of the use-cases. They buy something that does everything they normally expect a car to do, which includ
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by pathseeker 6y ago
"or Ubers"

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