philwelch

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by philwelch 6d ago
Outlook and Teams are both web apps, or at least they were when I last used them. Even if you download the "native" app it's just Electron. I haven't had trouble using either of them on Linux.
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by philwelch 1mo ago
Those are an order of magnitude higher doses than recommended.
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by philwelch 1mo ago
It seems common for taxi drivers to form a government-sanctioned cartel in order to limit the amount of competition. In the US this traditionally took the form of local taxi medallion systems, where there was a hard quota on how many taxis
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by philwelch 1mo ago
I was going to make the same wisecrack, but in seriousness I assume they're counting elderly retired taxi drivers as taxi drivers even if they stopped working years before their deaths.
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by philwelch 2mo ago
Even I think ten years ago, my Levi’s would consistently fail within a year. Switched to cargo pants and haven’t had that problem since.
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by philwelch 2mo ago
That's the law in Colorado, DC, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, and Vermont, all of which are blue states.
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by philwelch 2mo ago
Democrats opposed the Partial-Birth Abortion Act of 2003, and multiple blue states allow abortion at any point prior to birth.
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by philwelch 2mo ago
> If you’re a single-issue abortion voter, yes the US democrats tend to propose fetal viability (22 weeks or so) as the limit No, the standard Democrat policy is to allow abortion on demand at any point prior to birth—40 weeks or so.
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by philwelch 2mo ago
In Seattle you’re considered conservative if you’re not a Marxist.
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by philwelch 2mo ago
If we're going to gatekeep the word "engineer", you're not in the most defensible position as a train designer. If you want to go back to the original definition, engineers were soldiers specialized in siege warfare, whi
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by philwelch 3mo ago
“If the government pays for it, it’s free!”
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by philwelch 3mo ago
The prosecution has the burden of proof to establish the basic accusation, and the defendant is always entitled to offer the negative defense of "I didn't do it". For instance, if I'm accused of killing Paul, I can alway
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by philwelch 4mo ago
Wise decision. If you did anything to the thief, odds are the cops would have cared.
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by philwelch 4mo ago
> The burden is never on the defendant to prove their innocence. False. Look up "affirmative defense".
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by philwelch 4mo ago
> Anecdata is well known to be problematic. Show me the data that backs that claim.
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by philwelch 4mo ago
It's intentional on the part of the prosecutors, and the billionaire who funds their campaigns. I don't know what their actual motivations are--probably some combination of ideological derangement and ulterior motive. They just do
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by philwelch 4mo ago
Licking asses to get grants has been the full time job of tenured faculty for decades. Peer review just means they lick each other’s asses.
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by philwelch 4mo ago
Almost all of the YoY growth in the S&P500 is in a very small number of tech companies. If one of those fast-growing tech companies isn't in the S&P500, the index as a whole becomes obsolete.
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by philwelch 4mo ago
Sure but it’s still more affordable than it was for the vast majority of our ancestors, and they still had kids, so it’s not an explanation for declining TFR in developed countries.
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by philwelch 4mo ago
Life has never been more affordable than it is now. Virtually all of your ancestors were impoverished to a degree you can't even imagine.
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by philwelch 4mo ago
Deregulation does benefit the people, at least if it's done in ways that lead to sustained economic growth.
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by philwelch 4mo ago
No, I think AI actually gets us closer to the surgical team than before. The purpose of the surgical team is to maximize the value of a single individual contributor. Before AI, the only way to do that was to surround him with assistants, w
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by philwelch 4mo ago
Yes and every AI-first development workflow worth its salt does exactly this, and it does it much more thoroughly than I’ve ever seen a team of meatbags do it. My workflow, at a high level, is: 1. I write a high level spec. Not as high leve
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by philwelch 4mo ago
You’re reminding me a lot of those old assembly hackers who thought compilers were bullshit because they could hand-write better assembly. And I don’t mean that as an insult; those guys were probably right about their assembly code, just li
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by philwelch 4mo ago
As I recall, “No Silver Bullet” fundamentally rested on the assumption that the subroutine was the last word in abstractions to make programming more efficient, which probably wasn’t even defensible at the time because Lisp had already been
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by philwelch 4mo ago
> Normal, emotionally stable people do sometimes make decisions about what businesses to patronize based on the political leanings of the business owners. Maybe with issues like abortion or racial discrimination, but not tariffs.
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by philwelch 5mo ago
Why would someone make up such a banal rumor? I’m not saying it’s true, I’m saying who cares?
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by philwelch 5mo ago
Normal, emotionally stable people don’t care if the creators of a programming language disagree with them about tariffs.
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by philwelch 5mo ago
Also, if Zig itself doesn’t accept AI contributions, it’s probably NGMI unless somebody is willing to maintain that fork.
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by philwelch 5mo ago
If the penalty for hiring too many people for the wrong job role is being barred from hiring people ever again even for a different job role, then companies are just not going to hire people in the first place.

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