pooya13

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by pooya13 3y ago
> There's no idiots at OpenAI. Most certainly there are idiots at OpenAI.
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by pooya13 5y ago
Even if we ignore privacy and effectiveness, the problem with authoritarian methods is that they can (and most likely will) be abused. The justification may be to catch predators and terrorists (which is uncomfortable to argue against lest
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by pooya13 5y ago
No the reason he is in prison is because of the Iraq war revelations. It has nothing to do with the 2016 email leaks.
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by pooya13 5y ago
Having a codebase that is so convoluted that only you can work on is really not a skill you should risk your career on. It might work for those people you have seen in a short period, but long term they fall behind as they not only not deve
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by pooya13 5y ago
Did you read the article? They say at the very top that they don’t mean you should literally keep quitting your jobs, but have a quitting mindset.
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by pooya13 5y ago
> you also lose most of the leverage that comes with specialization and having critical knowledge Your value does not disappear when there is redundancy within your company. If it is a valuable skill there will always be a demand for it
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by pooya13 5y ago
> Not sure why the author put this in, but "Always be learning" The point of the article is that by increasing team productivity to reduce your own tasks, you now have the chance to learn new things and grow into new roles as o
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by pooya13 5y ago
Your best defence are your capabilities. Being “indispensable” means nothing if the company goes under.
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by pooya13 5y ago
Exactly. If you increase team productivity and your boss fires you for it instead of promoting you, then the company is doomed so why would you want to work for them?
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by pooya13 5y ago
What is your alternative then? Version control binary files and have your repos grow gigabytes?
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by pooya13 5y ago
It tracks the changes fine. It’s just that it doesn’t make sense to track changes in a binary.
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by pooya13 5y ago
Maybe I am missing the point. What is the alternative this article proposes then?... Also, Git is not central so how can you ever integrate large file support without a separate server?
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by pooya13 5y ago
I highly doubt anyone will lose their job for censoring Palestinians if not rewarded for it. Facebook has been banning Palestinians or pages sympathetic to them for a while now without any consequences. I would actually argue the volume of
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by pooya13 5y ago
20% is for medical isotopes not power. They can also export not just for domestic use. Good thing we don’t base international law on deduction.
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by pooya13 5y ago
No. I’m saying how do infer it was suitable for nuclear weapons production? The International Atomic Agency has the most stringent oversight on the Iranian nuclear program and there has been no evidence of a nuclear weapons program.
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by pooya13 5y ago
> suitable for the production of weapons Where have you seen any evidence that Stuxnet relied on information on production of nuclear weapons?
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by pooya13 5y ago
> Iran, which insists it does not want nuclear weapons The bias in BBC phrasing still amazes me. Using “Iran insists it does not want nuclear weapons”, which is technically a true statement, instead of the more accurate one “There is no
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by pooya13 6y ago
The problem is that YouTube, Twitter, Facebook et al. want to have the protections of social networking platforms (e.g not being accountable for the content), while at the same time be able to autonomously remove/censor content outside
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by pooya13 6y ago
To those who say Iranians are not sincerely hospitable to foreigners, and that they are practicing Tarof. As an Iranian I can assure you this is not the case. Iranians love foreigners, to a fault, to the point that I have felt discriminated
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by pooya13 6y ago
I’m not on Windows but whenever I have to be I use Chocolatey to manage installations.
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Do These Scatter Plots Indicate Election Fraud in Michigan?(youtube.com)
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by pooya13 6y ago
What if the resource is not memory?
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by pooya13 6y ago
I suggest chai script: https://github.com/ChaiScript/ChaiScript I haven’t looked at it but from Jason Turners’ videos I know he uses the modernize and cpp core guidelines checks with clang tidy on it so it should be mo
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by pooya13 6y ago
Quickly skimming through the webpage for the app it worded like they came up with the idea of spaced repetition. Just want to clarify that this is not a new concept: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
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by pooya13 6y ago
> Both C and C++ follow the same philosopy: "Trust the programmer" I disagree. I think ever since it’s inception from C, C++ has tried to increase type safety and continuously move more of the work to the compiler (latest examp
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by pooya13 6y ago
Another complexity with measuring software productivity is the value of reliability and maintainability which can take years to manifest. Also there is the multiplier effect of having a team player who brings up the whole team’s productivit
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by pooya13 6y ago
Data leads to control (in the extreme case, the government knowing all your thoughts can pretty much control your life). Sometimes this control is warranted, like using anonymized data to prevent crimes, with a panel of independent citizens
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by pooya13 6y ago
There can be filters and data can be anonymized, with all access recorded and audited by an independent panel. However that is not the current state of the surveillance state in the US. I think the majority would poll for the system with th
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by pooya13 6y ago
> Ah yes, the economic argument of "punish savers and people refraining from consumption will lead us to our Centrally Planned Utopia" Wealth tax would only apply to the very reach. i.e. the “job creators” whose wealth is suppo
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by pooya13 6y ago
It is not rare at all to want your program to handle generic output. Templates might not be the cleanest syntax but they do address a real need.

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