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by regular_trash 21d ago
Well clearly. But the above comment was about jobs that didn't exist before AI that AI will lead to the creation of. Tiktok arguably led to more datacenters being created, AI is not unique in this regard and it's silly to imply th
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by regular_trash 2mo ago
I think the problem is primarily if you publish a REST api for commercial consumption on some level. If people depend on your REST api, the "RESTfulness" of it affords you some level of inaccuracy when documenting how things work.
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by regular_trash 2mo ago
Well that's a pretty contrived example. There are fair amount of requirements that can be predicted as "possibly coming" in a given problem space, and a good design typically takes them into consideration and plans contingenc
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by regular_trash 2mo ago
Clearly lol. I think a good-faith interpretation of the question is: "What kinds of things is go's concurrency model suited for where the normal pythonic alternative is cumbersome/less desirable"
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by regular_trash 2mo ago
It actually is a paradox, a veridical paradox. But I'm splitting hairs lol
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by regular_trash 4mo ago
This line of thinking necessarily throws out any formal systems of reasoning humans have adopted. E.g. belief in a divine creator gives little reason to believe that Newton's First Law is eternally consistent if an omnipotent being cou
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by regular_trash 4mo ago
I'm not convinced jobs will be axed in the long-term - All the big tech companies frequently staff teams on projects that basically go nowhere to spread bets on multiple projects in case one has legs. Once LLMs reach the point of commo
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by regular_trash 5mo ago
One of the many things that has been strange to me is how often people will label written thoughts as AI slop when the "signs" are just normal phrases. Sure, that's a tired expression, and I 100% agree we should be critical o
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by regular_trash 5mo ago
Well this is not the context I had in mind. I'm thinking of the many times I've had to break apart 3kloc react components to reuse some part just because someone decided modularity didn't matter
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by regular_trash 5mo ago
Hot take - I hate YAGNI. My personal pet peeve is when someone says YAGNI to a structure in the code they perceive as "more complex than they would have done it". Sure, don't add hooks for things you don't immediately ne
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by regular_trash 5mo ago
Stuff like this is very common. For example, at the start of Trump's second term, the whitehouse history page was changed to make democrat presidents look bad - https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-
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by regular_trash 7mo ago
Can you elaborate? This seems like a simple mistake if they are incorrect, I'm not sure where 33% or 50% come from here.
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by regular_trash 7mo ago
The distinction between rent/own is kind of a false dichotomy. You never truly own your platform - you just "rent" it in a more distributed way that shields you from a single stress point. The tradeoff is that you have to man
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by regular_trash 8mo ago
Before I got into software development, I worked at a company doing technology-adjacent things. Nothing too fancy, but I got to improve a lot of things just by knowing a little powershell. One day, a senior developer there - a guy very fond
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by regular_trash 9mo ago
Rust is an unergonomic language that slows development in the general case (because it has lots of arcane syntax and rules, and people generally don't know it). Suggesting it as the "obvious" choice ignores the tradeoffs that
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by regular_trash 10mo ago
I disagree that this is an issue in every language - the problem is that in other languages the validation against some schema is more or less required for unmarshalling, and it's optional in TS. Seeing a deserialization error immediat
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by regular_trash 10mo ago
It's a lot more effort, but branded types for conceptual differences can bridge that last gap
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by regular_trash 10mo ago
Not parent comment, but TS is generally safe if you have types correct at system borders, but very scary when you don't. Some of the most impactful bugs I've seen are because a type for an HTTP call did not match the structure of
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by regular_trash 1y ago
I think the point was that they are contradictory, yet "data" was shown to indicate they were each sound decisions, implying an inherent dishonesty and willingness to bend data to support an already drawn conclusion.
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by regular_trash 1y ago
Not sure if it's just me, as I'm relatively new to the field, but I notice a surprising amount of people assume that the details in programming have already been made intuitive to them, and they use this "experience" to
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by regular_trash 1y ago
Wouldn't this complicate variable binding? I'm unsure how to think about this kinda of syntax if either D or E are expected to return some kind of data instead of "fire and forget" processes.
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by regular_trash 1y ago
This is a foolish consistency, and a contrived counterexample. Consistency is not an ideal unto itself.
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by regular_trash 2y ago
Excalidraw
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by regular_trash 2y ago
There are usually flights from hub to spoke, and spoke to hub, and each one will have the same number. This is within a 24 hour period. 3934 is one such flight between PHX and SEA.
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by regular_trash 2y ago
The misconception here is that Flight numbers are not treated as IDs. A unique key to any flight is the composite of number/origin/departure date. And it's mostly a holdover from legacy systems airlines are entrenched in, so
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by regular_trash 3y ago
If the problem is pervasive as made out to be, it stands to reason that a person would have at least one anecdotal experience in favor of the claim.
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by regular_trash 3y ago
This is specific to the act of learning a language, where writing out the characters with intentionality will obviously have more carryover to memorizing the forms of such characters. When the learning tools are detached from the subject at
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by regular_trash 3y ago
Turrles all the way down
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by regular_trash 3y ago
I don't think you have to have malice in mind to see it in that way. It's more like: This is a company, and they have to make money. And it isn't a far leap to assume the margins come from exploiting the mismatch between valu
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by regular_trash 3y ago
Hard disagree. Abstractions are nice when they match the mental model of a problem domain, but the odds you have the right set of abstract primitives in mind from the outset is practically 0.

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