sixstringtheory

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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
>> variable names (a hard part of computer science) >Naming is for software engineering, not CS. I figured they were referencing the “two hard problems of computer science”, those two being naming things, cache invalidation and off
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
Your last paragraph is the perfect rebuttal to GP. Computers don’t exist in a vacuum. They still require mineral and electrical inputs, repair, orchestration… sounds an awful lot like our bodies!
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
They’re the only ones you mentioned, so I participated in the conversation you seeded. Care to weigh in on the other 98% of my response?
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
As much as I might like people like Jello Biafra or Hunter S. Thompson, those shouldn’t be the _only_ people informing you on society. You can completely wreck your credit and still bounce back and even prosper. I’ve seen it happen with ban
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
I don’t know if it’s 0 for me, but it’s definitely way less than 10 hours per week. I have ETFs and a HYSA that I basically never look at. That’s passive.
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
OK, but TFA is about the work part, not the passive part, despite the title. Even having a “portfolio of revenue generating products” will require work to maintain. Maybe full time or more so, depending on if you used log4j or an SSL cert f
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
Live on the wild side. Turn off the autocorrect.
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
Read the alt text. I can’t grab it on mobile, but it basically boils down to: never say never, and in service of that future possibility, we actually should explore it until such time that conflicts of interest naturally resolve. If your te
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
Investigate anything hard enough and it’ll tell you whatever you want to hear. Hard to imagine any result to that investigation that would be universally accepted. Why not apply a little bit of technology to the problem so we can verify our
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
That kind of thing happens to people that do lock their doors all the time. So clearly, the usage of locks and lack thereof are not the issue.
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
Who here believes Trump will pull punches because the election wasn’t satisfactorily legitimizing? If you get killed on the high ground, you’re still dead.
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
I’ve long been of the opinion that you can’t love others until you love yourself. Between the NPC comment and breaking up with his girlfriend, I’d say he has a long way to go, if he ever gets there at all. Hope he does.
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
Ugh how long until a new freemium model comes out where you can either pay with money or pay with microphone access…
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
This should be the top comment. OP is looking for confirmation bias and got plenty here, but they really need to introspect on how to be a more appealing coworker. Linking to Jack Posobiec’s tweets and complaining about being called a racis
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
If you look at the problem as a swiss cheese model and not just a teleological propagation from one root cause, then there are many things that need fixing, not just a cobbler being short one nail.
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
Hopefully they’re discouraging students from sending lots of fragmentary messages interspersed with superfluous nonsense like “hey” “i mean” etc
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
Not everything runs on electricity today. You can’t just snap your fingers and replace millions of cars, stoves, boilers, etc
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
I’ll just start by saying it’s bad that you or anyone else ever felt so vilified. That kind of behavior is the first place my mind went to when I saw just how complete this election victory was. It’s a referendum on the rhetorical atmospher
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
We’re so close to understanding each other here. People have validated your experience, and then said hey, we feel it too. Yet when they try to have the same conversation and seek validation of their own experience, you decide that’s the ti
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
> Stop murdering children first. Of course, Israelis and their supporters will say the same thing. There is no one party to this state of affairs still alive that threw the first stone. There was October 7, before that there were settlem
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by sixstringtheory 2y ago
> "I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years," Berliner wrote in an email to CEO Katherine Maher. "I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do imp
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
But this tool doesn’t know what is weird and what isn’t. What you’re talking about is something more like a fuzzer or static analyzer.
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
> Parts of the code probably rely on the bugs The combination of pieces is what should be tested then, not the behavior of each individual piece “just in case something needs it that way”. You’ll never be able to change anything with tha
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
Brilliant distillation of this insight, I've never heard it put in those words before but it's perfect. It cuts both ways too, if you have lots of tests but most of them aren't really exercising the external API, then you&#x2
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
This articulates the problem I’m having right now in an interesting way. I’m fine writing unit tests that validate business logic requirements or bug fixes, but writing tests that validate implementations to the point that they reimplement
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
I think “knowledge work” refers to work that solely requires knowledge with no physical labor component and no physical object manipulation (other than a keyboard, mouse, and writing utensil, I guess). Every job that requires physical lab
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
> you can cross-reference multiple windows without them overlapping another This is what people always say about this, but you can’t look at two different monitors simultaneously. Your fingers are already on the keyboard. Once you get th
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
> farmers absolutely want their tractor to work when the cell network doesn't Sounds like it works exactly the way you say it should: > Farmers who don't get a good cell signal of course do work without getting data uploaded
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
> John Deere collects a lot of opt-in data from tractors How are you getting requirement from this?
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by sixstringtheory 3y ago
Please stop spamming the same link. If you have something you'd like everyone to see, just make it a top-level comment on the submission. And a bit more substantial commentary on why we should visit it would be nice.

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