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by tfha 7y ago
Nah at least in chess all the grandmasters lean heavily on the chess engines, including studying top games between the best AI
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by tfha 7y ago
Acting responsibly as a researcher who has discovered a vulnerability requires delicately balancing a question of two greater evils. Will more people get hurt overall if we announce the vulnerability sooner, or will more people get hurt ove
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by tfha 7y ago
Doesn't phase 0 exclude the ability to transfer money? The whole point of a "currency"???
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by tfha 7y ago
The first time I ever heard the Numa Numa song was when I was 10 and had the flu. I was puking in the hallway and had intense nausea for hours. My classmates kept playing the song because it was the new viral thing. It took me over 10 years
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by tfha 7y ago
I'm pretty sure part of the job of a bodyguard is to ensure the well being of their client. If they ask for something that improves safety but makes the client miserable, they are not doing their job.
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by tfha 7y ago
Those are the cases where the parallel construction was caught, right? What about all the cases where parallel construction was used and successfully kept secret?
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by tfha 7y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but Go _discourages_ nested conditionals. There are even static analysis tools in the idiomic toolkit which tell you when your conditionals can be simplified.
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by tfha 7y ago
Humans make mistakes. People code review after exhausting days or late at night. Or sometimes they skim more than they intended to. You want to make problems in the code obvious everywhere that you can. In programming, if you miss an import
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by tfha 7y ago
Have you used a lot of go? I'm a big fan of rust and definitely like rust devs and the rust community, but I find that people haven't used go enough to "get" it don't really understand just how much it can take away
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by tfha 7y ago
This is not my experience at all. We've spent the past few years building a multi-hundred thousand line of code distributed system in go and have found that sticking to idiomatic go has been very beneficial in building the thing succes
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by tfha 7y ago
What is with all of the condescension that other developers have towards Go developers? Go has a set of highly desirable features that are very practical for building large team projects. Imo it's unnecessarily hostile to compare go to
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by tfha 7y ago
That's really not it. The more complex a language is, the more ways there are to approach a problem. The more things to have to learn and adapt to when reading code another engineer wrote. You want code to be obvious. The senior engine
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by tfha 7y ago
Loops in go are much less flexible than loops in C, you'd never see code like that in go.
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by tfha 7y ago
The way many people read code, it's much easier to overlook three characters than it is to overlook three lines with indentation.
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by tfha 7y ago
That's really strange to me because I find go to be very readable. There are so few approaches to each of the basic programming building blocks in go that once you have read a moderate amount of idiomatic go, everything else just feels
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by tfha 7y ago
I find other people's go code is generally much more readable than other people's code in most other languages. Go's simplicity and heavy idiomatic culture means all the code more or less looks identical. This is great for te
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by tfha 7y ago
I'm honestly of the opinion that this shouldn't be allowed either. Accept that you need to name the variable 'fooErr' and just ban all shadowing
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by tfha 7y ago
> Parallel construction happens way less frequently than people think it does This seems like a rather vague claim
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by tfha 7y ago
Fees are not a significant part of a libraries revenue
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by tfha 7y ago
Nah sometimes you need to resize manually read a webpage. Gotta keep usability at least a little bit. Letterboxing I think is a good compromise
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by tfha 7y ago
Before patents, businesses depended fully on trade secret, meaning developments would be made and lost over and over, and progress on a particular technology would be a lot slower because nobody could ever build off of eachother's work
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by tfha 7y ago
Trigger oriented, usually related to existential feelings of emptiness. Asking the question "does my existence have meaning" for a long time would spike my pulse to 150+ and cause me to freeze up. Took maybe 18 months to wear off
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by tfha 7y ago
Nah I'd flip the complete opposite direction. Responsible use of psychedelics has many strong upsides, and I think the outright ban has done a lot of net harm to society. At the very least I think doctors and researchers ought to be ab
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by tfha 7y ago
Yeah I have several permanent overhangs from my experiences with psychedelics as well. At one point I did 500+ug of LSD in a single trip and I am still working through PTSD from some of my delusions. That said, the net effect on my life has
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by tfha 7y ago
Do we have data?
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by tfha 7y ago
We got smacked by that for a securities violation. We were CS undergrads raising money for our startup, no idea that financial regulation even existed. Once we knew it was wrong, it was too late. Recisions aren't as simple as just retu
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by tfha 7y ago
Should we be building the internet such that a single website can make it effectively unusable for any user at their arbitrary whim?
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by tfha 7y ago
The commentor did not do a good job of elaborating but I think it's actually not an unreasonable thing to wonder. If Netflix is trying to promote their documentary, getting Gates into the news as much as possible doesn't seem like
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by tfha 7y ago
Yes, it would matter. If you don't want to raze your own cities an armed and hostile restiance even in the thousands of people is a massive thorn in your side. If the resistance reaches millions of people you basically don't have
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by tfha 7y ago
I don't think anyone needs to be concerned about the safety of flying, even with all the news flying is still statistically extremely safe. I will agree though that the TSA has made things pretty dehumanizing.

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