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by welshwelsh 7d ago
Those rules exist because of cars. Before cars, we didn't have red lights or stop signs, and we didn't need them. If we got rid of the cars, we could get rid of the silly requirement that everyone needs to come to a complete stop
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by welshwelsh 2mo ago
I'm not sure taxing them more heavily will actually result in significantly more tax revenue in the long run. Think about it: to pay for this tax, the rich will need to sell their assets. Who is going to buy those assets? What impact
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by welshwelsh 2mo ago
Test cases being nonsensical and not testing any real world cases was extremely common even before AI, in my experience. When teams rely on metrics like code and branch coverage, developers will write tests that only serve to satisfy those
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by welshwelsh 3mo ago
That is precisely what Valve should do. It is unfortunate that we need scalpers, simply because companies are bizarrely unwilling to adjust their pricing based on market conditions.
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by welshwelsh 3mo ago
You're right. It's not just about willingness to pay, but also how much someone deserves to own a Steam Machine, which we determine by their ability to pay. It's not a perfect system, but money is how we as a society de
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by welshwelsh 3mo ago
That tracks. Active vocabulary means the set of words that someone knows well enough to actually use in their speech or writing. That's always going to be smaller than the set of words for which a person can choose the correct definit
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by welshwelsh 3mo ago
Even more unpopular opinion: universities don't exist to create an educated populace. People don't need universities to learn, they can read textbooks on their own. Universities exist as gatekeepers and credentialing bodies. The
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by welshwelsh 4mo ago
Nobody said it is their fault. But it is their responsibility. United States immigration policy is supposed to benefit the United States. It doesn't need to be fair. The US can bomb a country if it's in US interests, and then de
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by welshwelsh 7mo ago
What websites a person is allowed to access should not be a matter of debate, it is for the individual to decide. Other people's opinions are not relevant. Even if 99% of people think a person should not be able to access a website,
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by welshwelsh 7mo ago
Legal reform is needed to prevent American companies from complying with foreign censorship laws. What happens if a tech company decides to follow EU law worldwide, just because it's more convenient than blocking some stuff just in the
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by welshwelsh 8mo ago
How do you know it was the SSRI? To cherry-pick a quote from a review of SSRI studies: >the magnitude of symptom reduction was about 40% with antidepressants and about 30% with placebo. That tells me that antidepressants have some effect
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by welshwelsh 8mo ago
The fight is not just about privacy, it is about freedom. Age-gating websites violates the freedom of people who are under a certain age. Young people have the same rights to free expression and information access as anyone else.
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by welshwelsh 9mo ago
Try giving this prompt to your favorite LLM: "Write unit tests with full line and branch coverage for this function: def add_two_numbers(x, y): return x + y + 1 " Sometimes the LLM will point out that this function does not, in
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by welshwelsh 9mo ago
How about instead of taxes, we have a $10,000 per year subscription fee to live in society. Maybe different depending on area, like $20,000 a year to live in NYC but only $2,000 per year to live in a rural village. If you can't afford
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by welshwelsh 9mo ago
Neither. Tests should be written by developers only when it saves them time. The cost of writing them should be negative. Instead of writing hundreds of useless tests so that the code coverage report shows high numbers, it is better to wr
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by welshwelsh 9mo ago
The main benefit of writing tests is that is forces the developer to think about what they just wrote and what it is supposed to do. I often will find bugs while writing tests. I've worked on projects with 2,000+ unit tests that are e
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by welshwelsh 9mo ago
That sounds like it would penalize renting in favor of homeownership. I'm not in support of that, renting offers people flexibility and is not inherently worse than owning.
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by welshwelsh 10mo ago
Ticket prices going up is actually good for mass adoption. If they are too low, you will see people riding the train who are only using the train because they are too poor to afford a car. That makes middle class people want to avoid the
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by welshwelsh 11mo ago
Is that just an LLM thing? I thought that as a society, we decided a long time ago that competence doesn't really matter. Why else would we be giving high school diplomas to people who can't read at a 5th grade level? Or offsho
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by welshwelsh 1y ago
I think it's 5. I was very impressed when I first started using AI tools. Felt like I could get so much more done. A couple of embarrassing production incidents later, I no longer feel that way. I always tell myself that I will check
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by welshwelsh 1y ago
Labeling content as SFW/NSFW is the first step towards censorship. Seeing a butt never hurt anyone, and we shouldn't try to sanitize the Internet just to make it safe for children.
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by welshwelsh 1y ago
You're confusing the concept of free speech with the First Amendment. Any time a person is prevented from expressing themselves is a violation of their freedom of speech, even if they have no legal right to speak. But even in the cont
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by welshwelsh 1y ago
Ideally your employer would support paying your salary using electronic cash. Or you can offer goods and services in exchange for electronic cash.
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by welshwelsh 1y ago
We need exactly the opposite: it should be impossible to determine the location of an Internet user. The fact that a user's IP address generally reveals their country is a massive flaw in the design of the Internet. The only way to ci
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by welshwelsh 1y ago
You think that common sense legislation is a more realistic solution than crypto? You can never rely on governments or corporations to have reasonable policies. Any payment system that is centrally controlled will inevitably be corrupted.
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by welshwelsh 1y ago
Humans also do not have a self, merely the illusion of a self.
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by welshwelsh 1y ago
It does punish everyone equally, if everyone pays the same fine. Some people having more ability to pay does not make the law unjust. I think it's important to remember that money represents debt. When someone commits a crime, they o
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by welshwelsh 1y ago
The fact that there is no truck parking is not an excuse for trucks to park in the bike lane or on the sidewalk. If an area doesn't support trucks, then deliveries need to be made without trucks. That means parking the truck far away
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by welshwelsh 1y ago
Society has an obligation to nobody. Governments are only obligated to serve the taxpayers that fund them. Imprisoning homeless people is not an acceptable solution, because imprisonment costs taxpayer money. A better solution is to let th
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by welshwelsh 1y ago
Lack of features is not an excuse for a government to adopt proprietary software. Surely, the Danish government can figure out how to support real-time collaboration in LibreOffice.

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