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by whitfieldsdad 1y ago
As a Canadian this seems great - if someone wants to go, they should be allowed to go. One of my neighbours ended their life through MAiD a few years ago after becoming fully paralyzed due to ALS - and I can see why - all they could do was
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by whitfieldsdad 2y ago
Yeah, the requirement for 24/7 surveillance to avoid being sent to a foster home - or something - kinda sucks
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by whitfieldsdad 2y ago
Thankfully, it sounds like the child's mother won't be required to go to prison for a year - as long as she agrees to always have someone physically watch her son, and additionally surveil her son 24/7 using an app installed
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by whitfieldsdad 2y ago
Maybe, but, I've never heard of any cases like this. Granted, I'm only 32, have only lived in Canada for 32 years, and haven't checked to see how common it is for parents to be sent to prison for things like this.
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by whitfieldsdad 2y ago
Obviously, yes. It's worth noting that the person who said that they'd only hire junior developers who know git isn't the President of the United States or anything, and can absolutely make their own hiring decisions. It&#x27
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by whitfieldsdad 2y ago
This is the nuance that people aren't able to understand anymore - something happened when the Internet came out, and we've never been the same. The OP was just surprised that people don't know git, and indicated that he woul
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by whitfieldsdad 2y ago
I think that this would be a great idea, and could also help combat students not doing anything in group projects. I lone wolfed most of my group projects in college, and don't have any regrets, but, of the projects that I didn't
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by whitfieldsdad 2y ago
This has proven to be an extremely controversial topic, but, in my opinion, it's perfectly okay to use git in college or university, and we should encourage, not discourage people from using technologies like distributed version contro
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
TIL: all code posted for review on https://codereview.stackexchange.com/ has to be compilable. I noted that a function wasn't available in the snippet in my post, but 2 users still voted to remove the question without
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
I was moreso thinking of review comments like "this is the worst code I've ever seen", "give up now", "ignoring the hundreds of errors, this looks fine", Dreamworks villain laughter, etc.
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
I get what you mean, and agree with the idea of Just Building Things, but, I also want to make sure that I'm building things "the right way" if that makes sense. For example, I'm not new to programming, but am new to Go
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Ask HN: Where can I ask for code reviews online without being roasted for fun?
8 points by whitfieldsdad 3y ago|16 comments
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Ask HN: How do you keep track of all of the things that you have to do?
1 points by whitfieldsdad 3y ago|3 comments
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
As a generalist, it's a mind-numbing amount of work in 2023
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
And use their Slack, so, Slack.
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Ask HN: What's the closest thing to Reddit for software developers?
2 points by whitfieldsdad 3y ago|5 comments
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
Thanks for the insights!
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
Yeah, I get that, I just didn't realize that being a beginner in a particular field of study was a bad thing or something to be frowned upon. If there's a trope about people new to a particular field being overconfident in what th
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
Ah, gotcha, I didn't realize that sophomore was an insult - I just thought it meant you were a student
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
I don't really understand the meaning of sophomoric discussion, but, is it basically being open to, and discussing thoughts, ideas, concepts, etc., that you're not an expert in? Isn't talking about, and exploring things that
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
Ah, gotcha - I assumed that if some document said you couldn't use something for some purpose and you decided to use it anyway it would be considered theft from the intellectual property owner.
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
I don't follow, don't encryption and compression algorithms carry out a very specific steps that isn't likely to show up accidentally by happenstance? (e.g. it'd be hard to accidentally invent Rijndael with nothing but n
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
I've received a lot of flak for this answer in other communities, but, if a statistical model is producing purely derivative works using a mathematical model that's basically a next best token predictor, is it really "stealin
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
I've noticed this phenomenon as well - all knowledge that has ever been documented is considered common knowledge these days, but, most people don't have a working understanding of it. It's sort of like the dirty little secre
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
Honestly, I probably ask ChatGPT 3-10 "stupid questions" a day. Yesterday, I asked ChatGPT which file formats are most popular for storing knowledge graphs in flatfiles, and loved that I didn't have to spend the remainder of
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Ask HN: Where can you safely ask beginner-level questions online in 2023?
13 points by whitfieldsdad 3y ago|18 comments
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
I was moreso just saying that at least one reference implementation would be nice so I can see how they intended the product to be used, why they designed the API like they did, etc.
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
Yeah, making a good SDK for every major language would be an absolutely Sisyphean task with negligible returns - it'd be great to have at least one solid reference implementation though. e.g. a reference implementation in Ruby if they&
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
That's fair, and in hindsight, I suppose it is a little silly to try to help customers use your platform as it was meant to be used rather than having them sort of guess how to use it...it'll generate revenue either way...
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by whitfieldsdad 3y ago
Ah, yes - I forgot to mention that I was referring to REST APIs :( I know that you can send HTTP requests in every language - I was moreso referring to say, a Python package that you could import into your project and use off the shelf with

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