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jwolfe

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    Comment #49214563

    That is apparently the existing academic term. It's got a Wikipedia page. But yes, all buzzwords were invented.

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    Comment #48913384

    If bash placed the current directory in your PATH by default, then yes.

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    Comment #48769733

    You're in luck: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/main/design/corou...

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    Comment #48646883

    They're referring to Enterprise customers, though should have been clear about it. Enterprise plans on Claude for example no longer include any baseline tokens. It's 100% usage bas…

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    Comment #48462690

    That's not a very good tldr. The answer claimed in the paper is that the combination of the two is better than either alone.

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    Comment #48365066

    Fortunately the economics of infinitely copyable software aren't going anywhere. If there is actually a sizable market, it can be served with relatively little cost, compared to ha…

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    Comment #48036315

    Your work laptop documents are not private personal notes. This is also partially why I do not log in to work accounts on personal devices or personal accounts on work devices.

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    Comment #48001062

    You commonly receive very close proxies for diagnoses through MyChart already when results come back from the lab.

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    Comment #47988710

    > If it's something like "Refactored the apartment list service improving P99 Latency from 2s to 180ms", it definitely boosts the resumé in my mind. A good engineer would be measur…

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    Comment #47968907

    The comments on the article include other people replicating all or parts of the finding. I'm also pretty confident Kelsey Piper wouldn't fail to disable memory while simultaneousl…

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    Comment #47965049

    Pre commit hooks exist. People just don't like being prevented from committing for reasons such as this.

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    Comment #47742253

    This is a user preferences setting for what it's worth.

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    Comment #47640199

    In general these agents support LSPs, which is often as much information as your IDE will give you. They are also not required to output syntactically correct code token by token w…

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    Comment #47454987

    > I don't think it's a psychologically positive self identification to see yourself merely as a gatekeeper and toll extractor rent seeker who only makes a living by withholding age…

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    Comment #47251231

    This thread is about bringing these people to the US.

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    Comment #47142182

    They said casual, not causal.

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    Comment #47051163

    For cases where 4.5 already met the bar, I would expect 50% preference each way. This makes it kind of hard to make any sense of that number, without a bunch more details.

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    Comment #45727518

    If you use the standard typescript linter, it will fail if you pass a Promise to an if statement. https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/no-misused-promises/

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    Comment #44551544

    If the functions are still calling I/O methods directly rather than the I/O being externally driven, I don't think that qualifies as sans-io, based on my previous exposure / based …

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    Comment #39082844

    That's already noted at the end: > The idea behind static_assert is great. You run a check that has no impact on the performance of the software, and may even help it. It is cheap …

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    Comment #38034086

    Over a million people die annually from traffic accidents.

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    Comment #36922625

    It's not heavy handed. It's responding to what sells in the market, and big phones are consistently what most people buy when they have the option of both.

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    Comment #35158957

    > Edit: GPT4 fails If I remove the sentence between (()). If you remove that sentence, nothing indicates that you can see you picked the door with the car behind it. You could mayb…