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Please don't take this personally, trying to offer this as constructive criticism. I don't find this to be a very interesting example of the language. If the main feature is a uniq…

Wake up early and work on hobby projects in the morning. That's what I personally do sometimes.

When the GP says "You’ll talk to a whole lot of low class people like that on HN", I interpret that as them disparaging basically anyone who supports open source, since I believe t…

Probably because they could easily have given the same advice without needing to call people on hn that encourage and support open source software "low-class".

This is just idiotic equivocation. The difference between Russia and Hitler is that Russia has legitimate national security concerns, for instance, not letting the world's largest …

Or just an American with an realist perspective on foreign affairs... I loathe the charge that if you have any nuance and think the war is not ENTIERLY Russia's fault, then you mus…

I love the example you gave because it is demonstrative of one of the most important distinctions between your moral language and the language of geopolitics. If a Muslim attacks s…

Unfortunately, being smart is a natural talent ;)

No, you clearly don't understand my argument. Ukraine didn't just disadvantage their neighbor. In international affairs, red lines are a common tool for expressing acceptable bound…

Are you purposely being obtuse? Eastern Europe was a protectorate of the USSR for a large portion of the last century.

> everybody knows how to live in peace. Except Russia. Talk about an extraordinary case of recency bias. Cheap shot, I know, but I had to make it. Europe currently defends itself b…

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Except it is literally is just rational geopolitics. The story of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not just a single whimsical choice by a mad dictator. There has been a decades …

Speaking from my experience at Amazon this is not the case. Any customer impact like this would necessitate a COE (correction of errors) report, which means a list of required acti…

"Gothic cathedrals and Doric temples are mathematics in stone. Doubtless Pythagoras was the first in the Classical Culture to conceive number scientifically as the principle of a w…

Coming from the DC area, this comment reminds me of how the metro payment system "Smartrip" was recently renamed to "Smart Trip".

> in my experience, a change that stays local in Go ripples through lifetimes and trait bounds in Rust imo extensive use of generics/trait bounds and explicit lifetimes in Rust is …

Completely agree! The author made a buggy android port of nintype (called keyboard 69) that I used for years. The UX was incredible, and every swipe system I've tried since feels d…

I love when people on the internet think they know better than lawyers about a situation they are barely familiar with.

I find matplotlib to be clunky and verbose compared to ggplot. When using python, I will often use https://plotnine.org/ because it gives me a nice ggplot like API.

Even taking the author's criticism about large context windows for granted, which in my experience are exaggerated, they are still a huge UX improvement over short windows. That re…

Feel free dismiss my option by assuming I'm some ignoramus that doesn't know anything about how databases work. I'm well aware of the underlying challenges that SQL provides conven…

Scoffing and acting exasperated doesn't actually refute anything I said. I obviously don't disagree with you that SQL has been wildly useful and popular, but that has very little t…

Having the result type of a function change based on context sounds like a horrible idea because it would introduce tons of unnecessary ambiguity. If it's an issue that you have to…