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Comment #48731213
> But if you're tolerant of someone in your workplace that wants to make it a monoculture, and then succeeds in doing so, will you remain glad? Isn't that exactly the argument Öreb…
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Comment #48660357
What a ridiculous strawman. OP wasn't proposing removing the police, and any charitable take would have understood that given the topic of the article.
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Comment #48581420
If you think the premise and conclusion of Op's statement form a tautology then you agree with him strongly.
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Comment #48502891
From the title alone I was going to comment that these tools we build are not about not procrastinating but about chasing some illusionary productivity. My own examples - Instead o…
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Comment #48459677
This is a silly form of no true Scotsman, you don't create a Messi if he had been kicking a coke can around.
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Comment #48443397
That's good advice to stay employable. But I used to enjoy learning - I think most of us did. The existential crisis many are experiencing is about the lack of fulfilment in rollin…
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Comment #48292487
Or simple economics kicks in, price/demand all that. If hand coding pays better there will be plenty who can still do that.
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Comment #47860215
> The UK doesn't support cigarettes, so the law gets passed. If someone has a public opinion poll there showing less than 50% support for this, I'd love to see it. Isn't the impetu…
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Comment #47779934
> ChatGPT initially responded that the earnout would be “difficult to cancel” but later at ChatGPT’s suggestion Kim formed an internal taskforce, dubbed Project X. Anyone know how …
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Comment #47776785
Communism comes to mind. It's led to misery every time - but it's always because they just "did it wrong"
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Comment #47764509
The new solution is better. It’s so good we must get all the big players to mandate its usage. If ur making an appeal on a forum like this u could have gone with ur favorite featur…
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Comment #47689470
I think reparations could be spent as they see fit. Reconstruction implies the money is going to exactly that. But I agree it's a weird nitpick at this stage, as it seems almost im…
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Comment #47650973
Taxpayer money project being tied to a dependency on Apple google is 100% counter what that money should be used for. You are copy pasting a “correct” argument against eu bureaucra…
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Comment #47332418
> You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never…
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Comment #47137073
If there is a 15 move sequence that leads to a guaranteed win, stockfish would not call it a 1 pawn advantage (given the sufficient calculation time) instead calling it a won posit…
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Comment #46898586
Eh, this is the kind of pithy soundbite that sounds vaguely deep and intelligent but doesn't hold up. In what domains have you had experience taking non programmers with domain kno…
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Comment #46766312
OP did't like anthropomorphizing an LLM. And you tried to explain the whole thing to him from the perspective of a duck.
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Comment #46741782
for what it's worth, it didn't seem odd to me. I guess the missing article and phrase indicate it's a verb. "So AI can ... developers" is begging for a verb, there is no room for a…
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Comment #46540272
I disliked the pedantic nature of stackoverflow like the next guy but this seems like a naive take. SO solved a problem, that problem is now gone
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Comment #46512092
It's almost as if it depends on the context and there isn't a simplistic bumper sticker approach.