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thinker with a coding problem

an I Ching calculator Katılım Mayıs 2008
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The book has an element of "is this going to be a zero-sum game?" that I was a little surprised they left out of the movie. Since it's Weir, of course it is teamwork, vs backstabbing, but he did have me going a little.
Zack Stentz@MuseZack

Weir is exactly the kind of tech-obsessed, vaguely libertarian nerd who used to be an SF mainstay but science fiction publishing at some point decided they wanted to move beyond. But it turns out there's still an enormous audience for his brand of problem-solving techno optimism.

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@DrBrianKeating @Arrogance_0024 Why do we take such poor care of our veterans? Why do we listen to chickenhawks? (These are rhetorical.) A little more object permanence from all of us would be nice.
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Prof. Brian Keating
Prof. Brian Keating@DrBrianKeating·
@Arrogance_0024 Combined age of “all this”: 155 years Estimated Value of 1 American Hero: Infinite Any questions?
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If you want to design a system from scratch, first you must design the Universe
Prof. Brian Keating@DrBrianKeating

🏗️ You Can't Design Your Way Out of Evolution Every complex system that works evolved from a simpler system that worked. Every complex system designed from scratch doesn't work. John Gall wrote this in 1975. Nobody in systems engineering has successfully falsified it since. The implication is uncomfortable: you cannot design complexity. You can only grow it. The Soviet central planning apparatus, the U.S. healthcare system, every ambitious government IT project — all collapsed under the weight of top-down complexity that had no working simple version underneath it. Evolution doesn't draft blueprints. It iterates relentlessly from functional simplicity. Every successful institution you admire started as something embarrassingly small that actually worked. This isn't an argument against ambition. It's an argument about method. What are you trying to design from scratch that you should be growing instead? Read More about Gall's Law→ google.com/search?q=Gall%…

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@knowthyselv @traskjd @agentK So like all things [compute] the answer to if you [will] need it or not is "it depends". This is all common knowledge, but I'm a sucker for stating the obvious sometimes. Maybe you're a prepper, or work for healthcare, etc. All that said, love is really all we need to know!
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@knowthyselv @traskjd @agentK Not that everyone needs to know everything, but we do want to be able to fill in when our co-workers win the lotto and leave to hit the beaches, as it were Or our governments gets too hostile, or existing infrastructure starts to suck, or there's viruses, or cyberwar, and so on.
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John-Daniel Trask@traskjd·
Kind of glad to have begun coding in the 90s. Skipped Kubernetes. Skipped graphql. Skipped microservices. Skipped react unless absolutely necessary. Got mocked a bunch by “senior devs” who started coding in 2010. Didn’t care, preferred shipping value to customers rather than technical wankery that only bloated teams and slowed delivery. Glad those senior devs have now earned their title and realizing it was dumb too. You can’t replace actual experience.
Rafal Wilinski@rafalwilinski

remember when we thought that hosting everything on hundreds of Lambdas was a good idea?

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I get the sentiment of course, I'm saying the part that needs work is the wisdom of when to use what. The tech itself does what is needed where you need it, and is generally always getting better.
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@traskjd @agentK These are all cool technologies that are easier to use than ever tho! The first two especially. It's all basically the same stuff, with various bits automated, all useful in different scenarios. It really is amazing how much easier and more useful all of it's gotten over time!

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This guy is broadcast-only. The muting and blocking is especially annoying from people who put Trump in office. (Not that this guy did, just in general.) We cannot block the president. At least have the decency to put someone decent in there. Think of the children!
Scott@Mustang_Scott

@denstar lol I’ve been super fucking clear- that left wingers only think social media is good if it’s heavily censored for their interests The fact you couldn’t get that means youre retarded either intellectually or ideologically Muting you now

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Jon Lovett@jonlovett·
In a surprise twist, the Epstein files released the attorney general.
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@Rtonkins74 @Fat_Electrician The interesting part is how remote service work fits in. Global commerce basically. Otherwise locale-based minimums makes sense. And we've gotta incorporate that somehow.🤔 If only free markets existed. But they don't—unless they're all free, in a "reality is anarchy" sense.
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Banjo Picker@Rtonkins74·
@Fat_Electrician In most cases the market has moved past min wage. Highschoolers make double at rural mcdonalds.
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The Fat Electrician
The Fat Electrician@Fat_Electrician·
I fucking hate the “minimum wage is for high schoolers” talking point. A. No it isn’t, that’s historically inaccurate. B. Telling a kid to work hard and earn money the “right” way, then turning around and saying he deserves less just because of his age is bullshit. Pay should be based on performance. Nothing else. If you’re against raising the minimum wage, that’s fine. Make a better argument that isn’t belittling kids trying to work hard and earn something for themselves.
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"By whom", even, neh?
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@Mustang_Scott Some seeming kin—well met! We were talking about censorship, if we were talking about anything. Reddit can be however it wants. I agree it's not particularly "even". You *seem* to be advocating some kind of coerced balancing. By who if not the government? What are ya say'n?

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@Mustang_Scott Some seeming kin—well met! We were talking about censorship, if we were talking about anything. Reddit can be however it wants. I agree it's not particularly "even". You *seem* to be advocating some kind of coerced balancing. By who if not the government? What are ya say'n?
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@denstar You seem to be retarded Jon Stewart was saying Reddit is a great example of good social media- im pointing out it’s only good for one side. If Jon Stewart was want a partisan hack he would mention that We weren’t talking about government involvement.
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It only takes one person to make an echo chamber, so we're not getting rid of them anytime soon. Which is fine. They come and go. Social content moderation is acceptable, it's the governmental kind that's not. A lot of folk seem to think compelled speech is free speech but no.
Scott@Mustang_Scott

@TheDailyShow @jonstewart “You can go on Reddit and have a human conversation experience…” If you’re left wing- if you’re right wing, if you bring up Irina zarutska or support border control youre ruthlessly targeted and banned So what Jon Stewart is saying is as long as it’s a left wing echo chamber

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I'm hoping with semver and the introspection these LLMs bring, we'll finally have pretty painless semantic versioning for general code. (Like the modelling world has had for a while. But that will be better now too!) Exciting times! 🤘
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@therealdanvega I'm not super-sold on "versionless" API. We're persisting data over time, and with versions you'll know what needs to be done to transform a previous format into a new one. There are other ways to track it, and lots depends on the use case, as some people still hard-delete etc.

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@therealdanvega I'm not super-sold on "versionless" API. We're persisting data over time, and with versions you'll know what needs to be done to transform a previous format into a new one. There are other ways to track it, and lots depends on the use case, as some people still hard-delete etc.
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@therealdanvega Schema-first is great! (Tho you can gen from your JPA entities with a plugin.) I use a generic modelling schema so I can generate most stuff, including graphql schema. I've been digging mapstruct with DTOs, but I do like the idea of skipping DTOs (except for losing mapstruct).
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Dan Vega@therealdanvega·
Planned, Recorded, Edited and Published 10 videos in about 6 hours today 🤩 If you're curious about building GraphQL APIs in #Java this is a good resource for getting up and running quickly. Would love your thoughts 👇🏻 youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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It is wild that, thanks to a wonky way of looking at "growth", we have so many people thinking that reducing labor is preferable to increased productivity. It's not *that* wild, as you can see exactly why (corps and stocks). Monopolies are out of control again. Bust 'em up!
Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸@AndrewYang

Had dinner with an investor who said this: “I thought you were wrong about AI and jobs. But I’m on the Board of a bunch of companies and every one of them is now cutting staff due to AI. So now I think you’re right.”

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