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yCombLinks··on LINQ and Learning to Be Declarative
I think the final version is far worse than the second version. This is simpler in what way ?
yCombLinks··on The Hollow Men of Hims
You don't get to speak for how other people feel.
yCombLinks··on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates
Well, front brake lights take out user errors for activating them.
yCombLinks··on Spaced repetition systems have gotten way better
Leetcode patterns, and common problem types to apply those patterns to.
yCombLinks··on Plain Vanilla Web
Yes, my first GUI apps were about 20 years ago in visual basic. It was far easier than laying out webpages (assuming you're targeting desktop users). It's just far harder to get users to download and run something (and should be). But the browser's layout system (the DOM) has 0 to do with that, there is nothing but inertia locking us into that.
yCombLinks··on Plain Vanilla Web
How it talks to the backend is irrelevant here. That has zero to do with the fact that the DOM was imply not designed for dynamic application layouts.
yCombLinks··on Getting Older Isn't What You Think
Maybe that's because these people don't want to argue with their spouse, and these couples are unable to achieve that.
yCombLinks··on America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era
MAGA is level 10 on it. They went from the hardcore Christian party to supporting the biggest crook American politics has ever seen, that isn't even capable of basic kindness. Same with veterans. A draft dodger, that has called our fallen soldiers losers, and skipped out on ceremonies honoring them, that presidents traditionally attend. MAGA jumped from deficit hawks, to supporting huge tax cuts that will explode the deficit. It's not even close who is worse here.
yCombLinks··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
In my office most people use chatGPT or a similar LLM every day. I don't know a single coworker that's ever used a cryptocurrency. One guy has bought some crypto stocks.
yCombLinks··on 1/4 of startups in YC current cohort have almost entirely AI-generated codebases
Worthless argument, no one cares if chatGPT 3 was a good code in their day job.
yCombLinks··on 1/4 of startups in YC current cohort have almost entirely AI-generated codebases
I believe Acceptance Criteria
yCombLinks··on Things we've learned about building products
A 9 hour investment to make a decision that will strongly affect 50% of your waking life for years or decades doesn't seem like a big ask.
yCombLinks··on Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)
You didn't even address what we're getting for that money. Are we getting 65 billion worth of value? 100 billion? 20 billion?
yCombLinks··on Photographs of the Old West
Just a warning, there's a fair number of nude children in these photos, may not want to open at work
yCombLinks··on Technofossils: Humanity's eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes
George Carlin standup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rld0KDcan_w
yCombLinks··on Tailwind CSS v4.0
Often content and presentation are part of the same package. In these cases, separating them makes maintenance of sites harder.
yCombLinks··on In Defense of Y'All
I'm a very formal hick
yCombLinks··on In Defense of Y'All
Y'all gives way to my favorite word, Y'all'd've (You all would have). It it fun to say and wraps up so many grammatical concepts into a neat package. Example usage "It's too bad Y'all didn't come to the party, Y'all'd've had fun"
yCombLinks··on ChatGPT Pro
The current architect of LLMs will always "hallucinate".
yCombLinks··on The world of Dante's Divine Comedy
I don't see that error being made. What makes you think that? Tons of people died in their 30s and 40s from curable illnesses before modern medicine. Life expectancy of people that reached adulthood was still under 50 during that time period.
yCombLinks··on The Northeast is becoming fire country
Yes, 100%, though we may build more resilient systems as it becomes the norm, or better mobile response type systems.
yCombLinks··on The Northeast is becoming fire country
This is how everything works. Systems that aren't designed to handle an event are unlikely to handle it well. Where I live, we got 4 inches of rain in 20 minutes yesterday. That was a Tuesday. From the time I've spent out west, I believe in that place it would be disaster level flooding.
yCombLinks··on Against Best Practices
The point is there are not rules that are always applicable. Dry is right sometimes, and sometimes it's not.
yCombLinks··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
That claim wasn't made. It was a hypothetical, what if it was 10x safer? Then would people tolerate it.
yCombLinks··on A dictionary of single-letter variable names
I don't see it as a troll comment
yCombLinks··on How America's universities became debt factories
Which was ultimately lobbied at such a low a number by the AMA, the primary organization representing doctors interests in congress. https://qz.com/1676207/the-us-is-on-the-verge-of-a-devastati...
yCombLinks··on What's functional programming all about? (2017)
My problem usually appears when rather than clearly laying out the types of each returned value like in the article, all the FP guys I've worked with want to build giant chains that look like : return beat(whip(mix....(eggs)))
yCombLinks··on Greppability is an underrated code metric
Do you use the find feature in your IDE? IE not find by reference, just text matching? That's the same as greppability.
yCombLinks··on What Happened to Ancient Megafauna?
Not to mention modern mobility
yCombLinks··on The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes
I know how much I am normally able to lift each exercise. So let's say 125 lbs shoulder press, I expect to be able to lift the weights 10 times the first set, 9 times the second, 8 the third set. If I can't lift the weights 10 times I failed early.
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