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New comment by wanttocomment in "CppCon 2022 Best Practices Every C++ Programmer Needs to Follow – Oz Syed"

wanttocomment — Fri, 19 May 2023 13:29:47 +0000

All rust code is UB because there is no spec. I don't mean this as a knock against rust, but against UB fear.

New comment by wanttocomment in "Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks"

wanttocomment — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:39:24 +0000

Looking up information is vastly different than asking it to produce code to be included in a product.

New comment by wanttocomment in "Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card interchange fee below 1%"

wanttocomment — Fri, 19 May 2023 11:37:21 +0000

It's something as small as throwing in a milk shake with lunch. you don't experience the money leaving.

New comment by wanttocomment in "Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card interchange fee below 1%"

wanttocomment — Fri, 19 May 2023 05:16:57 +0000

Studies show you buy more with a credit card than cash. You think you're saving 1-3% but you would easily save that with slightly more conservative spending.

It's also worth mentioning the real business is analyzing the consumer data you give them for pennies.

New comment by wanttocomment in "To help new students adapt, some colleges are eliminating grades"

wanttocomment — Thu, 18 May 2023 11:32:23 +0000

I would guess 80% of the career value is captured by satisfying admissions and graduating. I think the actual grading isn't looked at except to rank similar peers for admission to other competitive programs.

New comment by wanttocomment in "Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job"

wanttocomment — Wed, 17 May 2023 17:14:35 +0000

You may be willing to make the tradeoff, but you should acknowledge the downsides.

The most extreme example is in academia where they get a lot of stability in exchange for an excruciating job hunt and interview process. And if they don't like the job, they are stuck.

I would rather have a world where we can take a chance on someone, then not. If you have all your ducks in a polished row, and look and act the right way, maybe you prefer protection against that.

New comment by wanttocomment in "Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job"

wanttocomment — Wed, 17 May 2023 15:03:12 +0000

And they afforded that working a job at a furniture store with no degree at age 24.

New comment by wanttocomment in "Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job"

wanttocomment — Wed, 17 May 2023 14:50:20 +0000

This kind of thing is why we have such long interview cycles and strong bias against false positives

New comment by wanttocomment in "Traders Do Less Crime at Home"

wanttocomment — Wed, 17 May 2023 10:41:23 +0000

For that to explain the gap I think you would have to consider how many of those employees who get written up live with their families vs more detached living arrangements. With that consideration, it seems unlikely that change alone could make up 15% for the overall group.

New comment by wanttocomment in "Traders Do Less Crime at Home"

wanttocomment — Wed, 17 May 2023 10:37:46 +0000

That was my guess. A 14% reduction in efficiency or perhaps just hours worked sounds about right.

New comment by wanttocomment in "Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs"

wanttocomment — Wed, 17 May 2023 00:50:28 +0000

Because they also have vastly different cultures and shared understandings which often require skilled management.

New comment by wanttocomment in "Learn Makefiles with the Tastiest Examples"

wanttocomment — Tue, 16 May 2023 16:03:40 +0000

Yes? Everyone benefits from a standard specification.

Besides, most windows devs are using Ubuntu or cygwin. Or they just the ide for their environment and would never touch a CLI

New comment by wanttocomment in "SQLite 3.42.0"

wanttocomment — Tue, 16 May 2023 16:01:38 +0000

Each thread opens its own connection. Set a non-zero timeout. I think that's all you need.

New comment by wanttocomment in "My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated"

wanttocomment — Tue, 16 May 2023 12:35:34 +0000

So it sounds like the fix is available with an update. What more do you want?

New comment by wanttocomment in "Learn Makefiles with the Tastiest Examples"

wanttocomment — Tue, 16 May 2023 12:17:31 +0000

Those are good complaints but what's far more valuable is:

- Unix standard

- documentation

- established knowledge

- existing code bases

- stable and well tested

New comment by wanttocomment in "Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”"

wanttocomment — Mon, 15 May 2023 13:05:45 +0000

Sounds like we are in agreement, but I would include other non profits in that same abuse.

New comment by wanttocomment in "Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”"

wanttocomment — Mon, 15 May 2023 13:02:17 +0000

Those thinkers I've read (Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Descartes, Leibniz) also have nothing in mind that resembles a melting pot for the world's cultures and religions. One again the historical context is being tired of endless wars between protestants and Catholics and often being a member of a tiny minority of aetheists and deists.

The brand of humanism you are associating with is a much later development.

New comment by wanttocomment in "Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”"

wanttocomment — Mon, 15 May 2023 12:52:19 +0000

Do you think it is possible to accommodate all those religions in one government?

I agree with you that it's not a golden cow, but I typically have to question posts like this one to get that admission. Claiming authority from the constitution when you don't believe in it is a cheap rhetorical technique to appear interested in historical America when you aren't.

The main conclusion I would draw is that we have no obligation of "fairness or equality" towards every religion. Our system was built to accomodate certain kinds and those that aren't in direct conflict, it seems a pretty good compromise that's hard to work around.

New comment by wanttocomment in "Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”"

wanttocomment — Mon, 15 May 2023 12:38:20 +0000

Yes, the founding fathers had in mind a plurality of European religion, not every possible belief around the world from Africa to the Amazon. The idea you could create one government that could accommodate all those is the ridiculous contradiction. They would laugh at the suggestion there should be some equality of human sacrifice and communion.

New comment by wanttocomment in "What Wikipedia Did"

wanttocomment — Sun, 14 May 2023 20:51:09 +0000

The specific attribute mentioned is the pressure to continue to grow, instead of executing a simple mission. Wikipedia doesn't do that at all, and clearly feels pressure to grow power and expand into new domains.