All publicly traded companies are maximally greedy, but growth companies have an additional short-term pressure to make short sighted decisions.

@jestdotty this!

@Lensflare Facebook needs to demonstrate exponential increase in revenue to maintain their valuation as a growth stock. You can't increase prices exponentially, so if they successfully adopted a paid model, _and even if their internal decisionmakers had the best intentions_ which we know they don't, it would only last so long before they had to return to abusing every bit of power they have in order to gain even more power.

@Lensflare the startups thrive on anticipation, it has to be a constant topic. We won't get rid of it until they completely run out of investor goodwill.

Louis Rossmann is a legend.

My favourite pastime is finding incredibly cursed APIs in the dotnet standard library.

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System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().Invoke(this, new []);

Oh yeah and also the "health check" means doing an expensive query that returns an unbounded amount of data and then discarding the data.

@kiki universallyUniqueIdentifierVersion4()

It's really simple, the bug is caused by the sticky vote buttons so I just disable their stickiness.

The only hitch, but I'm sure that'll be fixed eventually, is that it's crucial for merge automation to be able to declare that it isn't sure how to resolve something, and an LLM in its current state will just bullshit something if a problem is beyond its complexity.

@donkulator I bet one of the few niches where LLMs will stick around after the hype dies down and everyone reckons with the cost of maintaining LLM-generated code is merging. It's not a terribly intellectually demanding task, it benefits from non-spatial thinking (you can look at previous nearby merges for precedent), it's massively quantity over quality since by that point your approach should be correct and you should have tests, and it demands no original thought.

Any of them really. Emoji are for when you want to be visual or express an emotion but you don't care enough for professional writing. This is normal for direct messages and letters even in a professional setting, but really alarming for any mass communication from a substantial company which could reasonably contract a copywriter if no one in the existing team trusts their language skills.

can't you scan them with one of the display models? Or are they behind glass? Apple actually recommends if your last iOS device is lost you should go to an Apple Store for account recovery and borrow a phone from a technician because their recovery software only works on iOS, not MacOS or any other platform.

Depends how early I would be allowed to sell them; either nothing would change or I would treat it as a salary cut. Share trading isn't that hard, and if I wanted to hold any, it would for sure not be in the sorry collection of rejects, delusionals and professional embezzlers that I earn my livelihood at.

Not remembering, but on occasion you must be able to copy certain passwords by hand. Especially if you follow your earlier advice and store them in a paper notebook.

Orchid, the weird interpreted functional language I'd spent the last 3.5 years on.

I have detailed plans for a new preprocessor design unlike anything I'd seen before but similar in important ways to Lisp and Rust and more usable than the old design. Once I implement that, I'm optimistic that I'll be able to move fast with high level syntax elements and all parts of the stdlib since a big aspect of the preprocessor's responsibilities is precisely to facilitate implementing such syntax elements within libraries.

any end time is equally specific :)

How does this platform still have developers

As far as I can see, this change mostly just gave people an opportunity to wear black face for racist jokes in the company chat without getting fired.

@Lensflare It wouldn't have, this is just plain a shit idea. What I'm trying to say is that if a change, any change, actually has a positive impact, however small, that would overrule convenience, and if it has a negative impact, convenience isn't necessary to defeeat it.

@Lensflare I think some social issues, and race in the US seems like such an issue, are important enough that if this actually helped anyone it would justify that bit of inconvenience. Where I live the racial tensions involve Gypsies, Arabs and East-Asians, none of whom match an identifiable emoji skintone, but I certainly think that convenience is a lame argument given the stakes.

There is one callback actually, sendRequest passes processResponse to fetch. processResponse then decides which request must've been sent and what to do next based on boolean flags in the component state.

Yesterday I had some business with a KnockoutJS viewmodel that didn't use any asynchrony, callbacks, nor lexically captured anything besides the viewmodel instance. Instead, each event had an associated member function and those all decided what to do based on a bunch of boolean flags and enums on the component state. It was the kind of event handling logic you would only be forced to write in C nowadays.

"Has anyone used Zustand? Is it a safe bet for the new timesheet portal or should we stick to Redux?"

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My coworkers all use the skintone modifiers for comedic purposes (ironically, they're the perfect device for racist jokes) but I imagine if they're used correctly it really has to be surreal to have racial distribution statistics on every single poll you ask within a team.

@Hazarth They must never have seen a chinese person for that colour to remind them of chinese. Like that association can only happen if "chinese have yellow skin" exists as a sentence and not an image in one's head.

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We play music in the office on Christmas and a few other select holidays, and when there's very few people in and they agree on something. Otherwise hell no.

Hash functions are rarely fully reversible, usually a weak hash will either reveal partial information about the input or reveal only some inputs. Technically, if you have a massive lookup table, a perfect hash is a perfect compression algo.

Technically a hash that is reversible on 20% of inputs is a lossy compression algo; you can recover 20% of the input in a statistical sense.