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Strange, for you to say this in the age of transformers. They are obviously not there yet, but it seems inevitable to me that e.g. gpt 'understands' things better than a markov chain, and that future systems will understand more.

The french monarchy shot the rioters, and it worked. When they stopped murdering rioters, they got their heads cut off.

If you want logical separation, add sub-blocks to the function. You can see things as being a spectrum from fully inline code, to code blocks, to anon functions defined in the function, to true functions.

The argument continues to say that the 'clean code' version isn't actually cleaner/more legible/more understandable. I, for one, am royally sick of spending 5 minutes trying to figure out which virtual function implementation was actually called!

This is a fully general counterargument for why anything that is bad is actually good because it doesn't matter. "Places where air quality matters it is never sacrificed".

I think he bought in more people at one point, then sent them away again when he realized he wasn't able to keep the project on track with that many chefs making the soup. The problem with more people is that the project can very easily degenerate into design by committee.

If you read TFA, you'd know that the headline on the link isn't the headline of the article itself, which has no question mark. Presumably the mark was added here to assuage blue-tribe people.

You know a lot of children would be raped in those concentration camps, right?

Building capital and controlling things is good for individuals or families, but less so for large, uncoordinated organisations, especially governments. If I, an individual, own a shop, I'm incentivized to make it profitable- in this small town case, I'm incentivized to stock things people want to buy, to reduce waste, and so on. (Or to bail out and sell the premises if the economic conditions don't make sense anymore). Making the shop better makes me richer.

If I'm a wage-paid employee in a large shop (or any organization), then I'm looking to a) not get fired b) get a raise c) get a promotion. The bigger and more bureaucratic the organization, the more personnel decisions tend to become disconnected from ground truths and the more it becomes possible to rise through politics, whether or not the shop gets better. The people at the top, e.g. the owners of Walmart, want their shops to be more efficient, but if line worker #529 doesn't think he'll be paid more for making his local shop 5% more efficient, then he won't- and if there are more reliable ways up, he'll take those.

When a government owns/runs the shop, even the people at the top don't care about it making money- it's not their money to lose! The shop is probably useful as a political tool/division point, though. Imagine left-right debates about whether the government store should stock condoms, or meat, or whatever.

If I'm going to eat vegetables, I want to eat real vegetables, not an assortment of pea protein and flavorers slathered in preservatives that doesn't even taste as good as the thing it's imitating!

What about the site owner's water supply?

The disagreement here seems to over whether Cloudflare is more like a restaurant, or more like a utility company. Given the ubiquity of DDOS attacks online, (and the fact that KF seemingly can't stay online without DDOS mitigation), I think there's a good argument to be made that DDOS mitigation might be more like a utility.

The guy who made the nazi pug video might disagree.

Kiwifarms has editorial control, though. Posts advocating swatting or violence are removed, and their users banned.

It's not a problem if one print shop declines to print your flyer; it is a problem if there's only three print shops in the world.