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by 9rx 7mo ago
They are concerns, but not all that closely tied to happiness. Research shows time and time again that deep social connection is the key, if you will, to happiness. And today's Canadians aren't that great at being social: "In
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by 9rx 7mo ago
Especially now that we can render TV ads in realtime on top of real-world objects, but even before, the 7 minutes of actual TV content and 53 minutes of paid commercials exists too. Better known as professional sports. Unlike QVC, a break f
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by 9rx 7mo ago
> And FWIW "opportunity cost" doesn't really show up as "a cost" in the traditional sense. I cannot think of any forward-looking situation where opportunity cost doesn't show up. What case are you thinking
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by 9rx 7mo ago
It's turtles all the way down. If you write your spec in C you can get pretty detailed into how sin is implemented, but not fully. The compiler is going to take your spec and still do things with it that you didn't say, like optim
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by 9rx 7mo ago
Said comment doesn't mention demand. However, it is true that supply and demand normally find equilibrium, which is the concept the comment was trying to describe. Which is the same concept I described. In simple terms, if you have 10
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by 9rx 7mo ago
It says a sufficiently detailed spec is code. Your spec lacks details that could be added.
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by 9rx 7mo ago
> Employees should be less than half Trouble is that it takes approximately the same amount of labor for you to send me one letter as it does to send me ten. Mail volume being down 47% doesn't appreciably mean less work. > ...
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by 9rx 7mo ago
How is that a counterpoint? It says the same thing with different words.
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by 9rx 7mo ago
> I think that if you meant co-authorship you could have made that clearer. What lead you to believe until now that Unix was written by just one person?
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by 9rx 7mo ago
> And here I thought people who want to live in houses add to demand for housing. Desire is a necessary component in demand, but it also requires willingness at a given price point. If houses are selling for $1,000,000 and you only hav
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by 9rx 7mo ago
The opportunity cost has already factored that in. Unless you think cost calculations are arbitrarily forgetting to include certain costs for no reason?
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by 9rx 7mo ago
> You're much more likely to encounter regressions when doing this under time pressure. There is nothing to suggest you should wait to optimize under pressure, only that you should optimize only after you have measured. Benchmark
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by 9rx 7mo ago
Nobody seems to be questioning that he was involved in Unix. Given that he didn't write it, what did he do for the project? Quality assurance? Support? Marketing? Court jester?
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by 9rx 7mo ago
Critical thinkers understand that rules aren't written for critical thinkers; that they are written for beginners who don't yet have the necessary experience to be able to think critically.
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by 9rx 7mo ago
> the opportunity to follow Rob Pike's Rule 5 was lost. std::set/std::map got into trouble because they chose the algorithm first and then made the data model match. Rule 5 suggests choosing the right data model first, indica
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by 9rx 7mo ago
Are you under the impression he was, like, a hands-off project manager or something? His involvement was in writing it. Not singlehandedly, but certainly as part of a team. He unquestionably wrote it. He did not envision it like he did the
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by 9rx 7mo ago
Pike didn’t create Unix initially, but was a contributor to it. He, with a team, unquestionably wrote it.
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by 9rx 7mo ago
The biggest problem with Typescript in the modern era is that LLMs are pretty bad at it, at least as compared to some other languages that are more well suited to LLM generation. What you say may have been a boon in the olden days, but it i
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by 9rx 7mo ago
> hell its better than Go for industry purposes. [...] the drawback with Java will always be the CULTURE The industry purpose for Go is that all codebases look more or less the same, so workers can jump into any project they've ne
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by 9rx 7mo ago
> I don't have infinite time. If it requires infinite time to get into it, you can't get into it. Trying to tantalize us with the prospect of engaging conversation that will never happen is the epitome of bad faith participat
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by 9rx 7mo ago
> So the go stdlib also isn't "the go programming language"? Which standard library? There isn't just one. tinygo's standard library, for example, isn't the same as gc's. They are, in most cases, API
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by 9rx 7mo ago
> Well my disappearance is because you're a pain to talk to Hey, honestly I'd love to refine my comments with an LLM to make them easier to read and follow, but that isn't allowed. I'd ask you to do it but you'
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by 9rx 7mo ago
I've seen it. I personally think it is ill-conceived and I am not sure why any business would actually want to function that way, but it definitely exists. Of software developers and computer programmers combined, only around 5% are co
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by 9rx 7mo ago
> Expressivity. Then you might say that Rust is an expressive programming language. But then I'm going to ask: What does expressivity mean? Ruby is always hailed for its expressivity. Is it also an expressive programming language
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by 9rx 7mo ago
That doesn't really make sense, though, as rice — one of the main ingredients in the aforementioned product — receives the highest subsidy rate in the USA. A Beyond Meat burger should be cheaper than a meat burger thanks to subsidies.
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by 9rx 7mo ago
They must, else you'd have elaborated what they do mean already.
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by 9rx 7mo ago
> I feel like the anti-MCP push is coming from people who don't need to work in a large org. Any kind of social push like that is always understood to be something to ignore if you understand why you need to ignore it. Do you agre
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by 9rx 7mo ago
He is talking about the same thing as you, no? As you point out, the more AI exposure (red), the more likely to have higher wages (green). Which suggests that those who are embracing AI are those who are thriving the most. Same as what he s
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by 9rx 7mo ago
The BLS classifies them as different roles. In essence: Software developers plan, computer programmers implement. Which in many cases might be the same person, but it has always been true that one person can hold multiple jobs.
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by 9rx 7mo ago
> Things like "//go:embed" and "//go:build" very much do change the semantics of source code. When you take the source code as a whole they do, but the Go parts are unchanged. The Go spec says no

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