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by 9rx 11mo ago
> inventing When they used to say that you'd make more money going to university, that is what they were talking about. The idea was that if you went into the research labs you'd develop capital to multiply human output, whic
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Pretty sure farmers don't buy them tax free? I do. Agriculture products are zero-rated. But obviously it depends on jurisdiction.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
What would the money be used for, though? It does not serve as viable nourishment or shelter. Money is, after all, just a record of debt to facilitate trade so that transactions do not have to be completed immediately. Consider your job. Yo
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by 9rx 11mo ago
80% was peak agriculture, but involvement was already in decline before the tractor. Necessarily so — nobody would have had time to create the tractor if they were still busy toiling in the field. The tractor was the final death knell, I su
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> when almost everyone was employed in agriculture Employment was a product of the industrial revolution. In the age when most everyone worked in agriculture, they owned the farm operation. We didn't tax the tractor to bail out fa
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by 9rx 11mo ago
The union is interested in keeping the union afloat. If the union sees no other opportunity it can become interested in keeping the company float, but you have not made the case for your statement to be a truism. Consider an actors union —
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by 9rx 11mo ago
The reader has no idea who the author is. Nor do they need to as the words on the page already provide sufficient information to determine if the words are worthy of being taken seriously or not. Trying to assign meaning from the author ont
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> that doesn't throw if the email is invalid Why can't it 'throw' if the email is invalid? You can — and would — encode that into the contract, detailing exactly what that means, so no problem for the user. They wil
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by 9rx 11mo ago
A traditional programming language still wins there. "git clone $TETRIS_CLONE_REPO" is fewer words, gets you 100% of the way, and only takes seconds to produce the result. But the topic at hand is about novel problems. Can you des
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by 9rx 11mo ago
I was under the impression that in recent times unions had been mostly disbanded, with any remaining being in government that can't fail like a business can. You might have a fair point that we've started seeing a return of them i
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by 9rx 11mo ago
I appreciate you wanting to reorient the paper for me, but I wouldn't call that a win. I was fine with how it was already at rest. If anything, I lose, as the time you put into that was time not spent getting beck to me on the question
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Let's imagine we are working with some hypothetical language in which what you describe is possible. Or even a real one. The hypothetical part is that you'd be able to understand it. The languages with complex type systems
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Duplication is for me something like cloning or a perfect copy. That's fair. But if you aren't offering a perfect clone, then you're offering something novel that will 'wow' your customers, no? The market wil
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by 9rx 11mo ago
It is simpler than that. You only want microservices in the same cases you want services (i.e. SaaS). Meaning, when your team benefits from an independent third-party building and maintaining it. The addition of "micro" to "s
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by 9rx 11mo ago
There is no cycle here. Service B initiates the connection to Service A in order to receive notifications, and Service B initiates the connection to Service A to query for changed data. Service A never initiates a connection with Service B.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
"Micro" refers to the economy, not the technology. A service in the macro economy is provided by another company. Think of a SaaS you use. Microservices takes the same model and moves it under the umbrella of a micro economy (i.e.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
"Parse, don't validate", while familiar to all HN users (it feels like it gets posted here every week), is orthogonal and does not address what we are talking about. To extrapolate, let's stay with the email address type
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Stands to reason. It is all abstracted away. I used to understand networking in decent detail, but now many years later I've forgotten most of it.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
That must have been one heck of a rug pull if $270k was considered more cost-effective than getting someone to work on it sooner.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Do you need to reproduce them? You can simply look at how an LLM is built, no? It is not exactly magic. But what are you asking for, exactly? Do you want me to copy and paste the output (so you can say it isn't real)? Are you asking fo
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by 9rx 11mo ago
While that does not match my memory, it works too. An assembly language is part of Go, so it fits among the languages you mention. The only constraint it imposes is your imagination (and what the hardware is capable of). However, it remains
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Typescript is one of the actually-used languages that supports constraining the integer, albeit in a pretty awkward way. type Decade = 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 But now try defining a type that enforces a RFC-compliant
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by 9rx 11mo ago
By the common usage of the term, it is most definitely a systems language. Systems are the "opposite" of scripts. Scripts are programs that perform a one-off task and then exit. Systems are programs that run indefinitely to respon
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by 9rx 11mo ago
If you are using a language with a complete type system, sure. But who uses those? When using the languages people actually use in the real world, not really. Consider a simple example where the contract is that you return an integer value
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Software often puts the version in the name. Which is the same as the S7 designation in the case of said combine. S7 is just a restyled S7x0 series combine, which was the successor to the S6x0 series. It's not a perfect system. Before
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> No, this all started because you asserted that compilers are equivalent to AI. I asserted that typing in what you want and feeding it into something that outputs code is that something being a compiler. Call that AI if you want, but
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> I think straight duplication is quite unlikely. Is it? There are many different people selling wheels that are all pretty much indistinguishable from one another. The first one no doubt brought the 'wow'. But when the secon
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by 9rx 11mo ago
The question asked — paraphrasing to include the context you have added — is how you could create something like a wheel, or a novel adaptation on the wheel like an F1 wheel, without sparking 'wow'? It just doesn't seem impos
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Technically it is "combine". Originally it was known as a "combined harvester-thresher", which is maybe what you're thinking of, but that was soon shortened to "combine" and it has stuck ever since. "
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Of course, a wheel doesn't duplicate a wooden log. The wheel most certainly 'wow'-ed people when it was first introduced. But if you release a wheel today, same as any other wheel you can already buy, don't expect much f

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