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by 9rx 6mo ago
> what's special about 3d printers? They are typically stocked with material and ready to deploy at a moment's notice. When the time comes that you need a weapon, casually walking into Home Depot won't be an option.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Global food production now produces more than enough calories to feed everyone, but still hasn't figured out how to produce enough nutrients to feed everyone.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> If the market demands more chicken over beef, producers are perfectly capable of making a switch. Depends on local laws. In Canada, you cannot simply switch to chicken. It is supply managed.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
The vast majority is beef is finished on grain, but start on grass.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
So what you are saying is that writing is easy, but figuring out what to write is hard?
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Not at all. LLM slop exists exactly because writing is easy, but figuring out what to write is hard.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> Only if you expand the meaning of the word "requirements" to encompass a full specification of the solution. They are one in the same, no? Why would one write code that isn't required? Are you referring to the aforemen
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> Some things are hard to express in code even if you know exactly what you need to achieve and you know all the basic moves like loops and if statements. Like what? Are you, perhaps, confusing "hard" with "time consumin
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> Going from "what to program" to "what code to write" is what programming is about. Once your requirements are established there isn't any thing left to choose from, other than maybe whether to use a while loo
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Absolutely. I am quite capable of moving the pieces around a chess board within the confines of the rules. I think you would be hard-pressed to find many who are incapable of that, given exposure to the game. If that isn't easy, what i
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> Writing code that solves your users' requirements is "programming". For me, I need to have a solution figured out before writing code. I am not even sure how you could write code before having the problem solved. Your
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Because economically valuable programming has to consider what to program, not simply follow the instructions handed down by a teacher of exactly where and how to move a turtle on the screen. But nobody questions "what to program&quo
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> That's like saying "becoming a writer can't be that hard, since kids learn how to write in the elementary school". Is writing hard? I expect most can agree that determining what to write, especially if you have an
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> The article suggests that there is a lot of programming being done without considering what exactly needs to be programmed. And the parent rightfully points out that you cannot know exactly what needs to be programmed until after you
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by 9rx 6mo ago
They don't? It is taught in schools in the early elementary level. I see no indication that most are failing. I think we can agree that few of them would be economically useful due to not knowing what to program. There is no sign of co
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by 9rx 6mo ago
What is hard about it? Young children seem to pick it up with ease. It cannot be that hard? Determining what to program can be hard, but that was already considered earlier. The only other place where I sometimes see it become hard for some
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by 9rx 6mo ago
If customers were willing to pay more then a higher price wouldn't solve anything. The price is said to be too low exactly because people are trying to buy more than there is available to sell. The whole point of higher prices is to tr
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Its not a significant concern because we've learned the hacks to work around it, but it is pretty freeing to not have to put hacks into your app.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Exactly. From my point of view the strongest plausible interpretation of "in this day of age of high-priced beef" is that it recognizes that the current situation is a historical anomaly. But that isn't how it was interpreted
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> Summer starting when the days grow short makes no sense. Well, that's why there isn't just one summer. We have meteorological summer, astronomical summer, solar summer, etc. Solar summer already covers your intent. I'm
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> I can't recall similar attacks against a tech bilionnaire. How about Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber)? Attacking the tech elite was his deal.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> in the previous 10 years [...] [1] [2] For the sake of understanding our communication breakdown, what suggests "in this day of age of high-priced beef" is talking about 5-10 years ago?
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> Most people consider it to have genuinely transformed commerce sometime around 1999–2001. Because that is when tax and "munition" laws finally caught up. Internet commerce was already well understood before that time. The m
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> The non-desired sexed are not so valuable. Huh? A holstein bull calf is selling for around $3,000 right now. That's... insane. I remember from what doesn't seem all that long ago when fats didn't even fetch half that
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by 9rx 6mo ago
By using the type system. You define your type constraints at the module interface point and when you try to link the third-party module into that interface the compiler ensures that the constraints are satisfied. Same thing the compiler is
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> I really like the idea of implementing the std lib separate from the language. I think that would be a huge blessing for [...] Go Go's stdlib is separate from the language. The language spec doesn't specify a standard lib
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> Along with the "Bees are disappearing" scare, which was just measurement error Or fixed? The suspected cause at the time was pneumatic planter dust-off and addressing that was as simple as adding a baffle to direct the dust
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by 9rx 6mo ago
of words
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> Yet I can make 200k as a software engineer on salary. Then I dare say you've found your market fit. Tomorrow, your task is to start looking for a contractor position doing the exact same thing you are doing now. There's you
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by 9rx 6mo ago
I'm not sure I'd call them cheap. They're in the same price range as all the other brands with used machines of similar spec, plus some premium for being barely used. I am not sure there is any real price advantage. Agricultu

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