BobbyJo

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by BobbyJo 1y ago
I like to think of it completely differently: Functions are where you hide things, Classes are where you expose things. Functions to me are more about scoping things down than about performing logic. The whole program is about performing lo
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by BobbyJo 1y ago
"Aiding protein synthesis causes cancer"
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by BobbyJo 1y ago
Also, what is Bing's retention on windows? They try to cram it down your throat, but people still go straight for chrome/google.
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by BobbyJo 1y ago
They could almost certainly prevent it in most cases, and they likely promote it in some.
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by BobbyJo 1y ago
That video is the craziest thing I have ever seen.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
The budget deficit so far . So yes, if we were to take all their money, the debt would go to zero for exactly one moment, then we would go back to spending more than we have immediately, but now with the chilling effect that taking wealth
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
You have to ask if that kind of volatility would exist in a system that taxes wealth.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Hardware availability is a use case of cryptocurrency, but not the point. The point is a decentralized accounting system that no single party can manipulate, for good or bad. You can apply that to hardware availability, digital game economi
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Im afraid you'd need to be pretty liberal with your definition of rich at this point to dig us out of this hole through taxes alone.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
What does their commonality have to do with the use cases where they aren't viable?
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
GPUs can do general computation, they just saturate under different usage profiles.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
I wouldn't color relying on a historical ally that either produces, or is the transit corridor for, most of your food with "everything to lose". The current trade spat is an issue, and Canada should react accordingly, but the
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Then why do companies try to move so fast if if doesn't matter? Seems like your opinion runs counter to the observed behavior of the entire software industry. If speed of execution matters, then the language and tools you use for somet
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Probably not. I have almost no faith that Musk won't cause more harm than good.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Python is great for library orchestration and has tons of support for almost anything you need. So if you aren't building a large application and don't need concurrency, its great. Java is great for building large applications wit
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Languages influence design, and application influences design. That means they influence each other.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
I honestly couldn't disagree more. Having built very similar systems in Golang, Python, and Java in different companies, and having used MongoDB and other NoSQLs as well as Postgres to similar ends, I have very strong preferences abou
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Language matters quite a bit when deciding how to build an application though. I see having no strong opinions on language to be a sign the person hasn't developed a wide enough variety of projects to get a feel for their strengths and
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Their charter is far narrower than DOGE, and are really only empowered to chase outright illegal behavior.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
> Having a lot of problems doesn't mean you have to throw up your hands and take a totally unstructured approach to solving them. Having a lot of problems for a long time generally means other attempts have failed. > So work on
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
1) There is no one that knows about it. There is no government agency that specializes in cost saving. Congress is the sole source of austerity, and they have every incentive to increase spending if it helps their district. 2) They have 4 y
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Probably true to be honest.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
1) A large portion of the government is unable to pass a simple audit. 2) The fundamental basis of government department budgeting is "spend everything you get or you'll get less next year". No department will willingly spend
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
> This is the logic a Victorian surgeon hacking at a patient, safe in the knowledge that sea sponges do alright with a fraction of a human’s organs. Except its not? Every organizational takeover and efficiency push looks pretty much the
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
I honestly don't see how you can cut government spending at this point without being haphazard. Every administration for the last 70+ years has increased real spending (not to mention expanding executive power along the way, which got
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
The reason I wonder this isn't because I don't understand the economic or political gravity of the technology. It's because: 1) AI as a software concept strikes me as something that will be very easily stolen and replicated.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
> first strike with AGI simply wins The question I come back to over and over again is: wins what?
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
I've shipped code in JS, Python, C++, Java, Golang, and a few others. I can say with certainty Golang was the easiest to debug simply because if a layer could fail, it was explicitly obvious. Exceptions might come from a few layers dee
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
Income taxes require extra infrastructure. If you can do everything buy-side, it'd cost less to implement I think.
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by BobbyJo 2y ago
I am saying it's not possible for the foreseeable future, yes. The same way backends becoming an abstraction most developers don't need to worry about is also not going to happen in the foreseeable future.

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