DubiousPusher

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by DubiousPusher 3y ago
We are once again at the limits of the illusion of ownership. We take for granted that ownership is real. But it is not real. It is an illusion. A profoundly helpful illusion if we believe the mainstream narrative about Western culture. But
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I don't think that was the case when ITER was conceived or started. The flood of fusion news we see is relatively recent. And to be perfectly frank, a lot of it bursts onto the scene with sensational claims, never to be heard from agai
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Erase it and do it iteratively like any sane person! Kidding aside, I'm more talking about the kinds of large procedures common to C++ codebases. These involve many sequential state changes which leave lots of opportunities for not ini
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Is it though? Like, if I see a lot of nested "ifs" with "returns" sprinkled around, I'm getting "icky" vibes way before I intellectually know what is wrong. Like, I don't think you can get away with j
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> The best programmers I know But are the "best programmers" the best judges of such things. I often find they are not because they often understand their tools in a way that is incomprehensible to others. I've seen many j
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If you like this, I recommend Hacker's Delight. The first chapter goes into bit twiddling in depth. It ends with some explanation of what all can be expressed in bit-wise operations, a sort of Fundamental Theorem of Bit Twiddling.
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This is one of those all too common misunderstandings of how engineering works. There's some idea that once designs and theory are done, that engineering is some kind of straight forward act of stamp collecting and that the best thing
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Watching MOON like it's a documentary.
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Just maybe the trajectory of some of tech's most hyped companies has had some impact on this: WeWork, Palantir, Theranos, Uber, etc?
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Nor does unbounded positivity and optimism.
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> isn't this something that can be more or less corrected by a lot of engineers finding work elsewhere? In the long run sure. But in the short run, employment is sticky. Especially in the professional world.
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> Microsoft has been bleeding talent for the last 5-6 years due to low compensation. I have been hearing this for awhile now. When I compare MS pay and benefits to what is on offer at other companies, almost the only jobs I see with bett
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I think the bigger costs are/will be associated with AI plays. I would guess MS is protecting the war chest for some bidding wars.
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> this is an EXCELLENT decision. It really is a _lazy_ method to handle layoffs That's one way to see it. You could also see it as a tremendous blunder. The people who will "self-layoff" are not the low producing team meme
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Patrick Wyman's, Tides of History podcast has done a lot of episodes on this and is a great introduction. Yale's introductory Greek history class with lectures from Donald Kagan is available online and part of it covers the Mycena
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Stories like this make me really miss, the "Reply All" podcast and its "Super Tech Support" segment.
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Sam Altman is the worst mistake of the tech industry. edit: Like, I'm only half snarky. He ran like one ok company and then got pretty much coronated into OpenAI. edit: edit: Like really. It was a company that let you share your phone
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Why didn't I think of this? I should be making up things which I pay him unrealistic amounts of money for in order to teach him that work is about being an extractionist sponge rather than trying to find a way to make a meaningful cont
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That aspect does. Yes.
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I can't speak for Iowans but it looks very close to what has happened in my home state of Montana. That is, the Republican party has very successfully bonded a functional plurality to itself mostly via the culture war. In Montana this
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Here's a rational argument. Roofing in particular is one of the most dangerous, demanding and environmentally harsh trades in the construction industry. Just as there is an age below which most children's bodies are not ready to b
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It's not that simple though. For example, my son is 11 and wants to work. He wants to earn more money than I can find house chores to pay him for. He could absolutely help in an office or retail situation. Neither my wife nor myself ha
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Maybe because being nice is an important social lubricant but is vastly overrated as a measure of character?
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Yeah. I was maintaining a similar level of neutrality until I hit this line. > The measure — championed by conservative lobbying groups, the state restaurant association and the state industry group for home builders, among others
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Yeah, I agree. You can see something like this as a clear signal of a market and regulatory failure and yet recognize it as an ultimately pro-social stop gap. If this becomes routine, it will mutate. It's an absolute breeding ground fo
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Well, the country septupled its GDP over the 70 years of Soviet rule. For a time, between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of WWII it was one of the fastest growing economies in world history. While facing terrible famine and hung
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This is great. I've been interested in understanding how the Soviet economy worked for a long time. I've found only a handful of articles like this one. Unless you're willing to delve into hardcore economic academic papers (I
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It's funny to me that there is a widespread perception that in 2023 life has become more regulated in most developed economies. Most of what is now the "developed" world reached its height of regulation and government involvm
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Absolutely, you have to localize or internationalize cultural products. Culture export mostly does the later, relying on the fact that colonialism and international consumer capitalism have created a veneer of "common" culture acr
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I believe they mean Facebook and Google.

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