Hammershaft

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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
Partially because prop 13 is a radioactive dumpster fire of a policy. Taxes on land or property are impervious to capital flight and are much more effective, but they're neutered in California.
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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
I agree, it's a great silly name that immediately jumped out at me because it felt so distant from the focus tested names out of marketing that have become the standard today.
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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
We were not fine before Tailwind, we aren't fine now, and we won't be fine after it until the day we finally recognize that CSS is a terrible foundational standard that deserves to be replaced.
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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
Millions of people want to live in NYC and would productively contribute to the city if it were more affordable. The government should not criminalize development that would make housing more affordable over your preference on shadows! It&#
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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
Property taxes do not directly translate into rent, the % of the tax that is on the land value of the property can't be passed on, because the supply of land is inelastic. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-geor
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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
SWE jobs are in fact, not safe, if vaguely defined specifications can be translated into functioning applications. I don't think agents are good enough to do that in larger applications yet, but it is something to consider.
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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
I'm not here to hype LLMs but they don't used an outsized share of fresh water, that's essentially a myth hyped by social media. https://andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake
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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
None of this is necessarily zero-sum. I'm skeptical AI is going to be a meaningful tailwind for games, but if I'm wrong it could absolutely benefit customers, studios, and labs through boosting productivity.
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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
It would be great if I could jump directly to a specific page. I wanted to see the median wage by jumping to page ~2500
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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
Even besides our selfish impulse to live the 'why' is clear. If death is inherently a bad loss, then the longer life extension takes the worse it is.
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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
We live in a world where even regional nuclear war will trigger a nuclear winter that starves people across the earth. Nationalist isolationism makes no sense in the modern world.
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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
The bitter politics can also be right wing and you can spot it when migration topics pop up. What distinguishes so much of the right wing and left wing politics is that so much of it is angry and zero sum. I've also been looking for gr
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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
You seem to be missing that I'm describing the effects of Valve's massive %30 tax on the game industry. There are studios that would've survived and continued making games people enjoy if Valve had less market power and charg
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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
The equilibrium has been reached and it's more studios going bankrupt, less games getting made, gamers spending more for less, and Gabe owning over $1B in yatches
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by Hammershaft 9mo ago
Steam uses outsized market power to take an enormous %30 cut so it also does major damage to the games industry.
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
We are locking in path dependence on flawed technologies because by nature newer technologies lack the training distribution needed for good LLM output. Our industry is in a pretty dismal state.
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
I'm also skeptical of narratives of a pre-ordained future for America based on the American Dream or any other teleological belief system.
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
C++ & Linux are world-changing tools, but C++ & Linux really do suck in ways that become more offensive with taste. Rust makes very different tradeoffs than ones gamedevs want. Regardless, if arrogance drives people to make new tool
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
I just opened chatGPT's voice mode and mocked the worse accented english I could muster asking for tips on pronunciation. chatGPT just told me that my pronunciation was perfect over an over. It's transcribing audio into text and h
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
I love clojure with CIDER but I have heard as a REPL experience it doesn't compare to CL with SLIME. I like emacs as a lisp machine but I know that a big ball of mutable state and functions with side effects on a single thread really d
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
All of the other examples you gave are products constrained by physical reality with a small set of countable use-cases. I don't think computer operating systems are simply mature appliance-like products that have been optimized down t
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
This was one of my bigger worries for LLM coding: we might develop path dependence on the largest tools and languages.
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
Impressive that the app still works! Did not expect that.
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
I don't know, but specifically many people objected that the tax would hurt retail inside and they were wrong.
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
We had significantly less welfare in the 60s. We also had more poverty per capita in the 60s but living standards were rising as a result of technological improvements. Clearly a private space company (spaceX) has dramatically outperformed
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
The objection that pricing will damage local retail, in aggregate retail has thrived from pricing. https://bettercities.substack.com/p/congestion-pricing-is-a-...
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
I really don't find the macOS windowing or application handling defaults to be tasteful or competently designed. In order for me to work using macOS without constantly bemoaning what feel like obvious shortcomings I need aerospace and
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
I don't need aerospace but I find Mac windowing to have a lot of cumbersome design shortcomings. Long animations between spaces, fullscreen creating a new window at the end of the list (??), slow processes to tile windows and efficient
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
Aerospace solves this, and many other design problems with Mac OS windowing.
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by Hammershaft 10mo ago
Pigouvian taxes are genuinely one of the few policies that really are nearly a free lunch in economics.

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