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by HideousKojima 1y ago
So I can exchange a fixed amount of dollars for an F-35C and a Ford class carrier?
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>It is the transparency and verifiability that is the key idea and most important improvement that blockchains bring. You can have transparency and verifiability without blockchain, so long as you trust the parties publishing the ledge
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Eh, I'm still a goldbug who thinks fiat is a scam and I hate crypto too. I actually don't care about gold specifically, I just think currency should be backed by some sort of real good that's durable and relatively rare. The
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>The blockchain technology itself is a marvel and the safety/security properties of properly decentralized systems are unmatched. The whole financial world would be better written using blockchain/smart contracts, same goes for
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>The people who actually can do it are not underpaid. The pipelines to create more such people are sorely lacking though
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
There was an email she claimed to have received many years ago from another academic essentially saying "you're right that a lot of academic research is BS and just a jobs program for academics, but you shouldn't point that o
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Gas and oil based power generation is far simpler than nuclear. Regulatory barriers against nuclear power are far more detrimental to nuclear as a result because the issues compound.
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Anti-nuclear power activism started before Chernobyl, see New Zealand banning nuclear powered ships at their ports in 1984 for one of many examples.
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>20 years ago nuclear was the fastest, cheapest and best method for carbon free electricity, so the fossil industry pushed solar & wind as a distraction. The histories of pretty much every green party in the western world and their a
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>The way these type checkers get fast is usually by not supporting the crazy rich reality of realworld python code. Nah, that's just part of the parade of excuses that comes out any time existing software solutions get smoked by a n
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
That's because we'd seen "Russian invasion imminent" every year since the annexation of Crimea. It got to be very boy who cried wolf.
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Assuming the cels weren't lost or destroyed. Or auctioned off to fans/collectors, as was often done: https://www.animationconnection.com/original-production-cels In fact there's an episode of the Simpson&#x27
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
The same syntax is also used in vim
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>"absolutely everyone can learn to program" Personally I've always considered a solid grasp of algebra to be the minimum bar for being able to program, at least for anything that isn't utterly trivial. Being able to t
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
I actually love the original BSG. And the new one started out strong but the writers clearly didn't have a plan for where they wanted things to go despite the opening credits insisting the Cylons have a plan.
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Someone in a thread here a few months back described webdevs and their constant obsession with changing tooling, frameworks, etc. as "mayflies debating politics" or something to that effect and it has stuck with me since. Do all t
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
My company didn't do any in-person interviews, it was all over Zoom. I've never been to the office (which is over 1,000 miles away) and likely never will.
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
> In Europe most people don't use cloth dryiers. You just hang the clothes on lines (usually on your balcony or in your bathroom if you live in a flat, or in your backyard if you live in a detached home). Clothes are dry the next da
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Best workaround (still ridiculous that it hasn't been fixed) is to set a PDF printer as your default printer.
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
It's like the museum scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off when Cameron is staring super intently at the painting
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Rider stands out because the competition for C# development is VS2022 and VSCode. VS2022 is bloated and slow, while VSCode is missing tons of important features. Can't really speak to how other JB offerings compare to their competitors
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
He called it a "hostile and political act", when did he threaten them?
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
We've had an infinity% tariff on all goods from Cuba for decades
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Much, much more than what we're seeing now, historically. Including outright banning all or nearly all foreign trade. See Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate for one of the more extreme examples.
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
That's how "free trade" agreements have worked for decades too. Look at the specific categories Canada puts protective tariffs on despite our trade agreements with them (in particular their agricultural goods which have quota
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Sure, but avoiding CPU cache misses is hardly the only form of optimization. Some optimizations are blatantly obvious. As an example, there was some code I was working on that called the database every single time it was executed. The data
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
How are tariffs (and now basically significant tariffs on only China now) in any way similar to a centrally planned economy? Tariffs have existed in every country capable of enforcing them for all of human history, and they existed in the U
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>Consequently there is a natural monopoly here, and if we have too many providers we will block out the sky[1] and risk creating the Kessler Syndrome[2]. The orbits Starlink sats are at won't cause Kessler syndrome. Even if the enti
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Did shareholders not want them launching on a Falcon 9 because it was helping a competitor, or did they actively want them to use the F9 because it's the most affordable option but Bezos (or other higher ups) didn't want to supp
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understand

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