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by SJC_Hacker 8mo ago
> Software Development as a field is strange: it can only produce value when it is used to make production of real goods more efficient. We can use AI to cut out bureaucratic work, which then means that all that is left is real work: cra
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by SJC_Hacker 8mo ago
There could be life on other planets. It could even be (somewhat) suitable for humans to live without a full space suit But I find it unlikely the exact combination of factors, of which there are dozens or more, will be present such that i
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by SJC_Hacker 8mo ago
Scientists tell people things they don't want to hear
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by SJC_Hacker 9mo ago
> And there can't be a really fair counter-view by the journalist because what are they to do, interview a laid-off worker at the business? Umm, yes? Thats called journalism They don't have to name people if they can get indep
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by SJC_Hacker 9mo ago
Its not publish or perish so much as get grant money or perish. Publishing is just the way to get grants. A PI explained it to me once, something like this Idea(s) -> Grant -> Experiments -> Data -> Paper(s) -> Publication(s)
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by SJC_Hacker 9mo ago
I heard the perspective from one astronomer that "dark matter" isn't a theory so much as an observation (and same goes for dark energy)
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by SJC_Hacker 9mo ago
In my experience, that $5k/month easily blows up into $100k/month
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by SJC_Hacker 9mo ago
Rent?
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by SJC_Hacker 9mo ago
> The question is: why would services like Google and others want to use such privacy-preserving identity solutions? They wouldn't gain anything from a non-invasive, user-friendly system, so I don't think they'd use it. Th
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by SJC_Hacker 9mo ago
Planes can be shot down
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by SJC_Hacker 9mo ago
Guys with guns can be pretty convincing
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by SJC_Hacker 9mo ago
As the author of the FQA noted (Yosef K-something), in C++ its more the combinations of features which causes so many issues. And here we see this principle rear its ugly head yet again. In this case, its the combination of exceptions, manu
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by SJC_Hacker 9mo ago
> The difference is that in C one is supposed to do allocations and deallocations oneself No, you should only use the heap if necessary. The bigger issue in C is there is no concept of references, so if you want to modify memory, the onl
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by SJC_Hacker 9mo ago
Astronauts are of a breed apart. They're strapped onto a literally bomb which launches them into a vacuum, and windows where there is no chance of a mission abort. They've pretty much accepted a risk of death that most would sim
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by SJC_Hacker 9mo ago
> I find this no less as unlikely as thinking humans would let wolves help themselves to their excess food Wolves can extract nutrition from animal tissue which humans discard, such as bone and the tougher cartilage/connective tissu
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
> t would be great if those wannabe C++ replacements were fully bootstraped This would require (re)writing the OS in the replacement language Also need assembler to be taken seriously, which Rust can’t do last I checked
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
Something more complicated maybe ? Like say parse arguments from a command line ?
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
> multiple counties Pay no attention to those fopheads from Kent. We speak proper British English here in Essex
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
Only if by power you mean performance. Otherwise C++ is not a very ”powerful” language. I’d like to see an example of a task that can be done with less verbosity in C++ than say, Python, using only the standard library
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
You may want to watch some of Herb Sutters videos. He is one of the few sane people left in the upper echelon of C++ supporters
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
SQLite can also do in memory
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
SQLite is cool. You can create an in memory DB ands it’s super fast. Better stick with read only though With a few lines of code you can even copy an arbitrary DB from disk to memory.
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
I miss the days of legit journalism where we had these people called "editors" which catch these types of issues before publication
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
From an investor perspective yeah if you put $200k into a 20 different business, 19 can fail but that one that gives you back 50x your investment is a massive payoff. Of course this is of little solace to the 19 other "entrepeneurs&quo
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
Over $2 million in assets about the time Musk was matriculating would have put in the top 0.1%, e.g. 1 in 1000. That would be fairly rich to me
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
And Bill Gates father was in banking and was a millionaire
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
> Do you have a source for that not being their life savings? Do you have a source for the $250 not being from the invisible pink unicorn? Because my understanding it was from the invisible pink unicorn
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
The Triluminati
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
Trig relies on some geometric assumptions. The definition of sin and cos is going to require a right triangle, for instance,
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by SJC_Hacker 10mo ago
> The purely trigonometric proof that was found by some high school students recently is a great one. I failed to understand what was so cool about that proof. It relied on concepts such as Cartesian coordinate systems, and the measure

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