TheMagicHorsey

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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
The part of China that is innovative is not communist. They have the most free-market labor market, the most free-market regulations in everything except media (which is heavily controlled by the state). China is the most brutally capitali
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
I agree with you so much. There's many advantages to declarative and reactive GUI frameworks, but, god, they have so much "magic" going on at all times. Its hard to understand how the declarations get converted to pixels on
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
I've made four broad transitions in my career over thirty some years. First I was a hands-on coder for about 5 years. Then I transitioned into tech sales for about two years. Then into leadership/management for four years. The
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
It's always been close. But now, finally, I think it's really close. As in, I think I may still be alive when the first fusion power comes into the grid, even if I probably won't be alive to see the full dream of infinite c
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
Second this. My daughter is in 3rd grade and loves these.
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
I wish I could be the kind of bicyclist that puts brakes on his bike in this game. I could survive longer. Maybe indefinitely.
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
This seems unnecessary. Google's search business is being disrupted along different axes already ... LLMs, voice agents, Apple Intelligence, etc.
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
they did the testing, but those lab tests didn't conclude walmart was the best. That conclusion was based on supply chain speed.
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
This article seems to lack common sense. Yes, the amount of Vitamin C will reduce the longer you store a vegetable or fruit in a fridge, but the amount of calcium and iron does not change. Nor does the the density of other minerals. Why i
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
How did Facebook determine that Schrems was gay? Do they even know he's gay? Just because they showed him an ad for something that gay people would find relevant doesn't mean they targeted him for being gay. Its possible he lik
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
Fair response.
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
Looks really nice. But sometimes when I see projects like this in other languages, I think, are you sure you don't want to use Erlang or something else on the BEAM runtime and just call Rust or C via their NIFs? I used Erlang about a d
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
Salaries without skin in the game leads to failure. People just trade for their own benefit within and outside the system.
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
This is why institutions break down in the long run in any civilization. People like you, people of principle are drown out my agents acting exclusively in their own interest without ethics. It happens everywhere. The only solution to this
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
They can "tell" employees all they want, but the engineers who really get stuff done are not going to get fired for working from home, and a bunch of them are choosing to stay remote ... or paying lip service to office days by pro
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
Not really. The utility of credentials is falling fast vs recommendations, networking, and work experience. If you want to learn some deeper technical things, I suggest online one-off courses or online mini-certificates. On the other hand,
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
When we are talking about the elite 0.01% of students the professor is irrelevant for regular coursework. They are almost uniformly autodidacts. A mentor is of course useful at the very boundaries of knowledge that textbooks and papers do
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
I don't really think a Yale degree makes you better than someone with a community college degree. There's no magic at Yale. The education you get everywhere is pretty good now because of all the resources universally available t
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
I did enjoy the article. People forget how influential the architectures these guys came up with were in the industry a decade ago. Its great to read about the human factors behind the advances.
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
It depends on what stack you work on. There are thousands of these small shops with 1 to 50 devs, that just take on work from companies to do small outsourced IT projects. From a Google search, these guys do Rust: https://ferrou
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
The way you get highly paid part-time work is by making a piece of open source software that's targeted at some niche vertical. Then you will get consulting/customization requests for that software and you can do that part-time.
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
Is there an open, simple, handheld gaming platform that is cheap, and has good documentation so hobbyists and kids can make games for it? I know people will say pick up a cheap Android phone. And perhaps they're right, but Android is
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
As much as I love lisps, and I've written a fair bit of code in Scheme, Racket, and Clojure, I have to admit, when you are an immigrant in another person or organization's code, their specific abstractions, DSLs (macros), etc., ca
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
Coming from Adobe Lightroom, I found Affinity Photo to be unusable. But I eventually switched from shooting RAW to shooting JPG, and now I just use files straight out of my Fuji cameras. As a busy parent I can't be bothered to edit a
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
Yo! This is awesome stuff!
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
I remember those days. I feel the same way as the author. But I think the right place to find that same joy in programming today, is by building stuff with embedded systems. You can do a lot of fun stuff as a kid with an arduino, some com
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
Yeah, maybe, but for the last 20 years there really weren't enough incidents to make it an activity that was too risky to do outside of some really security sensitive applications.
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
If China ever takes over Taiwan, America is so screwed. Actually, there is such a scattered supply chain for semiconductor chips, that any war that disrupts international trade in a material way, would bring that entire industry to its knee
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
It's very difficult to come to simple conclusions that are accurate in the case of California power generation. One of the reasons it's so complicated is that the State in California intervenes in the market in so many (sometimes
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by TheMagicHorsey 2y ago
I've read both and both are 10/10. But if you use a 100-point scale then Vinge's book is 99/100 and Tchaikovsky's is 95/100.

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