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by ajross 11mo ago
FWIW, the "Suzi" thing they're talking about seems like an attempt to compete with LoRa, which while technically an open standard is entirely dominated by Semtech. It's not clear to me why the manufacturers aren't j
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by ajross 11mo ago
How so? You don't want us discussing the fact that republican policymaking is behind the CBP overreach in the linked article. You... literally said so.
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by ajross 11mo ago
This is HN, no one here is ignorant of the issue. Even granting your framing, you're addressing the wrong audience. This is the choir here, not the laity. Look, no, that's just wrong. Immigration enforcement overreach (and law
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by ajross 11mo ago
> There's no need to partisanize this. On the contrary, the only way to drive change in a democracy is via partisanship. Demanding we all adhere to an artificial both-sides framing is manufacturing consensus for the status quo.
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by ajross 11mo ago
> A slow-moving train wreck is still a train wreck. It's. Not. A. Train. Wreck. There is a high signal NOW , due (very obviously) to a well-understood and well-characterized effect visible up and down social metrics in all societie
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by ajross 11mo ago
Adding keywords can be done compatibly. Again, I'm not making things up. A C18 compiler can absolutely build K&R C programs that are probably older than your parents. (C23 did roll back some stuff, to much gnashing of teeth, and
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by ajross 11mo ago
Frustratingly, I note that the clip art used to illustrate the article (showing a bunch of junk-ish food like chips, donuts, pizza and burgers) contains not a single example of a UPF that I can see . The Guardian couldn't even be jazz
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by ajross 11mo ago
> Grade inflation seems to be the main long-term culprit Is it though, or is that just what your ideological sense tells you? Like I'm trying to point out, if you take the pandemic shock out of the data set, there really isn't
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by ajross 11mo ago
You mention it last, but I think PHP was most of it. PHP was the first and best-integrated technology for this world, which was huge and impactful. The "center of thought" in the text processing problem area moved hard to web de
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by ajross 11mo ago
> You're hand wavy "it's the pandemic" neglects the other evidence provided There was no significant other evidence. And "hand wavy" is missing the point. There is a bleedingly obvious hypothesis for thi
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by ajross 11mo ago
I did! Here's the quote: > But the national trend is very clear: America’s students are getting much worse at math. The decline started about a decade ago and sharply accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic. So I, a "fool&
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by ajross 11mo ago
Embarassing Occam's failure in the lede: > For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Good grief. No, it's just the pandemic
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by ajross 11mo ago
I'm not completely sure I agree. I mean, I do agree about the .unwrap() culture being a bug trap. But I don't think this example qualifies. The root cause here was that a file was mildly corrupt (with duplicate entries, I guess)
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by ajross 11mo ago
A few bond funds, but frankly just a lot of money market cash in the short term. Most of our guts say that the crash is imminent and if it is the extra fees and hassle won't be worth it.
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by ajross 11mo ago
You can't hedge against a whole market. And you can't time bubble pop events anyway. You can dump NVDA today, sure, because it's overvalued at $180. And most of us agree. But that won't prevent it from going to $30
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by ajross 11mo ago
Sigh. "Irrelevant" except in the sense that the code used to build and now it doesn't after a gcc upgrade, you mean. This is an attitude shared (c.f. "greenfield" comments elsewhere in this tree) among a bunch of
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by ajross 11mo ago
> Introducing [...] new keywords [...] is not a breaking change. This is some kind of semantic prestidigitation around a definition for "breaking" that I'm not following. Yes, obviously it is. New keywords were valid sym
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by ajross 1y ago
> Homes got more expensive, income did not increase as fast. That's true, but not nearly so much so as people tend to believe. Median home price expressed as a fraction of household income is up about 38% since 1985: https:/&
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by ajross 1y ago
No? The "corresponding compiler flag" is a new feature. I mean, who told folks at Bell Labs in 1978 how the GCC --std= arguments would work in the coming decades? Legacy code is legacy, it doesn't know it needs to use the
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by ajross 1y ago
> What is the downside of switching to the newest standard when it's properly supported? Backwards compatibility. Not all legal old syntax is necessarily legal new syntax[1], so there is the possibility that perfectly valid C++11 c
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by ajross 1y ago
The news is that a whale is dumping, not that the whale is making a rational decision. We all know the market isn't rational in the short term, merely efficient in the long term. And we all suspect (as does Thiel!) that NVDA is unsus
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by ajross 1y ago
Nonetheless waiving the theater for Bongino et. al. implies that Patel thinks the theater works, or at least that these guys were likely to fail anyway regardless of "many issues". It smells corrupt, like everything else in this
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by ajross 1y ago
> Tesla actually needs millions of miles without critical intervention So... agreed. I think that sounds like it's in the right ballpark. Here's the thing though: your whole argument (sort of a para-freakout, really) hinges on
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by ajross 1y ago
So... that was exactly the point upthread. You're making a semantic argument over the proper definition for the word "real" when applied to autonomous vehicle systems. Nothing in this argument is actionable in any way. Y
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by ajross 1y ago
How many kids has it steamrollered? Obviously not 12 a month! Seems like this is an argument to be had with real numbers, no?
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by ajross 1y ago
Ditto. The volume of knee-jerk hatred these posts engender here really just fails in the face of the capabilities of the actual system. Like, it's OK to shout and scream about LIDAR and supervision and disengagement and all. But... i
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by ajross 1y ago
To be clear: I don't "favor" anything. I was making a point about the demographic that is upset, and a connection as to why. Social policy is hard, but things don't get better by perpetuating inequality. Surely you ag
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by ajross 1y ago
The Javascript world hides its complexity outside the core language, though. JS itself isn't so weird (though as always see the "Wat?" video), but the incantations required to type and read the actual code are pretty wild. B
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by ajross 1y ago
> the official statistics are rather mute on the topic of economic distribution They actually aren't. Median income is measured as a median for a reason. Poverty line statistics are taken at the low end. Local CPI and price data
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by ajross 1y ago
Heh, tools. I just put an "XX" on the front of a field I want to refactor and see what breaks.

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