anthonyskipper

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by anthonyskipper 2y ago
I thought Hawkins's book "On Intelligence" was amazing. It's a bit wild how close things have followed to the direction he laid out.
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by anthonyskipper 2y ago
Scala is the perfect example of why you want to limit expressivity. It's seems so cool and awesome at first, but then you have to support a code base with other engineers and you quickly come to the view that go's limited express
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by anthonyskipper 2y ago
This feels like the opposite direction of where we should be going. Open source should be more like science where you will never get paid unless some company or lab is paying you to do it, and there is a hard focus against commercializatio
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
I get the point here but for many organizations and types of companies this is a terrible and unworkable idea. A lot of companies have to wait till weekend for maintenance (e.g. trading/market making apps), and so your only options a
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
I don't really disagree with what you say, but I mostly play on laptops and I find that a MacbookPro M3 max feels about the same as my Razer gaming laptop with a 4090 in it. It's the same silicon on laptop and desktop with apple g
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
You can run AAA games on any apple silicon, and the perf is usually superior to anything else on the market except specialized gaming PCs. The real issue is that there is a small selection compared to xbox/ps/pc.
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
This ^. approach and modified forms of it can bu used to track lots of things, and have be done so for decades by some goverment agencies. You can use a method like this even if people are using encryption and lot of anonymous tunnels. You
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
I mostly remember them going out of business like Iridium did in 1999. Clearly the market wasn't there as no one I knew used satellite services for anything other than TV, and that model failed against broadband. Starlink is first ti
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
Something about that doesn't seem right. What about Apple or literally any of the other mega corps that have passed or closed to approach the 1T market cap?
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
It doesn't matter what most people side with. CEOs will be for it so it will probably happen.
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
Your point is good, but that stack wouldn't win any latency awards. Many of the people I know using kafka need latencies in the millisecond range.
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
Yes, I'm aware, but if none of those companies existed linux would still be doing great. Same way that if we made it so you couldn't charge for fonts the entire ecosystem would still be doing great. We don't need the rent se
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
That is like asking how could linux exist. Use your brain and imagine. We would likely have many more great fonts than we do today if you outlawed charging for them because people would no long have a protectionist mindset. It would be e
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
If we made it illegal to charge money for, we would have just as many good fonts as we do now. We should just change the law to outlaw making money this way.
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
^ You nailed it. The only issue tracker you need today comes with your source code repo. Both github and gitlab are not only more than sufficient, they are arguably better because the stripped down natures keeps people from doing silly th
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
That's a common dark pattern.
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
This is correct ^. Also, why should anyone want to use a crap license that restricts what you can do. As a software engineer those are crap licenses, same as a business owner, why do I want to support creation of some software that will ne
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
Cryptocurrency is a general threat to "society". It enabled a lot of bad actors and issues that did not exist before, and it is also in contrast to a lot of previous legislation created specifically to protect the average citizen
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by anthonyskipper 3y ago
The dividend keeps the stock price high, which is good for both shareholders and employees. Cutting employment is how you manage to pay the dividend when you losing money. Not paying the dividend would crash the stock price and make lots
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by anthonyskipper 4y ago
Because they wanted hydrogen, not electric.
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by anthonyskipper 4y ago
We aren't retreating from globalization, we are just separating out the good and the evil and deciding not to do business with evil.
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by anthonyskipper 4y ago
Same could be said about religion. Probably more true in that case.
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by anthonyskipper 4y ago
No, they would be almost 2 decades behind on building the required services and capturing market share. While they could make up the time on the tech side eventually, the market share is a very hard grind that they would not be able to pul
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by anthonyskipper 4y ago
The best answer to this is look at the VS Code ecosystem (as Intellij is niche by a small number of developers). In that ecosystem you will have all kinds of plugins from things watching and notifiying you about pipeline status to things
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by anthonyskipper 4y ago
He wrote all the best scifi on cryptocurrencies.
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by anthonyskipper 4y ago
That's pretty weak... next you will argue sports cars shouldn't be a thing because they burn through tires in less than 10k pretty often.
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by anthonyskipper 4y ago
Digging deeper/building taller lets you removing parking roadside and street level though that makes things way more walkable and just better in a lot of places.
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by anthonyskipper 4y ago
You need hard seperation on roads between cars and pedestrian traffic regardless of size. That has been shown to be true. Most european countries keep resisting this, again because their streets are way to small, but everyone would be hap
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by anthonyskipper 4y ago
It's because culturally we don't like them because we grew up with space. Small cars don't have enough space. We dislike small cars same way we dislike the small hotel rooms in EU. Also, why do you care about the small size
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by anthonyskipper 5y ago
This is a good thing. Imagine if we kept model-t's as our primary car instead of evolving.

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