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by bborud 4mo ago
I thought it was the 5G windmill lizard people this week. Do we not have the same edition of «The Nice And Accurate Tin Foil Hat Almanac»?
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by bborud 4mo ago
To be fair, meaningful changes to life expectancy numbers tend to take longer to manifest. For instance, if you cut preventive healthcare for younger parts of the population that will take longer to manifest. I wish there were more modeling
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by bborud 4mo ago
No, you are right about it not being limited to Python. But for python the common courtesies I am used to right out of the box tend to require extra effort on part of the programmer. And «extra» doesn’t usually happen. Even C, with its anci
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by bborud 4mo ago
I'm not trying to be cute here, but it seems like you have mostly been using scripting languages without static typing. How do you know what it is like to develop in languages with strong typing that produce binaries and that these ar
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by bborud 4mo ago
Except for Germany, which of the major countries are you referring to? Show me numbers. It has been 10 years. How long do you think this should take? 20 years? And how long before the lost decade (or perhaps decades) have been made up fo
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by bborud 4mo ago
you're going to have to quote sources and explain the math.
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by bborud 4mo ago
Well here is how it looks from my perspective: - At previous gig relocation of manufacturing to the UK stopped because it would be impossible to operate there due to severe delays in procurement and long delays in securing appropriate visas
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by bborud 4mo ago
The real delta is the delta between what was promised and what was delivered. Pretending that the outcome wasn't so bad by moving the goalposts closer is, quite frankly, dishonest.
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by bborud 4mo ago
Throwing it in an OCI container is not the "easy" approach. It is the beginning of opening a can of worms. I know, because I've been developing tooling to do that at scale for the last few months and behind every layer of w
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by bborud 4mo ago
The performance is not the (only) issue. The issue is the death by a thousand cuts involved in distributing Python programs without a two page set of instructions that have to be followed to make it work. It is rarely "just works&quot
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by bborud 4mo ago
Well, that's the curse of machine learning: since everyone uses Python you have to deal with Python. Even though Python isn't very nice when things start to get serious and you don't want to spend your time fiddling with noi
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by bborud 4mo ago
What specifically makes them more pleasant? (not a rhetorical question, I want to know what's important to you)
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by bborud 4mo ago
Python has other, bigger problems that make it a constant headache. One of them being the dismissive attitude towards any and all of problems that come from versioning, dependencies and quirks that make it challenging to have robustness. C
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by bborud 4mo ago
Only 47% of adults in the US have the liquidity to cover an unforeseen expense of USD 1000 according to a 2026 Bankrate survey. https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/emergency-savings-r... The quote: "At a
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by bborud 4mo ago
In this day and age? Not much.
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by bborud 4mo ago
Look it up.
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by bborud 4mo ago
You are aware of the fact that you essentially have no rights at border crossings, right? Even if you are a US citizen entering the US. This is why many companies have procedures for when employees visit certain countries, including the US
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by bborud 4mo ago
Well, he showed zero respect for the Ferrari design legacy. And let’s be very clear: this is a mediocre design regardless of brand. Just because he had a successful collaboration two decades ago doesn’t mean we have to pretend everything he
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by bborud 4mo ago
Computer science no more get its hands dirty with concrete software than physics primarily being about building bridges. It is not «a foundational principle of computer science».
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by bborud 4mo ago
I didn't know Jony Ive was involved. That may explain why it looks so disappointing. Jony Ive is a brilliant example of the role selection plays in evolutionary processes. It is the sorting method that punishes bad ideas with death
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by bborud 4mo ago
"Systems program" or "systems programming" is a meaningless term because people use it differently. Discussing what it means is a waste of time. It is better to be specific.
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by bborud 4mo ago
You have those who obsess over feature lists for languages and then you have those who obsess over friction, productivity, ease of use and developer ergonomics. If I were uncharitable I might call the categories "people who are somewha
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by bborud 4mo ago
Let’s be honest: ai mode is less shit than the ads that, for some searches, all but replace all legitimate content. But it is still shit compared to a search engine. Which Google no longer is. There’s a real opening for actual search engine
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by bborud 4mo ago
I think I agree, but I am not sure I understand what "the means to do it well" actually means. I would think of it more as a community decision: let's focus efforts on doing X well in the standard library since X is importan
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by bborud 4mo ago
It seems the problem here is that they didn’t “fix” whatever you thought was “broken” and you are upset. And somehow you extrapolated that to mean that Go only follows Google’s needs. Be a bit more precise. What exactly are you talking ab
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by bborud 4mo ago
How is this «optimized for Google»?
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by bborud 4mo ago
Have we really come to a point where the only business structures we can envision are huge monopolies playing zero-sum games? Imagine if every publisher offered every book to every service that sells it to consumers? And are free to sell t
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by bborud 4mo ago
It turns out that the needs of Google overlaps significantly with the needs of software engineers outside Google. That argument could have been valid for a while after its initial release. But now it is just a lazy argument today. I think
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by bborud 5mo ago
I’d argue that this is wrong. Having a conservative standard library that aims to contain most things most people need is preferable to third party libraries in 90%. For the 10% that isn’t covered to your liking by the standard library you
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by bborud 5mo ago
You seem to imply that it doesn’t have any cost. It does. You have to make decisions and, in the case of C++: sometimes you have to deal with a lot of really ugly code to make it “automatic”. And if you really have to count bytes and care

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