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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
I think this is the crux of it. When i got my first job I probably made half the salary of the senior engineer in our division. I am 100% sure I was not half as productive. Juniors take a lot of training and time and aren't very produc
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
The xenaphobia is still very much there. Chinese tech is sanitized through Taiwanese middlemen (Foxconn, Asus, Acer etc). If you try to use Chinese tech or funding directly you will have a lot of pushback from VCs, financial institutions an
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
The author‘s reasons seem sensible ( https://eldred.fr/blog/codeberg/ ) But I'm sort of disappointed the end result doesn't seem like it's any better for users? (not blaming the author) The benefits f
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
I think the article underplays the transition. They're not just-now being sold, it's already the norm. I was in Chengdu last summer and all the huge trucks hauling sand and rocks at construction sites where electric already (and n
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
My impression is that b/c they're non-EU they've retained a lot more local talent. By contrast, any half decent programmer in Croatia has a very strong incentive to get a job in Germany and make a much higher salary
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
I think it's a broader cultural issue where everyone has to have strong opinions about everything and make a strong stand - instead of picking your battles Not that I necessarily disagree with their reasoning, but stick to having stron
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
I mean.. if Netflix offered Disney more money then they wouldn't have felt it necessary to launch their own service. I think they simply underpayed or overplayed their cards. It's hard to imagine Disney with it's own service
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
Do they hold the CERN Roomba to the same standard? If it cleans the same section of carpet twice is someone going to have to do a review?
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
yeah but is foveated streaming and whatnot going to be opensource, or are we going to have to wait a decade for some grad student to reimplement a half broken version?
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
I'm confused. Why would you develop a game on a SBC (that's not powerful enough to do VR)? Why are you not just cross compiling? It's possible that you can have a full open source stack some day on these goggles.. but I don&#
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
It sounds like the author started off by telling them they're doing illegal stuff. It's unclear if it's actually illegal or not.. but they naturally got the other side defensive and tried to avoid the author If instead they f
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
from a cursory look . it seems SteamVR is intended to be used with their DRM platform and isn't open source. Maybe its a bit less limiting vs Meta's offering? i wouldnt characterize this as an "open ecosystem" though
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
that doesn't in any way mean you can install an alternate OS. But i get your point that at least you can run Arch stuff. Isnt Arch ARM support unofficial? (its been ages since i tried) You dont hear of people running it on RPis for exa
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
Android is also just Linux. But i cant install Debian on my phone
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
sorry, maybe i missed it. But how do you know the ecosystem is open? from the link we don't know if the OS can be changed (might be locked like many Android phones) or if a connected machine is required to run their DRM/Steam. The
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
that doesn't really make any sense. You'd just overestimate the time and if you arrived ahead of schedule you'd wait out at sea for the "correct" time
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by contrarian1234 11mo ago
Or a tug to pull N cargo ships during calm seas
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
I'm not really sure why this focuses so much on React, when it's a general "issue"/"feature" More broadly, obviously there is some pressure to use a framework/library/programminglang/editor
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
Do you have actual examples of this? Your solution is to basically do a re-write when scale becomes a problem. Which is the textbook example of something that sounds good but never works On the other hand I can't think of a business th
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
I don't really get this line of argument Or at least it's not engaging with the obvious counterargument at all - that: "You may not need the scale now, but you may need it later". For a startup being a unicorn with a baj
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
its such a feudal mentality that I really have trouble identifying with it. My parents are significantly wealthier than me, but i just have zero sense of being entitled to the fruits of their labor (though of course i have benefited from it
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
Lol "low birth rates" fwiw, this was such a insane non sequitur that I immediately became skeptical of everything else you said
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
Maybe some readers will come across this and instead of foaming at the mouth want solutions > Over time you slowly build out a list of good "node papers" (mostly literature reviews) and useful terms to speed up this process, bu
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
More money pretty much always helps with growth though. The argument is that they're hiring as fast as can be done (to maintain culture/quality/interview-pace) and they have nothing else they can spend money on. It's not
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
I thought the Navy Seal thing was to impress other men. Does it have sex appeal? Probably depends on your social circle.. but I'd think being ex-military as highly unattractive (more violent than the average person, and highly likely t
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
interesting.. one wonders then why they raised funding if their income is covering all their expenses unless they have some creative definition of profitable
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
if you start a bakery selling kimchi bagels, its not a startup
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
This is just called a small business... The whole point of startups is that you take on massive investment to scale extremely quickly and outrun all potential imitators. It's not the only viable growth model, but that's the whole
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
i dont understand what the dogma is... yes, it may become economically infeasable to grow nonGMO plants. What's the problem? if the seed price is increased then either it will become feasible again, or the price of the crop will increa
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
Because that'd be unmanageable.. obviously a local "seed cleaning/prep" company (such at the one providing nonGMO seed) would just come around and undercut the company that developed the GMO seed. The farmers will just c

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