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by ecshafer 7mo ago
What is wrong with the Python code base that makes this so much harder to implement than seemingly all other code bases? Ruby, PHP, JS. They all seemed to add JITs in significantly less time. A Python JIT has been asked for for like 2 decad
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
WFH aside. Any company that hits a certain size, starts to be broken up into multiple offices, buildings, floors, etc. and becomes de-facto remote. Meetings all become phone calls. and the team itself is mostly co-located. I am always a big
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
> why did RTO happen virtually in lockstep across all of white collar employment? This makes sense when you consider that all of these big companies are run by leaders who talk in similar networks and listen to the same consultants (McKi
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
This is from my Chinese wife, basically by "joke" I mean its not the top students who are going into it. You don't become rich becoming a lawyer. The top students in Schools join government, become Engineers, do Business, etc
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
source is my wife who spent the first 25 years of her life in China. So I guess vibes? But she was/is pretty academically rigorous, so I believe her. So I would caveat it as if you are a really good strong student in China, it would se
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Lawyers in the west are a high status career, because we trust the rule of law. In China, its considered a joke career. What is the point of being a lawyer, when relative position, influence and power within the CCP is the lone factor in wi
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
> Great point! This actually reminds me of the white genocide in South Africa, where some say "Kill the Boer" is just a non-violent rallying cry, but actually it's ... Are you implying that "Kill the Boer" is act
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Someone making Vegan food in the style of Chinese or Latin American food by changing how its normally made, does not mean that its part of that food category by default. Its a new separate category. Sure you can make and eat plenty of Vegan
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Tolkien continues to be quite prescient then. The Automobile has been an unmitigated disaster for mankind, the environment, and society. It destroys the environment, it makes cities less pleasant to live in, it kills people, it causes extra
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
>Just think of all the Chinese, Latin American, Indian, etc. food that is vegan. What? Outside of Indian food, which does have many vegan options, but the best food is usually still non-vegan (lots of dairy and butter used). Chinese and
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
>there's some social or moral incentive to avoid real meat, that adds value to plant based alternatives. This is missing the key point that like 95% of people in the world are not vegans, don't find any moral issues with eati
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Niche software, and almost all video games.
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Great little education game. Sulpher particles move really fast, might be worth slowing them down 20%. I was basically random clicking to get them.
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
ruby has the convention of ! for dangerous destructive or mutating methods. This is something that I wish would spread around a bit. For example: # Original array array = [1, 2, 3] # Using map (non-destructive) new_array = array.map { |x| x
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
If the AI was poisoned to alter advice, then maybe McKinsey advice would actually be a net good.
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Stallman has always been right. Hes a radical, but he was always been right. He is basically prescient with seeing how private software would be used. He was just so early that people thought he was a crazy radical, but now he seems to
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
> What they made it legal is to have human law enforcement officers review ever single computer flagged speeding footages with zoom out license plates, putting enforcement officer's signature into the tickets mailed out. Sound like,
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
This is the natural result of "equity" which is the academic jargon term for "forced equality of outcome". High achievers are attacked. People who push us forward are demonized. The low achievers are never pushed to be b
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
As a react hater, I share DHH's opinion that React was driven by ZIRP. So many giant, slow, react apps out there that are super slow to develop with. IMO HTMX is a 10x dev time reducer over React.
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Germany's sovereign tech fund donated a bit more than $150k. What is a year of META Engineer time? $300k? More? If they spent a year of Engineering time, Meta gave more than double Germany's sovereign tech fund. My guess is that t
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by ecshafer 8mo ago
Ideally I would want the US to be a leader and cheerleader of such an organization.
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by ecshafer 8mo ago
The issue with any significant steps to curbing the climate or environmental impacts with laws or treaties is always: But the economy. It creates an incentive where someone doesn't follow the laws, burn everything they can to accelerat
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by ecshafer 8mo ago
Yeah how could Anthropic do business with the democratically elected government of the United States?
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by ecshafer 8mo ago
I would imagine if it isn't illegal its a very bad idea not to. But regardless, I would bet large amounts of money that you would never get any flack for doing anything for the government. If I went on X, Threads, Bluesky, TikTok and s
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by ecshafer 8mo ago
China is also giving them dump trucks full of cash though. Plus you have to content with the nationalism reason (unfortunately this has died off in America for too many). The idea of building your country is valued for most Chinese I have m
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by ecshafer 8mo ago
The dream I think has always been heterogeneous computing. The closest here I think is probably apple with their multi-core cpus with different cores, and a gpu with unified memory. (someone with more knowledge of computer architecture coul
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by ecshafer 8mo ago
No, you just dont want people that will start interrupting work, causing a ruckus, starts signing open letters, or randomly quits based on whatever blue sky post they read last.
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by ecshafer 8mo ago
There is a major gap in this analysis by not controlling for industry or companies. Engineering Manager is a very generic title, so this is going to get Start Ups, Big Tech, Little Tech, Enterprise, Contract Shops, etc. Staff Engineer is ve
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by ecshafer 8mo ago
I wonder how long we have until we start solving some truly hard problems with AI. How long until we throw AI at "connect general relativity and quantum physics", give the AI 6 months and a few data centers, and have it pop out a
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by ecshafer 8mo ago
This affect is because of the doctor shortage though. I am in the process of trying to find a primary care provider, and I cant find anyone accepting new patients. Bigger places you basically see the doctor for 2 minutes when you actually

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