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811.
by ecshafer 1y ago
Posit the makers of RStudio is a Public Benefit Corporation. Basically all of their products are open source. Something about making a fork and charging money for it doesn't sit great.
812.
by ecshafer 1y ago
Positron is made by Posit, which is formerly the R Studio Company. So I would say its basically the new R Studio.
813.
by ecshafer 1y ago
I grew up in poverty. I worked hard to NOT have to deal with that shit as an adult and to not have my kids deal with that either. People screaming in the street at night on schizo rants, meth heads, getting your bikes stolen, people vandali
814.
by ecshafer 1y ago
I absolutely care if its a developer or the city building it. If its the developer who puts a high rise on my block, they want to make money and they sell it for a profit. The people that move in are the people that can afford a condo in a
815.
by ecshafer 1y ago
What do "Gamers" have to do with anything?
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by ecshafer 1y ago
I am not assuming a bloodless takeover, i am saying that assuming that happened as a best case scenario where the fabs are intact.
817.
by ecshafer 1y ago
Java was not an attempt to get mainstream programmers to LISP or Smalltalk, it was to get them halfway there from C++. It was just to make application software a little nicer and less manual memory management. I also dont think we should bl
818.
by ecshafer 1y ago
Why would a free taiwan be necessary? I don’t think there ccp would have any qualms about tsmc continuing operation. A chinese company being the indisputed best at the modt advanced industry in the world is a good thing for them. Assuming a
819.
by ecshafer 1y ago
Computer Science is just applied math.
820.
by ecshafer 1y ago
The places I know that use (or used cobol 5 years ago) were all in hiring freezes for cobol developers and were trying to get off of it as much as they could (no new development, only maintenance, etc). I don't think its a surefire bet
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by ecshafer 1y ago
I have written cobol in the past. I worked at a financial company that had a decent amount of cobol devs around, with the primary database being DB2. The code is mostly financial transactions and record updates, basically CRUD code. Cobol w
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by ecshafer 1y ago
No the salaries aren't high. They are typically lower than other software engineer salaries. There are a large number of contractors from Indian consulting companies with "experience in cobol" to make run of the mill cobol
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by ecshafer 1y ago
> Linus Torvalds built Linux by rewriting MINIX to scratch an itch. Margaret Hamilton debugged Apollo guidance code on-the-fly, inventing modern software reliability. Their very first examples are Engineers with formal training. Formal t
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by ecshafer 1y ago
I think that more than physics the bottleneck for this is political (at least in the US). All of the local large projects around me are expensive because of massive amounts of red tape (environmental studies, zoning, planning), and politica
825.
by ecshafer 1y ago
> Java, for its part, can also accumulate a lot of dynamic language-style performance losses to pointer chasing and run-time type lookups (and GC churn) if you're not careful about how you use generics. The worst thing about Java is
826.
by ecshafer 1y ago
Which steam do you use? I have heard that some people have issues with the Snap, Flatpack or Native versions. Also for proton there are different "versions" you can try, experimental or 9 is usually what I run.
827.
by ecshafer 1y ago
Ive regretted 99% of the services Ive built in AWS lambda over the years. Everytime it gets more complex than a couple hundred lines of code over a few lambas I start to think “if this were just one service, development, deployments, cicd,
828.
by ecshafer 1y ago
The person just never says the word sortition. Its ends up feeling strange because it means either the person is trying to make this concept seem more their own, or they are that unaware.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
Besides the curious absence of the word 'sortition'. Their historical examples are mostly totally wrong or missing key bits of nuance. Their example of picking the Doge of Venice misses that the convoluted process of "randoml
830.
by ecshafer 1y ago
This is 10 years out, but I used to work on an IT help desk, that was the outsourced 24/7 helpdesk / hosting for a collection of small local/regional isps (<5000 customer rural dsl companies, local municipalities, apartmen
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by ecshafer 1y ago
It is absurdism. It is dismissing the 10th amendment because the argument was also used for slavery. No one is thinking that states rights wasn't an argument used for slavery. But this is arguing vegetarianism is evil because hitler wa
832.
by ecshafer 1y ago
States rights exist in the United States, regardless of if its been used for good or ill. The United States is a federation, and States Rights ARE a thing. States Rights are also used for professional licenses and insurance regulations, jum
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by ecshafer 1y ago
Is the pollution and co2 production worth it so more people can take photos in front of things? Maybe it is, maybe it isnt.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
In Philadelphia everyone I knew owned a home (condo, townhouse, rowhome or stand alone) by 30 basically.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
Thanks for the response Maxime, your work on YJIT is astounding. The speedup from YJIT was a huge improvement over cRuby or MJIT, and the work was done relatively quickly compared to Python which seems to always be talking about this JIT bu
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by ecshafer 1y ago
The funding is one angle, but the Shopify Ruby team isn't that big (<10 people iirc). Python is used extensively at just about every tech company, and Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon each have at least 10x as many engin
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by ecshafer 1y ago
Does anyone know why for example the Ruby team is able to create JITs that are performant with comparative ease to Python? They are in many ways similar languages, but Python has 10x the developers at this point.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
I am currently working on the bug where ChatGPT expects that if a ball has been placed on a box, and the box is pushed forward, nothing happens to the ball. This one is a doozy.
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by ecshafer 1y ago
Would increasing funding for therapy help any of those issues? Ignoring that very low efficacy of therapy and the arguments if funding it is worthwhile at all. The American people had fewer issues with school shootings and loneliness and dr
840.
by ecshafer 1y ago
No. Any Weir anything is not going to break into the tier of exceptional. Its YA fiction level writing with a bit of science sprinkled in.

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