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by elcritch 1y ago
Nah, regardless of the source posted I would likely not have credibility with the sort of folks who can't read an opinion piece with a strong belief and stance on something and consider those opinions and points anyways. Personally it&
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Unless they're all using price-fixing software to form a de facto cartel to keep prices high.
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Not particularly, it's easy to read between the lines. Almost every news has propaganda in it, it's just a matter of degree. The comment I was replying to had obvious anti-US propaganda so why not reply in kind? The actual report
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What are those IR35 rules all about?
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Well the law to allow deportations without due process was passed by congress under Clinton as I understand it. The main difference with Trump up to now has sensationalization of it and pushing the legal boundaries of those immigration laws
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Yes, especially if you’re part of the CCP [1]. Well if they’re taxed at all. Can’t be taxed if you hide your wealth. At least the wealth of the richest people in the US is made by people producing value and services. Bezos is rich because p
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> The Cobb-Douglas production function (Cobb & Douglas, 1928) illustrates how AGI shifts economic power from human labor to autonomous systems (Stiefenhofer &Chen 2024). The wage equations show that as AGI’s productivity rises re
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by elcritch 1y ago
Wolt is great. I’m in Cyprus currently and Wolt feels so much nicer to use than DoorDash, UberEats, etc. Much of it’s the user interface which feels a bit like Waze back in the day and without all the gimmicky ads and in your face junk. Bum
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Peter F Hamilton has some great hard sci-fi novels like the Commonwealth series. Super nerdy with some interesting characters. John Scalzi is probably my favorite sci-fi author for excellent characters. His “Old Man’s War” is genius.
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Asimov? Brilliant sci-fi but his writing is so dry that it makes eating a box of dry saltine crackers feel like porridge in comparison. ;)
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I second Daemon as an excellent sci-fi. I also really enjoyed Project Hail Mary and thought the characters weren’t too bad for a sci-fi. Daemon isn’t about a rogue AI in the sense it was designed that way. Also you need to read the sequel “
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by elcritch 1y ago
You get about as much reuse from a set of re-usable functions as you get from inheriting implementations. Though I grant that having an object hierarchy does make it a bit more explicit what’s being inherited or needs implementing. However,
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Haha, Nim is my preferred UFCS language.
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> Syntax - UFCS (Uniform Function Call Syntax) UFCS is such an underrated language feature. When you have UFCS you can toss out 90% of the uses of methods in favor of just plain ole functions. Add generic functions and concepts and you r
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by elcritch 1y ago
Given I’ve been trying to use some of Microsoft’s various productivity SaaS tools for a new job lately, and well, they need those workers. Teams is sort of tolerable now, but still feels terrible and lacks many of slacks niceties. The rest
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If more goods are made locally then it seems rather that unions would have more leverage. They’re not competing with underpaid foreigners in countries with even less unions. The bigger loss for all employees is the shareholders primary fall
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The ethic based unwritten rules are actually required to make capitalism sustainable long term. If you don’t have those foundations capitalism will turn into oligarchy and eventually feudalism. What many free market advocates don’t seem to
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> If half of the world’s water supplies had lead levels of X you’d expect evolution to make that specific level a non issue. Obviously lead levels above that can and are still problematic. Not necessarily true if the effect is relatively
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There’s dozens of pro-inflammatory signaling proteins. Our anti-inflammatories really only target a small subset of them. Ideally you need to stop inflammatory signals at the source, but we understand very few of those.
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It’s not fear mongering if fluoride actually does have negative effects. Well AMA just published a meta-analysis this year linking high fluoride level in drinking water to neurotoxicity in children and lower IQ. While there’s insufficient d
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by elcritch 1y ago
One downside in the US of driving a small car now is considerably more lethal in a crash with larger vehicles. I drive a Mazda 3 and sometimes it feels like a bicycle compared to some of the enormous SUV and overdone trucks.
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Ah it wasn’t quite clear if you were for or against the notion. Bad dolphin sci-fi sounds a bit too much for my tastes. Though it’s often the border line crazy folks who give us some of the best ideas or stories. Though they also often need
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by elcritch 1y ago
> Even if the city had followed the proper timing protocols for neighbor objections, the lawsuit notes that the ordinance's wording still inherently runs afoul of due process rights. That's because the ordinance provides no cle
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Ah yes because technocrats are never prone to groupthink or missing the forest because of the trees, et cetera. There was a fascinating article I read years back about how much of China’s top leadership had engineering degrees, unlike in we
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The Meta Quest software also sucks at this. You’d expect an essentially new platform struggling with this. Valve is basically all IPv4 afaict too. Pretty annoying and lazy if you ask me.
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This bit is also important in my opinion: > Once again, we are faced with the suggestion that not only are the IDF murderous maniacs, but they also have the worst aim on the planet. The monstrous IDF are such terrible shots that they fir
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I agree, the code output for Nim with Claude and Gemini as well is pretty good. It misses some Nim idioms but generally does really well. Simple syntax with strong types helps both Nim and F#. I used Claude 4 to generate SIMD versions of si
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Also recently Nim’s generated C code started using Itanium name mangling, which oddly has become the defacto name mangling method for C++ on Linux and other platforms. Meaning you get pretty function names with generic types and all include
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I wonder if LLMs could change this calculus. Though Ada is in a situation where it likely doesn’t have much open source code to train on.
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Pornography isn’t sex. It doesn’t promote healthy sex from the statistics I’ve seen. Many teenagers now think that doing sex acts they see online before even ever kissing is normal. I also suspect it’s at least partly linked to declining re

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