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by fsloth 3y ago
The cynical person in me thinks it's because most predictions place the worst outcomes to the poorest countries on the globe, while those with highest economic impact will be affected much less. There isn't a super massive incenti
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by fsloth 3y ago
Unrelated to how fucked up the worst off areas will become (which will be very bad) - I guess it still depends where you live. There are some areas of the planet that are currently rich and can acquire everything their population needs reas
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by fsloth 3y ago
Note that James C Scott speaks specifically of the very deep pre-historical middle east. I'm not sure if the conclusions are generalizable to China, thousands of years later. There are examples of large scale public engineering works w
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by fsloth 3y ago
Thank you, I got really confused when the linked page started to discuss Photoshop blending modes and I had never considered they could be mapped directly to Porter-Duff ops. As a graphics programmer I always want to point out that it'
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by fsloth 3y ago
In general if you don't know what you are doing, it's much faster to first figure out a good strategy for a solution in a language that does not suffer from all of the encumbrance C++ brings in. Python is really great for fast pro
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by fsloth 3y ago
No. An analogue system is not a simulation. A simulation is some approximation - a model - of a physical system that you compute with some finite precision. An analogue is a physical entity with the same physics as some other thing. A strai
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by fsloth 3y ago
IMO ’Prompt engineering’ is an implication that the LLM:s are really immature technology. There is no intrinsic value in prompt engineering - it’s ok to wait a bit until LLM:s get a proper product shell you don’t need to walk on eggshells o
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by fsloth 3y ago
The prompt 4 ”AI teacher” is pretty good for learning group theory at least. (Just trying it right now on ChatGPT 4.0)
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by fsloth 3y ago
Objectively speaking if they left years ago there is chance they are describing the actual availability of toilets as this was really low in some states (some states with under 20% having access to toilets) https://en.m.wikipedia
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by fsloth 3y ago
Yes! And No! Yes: US will continue being an economic powerhouse, and a very rare geopolitical entity that can source all of it’s inputs and can grow it’s own food. I would definitely think about really hard moving my family to US if our kid
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by fsloth 3y ago
If you really want to have children but are worried about climate change and cost - may I suggest you look moving to norhern europe. The region will survive most predicted outcomes and childcare is heavily state subsidized. That is if yo
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by fsloth 3y ago
To explain the underwhelmed response I guess most people were expecting ’google maps quality’ 3d models. Which is not an unreasonable expectation, given an aerial platform such as a drone converting photos to 3d models of large areas is com
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by fsloth 3y ago
I don’t think Clarke meant that any observation we cannot explain immediately should be labelled as evidence of magic-like technology. Humans are super-fallible and even mundane things are damn hard to figure out what they are. Most of the
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by fsloth 3y ago
"He merely said that those potential beings might not be aliens but might be resident of earth and maybe on other dimensions." All of which are as credible options as angles, faeries and gods. Just calling your hypothetical entity
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by fsloth 3y ago
Industrial history is full of freewheeling corporate research departments inventing the future for the benefit of all stakeholders. And of dangerous examples what happens when you either 1) lack this innovative capacity or 2) lack the fores
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by fsloth 3y ago
I'm wondering what effect that would have on food prices, which is a critical factor looking at stability of societies globally? I am not an expert and have no answers, I just wanted to point out the situation is non-trivial form syste
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by fsloth 3y ago
No. Without hydrocarbons there is no food to start with. We are way, way, way behind a point where the humanity could decide to stop using any hydrocarbons cold turkey and not mass starve in the billions. Then comes rest of the industry (on
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by fsloth 3y ago
It does not sound too incredible to me. Erlang and BEAM was designed to handle Ericson's telephony services. Piping-lots-of-stuff-in-parallel in fault tolerant fashion is the main use case around which it was designed. Of course this i
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by fsloth 3y ago
It's a mess. Energy companies are both huge part of the problem - and at the same time the only reason modern civilization exists. Hydrocarbons are primary input still to most of the processes we have to exist above ... well, actually
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by fsloth 3y ago
One of the structural reasons is that US produces most of it's own energy (aka hydrocarbons) and has enough left to export, while afaik EU imports 50% of the energy it needs.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Blaming individuals is useless. Governments are the parties who generally are responsible for fixing structural problems. The market is composed of companies that operate within boundaries set by the government. Individuals are more or less
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by fsloth 3y ago
The only way to make non-fossil energy sources more appealing, is to make fossil sources more expensive. The side-effect of this is, yes, unfortunately increased profits for oil companies. I don't know if these could be cut down using
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by fsloth 3y ago
It sounds like you are operating in an existing org with a mature codebase. In this context, where the existing product is implemented using C++, continuing to use the language makes perfect sense. I implement and maintain C++ for my day j
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by fsloth 3y ago
Oh! I've heard good stuff about Clion. I am pretty skeptical of vs code though, regarding comparing it's capabilities for C++ debugging and performance analysis. What plugins do you need nowadays. It's a good general purpose
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by fsloth 3y ago
So you do need to use it :)
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by fsloth 3y ago
You are absolutely correct. Computer graphics, though, is one of the few sane reasons left to learn C++.
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by fsloth 3y ago
"I started writing C++ to do some JSON at work and it is absolutely horrible piece of shit language" Congratulations! That is the correct answer. Welcome to the language. If you don't need to use C++, don't. You need C++
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by fsloth 3y ago
"No, we don't spend money on code editors around here; I meant VSCode." Not spending money in tools sounds like a very strange economics for software development. If interviewing does not scare you I warmly suggest finding a
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by fsloth 3y ago
I must apologize if the below sounds acerbic. I've used C++ professionally close to two decades and developed a keen feeling of everything that is bad in it. (Still need to use it though). In general I agree with Mark Russinovich. Use
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by fsloth 3y ago
Exactly, but using a different set of syntax, plus a new ruleset of capture semantics. The capture syntax especially is a minefield. And are the runtime guarantees exactly the same as that of a local class instance? The question is - what

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