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811.
by fsloth 4y ago
I don’t particulary like driving either. OTOH my car is boring&practical - if the car was a fun drive it might change my disposition.
812.
by fsloth 4y ago
"there are many platforms out there that can comfortably fit most non-critical webapps in their free tier with even less hassle than setting up a pi." What are "the best" at the moment? (best being whatever metric one fe
813.
by fsloth 4y ago
There is a very good signal theoretic framework to discuss this. You can start reading from example Alvy Ray Smith's "A pixel is not a little square" http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixe
814.
by fsloth 4y ago
People can start and find wonderful and fulfilling lives in their 40's. Personally I have no idea what the OP is like and if this discussion is the only interaction you've had with the person, neither likely do you. Which means bo
815.
by fsloth 4y ago
CBT helped debug my thinking in very analogous circumstances to OP (30+, hit hard by events in life plus somewhat traumatic past), warm recommendation as well.
816.
by fsloth 4y ago
This sounds like glass half-empty type of view. While pessimists never get disappointed, it also skews ones perception of the world so that one does not see the inherent opportunities, nor does one act to embrace those opportunities. It&#x2
817.
by fsloth 4y ago
Masters in US implies the OP has a past history of completing non-trivial projects. Built career is just a narrative that HR and investors like. Humans can learn quite fast lots of useful things. This is not a statement "everyone can b
818.
by fsloth 4y ago
win32 api is pretty good. I don't see why you would want anything else for native app development. If you want to use the modern stuff it's far better to develop the UI frontend using Microsoft tools in C# and then use Rust as the
819.
by fsloth 4y ago
Current gen is not ready for that. It's ready soon enough for sure. When I said "gen" I meant "not currently" but with this speed of development I'm not ready to bet if the scenario you described is 3 months of
820.
by fsloth 4y ago
Guess based on historical anecdata: I think that is because it looks like the current gen AI:s will help automating lot of stuff, but wont enable anything new. I would say we are at the analogous point where ’computer’ no longer meant a cha
821.
by fsloth 4y ago
Generally automation so far has not replaced labour, but increased productivity and by removing rote work changing the nature of work instead of removing the need for human work. The future is not about everyone becoming unemployed. The fut
822.
by fsloth 4y ago
Well, it's about marketing and positioning isn't it. Veggie based diets are plausibly healthier due to higher content of fiber - and health is generally considered an admirable trait. So the marketing should not be about selling a
823.
by fsloth 4y ago
I'm not 100% sure it's a product issue and not a market positioning issue. Current gen "new fake meat" veggie brands try to position themselves at premium, which looks like the wrong place to be in. At premium fake meats
824.
by fsloth 4y ago
It's not as impossible as you make it sound IMO, I would guess it's more a matter of pricing. If plantburgers and plantdogs where considerable cheaper than meatburgers and hotdogs I would guess people would follow the money and sh
825.
by fsloth 4y ago
Perhaps there is not enough training available on these tools. Raw terminal GDB also is not very user friendly so if someone has experience from that it might be a disencouragement.
826.
by fsloth 4y ago
I would add to this: 1. Visual Studio debugger is really, really good and you should use it to step through your program (or equivalent IDE based workflow). 2. Learn to compile your code with memory safeguards and use the tooling around t
827.
by fsloth 4y ago
I perhaps used words in a confused combination. There are two connotations to stability here - 1. language and ecosystem standardization and 2. having a stable and predictable career. C++ has both a plenty (2. if you find your niche and the
828.
by fsloth 4y ago
Ugh, as a C++ programmer - for the love of god don't choose the language for career stability. Both the language and the ecosystem is horrible. Choose it if you need it work in the domain of your choosing. For me it happens to be the c
829.
by fsloth 4y ago
Disagree, but depends on context. When you have a complex monolith, unit tests and static typing allow you to create features and refactor the code fearlessly ("Computer says no" is a good thing here). For example, a decades old c
830.
by fsloth 4y ago
Wasn’t Python originally conceived as a systems configuration language?
831.
by fsloth 4y ago
I guess you need to look at the current TAM for visual production in general. That's the baseline (so includes visualization studios, agencies, game studios etc). Generally this potentially can help in many labour intensive parts of a
832.
by fsloth 4y ago
Perhaps I should have not used the term "working hard". I agree with what you wrote in general. Why I find other explanations more worthwhile - which you opened up above - than "US helped them" is that is quite critical
833.
by fsloth 4y ago
Yes, modern kit is more important than rifles, agree. That said I would not hold it as a general rule that conscripts and professional armies necessarily would have quality difference if the equipment is the same. Finland has a pretty good
834.
by fsloth 4y ago
Yes, but like Guns, germs and steel it contains data even though the model is flawed, so is an interesting read in any case :) I think the key point of the book is that unless there is a massive transfer of people from place to place the po
835.
by fsloth 4y ago
US military intervention and economic uplifting are partly two different things. I would limit this discussion to "how can a once poor country become an industrialized economy". Since not all countries do this, the question is inc
836.
by fsloth 4y ago
I think the point was that training riflemen en masse is easy and cheap, whereas bowmen need far more intensive training - I would find it hard to contest this assessment. When I did my conscript service, we were encouraged to hit target 30
837.
by fsloth 4y ago
This is extremely disrespectful of the economic savvy and work ethic of South Korean people. Korean state had an extremely focused industrial policy to improve the added value created by the country's economic output. The thing that ne
838.
by fsloth 4y ago
It’s a 128 bit integer - the serialization format does not change the fact.
839.
by fsloth 4y ago
As a grasshopper style node graph is effectively an abstract syntax tree (AST, i.e. code) I imagine that actually something like GitHub copilot and such tools would be more appropriate. Current state of the art tends not to differentiate b
840.
by fsloth 4y ago
I guess in this case it’s a homonym for both as C is sometimes a bit verbose :D

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