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by hibikir 1y ago
You miss how many fewer programmers were there in the early years, how much of that code was ever public, and even if it was, how useful it was, as C++ has changed drastically since, say, what we used to write in 2001.
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In spanish we never did this, because even though there's exceptions to spelling rules, there aren't all that many. motivated elementary school children would just not miss barring lack of concentration.
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Absolutely. Some of my favorite coworkers would never pass a modern, top company interview which I can pass, and not because they are worse in general, but due to stress management. When I am working in one of those that has no hiring short
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I think you are not going far enough though: All code is legacy code. So vibe coding's ability to make writing more code faster isn't special because it's code nobody understands: Your hand-rolled code is also bad. Once you e
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Europe also does some very heavy subsidies. Without subsidies, a lot of farming just goes away due to the uncompetitiveness in labor vs the southern hemisphere. The Amazon would be replaced completely with farms for rich countries. It'
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And there's been great improvements in usability in the last decade. You still want to use oils in models that try to look like cars, with semi transparent layers and clear coatings on top, but now you can get a coat of acrylic that wi
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What is amazing is how much the modeling tech has improved. A modern warhammer model is much bigger and better not just than in the 80s or 90s, but even 110 years go. The painting experience is also much better. As for Gundam, the improveme
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There are subfactions, both among the Jewish and the Muslims, that do better if the problem isn't solved and goes on forever, but there is very little in-faction policing: If anything, atrocities make them stronger. There is no peace w
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Unfortunately farmers everywhere get subsidies: A lot of European farming would collapse and be replaced by farming done in the southern hemisphere if there weren't subsidies. As for too much corn, it's a purely economical plan: T
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There's a whole lot of buildings that were designed with a coal furnace in the basement which heats water, and all aparments getting a bunch of water radiators. A switch from that to, say, a typical American forced air system is a huge
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It's also not the same corn varieties for different uses. Most of what we'd feed humans would be sweet corn, and that's not ideal for ethanol, or animal feed. If you look at total acreage planted, sweet corn is just 1% of the
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Yeah, the same reasons Scala has a built in parser combinator module in the standard library: Just easy to use with those features in the language
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Depending on which layers they cut. I know of a company that last year cut the bottom layer of management, giving managers an average of 20 reports. Maximum disruption
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I know a place doing RTO where most teams are at least 50% contractors from Central and South America. You can imagine how productive the office might be for those people, given that everyone is on zoom all day, and there's a whole 4 m
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One of my biggest issues with American suburbia and car dependence is the much smaller percentage of reasonable opportunities for serendipity vs my old Spanish hometown.
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Gouging: When I have a significant control of the supply, and set prices up in a way that significant parts of the supply get wasted because my profits are maximized anyway. So one can argue that some cartel-like algorithms are price gougin
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Prices cannot solve all supply problems. We cannot have 2 million teenagers dating the starlet-du-jour. But prices typically can increase the supply quite a bit, while most techniques that avoid prices will not increase supply at all. So if
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When the supply of something is lower than the number of people that are price sensitive and desperate, capping prices will still leave desperate people without what they want. Many mechanisms that appear to be more fair, like free lotterie
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America's rail faces significant challenges those other countries don't. An equivalent rail track in the US is vastly more expensive, new right-of-ways are much, much harder to acquire, especially near cities, and even when you do
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You don't need peter for this one: The action date is indicating the place in the queue of the application they are currently working on. Every month they don't deal with 1 month worth of applications: Sometimes it might take 6 mo
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In the middle ages they understood quarantine, but the fact that the disease was carried by fleas made it worse: It'd break containment unless the arrival was by boat, and you didn't let anyone disembark. So even when warned (and
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by hibikir 1y ago
I have a service using them a lot. It ultimately relies on a couple dozen downstream dba and endpoints, with some calls requiring strict dependencies, and others running in parallel. So I just draw the dependency chart among the functions,
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And don't miss those that have wider use than one town. Sta Maria del Carmen, patron of mariners, is celebrated in the same day in July in many a coastal town that had a fishing industry. The statue leaves the church and is paraded aro
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It's not quite that. LaLiga got a ruling (310/2024, Dec-18-2024) So that they can demand Spanish ISPs to block IPS that LaLiga claims are used to pirate soccer games. But as one would expect, piracy like this involves some CDNing,
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So PSOE, the ones with a rose in their logo aren't left enough for you? They have a coalition with some parties that are quite a bit further left too.
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The density issue isn't country wide, but about metro areas. See Spain: If you look at the entire country and divide by population, it looks like the one of the least dense countries in Europe. But what if instead we look at where peop
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Higher transport costs, plus very large tariffs on Chinese electric cars. The EU believes (quite accurately), that there wouldn't be much of a EV industry if they let the real prices stand on their own. So there's the big tariff,
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The fact that they make money doing something doesn't stop hungry PMs and VPs from pushing other revenue sources. Amazon used to sell us items, now ad sales are a big part of their storefront's revenue. Cable used to not have ads.
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It's not that the majority of people would prefer to be idle, but that right now we manage to make some really uncomfortable jobs pay very little. It's not that you'd not find people to, say, work concessions at the movie the
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In fact, note how some European countries tax wealth from pretty low amounts: Sometimes under a million euros worth.Often around 2% of wealth after you get to 2 or 3 million, in practice making self-funded early retirement almost unheard of

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