holbrad

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by holbrad 3y ago
No idea why your getting downvoted for such an obvious statement, there is very strong (But not perfect) correlation between GDP and standard of living.
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by holbrad 3y ago
Do you think Soviet Russia or Tsar Russia would be any better ?
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by holbrad 3y ago
If Americans think zoning is bad and crippling house building, wait until they hear about the British planning system. Where every single building needs state permission and full review to be built. Which takes months to years per building,
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by holbrad 3y ago
Just chiming in to agree, I don't think we have a single mac in our entire company (100's of people). It's all just windows/x86 like every other business I've worked at.
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by holbrad 3y ago
The British police don't do anything.
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by holbrad 3y ago
Americans really should be eating more grass fed beef.
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by holbrad 3y ago
This take annoys some people but... That's basically spot on, trying to convince people that they have to drastically lower or stagnant their standard of living is not going to be a successful strategy. Electric cars only started to ga
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by holbrad 3y ago
We shouldn't be spewing bullshit like this... It's going to get worse, but trying to spin climate change as some apocalyptic event where we all die is just silly.
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by holbrad 3y ago
Bill of materials.
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by holbrad 4y ago
"yeah doctors have no idea what they are doing" isn't really that far off the mark for a lot of things. The health of the average person in the west (And globally) is in decline. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer ar
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by holbrad 4y ago
I've certainly felt that the public version of ChatGPT isn't great at helping to write fiction. Does anyone know if version 4 is any better in this regard?
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by holbrad 4y ago
That's just simply not true though... Do users explicitly care about how many milliseconds somethings takes? No definitely not Do they care if the application feels slow ? Yes absolutely Do faster experiences subconsciously feel better
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by holbrad 4y ago
Performance is obviously important, to suggest otherwise is just silly. Both Google and Amazon have researched this topic and the results are readily available. First link I found: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-s
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by holbrad 4y ago
One of the big reasons that the Microsoft store failed so hard was the absurd cut Microsoft wanted (30%). Windows developers were and are already doing app distribution. 30% for something dev's were already doing...
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by holbrad 4y ago
What happens on a failed launch ?
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by holbrad 4y ago
I'm not convinced that residential zoning should even exist. (UK planning permission seems crazy) Seeing some of the new housing estates pop up near me with zero amenities is shocking. No shops, no chippy, no pubs, no hair dressers etc
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by holbrad 4y ago
Certain for large lorries it's an unsolved issue, unless we have a large battery breakthrough. The weight of the battery to actually move goods very quickly becomes a major issue.
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by holbrad 4y ago
I think we just need to be real that, there are environmental externalities to many many things. Even when we take a good faith look at various issues it's entirely reasonable for other factors to trump environmental concerns. (Moral,
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by holbrad 4y ago
I think this is normally due to bad requirements or bad architecture. If a legitimate feature is complex there's very little you can do. Apart from push back on the implementation specifics. Quite often, code is too complicated due to
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by holbrad 4y ago
Been working on a legacy WPF project recently. C# has been pretty great to work with. (Updating from framework to NET 6 has been a slog though) Anything to do with the WPF and the UI just seems way too complicated. I can 100% understand why
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by holbrad 4y ago
If you look at Windows 11 minimum requirements it lists 4GB. Seems like a reasonable bar to test against. 2GB even a decade ago was very low end.
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by holbrad 4y ago
"Yes, we Americans overeat beef / Hamburgers, but I don't think anyone eating burgers is at huge risk of malnutrition... as much as a risk of heart problems, diabetes, cholesterol, etc. etc." Pretty strongly disagree her
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by holbrad 4y ago
How are they directly related? Is Bezos, Gates or Musk at fault for high UK house prices ? No, it's a failing of government policy. Straggling house building for decades, leads directly towards rampant land speculation. (70+% of a hou
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by holbrad 4y ago
Obvious Troll post, but your massively misinformed. CPU performance per watt, has massively increased. ( https://www.cpubenchmark.net/power_performance.html ) GPU is not stuck, it has also massively improved. The solution is
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by holbrad 4y ago
Showing examples that refute people hypotheses is so valuable. Reminds me of the Israeli paradox, Israel has very low saturated fat intake but high heart disease rates. This information on it's own completely disproves any claim that h
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by holbrad 4y ago
Like the great majority of health advice, especially from governments, limiting salt is based on what is essentially either a misunderstanding at best or pure pseudo-science at worst. First two studies I found when you google for Salt intak
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by holbrad 4y ago
I have a hard time believing that alcohol would only have 'negative' effects on health. It seems unlikely.
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by holbrad 5y ago
If I wanted to make a native windows application I really wouldn't know what to use ? WPF is what I've worked with. But WPF is awful. When I was doing some games programming using Imgui for little widgits was actually quite nice.
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by holbrad 5y ago
While I don't agree with him entirely. Brian Caplan has some interesting thoughts on the topic of education. Around the idea that most of the value is around signalling to others (Via credentials), rather than what you learn.* Certainl
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by holbrad 5y ago
It's nuanced. We are evolved creatures, with certain intuitions about things. You can point to domains about where it fails completely. (For understandable reasons) But that doesn't mean intuition is useless, in fact I'd say

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