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by mempko 2y ago
I watched a Demuro video where he visited Nikola's factory. Yes, the founder defrauded investors, but it's clear the engineers were building real things. They just were nowhere near where the founder claimed. So there is probably
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Does this support Vim or is this just a neovim plugin?
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Starship hasn't even reached orbit yet even after 7 launches. When you pay bargain basement prices, you get bargain basement performance. Both have been in development for roughly the same time (12-13 years). SLS already went around th
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A failed investment never goes below zero for the investor. For everyone else on the other hand...
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by mempko 2y ago
SLS flew around the moon. SpaceX Starship sent a banana to the Indian ocean. I mean come on, let's stop kidding ourselves.
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You missed the point. Euclid's elements is a beautiful work that is incredibly well structured. It has served an important purpose in math. Elements of programming is like Euclid's elements in this way.
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Of course they censor, just not the speech TikTok is now censoring.
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If you are passionate about programming and and computer science, this is the book to read. It's like Euclid's elements, but for programming.
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by mempko 2y ago
Went to RedNote. Never looked back. I hear TikTok now censors a lot more than it used to.
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What Musk is doing with DOGE parallels what the Chicago school consultants did in Russia under Yeltsin during the 90s. It didn't go well.
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by mempko 2y ago
The dark part of me is like 'Ok, yes, I hope they implement their stupid plans so that people can see how stupid they are'. The sane part of me then thinks 'Well, a lot of people will be hurt and many die if they do.'
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by mempko 2y ago
I mean, yes, we can always choose to shrink the American economy and cause a recession or depression. We can certainly go down that path. It's just not a path most probably want to go down.
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by mempko 2y ago
I want to point out a couple of facts to anyone celebrating this. 0. A reduction in X spending by the government means a reduction in X income to businesses and households. 1. If you reduce the federal workforce, the private sector has to a
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by mempko 2y ago
You do understand equity scales with the success of the startup right? It's not cash.
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That's the thing though, each similar problem is subtly different. Those differences can matter and the language should allow you to model them.
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Why shouldn't a startup engineer earn more than an engineer at Google? Think about it, they take much much more risk. Their comp can go to zero. It's not liquid like a google engineer. Also they are creating something net-new that
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by mempko 2y ago
Why would a well designed language have only one or few ways to do the same thing? Seems rather arbitrary. I like when I have many ways to do the same thing. Imagine if you told a writer or poet that English is bad because there is more tha
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by mempko 2y ago
They don't have to. The subset depends on the job! That's the beauty and power of C++. That's why we have projects written in it in all domains. From websites to spaceships and Mars rovers.
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by mempko 2y ago
That's why C++ is still around today, it was built on some solid principles. Bjarne is such a good language designer because he never abandoned it. Lesser designers make a language and start another in 5 or 10 years. Bjarne saw the val
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by mempko 2y ago
Professionals know what tool to use for a job. Does it take time to become good? Of course, like anything.
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What are you talking about, the language gets better with each release. Using C++ today is a hell of a lot better than even 10 years ago. It seems like people hold "memory safety" as the most important thing a language can have. I
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by mempko 2y ago
Bjarne Stroustrup (the creator of C++) is the best language designer. Many language designers will create a language, work on it for a couple years, and then go and make another language. Stroustrup on the other hand has been methodically w
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by mempko 2y ago
The saddest part about this is that children, back in the 70s, were making personal software using Smalltalk. The reason we even need AI to build "personal software" is because building modern software is terrible. Building for th
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by mempko 2y ago
To put it another way, the private sector gets an income of $1 trillion every 100 days. Now suppose you stop that income. What happens to the private sector?
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You misunderstood what I meant about prices. My point is prices compress everyone's preferences and ability to pay into a single scalar. It seems we can do better no?
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You do know the Soviet System also had money and had the equivalent of 'investors' giving said money to institutions. Money and markets is not what makes capitalsim unique. Hint, it's in the name.
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by mempko 2y ago
Explain Amazon then, a company notorious for being unprofitable yet producing a great experience. Markets are kind of a dumb thing if you think about it. You take all the qualities of an item and project them into a single scalar we call &#
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by mempko 2y ago
David Graeber's book "Bullshit Jobs" does a great job going deep into why this is.
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The market is notorious for creating a lot of distortions. I don't think the answer is 'let the market guide you'. Externalities are a known but huge problem with markets as evidenced by the insane amount of pollution we prod
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by mempko 2y ago
The color space portion was interesting. Learned something new!

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