neutronicus

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by neutronicus 3mo ago
It's a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" variant, I think. "Temporarily embarrassed parent of a future doctor".
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
When I noticed them they were covered in wasp pupae, so maybe that slowed them down. I'm in the Eastern US, btw.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
That’s definitely the premise Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time haha
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
Finding hawk moth caterpillars on my tomato plant was one of the bigger wtfs of my adult life
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
To be clear I think this is fine! It’s rare to have leverage over capital (if indeed they do). Milk it!
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
Also ironic given that emacs with a LSP server is more than capable of slowing a dev machine to a crawl
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
Profits are high and bills are high it’s not that deep.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
I don’t think “fuck you I’ve got mine” is an apt characterization of people struggling to afford their heating bill.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
It also doesn't necessarily matter if the data centers actually raise electricity rates. Regardless of whether or not they do, you can block their construction and try to horse-trade it for relief on energy prices.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
Data centers are conflated with rising energy costs. It's partly about people's nominal objections, but mostly an attempt to hold them hostage to extract some energy bill subsidies (and general cost of living relief).
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
You're not getting it into an urban brownfield unless it comes with price controls on energy. I live amongst the urban brownfields of Baltimore and our politicians are under tons of pressure to stop data center projects (and to tar and
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
I think the main strength of the AI is just that its schedule is not a constraint. Anyone can get a decision now-ish, without filtering through tiers of middle management.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
The AI mode on Google search is pretty impressive. Helped me figure out what a bunch of stuff I was seeing out the window was while traveling.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
Every parent groans haha
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
For one thing I think “art” doesn’t encompass informational content, or discussion. Like it doesn’t fit podcasts at all really.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
Yeah it certainly feels like the harnesses are pretty minimal value add on the token pipe
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
The vim mode in that text box was a mess for sure
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
Replicating Parasolid in OSS is hard
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
My American-Israeli wife says the opposite FWIW
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
I’d start with “platform on which it’s possible to become an Influencer” and work backwards.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
Perhaps theoretically, with good practice, but at my job it’s fucking brutal. But to your larger point I would much rather work on improving that than let it drive me back to C fetishism.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
Oh, I get that. That’s what I’m saying. I hear “Better C” and my initial reaction is “what’s the point”. Like, why would you aim for “Worse C++”? I mean, compile times. That’s fair.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
A day or two ago someone posted about abandoning Haskell because compilation times had become a bottleneck with Agents. FWIW
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
Yeah, I mean … as a C++ dev I have those same existential “what’s the point” questions about Zig.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
My point is that it’s a non-decision. You can use AI later, when the models are better. In the short term, you can address the anti-AI market.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
In particular, I just don’t buy into the “left behind unless” framework. Perhaps Anthropic will create God in the Machine. Not foreclosing on that. But will it matter so much who was fucking around with Opus five e-folding times ago? Either
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
Sure. That’s why I said “short-term” and “change your mind later”. The thing about laggards is their money spends the same as everyone else’s.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
The risk here is that a deep-pocketed entity elects to forgo funding Zig development because they don’t want to sign up for this level of dirty laundry airing if things go poorly.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
I don’t disagree with your characterization. But from a purely Machiavellian perspective I don’t see a lot of downside in courting this group in the short term.
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by neutronicus 3mo ago
What is managing legal and PR risk if not professional?

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