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by pydry 1y ago
At the same time we can maaaaaaaybe start pushing back on all of the "capitalism is not the problem" and "capitalism is the least worst of all available options" memes? Or is it too soon already?
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by pydry 1y ago
>That's a seductive narrative, but not backed up by data. The share of GDP that goes to labor is has held relatively stable in the past few decades If you click that "max" button on your graph it does not show a stable sha
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by pydry 1y ago
The shuttle program wasnt what NASA wanted to do, it was the military that pushed for that. It's ironic that you'd blame them for the thing they didnt want to do. If theyd kept their budget and autonomy after the moon landing it l
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by pydry 1y ago
Efficiency improvements tend not to create more leisure time because the capacity for the economy to create "bullshit work" (e.g. work which is engaged in zero sum "wealth defense") is unbounded. For efficiency improveme
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by pydry 1y ago
It wasnt the oil or gas. Europe was perfectly capable of substituting both. They got away with it because they built up their industrial base while the west let its industrial base wither. It's only starting to dawn on our leaders (3+
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by pydry 1y ago
There is harmful advice in this article. "Just chill and use a dict or a namedtuple" leads inexorably to buggy code. The advice to use dataclasses is good but... dataclasses are, um, classes.
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by pydry 1y ago
The other papers ive seen so far all used toy projects. This paper was the first ive seen that deliberately used realistic projects. I think that part is understated, while the part about the "steep learning curve" has been consid
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by pydry 1y ago
You remind me of the haskell hype of ~2016-2018 where the community wrote tons of blog posts and passionate comments on HN about the theory of types and the "productivity boost" of their language while simultaneously producing a p
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by pydry 1y ago
Ive been doing this inadvertently for years by making tasks that were as realistic as possible - explicitly based upon the code the candidate will be working upon. As it happens, this meant when candidates started throwing AI at the task,
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by pydry 1y ago
ive watched a lot of people code with cursor, etc. and i noticed that they seem to get a rush when it occasionally does something amazing that more than offsets their disappointment when it (more often) screws up. the psychological effect r
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by pydry 1y ago
>The author then can't avoid but take a dig at Israel and Zionism - her point/connection is a bit hard to understand but also feels warped. The Emirates being part of the Abraham accords was one of the greatest signs of the pos
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by pydry 1y ago
Wow. I independently came up with something almost identical for identical reasons, including the checklists for months out, weeks out, day before, etc. It was mostly a coping mechanism for ADHD - before I did this I would reliably forget t
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by pydry 1y ago
Most western news propaganda isnt especially sophisticated and even the internally inconsistent narratives it pushes still end up finding an echo on hacker news.
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by pydry 1y ago
* leetcode, which has never once been relevant to my actual job in 20 years. * during the data science uber alles days they'd ask me to regurgitate all sorts of specialized DS stuff that wasnt relevant before throwing me into a project
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by pydry 1y ago
orgzly revived for android is pretty great. more tooling would be good though, especially command line tools to get data in and out.
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by pydry 1y ago
>If you don't like them, simply avoid them and try not to get upset about it. If it's all nonsense it will soon fizzle out. If the potential is realized one can always join in later. I'd love to but if multiple past hype c
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by pydry 1y ago
also waaaaaaay cheaper than nuclear power.
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by pydry 1y ago
Microsoft has been trying to tread a fine line between exerting subtle pressure on OEMs to make Linux annoying to boot so it doesnt become more popular and not violating the terms of its antitrust agreement.
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by pydry 1y ago
"Will this piss off or delight Microsoft?" is probably a thought that goes through the heads of many OEMs when they decide how to design their machines.
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by pydry 1y ago
So say the "bigots" who, for example, want sports news separated from regular news because they don't find football so interesting.
891.
by pydry 1y ago
It's about a topic not the people.
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by pydry 1y ago
Theyre doing it so much it's practically a cliche. There are underserved areas of the economy but agentic startups is not one.
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by pydry 1y ago
I think some people look at code cleanliness in aggregate (this code base is dirty vs. it is elegant and bug free) and others have a fine grained cost/benefit analyses of nonfunctional code improvements. Im pretty sure the latter vast
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by pydry 1y ago
>I’m fine with (and in support of) market forces to let grandma decide that it’s worth selling her home Ok. Sounds like you are in favor of market forces driving grandma on to the street when she rents but not in favor of market forces
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by pydry 1y ago
>US DoD confirmed that Ukraine struck the Moskva and sank it This is kind of like saying that the Japanese dominated the Pacific in WW2 because they sunk the Lexington. >At the end of 2023, UK's defense minister said Russia had l
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by pydry 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44554633
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by pydry 1y ago
There's probably going to be stasi-like secret police(s) at some point in the west in which all of the privacy violation infrastructure currently in place and used to sell you stuff will instead be used to dismantle democracy and cemen
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by pydry 1y ago
These wars predate the industrial revolution and manufacturing.
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by pydry 1y ago
Id take Ukrainian claims of disabling the black sea fleet with a large grain of salt, especially since theyre also claiming to be routinely shooting down black sea fleet fired kalibr missiles.
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by pydry 1y ago
which wars were won where one side had the greater manufacturing capability and the other side achieved a decisive win with technological advantage? I cant think of any.

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