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by randusername 4mo ago
What was the "tell" for you that makes you think this was AI-generated?
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by randusername 4mo ago
> This makes it possible to use static_assert for instance with std::format... This is great but it sounds like it doesn't work for floats yet > For now, compile-time std::format covers integers, strings, and diagnostics well, wi
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by randusername 4mo ago
Billionaires have an extraordinary economic footprint and level of influence. They employ teams of people managing their affairs through their family offices [0]. I do not think they should be thought of or spoken of as individuals, they ar
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by randusername 4mo ago
https://ziglang.org/news/2025-financials
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by randusername 4mo ago
Similar idea: don't go through life anonymously. Go to your professor's office hours, learn the names of your neighbors, become a regular at the local sandwich shop and shoot the breeze with staff, ask the people you're waiti
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by randusername 4mo ago
You can't have any impact at all if you can't legally operate it or if you are hamstrung in your marketing claims. Chatgpt is just words. This is an ultrasound imaging system. Who knows what could go wrong: blown out eardrums from
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by randusername 4mo ago
> Beyond that, regulation is the next limit. Normally, for every diagnostic medical capability you need FDA approval. We’re starting by just giving you detailed body composition maps — and we’ll be submitting regular test results to the
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by randusername 4mo ago
I've seen posts by this author before and did not understand if the commentary characters were referential or a creation of the author. Turns out its the latter. I dismissed the underlined names as just styling, not hyperlinks. https:
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by randusername 4mo ago
I think all the following can be true simultaneously: The whiplash cuts are stupid, short-sighted and causing major damage The bullying tactics around protests and immigration are villainous and are eroding one of our greatest institutions
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by randusername 4mo ago
I think there is a valid point here that Anthropic has a found a great product-market fit among programmers. By comparison, all the rest of the tools non-programmers get exposure to are floundering around trying to be everything to everyon
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by randusername 4mo ago
Self-help is 1 part information and 1 part magnetic point-of-view. AI is better at personalized information, short-form content offers a snappier and more "real" point-of-view. What I find most interesting is the appeal to authori
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by randusername 4mo ago
I think you're understating it. It's blatant marketing to investors, not users. How anyone can still have doubts about "you are the product now, not the customer" is beyond me. Everyday folk have never cared much about a
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by randusername 4mo ago
Nobody wants to live in a mining economy. Human slavery, extraordinary taxes, no public infrastructure. Conceivably you only need two roads total: one from the palace to the airport and another from the mine to the docks. Any more and someo
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by randusername 4mo ago
You're applying broad, long-term, and high-level reasoning to motivations that are more likely short-term and driven by simplistic incentives. Begging for regulation (and input into precisely what that regulation is) relieves competiti
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by randusername 4mo ago
I read a lot. My subjective experience of reading fiction is that I daydream it. After I build up speed over a couple pages I'm not really aware my eyeballs are sliding over markings or that my fingers are turning pages. Some people ca
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by randusername 4mo ago
There are even worse offenders. Some super cheap aftermarket kits seem to have the same horrific flashing as minimum viable Christmas lights. Barely perceptible flashing yet somehow gratingly and distractingly so.
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by randusername 4mo ago
Glad for the change, but a lot of the criticism overlooks that at some point we won't be the target audience of UI/UX anymore. Flyouts, dropdowns, and other text menus make sense to me, but I could see how they might be alien and
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by randusername 4mo ago
What a shame that "no definitive culprit yet" somehow becomes "nothing specific to worry about yet, carry on" instead of "we can't answer because there are too many horrifying trends all at once".
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by randusername 4mo ago
40 years old now and as relevant as ever. IMO even better than Chomsky's Necessary Illusions (1989) or Bernay's Propaganda (1928) at giving you that backstage at Disney world feeling.
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by randusername 4mo ago
Ideas: - more accessible now that AI handles the high tooling activation energy - more history and pre-AI internet content - pybind11 is pretty popular to pair Python logic with C++ performance - cpp committe is pretty bullish on new contra
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by randusername 4mo ago
One of my hobbies is rummaging around thrift stores appreciating tacky things from bygone eras, sifting through ill-conceived modern junk, and delighting in simple, solid tools where I can find them. That's what it's like to be a
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by randusername 4mo ago
I want a more complete picture of why prices are so high from articles like this. Is supply actively constrained, or is this mostly in anticipation of future shortages? How much of this is a mix of panic buying and price gouging on bad ne
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by randusername 4mo ago
I found this video [0] recently by Casey Muratori that really helped me understand why Windows is the way that it is. It's about Conway's law in software development and software architecture, but he explains it with anecdotes abo
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by randusername 4mo ago
> large scale infrastructure spending tends to be really good for economies All infrastructure is not created equal. It requires a lot of mental gymnastics to argue that datacenters are public good with net positive externalities. Actual
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by randusername 4mo ago
My read is that there's a crowd that is unimpressed with mechanistic changes when in their view there is a cultural issue. From the outside looking in, web dev has this frantic wild west energy to it. Mutability, dynamic typing, standa
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by randusername 4mo ago
Opt-in versus opt-out. Active versus passive. A lot of mentorship is just role modeling, juniors observing how seniors conduct themselves in various situations by proximity. $DAYJOB might as well be fully-remote since the team is heavily di
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by randusername 4mo ago
IMO it's multi-faceted but all revolving around how broken hiring is for juniors. - HR is rarely equipped or incentivized to select true entry-level candidates without an obvious record of success in a similar prior role - Algorithmic
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by randusername 5mo ago
I'm banking on this. I don't really know anyone younger than me at the moment that writes C++. Best-case scenario I'll be in-demand. Worst-case when my grandchildren visit me at my cardboard box I can tell them spooky bedtime
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by randusername 5mo ago
From the end notes, I think the author's response would be that the carbon equivalent emissions come from the fossil fuel used in growing, fertilizing, harvesting, transporting, refrigerating, packaging, and so-on. The larger point of
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by randusername 5mo ago
Fun fact: e-bikes are more climate friendly than human-powered bikes. 5 grams CO2 equivalent emissions per mile e-bike, 40 grams per mile for human eating exclusively bananas. Much, much worse for other dietary choices. Embodied carbon emis

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