skohan

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541.
by skohan 5y ago
I mean, I am pretty far from all of that and I'm not really sure how it works. It's just generally a bit worrying when you hear from a few independent sources: "don't trust (X), they're behaving badly"
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by skohan 5y ago
I was not aware of these, either it was added since I kicked the tires on Zig or I just wasn't aware of it, but yes it looks pretty good! The one drawback I see is that it seems a bit verbose: i.e. the tag set itself has to be declared
543.
by skohan 5y ago
What about the former core team member who also raised similarly-vague alarm bells about Rust's governance, and Amazon's involvement? I'm somewhat invested in Rust, and it's a bit worrying to see this from two places.
544.
by skohan 5y ago
I think part of it is because computer science hasn't really nailed the right abstraction for concurrent code execution. For instance, C is a great abstraction. You take assembly language, abstract away manual management of registers
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by skohan 5y ago
How does programming with "effects" actually work? I've read the linked page, and I understand the advantages they're claiming, but I don't see any explanation of what effects actually are .
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by skohan 5y ago
I think that's a pretty blatant mischaracterization of this situation. My understanding is that these laws are put in place very specifically to combat the BDS movement, which works very hard to distance itself from even a whiff of an
547.
by skohan 5y ago
I've already seen some philosophical points raised in this thread
548.
by skohan 5y ago
Can you give an example of a contractor's political stance becoming a problem for a city government? It's hard to imagine the guy installing tiles in the city hall's bathroom's views being known at all let alone becomin
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by skohan 5y ago
So I understand that this exact clause is in contracts which must be signed by paid speakers at public universities. I.e. you cannot boycott Israel and give a lecture at a university. Would you consider that an infringement on speech?
550.
by skohan 5y ago
That's a regulatory capture issue isn't it? Car dealers have legislated themselves a piece of the pie.
551.
by skohan 5y ago
Are you sure you're not being contrarian for its own sake? There are times to go against the grain, but surely the consensus must be correct a lot of the time right? Can it really be the case that most people are wrong most of the ti
552.
by skohan 5y ago
This doesn't make any sense to me. The government is working for the citizen, the citizen is not working for the government. It should not be the individual citizen's responsibility to respect the strategic interests of the stat
553.
by skohan 5y ago
> Which career paths? I imagine "not getting banned from Twitter" is an important skill to have for any job that requires twitter. Well this is moving the goal-posts isn't it? The comment I responded to said that the effe
554.
by skohan 5y ago
Yeah exactly - it would be very difficult for the state to prove that there's a compelling interest to this clause in the contract besides having a chilling effect on a particular opinion.
555.
by skohan 5y ago
I would argue for certain career paths, not having access to Twitter essentially makes one non-competitive. Also my friend went to a university where the official communication for course-work happened through Facebook. I'm not sure h
556.
by skohan 5y ago
It's just bizarre. What's Texas' compelling interest in punishing the boycott of foreign state? If I were a Texan, and I found out that my state government is potentially over-paying contractors based on a completely irrele
557.
by skohan 5y ago
So basically what you're complaining about is that high-end products are expensive? How many 4k IPS displays would you have found at the $500 price point even a few years ago?
558.
by skohan 5y ago
Ironically it's not easy to find a current-gen 4k 24"
559.
by skohan 5y ago
How close is your screen that 4k/27" seems like low DPI? What are you comparing it to? But I did monitor shopping recently, and what I wish I could get outside the mac world (or even in it) is the form-factor. Like there are a lo
560.
by skohan 5y ago
Theoretically investors should reward a realistic and well-reasoned business plan, and punish hand-wavy science fiction. The fact that this is largely not the case (cough metaverse cough) is probably an indicator about how frothy the marke
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by skohan 5y ago
Profitability isn't the only important metric here. It might be profitable for developers to increase density well beyond the point where it causes measurable negative externalities towards everyone occupying an over-crowded place.
562.
by skohan 5y ago
Surely you can grasp that "and so on" implies other reasons than the one explicitly stated. Negative externalities are another example of a valid target of regulation.
563.
by skohan 5y ago
You've proven my point exactly. Many of the the Plattenbauten (GDR-era block housing) could not be built in Berlin today because of current regulations. Berlin is targeting a moderate population density with mixed-use neighbourhood
564.
by skohan 5y ago
Ultimately you have to build within your sphere of competence. If you have a well-established but inefficient manual process, it may sometimes be the case that burning it down and replacing it with a tech-driven approach might be the best
565.
by skohan 5y ago
Well as someone who lives in a fairly regulated housing market (Berlin) I'm happy about all the regulations you've mentioned as they prevent negative externalities which would benefit real-estate developers at the cost of everyone
566.
by skohan 5y ago
My understanding is that they believed they had an advantage in terms of buyer intent information. Everyone can see who buys what, but Zillow has access to more information about how people shop for homes, and the events leading up to the
567.
by skohan 5y ago
Which regulations would you relax? Surely there is some unnecessary red tape, but it's not as if building regulations have been developed for fun, it's largely in response to safety issues and so on.
568.
by skohan 5y ago
> They thought they needed to build a machine learning model when they really needed to build an entirely new organization, one that possessed the technical and cultural mindset necessary to succeed in this space. I totally agree. It&#x
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by skohan 5y ago
I've worked on startups in the US and Europe, and there definitely are differences. Say what you want about the US, but the general risk tolerance and attitude of forgiveness around failure are a good match for startup culture.
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by skohan 5y ago
Neither is a subset, they're mostly overlapping sets. For instance Metal has features for tile-based rendering Vulkan doesn't, at least as of a couple years ago.

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