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by slashdev 2y ago
I remember it well. It was possible. That’s not the same as saying it is still possible at this debt level with the massive shortfalls in social security and other entitlements. I do not think it’s possible without also seriously eroding th
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by slashdev 2y ago
Wouldn’t they need to balance a budget first? Not in my lifetime
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by slashdev 2y ago
If you used DNA across all birds, maybe it would be possible to identify the different bits of dinosaur DNA they inherited. Since they branched from each other at different points in time. And presumably wouldn’t have all lost the same gene
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by slashdev 2y ago
The bias on HN goes the other way, it’s quite liberal, much like Reddit
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by slashdev 2y ago
The Sun, Jupiter, Saturn are the main ones. Depends on the orbit as to how much influence they have.
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by slashdev 2y ago
Stock market valuations are not about current revenue. That’s just a fundamental disconnect from how the financial markets work. In theory it’s more about forward profits per share, taking into account growth over many years. And Nvidia is
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by slashdev 2y ago
I disagree that things you assert would be true, but even if you lose money doing it, you should do it. The point is not to recover losses, although ideally it would help. The point is to have severe financial consequences so it stops happe
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by slashdev 2y ago
A lot of modern programming languages do not do tail call optimization, often citing keeping accurate stack history for debugging as an excuse. Regardless of how valid the excuse is, for such an obvious and old optimization, it’s very poorl
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by slashdev 2y ago
Then you sell it for scrap.
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by slashdev 2y ago
That happens anyway. The claim is legitimate, so objections would be half hearted. It may well invite the aggressor country to return the favor though (in that case stop trading with them completely)
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by slashdev 2y ago
That wouldn’t surprise me. Doesn’t mean you can’t do it, just that people will object - but not likely with actions, just words, which can be ignored.
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by slashdev 2y ago
I guess that would be a seize and sell the ship outcome then
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by slashdev 2y ago
I’ve seen plenty of attempts to disrupt the big banks that are quickly bought by the big banks if they develop traction. You see the same with big tech. To get real disruption we need founders and investors willing to play the long game.
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by slashdev 2y ago
Why don’t they bill the repairs plus a fine to the ship’s owner. If they don’t pay, sell the the ship to cover it. I bet it will stop real quick.
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by slashdev 2y ago
If there’s enough money to pay the founders salaries, but not so much for dividends, this doesn’t help. There are two direct ways to return money to the founders - salaries and dividends. In the U.S. there is a tax advantage to dividends, o
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by slashdev 2y ago
Plus he tried to hire a hitman to kill someone. Ten years sentence seems a little light for that alone.
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by slashdev 2y ago
I remember an old Steve Jobs biography titled “the journey is the reward”. Overtime, I’ve come to appreciate that statement more and more. I think it is an incredibly profound insight about life.
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by slashdev 2y ago
Yes, this is a great point
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by slashdev 2y ago
This. FAANG and adjacent pays so well, it's a better and more guaranteed outcome than startups - for people that have that option. Dan Luu wrote about it over a decade ago: https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/ Th
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by slashdev 2y ago
I can confirm, my wife uses this all the time
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by slashdev 2y ago
Foxglove works well with ROS, but it also works well without ROS. It's not a requirement
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by slashdev 2y ago
As someone in the same theoretical position, I'm curious as well. How much of the answer is the same as for Germany? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41871953 Anything different because it's Canada?
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by slashdev 2y ago
As soon as you do more than hello world inside those requests, I think you'll find the difference is hardly noticeable. Try it with real requests that use the database.
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by slashdev 2y ago
In very specific, very limited cases. I remember when these claims were made for Java twenty years ago. It’s still slower than C, most of the time. Some things don’t change.
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by slashdev 2y ago
That’s false. If the difference between IO uring and epoll is 2x, but that was only 5% of the total runtime, the rest being slow Ruby code, then at best you get a 2.5% speed up. Not worth it.
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by slashdev 2y ago
Well that’s true. To do async file IO without that is really just using a thread pool. Of course, I don’t see why that won’t perform fine for Ruby. It’s just so slow that optimizing the async IO at the OS level doesn’t matter
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by slashdev 2y ago
A syscall is so fast compared to Ruby code. It really doesn’t make much sense to me.
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by slashdev 2y ago
The whole point of IO uring is to be fast by reducing the number of system calls per request. If you then process your requests in the slowest programming language, you add back at least 100x the overhead. It doesn’t make sense to me.
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by slashdev 2y ago
No, there shouldn’t be. Rust is not magic and you can compile both with llvm (clang++). If you specify that the pointers don’t alias, and don’t use any language sugar that adds overhead on either side, the performance will be very similar.
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by slashdev 2y ago
I’ve found more jobs through HN than any other channel. Not the ads, but the Who’s hiring posts. No regrets. I just found a new job, same way.

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