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by slashdev 3y ago
As much as I’ve been rooting for nuclear, I think the ship has sailed. If newer advances can’t make it cost competitive with renewables plus some storage (I’ll get to that in a minute) then why would you ever deploy it. Renewables are reall
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by slashdev 3y ago
How does one control that? Fundamentally, technology is knowledge combined with tools. You can’t control the knowledge, so the only thing left is control access to the tools. How do you do that, on a global scale? There is precedent, but it
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by slashdev 3y ago
Indeed, as a programmer, I deeply understand the power of being able to modify the source code. Doing that with the code of life is a great responsibility we’re not ready for. What happens when it gets so easy and cheap that any malcontent
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by slashdev 3y ago
“ He, I know—for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made—thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilisation only a foolish heaping that must inevitably f
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by slashdev 3y ago
Remote jobs tend to pay less, and taxes are higher in Canada. I think you can’t beat going to the U.S. on purely financial considerations. But there’s always other factors to consider, so it’s a decent compromise.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Stay away from those ones with Canadian branches, unless you must have the office experience. They always scale pay by location. Corollary, stay away from companies that pay by location when seeking remote work, unless you live in a very ex
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by slashdev 3y ago
I think it’s fair to say that even as a failure, it’s likely to stimulate much more attention, funding, and research in the area of high temperature superconductors going forward. That’s great.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Ever considered working remote for a U.S. company? You don’t have to move to take advantage of the better job market in the U.S.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Canada entering the chat. There is definitely poor weather. I know people will cycle in the snow and ice, but I don’t recommend it. I agree that bikes are great, when the infrastructure supports them, and reducing usage of petrol cars is se
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by slashdev 3y ago
I’ve never seen a city where you can stay in safe areas, not even in cities I’ve visited in Europe. Unless you’re very limited in where you go, you usually end up sharing the road with cars at some point, and that’s quite dangerous. Even if
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by slashdev 3y ago
I wouldn’t do any of those things you listed on a bike, except a small shop, not a Costco shop. And I cycle in the rain sometimes, but not by choice. I love cycling, but I use a car when it’s the tool for the job.
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by slashdev 3y ago
You can have my downvote. People need transport now, not in some hypothetical ideal future world. Bikes are dangerous, even in places with good infrastructure. Bikes are no good for carrying your shopping, or your kids, or taking your partn
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by slashdev 3y ago
Yes. Although short options aren’t reported. People are assuming this is a bet against the markets, when it could even be a bull put spread betting the markets go up or sideways.
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by slashdev 3y ago
He’s famously too early, but often right that something was coming. Timing the markets is pretty much impossible, even for the experts.
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by slashdev 3y ago
There’s obviously a middle ground between the two extremes, where the prediction would still be significant.
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by slashdev 3y ago
He can be wrong on the timing but right on the prediction. I think he could still be right here in 2024. Certainly he was right about inflation peaking. So now is that recession still to come or not?
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by slashdev 3y ago
> No something that codes better than you will likely happen long before agi. I don’t think so. I think you need agi to beat a human at such open ended creative work as software engineering. AGI is a singularity. One can’t see beyond it.
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by slashdev 3y ago
It’s more about knowing where it’s most helpful. I use GitHub copilot as well, and that’s generally more useful. But ChatGPT is good for unit tests, well defined, mostly isolated functions, things where I’d need to do a lot of googling and
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by slashdev 3y ago
You mean general AI? That might replace all of humanity. I’m not concerned about my job. General AI does worry me.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Fortunately LLMs should end this idea of ranking content. It’s going to poison the well so badly search engines will have to rank on everything but content. Except links already proved too spammy and Google had to change gears to prioritize
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by slashdev 3y ago
I use it in my work (software engineer) and find it very helpful on some kinds of tasks. There’s more to it than cheating on homework. It’s not going to replace me though.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Says you, without mentioning any of the strong reasons.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Channels and the goroutine scheduler need to be thread safe. They use locks and/or synchronized instructions that run much slower because they need to synchronize between the different cores of your CPU (or between CPUs, if you have mo
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by slashdev 3y ago
As anyone who’s ever maintained software can tell you, software does suffer bitrot over time. Dependencies need updating and replacing. Deprecated functions have to be replaced. Systems and software change over time, breaking your software.
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by slashdev 3y ago
And make a simple iterator into a multithreaded program with channels and goroutines? Slower. More complex. Why?!? Just call your function in a loop.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Assuming I trust the math, that’s plotting exponential growth in energy usage out for 80 years, and assuming a fully nuclear grid. Neither of those is likely. Lastly the Paris accord is a pipe dream that will never happen. A target to aim f
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by slashdev 3y ago
I don’t agree with your characterization of China, but if you don’t like it, pick another. It doesn’t matter. As long as some country isn’t artificially restricting AI, then the research and development moves to that country. Your strategy
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by slashdev 3y ago
That seems like a stretch, bit off slippery slope fallacy there. Will we see AI use in warfare? Absolutely. Will humans trust warfare totally to AI? Not any time soon. I wouldn’t trust my lunch order to AI yet.
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by slashdev 3y ago
> We should start thinking now about limiting the performance of AI hardware. Congratulations, you just ceded the market for AI, and with it any hope of controlling it, to anyone who doesn’t limit it. Like China. That kind of strategy is
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by slashdev 3y ago
No, they won’t, because I’m nobody to them. If you’re some kind of public enemy of Russia, maybe don’t use Russian services of any variety.

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