stormbrew

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by stormbrew 4y ago
I mean, nuclear might be expensive, time consuming to build, and difficult but at least we've been doing it for 70 years. It's not clear that projections of long term costs on things we haven't even done at scale are going to
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by stormbrew 4y ago
> But instead of being so "black and white" and insisting it must be nuclear that powers things It sure is a good thing I didn't say anything of the sort or wow I'd be a hypocrite. I am definitely not the person tryin
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I don't think this black and white thinking is really useful. There are inhabited places in the world where solar and wind face real challenges to practicality as the sole source of energy . I would be shocked if we're capable of
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by stormbrew 4y ago
The US government makes a steady stream of trillions of dollars appear in order to, among other things, build single use missiles for millions of dollars each and jets that have never seen real combat for billions each. The idea that any du
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by stormbrew 4y ago
You assume police experience anything that can be called legal liability. There is rarely any consequence for abuse of power by police, because for the most part the people tasked with investigating any such abuses are either police or peop
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by stormbrew 4y ago
> The Roman empire lasted over 1000 years. Treating all the things that were called "The Roman Empire" as one thing is a pretty big stretch. Modern nations have much more rigid and well-defined natures.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Bitcoin mining is a business activity, not consumption.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
In the end most people just deal with this by creating accounts for different contexts and that helps to proactively compartmentalize their lives. Often on different systems that are more appropriate to one context or another. Trying to do
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Aside from the scheme example in the sibling reply, ruby has had a lambda, as a special kind of proc, for a very very long time and it is similarly not a "real lambda." Honestly it's likely that for most of the history of the
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by stormbrew 4y ago
It's very convenient to believe that everyone replying to you who disagrees with you has no management experience, and the one lone voice giving uncritical agreement is the one person who does.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
> You're job is to keep telling your reports that everything is on track no matter what everything else is just "rumors". Sometimes your employees can tell things aren't going well, and you bald face lying to them lik
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by stormbrew 4y ago
Yes this, except it's not even a rebuttle, I'm just genuinely curious where this might be someone's experience because it's very at odds with my own. I don't honestly care much what people consider the beginning of
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by stormbrew 4y ago
If you work for a tech company in Canada it's likely that a substantial part of your salary is made up of sred refundable credits.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
What part of English Canada? In Alberta or Ontario (the parts I've lived in, though I was pretty young when I lived in Ontario) I've literally never seen a calendar with Monday as the first day of the week that I can recall.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
It's not about new vs old but who makes the main parts and chipsets. Intel everything is always a really good bet, even when they're brand new, but there are other safe choices. It used to be quite hard to find new laptops with ha
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I had a similar experience trying to find shallow storage chassis that would fit in 2 or 3u. Seems like a no brainer to me to have just a rack mount array of 5.25 bays I can put hot swap cages in but nope.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I don't think it's really possible to seriously consider Haskell as somehow less "dizzyingly complex" than rust unless you're already a math postgrad. I like haskell, don't get me wrong, but it is not in any wa
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by stormbrew 4y ago
The thing I don't get is why are we so damn stuck on towers as the default form factor? It's pretty much masochism to mount a sensitive piece of 8 billon layer circuit board vertically and then hang a bunch of blocks of solid heat
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by stormbrew 4y ago
If we're talking about raw performance then I'm baffled at what you're talking about to begin with. Rust can link with assembly just as well as c++ and I believe inline asm was stabilized a while ago. Otherwise it's llvm
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by stormbrew 4y ago
This sounds an awful lot like how everyone thinks they're an exceptional driver and everyone else is bad. Reality is no one's actually that great at piloting a ton of metal at speeds their brains can't keep up with in an unco
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by stormbrew 4y ago
> IMO it's easier to write super complex stuff in C++ than in Rust as there are just too many cognitive things to keep in mind in Rust to even compile. It keeps you from compiling (many of) the bugs you'll happily write and de
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by stormbrew 4y ago
probably only a 50/50 chance it gets closed tbh. Either way it's in a black hole to the reporter so they'll never know. (I actually liked radar though, as bug trackers go - by far the best internal tool apple has imo)
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I'd bet it's B2B and has an expensive sales division that top management believes (tbh maybe even rightly) is the real revenue driver.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
> I have to find a strategy to fix this development team without managing them directly Sorry what? What position are you in here? If you have no authority here then you are in a very precarious situation and you should figure that out f
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by stormbrew 4y ago
To clarify: Relative to Google and Facebook, which have built up immense c++ codebases that span the entire companies. I spent 8 years at Apple, mostly working in C and then rust, both even smaller pieces of the Apple language pie. But I al
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I didn't say it was? We're talking about faang in this sub thread.
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I mean, I'm a HN user who just left one FAANG for another and I'm pretty confident this is changing a lot faster than you think. The thing that obscures this, I think, is that at most of them the surface area that the intersection
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by stormbrew 4y ago
The thing is that C is still the lingua franca abi, so there's still no need to rewrite in bulk, you can still just use the same C libraries in another language, and rust is particularly well suited to doing that in roughly the same
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by stormbrew 4y ago
I mean, I agree with you (I just said sometimes people call it that, not that it is that) but I don't think anything you said really contradicts it being a kind of capitalism. After all Lenin and Stalin and Trotsky disagreed literally
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by stormbrew 4y ago
The industrial revolution and the beginnings of a global liberal trade order pretty substantially changed the shape of the world's economic system, even if sometimes people call predecessor systems like mercantilism a kind of capitalis

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