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by titzer 6mo ago
In the long term, you're right, but in the short term, it's going to be a bloodbath.
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by titzer 6mo ago
Back in the 1990s when Telecoms needed to built out networks and infrastructure to cover a vast geography with cell towers to get the last mile delivery, these pricing and delivery models made sense. Today, with hundreds of megabits of band
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by titzer 6mo ago
The reaction was swift. Let's hope there are real consequences, because consequences are the only thing that change behavior. They wrote at the bottom: > I'm going to be THE WHIZ KID BILLIONAIRE OF THIS GENERATION. WITNESS HIST
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by titzer 6mo ago
> At this point I was genuinely feeling really fucking cool, cos I was just thinking this would be a really cool story to tell investors when I have a startup. The site was just booming. This is Mark Zuckerberg posting this, check.
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by titzer 7mo ago
It's in orbit. I for one love the fact they recycled some well-designed engines and made this mission a success (so far).
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by titzer 7mo ago
Learning calculus by watching the professor solve integrals on the board for an hour doesn't result in the same level and depth of understanding as working through homeworks every week for a semester. If you ran off to your TA to solve
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by titzer 7mo ago
The irony is that the vast deskilling that's happening because of this means that most "software engineers" will become incapable of understanding, let alone fixing or even building new versions of the systems that they are u
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by titzer 7mo ago
I laugh jollily in the face of AI. I know the coming shit pile, its nature isn't going to be surprising, only the speed and utter surrender of the vast majority of humanity to mediocrity. What AI represents to me is a teacher! I have s
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by titzer 7mo ago
> Markets will not reward slop in coding, in the long-term. Forgive my cynical take, but we're currently experiencing a market that doesn't appear to be rewarding anything specific in the long-term, as huge sums of money are
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by titzer 7mo ago
The article says "...and RAM prices are crashing because new models won’t need as much," and I went and read the link. The link was a puff piece for a very specific compression mechanism that...no one is using? I do hope that RAM
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by titzer 7mo ago
Synthetic fibers from clothes are microplastics, and clothes shed lots of fibers. Not to mention all the upholstered furniture, carpet, rugs, drapes, bags, etc.
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by titzer 7mo ago
It's abstraction inversion at its finest. Declarative styling sounded like a good idea, but it jumped the shark long ago. It's begging to become a real programming language but for some reason the design ethos behind CSS seems to
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by titzer 7mo ago
I don't mind adopting features from popular languages. (After all, Virgil using _ for partial application turned out to be a happy accident that aligned with Scala.) Adopting features that are popping up in other languages helps to red
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by titzer 7mo ago
I think I like the explicit lambda better; I prefer to be judicious with syntactic sugar and special variable names. fun x => add(subtract(x, 2), 3) // Virgil
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by titzer 7mo ago
I agree with this article. Tuples nicely unified multiple return values and multiple parameters. FWIW Scala and Virgil both support the _ syntax for the placeholder in a partial application. def add(x: int, y: int) -> int { return
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by titzer 7mo ago
You're going to hate this, but one answer might be blockchain. A crytographically strong, attestable public record of appending information to a shared repository. Combined with cryptographic signatures for humans, it's basically
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by titzer 7mo ago
I worked on JVMs long ago (almost twenty years now). At that time most Java usage was for long-running servers. The runtime team staunchly refused to implement AOT caching for as long as possible. This was a huge missed opportunity for Java
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by titzer 7mo ago
For fillInStackTrace, another trick is to define your own Exception subclass and override the method to be empty. I learned this trick 15+ years ago. It doesn't excuse the "use exceptions for control flow" anti-pattern, but i
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by titzer 7mo ago
> for some fucking reason It's what the oligarchy wants. The reason is that it's always whatever the oligarchy wants .
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by titzer 7mo ago
> Or was it when he said that a Black president would bring "1000 years of darkness"? I looked this one up. It's true. He's been going out of his way to be a political firebrand and claiming milquetoast Democrats are
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by titzer 7mo ago
Those trillions of dollars aren't going to find their way into the pockets of the shareholders if they have to pay some rubes to maintain old stuff!
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by titzer 7mo ago
Pittsburgh / UPMC. Now try to schedule a colonoscopy. It'll probably take two or three months.
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by titzer 7mo ago
It helps to at least write down requirements. And not requirements in that "it must use Reddis", but customer, user, performance, cost, etc requirements. A one page requirements document is like pulling teeth apparently.
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by titzer 7mo ago
Having lived in both Germany and the US, my experience with the German system is that there are a lot more, smaller hospitals and private practices, the care is good, and all I ever paid for out of pocket was prescription medications. I did
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by titzer 7mo ago
How do we keep getting surprised by enshittification!? The worst case scenario is that AI runs everything, we have no skills, and are completely dependent on it...and it shows us crummy commercials and subtly steers us to paid placement wit
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by titzer 7mo ago
CBO estimates $95 billion/year maintaining and modernization nuclear weapons for the next 10 years: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61362 Total USAID budget: $50 billion in 2023, $19 billion in 2026. https:/
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by titzer 7mo ago
According to this [ https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/costs-us-nuclear-weapo... ], the US has already spent more than five trillion dollars on nuclear weapons.
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by titzer 7mo ago
Why can't they just put it in the title of the article instead of classic clickbait tactics? Ugh.
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by titzer 7mo ago
In short, it's the oligarchy.
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by titzer 7mo ago
Not I didn't say that it isn't real, I just said it's not that rampant, and I was referring to the egregious examples in the article and the anecdote. But it's a sliding scale and being selective in presenting research r

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