tormeh

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by tormeh 4y ago
“If you're explaining, you're losing.” I'm a big fan of federated/decentralized protocols, but these kinds of posts show Mastodon isn't quite there yet.
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by tormeh 4y ago
I don’t personally like it. It measures input factors rather than outcomes. I think surveyed happiness multiplied by life expectancy is a better measure.
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by tormeh 4y ago
I think whether we should build new nuclear plants is a question that can be discussed between reasonable people. On the other hand, shutting down nuclear plants while there are still fossil fuel plants in operation seems ill-advised to me.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Can confirm. Embedded development (this sort of development) kinda sucks, IMO. It has a certain sort of simple old-school charm, but it's mostly pain, although opinions probably differ.
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by tormeh 4y ago
We should focus our efforts where the impact:effort ratio is the most favourable. This doesn't seem particularly productive.
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by tormeh 4y ago
It’s “clean coal” all over again.
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by tormeh 4y ago
We got the answer to that 80 years ago. It's not that we fail to imagine what could go wrong. It's that we don't act on our knowledge. If we had course-corrected when we became aware of global warming we wouldn't have a
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by tormeh 4y ago
Conspiracy to cover up a mistake, maybe. There's no way to know, but given what is known about the origin of covid it's too plausible to just dismiss. We'll just have to live with the ambiguity.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Cuts both ways. You also get a fully functioning, self-contained team or 10. That can be attractive.
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by tormeh 4y ago
It has already. Chips that are ostensibly for graphics are containing more and more silicon dedicated to general purpose workloads. Turns out doing it like this this is usually cheaper than manufacturing dedicated parallel processors and GP
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What Would You Decide?(jmberlin.de)
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by tormeh 4y ago
It's quite sad, but it is what it is. If you're not white you shouldn't stay there for long. Particularly not at night or whenever there's a football match. It's gotta be hard for such a place to compete with more c
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by tormeh 4y ago
Land-use restrictions and NIMBYism drives up housing costs. I don't blame investors from wanting to make money off of that. They didn't start the fire, so why not roast some marshmallows? It may be in somewhat bad taste, but they&
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by tormeh 4y ago
Hopefully we'll get cross-platform (desktops, mobile, and web) GUI libraries that aren't using webtech on non-web platforms soon. Flutter is already viable, I believe. There are also some interesting movements in Rust-land: Lapce
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by tormeh 4y ago
Teams is just so bad. If a company you're interviewing for has chosen to use Teams, what people do you think they choose to promote? What strategies to pursue? Clearly their decision making process is broken, and the consequences proba
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by tormeh 4y ago
Working to rule involves malicious compliance, which may very well be harder work than actually being productive. Just being unenthusiastic is not the same thing.
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by tormeh 4y ago
This will continue as long as rising property values is seen as a good thing. That’s why local governments promote price growth through land-use regulations.
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by tormeh 4y ago
I suspect this too. As people skill up, they become interesting to more productive companies. Some companies pay more to new hires than old ones, but that’s just counter-productive.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Because building houses is illegal. Whenever any politician says they want to build more affordable housing, what they mean is that the government is currently working hard to ensure new housing doesn’t get built, but maybe we should work l
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by tormeh 4y ago
If they owned their homes that’s because they cashed out. If not then sorry, a chance of displacement is a part of renting, so you gotta live with it. Also: Build more housing - zoning delenda est.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Wasn’t https://cxx.rs/ supposed to make writing C-bindings unnecessary?
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by tormeh 4y ago
Depends. Software could be like lighting, where the cheaper it gets the more resources is spent on it. Right now it looks like it. Humans want to be able to see everywhere, and we want everything to be smart. Maybe a biotech revolution will
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by tormeh 4y ago
Imperial Japan was arguably worse than Nazi Germany. Unbelievably bad.
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by tormeh 4y ago
I suspect issue tracking software is one of those domains where if a piece of code hangs around for long enough it will become a mess due to incentives. Which begs the question: What are y'all's opinion on the open source competit
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by tormeh 4y ago
There's lots of worse shit here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_version-control_softwa... . I remember IBM ClearCase in particular as vile.
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by tormeh 4y ago
I wish I could somehow ship a website as a single wasm file. Currently there's quite a bit of HTML/JS ceremony involved in order to execute a wasm file, but I'd rather be able to serve up an "index.wasm" and be done
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by tormeh 4y ago
It works, but it’s very space intensive, so it only works where space is abundant, like in rural areas. Notably, the city is not a place cars really work.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Can't the low density be taken advantage of, producing aircraft with blimp-ish characteristics? Not sure how practical that is... And given how big % of fuel is needed for ascending to cruise height, I'd imagine you could have a d
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by tormeh 4y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but as far as I've gathered, the main source of unreliability is old and shitty signaling systems. Found it odd that signaling wasn't mentioned.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Any chance of collaboration with https://lapce.dev/ ?

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