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Yes, it is impossible? If you owned everything on earth you still would not be an avogadrillion-aire.

For that to be the case, wouldn't that mean that companies are awful not in the name of money but just because they're evil? Which I thought was the antithesis of your whole thesis, so maybe I should read your book.

> And from an investor perspective, as a group they have underperformed the S&P 500.

This should be kind of obvious -- if they are avoiding doing awful things in the name of money, then they are leaving something on the table. You can't have your cake and eat it too. This is why the real solution is some kind of governance/regulation, because otherwise the market incentivizes being awful.

> I can't help but think Google has some internal policy to give adblockers a runaround.

Ding ding ding. Stop using chrome!

...which might just show how predictable and similar all janky startup pages are.

Those differences are not due to the syntax, they're due to much deeper things like the differing type system.

BTQH?

What the deuce is an "RPA"?

The massive AI generated image header is more than a little bit ironic

It's the best there is.

That already exists, and it is in fact called unspecified behavior. Order of function argument evaluation is unspecified, for instance.

> The interesting thing here is the Undefined Behavior (UB), well... actually two UBs, thanks to which there are three possible correct answers: 11, 12 and 13.

No, if you invoke undefined behavior any result at all is possible.

Yeah I guess; I'm generally not a fan of solving a problem by adding another layer of shit on top.

Pyinfra is what ansible should have been. It's straight python rather than a janky mix of yaml, templates, and bolted-on control flow primitives.

"It's possible to write <lang-X> in <lang-Y>" is a common trope, but "It's possible to write <lang-X> in Rust" is painful and borderline impossible in my experience. I don't mean this as a defense of rust, I just think it's why the learning curve is so harsh.

Can you say more about the system? A lifetime ago I was really excited about gambit (and bigloo) but I never had the chance to work with them beyond messing around here and there after work.

Deadly Rooms of Death is criminally underrated and generally unknown. Journey to Rooted Hold is personally my DRoD of choice.

It works both ways: "Yeah, let me eat 100kg of beef per day instead of 500g of broccoli to get my Vitamin C."

But anyway, legumes are much more efficient source of protein than beef. I don't understand why you decided to compare against broccoli.

I don't know, but I have noticed that the GPS in my watch (Garmin) seems to be better than the one in my phone.

> A bit of a feeling of "so what" here.

That part right there implied you're ok with it

Of course, I just have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that these people are complaining about ads everywhere and value the aesthetics of the tab bar over that.

Your point is that it's ok he's untrustworthy because lots of people in power are?

> Or look at the dogged adherence to Windows even to this day after decades of Microsoft abuse

Or the people who absolutely refuse to give up Chrome, despite the whole adblock situation. "But I don't like the way Firefox tabs look!"

I don't know, I think it's pretty embarrassing that Teams is an electron (or whatever) app. The plot on native has been lost so badly that even the fucking company that makes the OS doesn't want to deal with it.

Every time someone complains about firefox it's something trivial like this... "I don't like the default download location." / "I don't like how the dev tools opens on the bottom." / "I don't like the way the tab bar looks." Absolutely wild to me that using a browser without an adblocker, forever, is better than spending a week or whatever getting used to the different dev tools.

> Firefox is painful.

What exactly is painful about Firefox? It's so painful that you'd rather go without an adblocker?

Ok

Pretty much matches my experience. Trying to sell something on Craig's list or whatever is pretty hit-or-miss, whether it's $5 or $500. But make it free, and people will bang down your door to try to get it. It could be a shoebox full of used soy sauce packets and you'll get people for days asking if it's still available.

My favorite part about the type annotations in python is that it steers you into a sane subset of the language. I feel like it's kind of telling that python is this super dynamic language but the type annotations aren't powerful enough to denote all that craziness.

> But it looks like they would have spared Anthropic if they capitulated to the regime's demands and bent their back over.

Yeah dude, that's the point.