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Rule of law is when the state's power is effectively limited by law.

Rule of law is not about order nor safety

They are talking about the enjoyement. AI did disolve a lot of the meaning and magic behind pure code exercises.

What felt like a creative endeavor now feels and is even more treated by society and other software engineers as grossly mechanical.

And to me too that hurts. I think a lot of people whose identity or passion was tied to this feel like that.

It is very much a "what is painting purpose now that photography exists ?" or "what is craft in an era of industrial mass production" moment for some of us. There are answers but finding them require exploration and being willing to change what we are

I think that's their deeper point

I did love React for freeing me from AngularJS and I fully bought in its idiosyncrasies.

But now I just use it to get paid cause it's the standard and I know it well. In my experience keeping a large React codebase simple requires some skills that are clearly not universal.

If I have the choice I use Svelte because reactivity is much easier with it and it includes most of what I need to focus on building things.

> You could fix it by eg. `$state(undefined as unknown as HTMLElement)` but that's dumb

I think the generic is what you are looking for

  class Wrapper {
    dom = $state<HTMLElement>();
    constructor(el: HTMLElement) {
      this.dom = el;
    }
  }

the dom property will still be HTMLElement | undefined, if the 'undefined' bothers you have to add an exclamation mark and write "$state<HTMLElement>()!"

Then you are skeptical about the concept of event horizon. The proof you are looking for is general relatively and all the research validating it

I am not a physicist but as I understand it everything inside the event horizon goes towards the singularity. No light can come from it for you to see the singularity

Yes

Addiction is not related to the potential benefits of the habit. You can get addicted about anything depending on your personal dispositions.

Simply said lot of "games" are disguised Skinner boxes, people with addictive personalities are very vulnerable to those.

Most the time the only thing devs are allowed to interact with on the business side is a product/feature proposal with all assumptions already made.

If devs do not know the customers/users nor interact with them then they can't really argue about the proposal's assumptions, it defacto becomes a demand.

With experience devs see such proposals with skepticism. A significant amount of our output ends up being useless, no matter how fast or well it was built.

If you want devs to focus on value creation you have to make it their job, they have to take ownership of the whole thing. When a dev can help a user or a customer they tend to feel fantastic about it.

But truth is business people think devs are inept at doing that so most companies are structured in a way where the only agency devs have is how much time they have to do something.

> By the time the child had grown to an adult I wonder what kind of results their LLM would produce and the degree to which it might compare to what the child (now grown) would answer?

It very likely would not compare. Humans are shaped by their subjective experiences not by incoming data and you cannot know what a subject is experiencing solely through the incoming data (except if you have a theory accurately modeling the mind of the subject which is exactly what we are currently missing).

Your LLM won't experience the subject's heartbreaks, joy, grief, shame, hope etc. It will have heard and be able to talk about those, but it will not give accurate answers about what it felt like. Also it won't be able to predict/model accurately how the subject has been changed by those experiences so it could make very wrong assumptions about what the subject could/would do in the future.

> I've contracted to an IVF company here to do ML for face matching

This is actually a good idea. I have a hard time believing it actually performs well though

Profit is one of the least ambiguous term possible.

If you pay yourself 100% of your revenue as income you don't make any profit which is your choice.

Profit is needed to sustain periods when revenue decreases and to act when an investment is needed (for pivoting, adapting to evolutions in the market, scaling or whatever move the business has to make).

I don't see what is controversial here for a business, profit is like capitalism 101.

Both Divinity games already set the standard for cRPG, Larian Studios basically solved cRPG.

Indie devs that try something entirely different with the RPG genre will have a shot.

AAA studios have ZERO excuses, some studios like Bethsesda & Rockstar did what Larian is doing decades ago on their own genre and they still are reaping the fruit of this strategy.

I have to admit that I can't imagine competitors like Ubisoft pulling this off even if the life of the business depended on it

What gilets jaunes or blocking whatever have anything to do with violating parliamentary rights ? Or making protests of disappointment (edit: disapproval) illegal everywhere the president go ?

What can anyone do about a president that abuses its power ? This is a basic democratic issue and I am pessimistic because a lot of people like you just don't seem to get it, so we won't address that and when it is going to be too late it will be too late.

You might like or trust the current government but what about the next one ?

What I say is that IF France becomes an illiberal democracy, it is going to be far worse for EU than what happened in Hungary. Hungary and France are absolutely not on the same scale

Situation in France will not end well.

Both rule of law and liberal democracy are increasingly damaged. Our institutions are so weak that we are one election away from a complete disaster.

Our constitution always concentrated a lot of power in the hand of the president but there is no effective counter-power left. The government set multiple precedent that violate freedom of assembly and association and parliamentary rights. I skipped a lot of authoritarian practice that happened and are still happening but the situation is egregiously bad

I don't say that because I am a political opponent. I voted for this government in 2017, I am a founder, I am pro business. But also I am a father of two and I would rather raise my children in a democracy.

I am seriously pessimistic about this situation. EU knows and complains about Poland & Hungary but France is going to be a shitshow of a far worse magnitude. We should NOT get a pass because Macron knows how to play the game

So this is just my experience and absolutely not some advice.

Building and talking to customers takes all my time. I stoped attending meetups and going to events if I don't have something concrete to show or to talk about.

A network is a very valuable asset, but networking looks like a productive activity where in reality it is a time and energy trap.

I wish I spent more time being social for my own sake but honestly I just don't have the time to do it all especially since I don't have someone to share the work burden.

So yeah I just live like a monk and I am mostly fine with that otherwise I would look for a cofounder.

This is in my opinion what being early stage look like, a relevant network will grow with the business.

I love it, I am not sure yet what I am going to do with it but I definitely want to use it. I really love this kind of software and the execution focuses on the right spots.

This looks like the result of a lot of work, keep on !