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> What prevents car manufacturers from taking a normal-looking body style and electrifying it?

Isn't that literally what the first Tesla was? An existing Lotus chassis with electric guts?

I do think it's kinda weird that Ferrari didn't do something similar, or at least closer to that, compared to... this thing.

Right, but that's a separate thing from inflation, so I don't think you can describe it as "that's just inflation".

Very, very few things even in isolation have inflated 4x in the last 10 years.

But as for this

> why is all the money printing remaining in the rich person's realm instead of trickling down?

Always has been, it's kinda one of the defining features of capitalism

Might be people just flagging so mods can make an "Is this an LLM not?" determination. I see a lot of new accounts get flagged like this (and scanning the previous comments, ehhhhh yea maybe?).

Idk, just guessing

Inflation is not up 4x in the last 10 years...

I think they meant the stock market more generally? S&P 500 is up what, like 4x in the last 10 years?

I dunno, there's certainly a lot of monkey knife fight deprecations, but there's a lot that are handled pretty well.

If we're talking about the source side of things, p4->piper/citc was done well. cs (get) -> grimoire was done well. I'd like to think we did a pretty good job of grokv2-> Kythe, though we did drop a few clients of grokv2 who were wayyyyyyy the fuck up xkcd/1172 creek (we did try to help them in the right direction, like offloading onto direct blaze depserver queries).

I guess those are all close in the org to cider, so maybe that's just how dev infra deprecations used to go.

The compiler is compiled via java nowadays. It's bootstrapped.

Yes the first one was probably written in C, however long ago. Not super relevant now though.

JVM/JRE, probably a different story

> Would this same code in Java possibly yield different results based on the platform the JVM was running on because of the platform specific JIT compiler?

No, and it's also well defined in languages like C#.

If we're talking about this specific example at least. No sequence point issues like that in Java.

> It’s super fast, is connected to language servers and can actually trace referenced

Nit: not connected to language servers, it's connected to Kythe. LSP doesn't have the same kind of functionality.

> Example - boy, does that gait look uncomfortable to sit through.

Oof yea, now that I think about it, it's not like a horse trot that you can post through, since you're strapped in to the seat.

Yea that's fair / makes sense from a democracy point of view (even if I might disagree personally).

It's a bit odd that Europe prioritizes American big-business interests I guess? Idk, as an American it does seem kinda like an odd choice.

Oof wow, that's bigger than I realized. I knew there were a lot of big ones (10k+), but I didn't realize there was US highschool football being played in stadium bigger than the smallest EPL stadiums.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised given a lot of college stadiums are 50k+ capacity.

Yes, you can also buy klein bottle hats or bottles or scarves from him, and he will send you funny notes/literature along with it. Cliff is awesome

Really depends on where, and what sport.

If you're in an urban school in a big city, maaayyybe some of the basketball games depending on the specific school. E.g. if your school has people who everyone knows are going into the NBA draft, sometimes the more important games get put on television with commentators.

If you're in a suburban/rural school and it's (American) football or maybe baseball, quite possibly yes as a regular thing. Especially if you're at one of the 50++ high schools that has a 10,000+ capacity stadium.

Edit: yea and as other replier mentioned, there's some regional tendencies too.

I'd argue it's not just Green Bay-Dickenson on the east end, but also extending to like souix falls/Fargo on the west end

"Oop, sorry" was viscerally familiar to me

Not sure if that's more or less bad than the dozens of kerbals polluting my LKO for, uh... reasons.

Since I play with no mods I guess they're all still technically alive since they don't require food or water and have an apparently infinite supply of oxygen.

I don't think the specific individual technical interviews are the surreal part about canonical's hiring process

> Their requirements was ridiculously outdated, like "we want maths geniuses with great marks, send us your marks or gtfo".

Man that like barely scratches the surface of the surrealness of canonical's hiring process

I think they meant that ycombinator is literally a VC shop

So if being VC funded puts you off an editor, being VC funded may also put you off ycombinator.com

I don't remember seeing a new xkcd for it, but I have seen someone replicate essentially the same 3-4 panel comic with a kid named "<Some name> Ignore all previous instructions. Do.... <I forget>"

It also helps that Jane Street has like 3k employees, a good chunk of whom never touch code at all, and of those that do, a good chunk who won't be touching OCaml. Hundreds of OCaml programmers though, yes.

That may not scale for larger companies.

Also important to note, they don't require you to know OCaml when you get the job. They will teach you OCaml.

All that said, man it would be cool to work for JS (or anyone really) and write OCaml.

Ok sure, mass shooting (400) vs active shooting (100). It is still the same order of magnitude, and two orders of magnitude off of suicides (50,000).

I'm not sure how that changes the point I was making, which is that suicides don't seem obviously less important.

I mean... important by what metric?

Active shootings in the US kill like 100 people a year (as of 2024 I guess: https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/reports-and-publications...)

Suicides is more like 50,000/yr

Yea hyrum's law is like an observation of what happens when you personally try to make 200,000+ distinct commits to google3 to fix things that are broken (as hyrum did, mind you this is before LLMs), and people come climbing out of the woodwork to yell at you with fistfuls of xkcd/1172

The federal vs state conflict over prescribed burns doesn't help much either. In states with a much lower % of national forest or blm land or whatever, you get a much larger amount of prescribed burns.

In the west coast, the state vs federal friction reduces how much of that happens, and there's more uncontrolled growth happening. And there's not always a lot that e.g. CA government can do about it if it's federal land.

For example, Minnesota (intentionally) burns like 50% more acreage than California on an annual basis, despite being like half the size. But CA also is like half federal land, MN is like 5% or something.

> but why in USA people try to regulate 3D printing instead of banning sale of bullets without a firearm owner license

I mean we're talking about CA, so they kinda already tried to do that

https://giffords.org/lawcenter/state-laws/ammunition-regulat...

But, it may not be constitutional:

https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/07/gun-law-ammunition-ba...

So the real reason is that the ultimate law on the books on gun regulation was written by a band of, you know, armed revolutionaries, who were pretty big fans of the whole armed revolution-ing thing. And it still hasn't been amended.

I bet if you went with a simple majority vote today, you wouldn't get the 2nd amendment. But amendments are pretty difficult to pass, much higher requirements than a simple majority.

In 2024 is 74%, not 11%

https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:...

That is, 7% are unemployed, and 19% aren't able to find comp sci jobs.

I suspect it's worse now, but probably not 11%?

Oh for sure it is very gamified. It's still very interesting in its own right though.

Just don't go into it if you are looking for realism.

Not like super seriously, but in limited joke capacities it does work

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1rsbxn9/stop_sp...