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eweise··on Go subtleties
You could say the same thing about any language. Writing "dumb" code is easier to understand especially in the small. But Go with function that take functions and return functions, channels and generics, can quickly look as complex as other languages.
eweise··on 60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds
Can't remember a single kid with a peanut allergy growing up in the 70s.
eweise··on Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys
Darn why couldn't I be a monkey?
eweise··on My thoughts on renting versus buying
House in the north bay. https://tinyurl.com/bdhzx9xd
eweise··on My thoughts on renting versus buying
Well, not really but I really like where I live so I don't consider moving.
eweise··on My thoughts on renting versus buying
All I know is my mortgage is $1,800 a month and to rent my place now is at least $6K/month. I love knowing that my monthly payment can't go up.
eweise··on All New Java Language Features Since Java 21
Having coded in Java for 15 years and Go for five, I can say that Go is clearly the better language for most tasks.
eweise··on Air pollution directly linked to increased dementia risk
I wonder if forest firefighters have increased dementia.
eweise··on All New Java Language Features Since Java 21
Scala definitely had some missteps but its much nicer to program in than Java and simpler as well. I mainly program in Go these days but I could imagine explaining the benefits of Scala over Go to my coworkers. It would be embarrassing trying to do the same with Java however.
eweise··on All New Java Language Features Since Java 21
Java is becoming a poorly implemented Scala.
eweise··on Age Simulation Suit
too bad it can't make my 60 year old body simulate a 20 year old.
eweise··on How does the US use water?
"The US has around 16,000 golf courses, and collectively they use about a billion gallons of water a day, or around 0.3% of total US water use."

I say that's a darn good use of water. Fore!

eweise··on Objects should shut up
I'm spending about a grand to have a sensor in my golf door handle fixed because the car beeps for about 10 seconds every time it passes 10mph. Thinking of buying a car at least 15 years old so I can experience the lack of electronics again.
eweise··on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth
Maybe way back in the .com days but its a terrible decision financially now.
eweise··on Section 174 is reversed, mostly
Same.
eweise··on Double is winding down
I worked for a wealth management company. The money was held at the financial institution's accounts. We just calculated when to re-balance the portfolios and executed the trades on the customer's behalf. Not sure if that's how this works.
eweise··on If AI Lets Us Do More in Less Time–Why Not Shorten the Workweek?
"This question is increasingly central to debates about the future of work" Nope. The only question my company is asking is how to get more efficiencies from AI so that they don't have to hire so many people.
eweise··on The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
Part of the problem is that the barrier to entry is really low now. In the old days, you had to be relatively talented on your instrument, hone your skills for years playing clubs to gather an audience, and then a record label would finally give you a contract. Now you can download Logic and it will generate most of the music. You just sing along, autotune your vocals and you've got a tune that can be uploaded to Spotify, Apple Music, etc. I just saw MonoNeon in concert. His albums are mediocre but I'm guessing he's making an ok living because he's extremely talented on bass. The place was sold out.
eweise··on Sly Stone has died
Innervisions is hardly a forgotten record. To claim its better than Dark Side of the Moon is totally subjective and I would argue that its not. Dark Side works as an album while Innervisions feels like a collection of songs. Also, "Visions" as the second song, just sucks the energy out of a listen. They should have tacked that tune onto the end.
eweise··on See how a dollar would have grown over the past 94 years [pdf]
isn't the stock market risk free over a 30 year span? Maybe with the exception of the depression.
eweise··on The rise of judgement over technical skill
pretty big logic leap you made there. I didn't say understanding the domain was the only requirement. But certainly not understanding it will cause you to fail.
eweise··on The rise of judgement over technical skill
"these require deep understanding of the domain, the codebase, and good software engineering principles" Most of this AI can figure out eventually, except maybe the domain. But essentially software engineering will look a lot like product management in a few years.
eweise··on FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as they end DEI programs
I didn't say its all false but I also noticed that you didn't post a single link to the overwhelming and well-documented evidence. Since most of the people I work with are Indian, I guess you're suggesting that Indians are racists against hispanics and blacks. I don't know why that would be but I guess from you said, its well documented.
eweise··on FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as they end DEI programs
I've spent at least that much time in the industry and never witnessed such discrimination.
eweise··on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
Same. Only thing missing for me is is a gas engine and manual stick shifter.
eweise··on In restaurants, We need a new way to signal that we're ready to pay
Bring a credit card.
eweise··on Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us
Not to argue the point, but in the article, he can't get the snare sound right so he needed to revert to a sample. I think you're underestimating the difficulty of recreating sounds. It would be impossible for instance, to recreate the amen break with a sequencer because nothing would be on a quantized beat and every single drum hit is different.
eweise··on Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us
I don't know. I think it would be pretty difficult to reproduce say the Amen Break. You would have to be a great drummer and be able to reproduce that particular sound it has.
eweise··on Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us
Listening to the break down of the tracks, they barely takes any music playing ability so I imagine they could have easily made them from scratch instead of using samples.
eweise··on Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's?
weird thing is every pair of 32/32 I try are too tight and too short.
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