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this was the one feature i read in here thinking “why would anyone want this?”

seemed like a way to backport poor librar/framework choices to have IDE support but not for new code

they changed this in southern california for the surfliner and it was a huge impact. really nice to not hear the train horn. then they added speakers that play fake train sounds at grade crossings… why

if you are buying delivery food, taxis, and laundry services you are clearly an upper class net worth individual. surely you know what’s best for working class americans

it’s been this way since vice city

if you think you need to code review for 150 people or your code base will get out of control then it sounds like there’s bigger problems going on

java and c# are great choices

go has excessive verbosity, poor error handling, rough edges for package/dependency management, and forces you to use interface for too many things.

it’s not a bad language, but i would not choose it for a new project or base my company around it

it’s just the most popular. they are all the same. it’s less about the technology and more about why so many humans feel the need to spend so much time using it

california has mushroom stores

big breakups don’t make sense in a globalized economy because it empowers foreign companies. i don’t think MS, Apple, amazon, fb would be the only benefactors. i think we entered the age of “too big to fail” about 10 years ago. breaking up very big companies like google is now a national security risk

python has one of the most fractured development ecosystems of any moderately used language. i’m pretty convinced python is a language that attracts poor development practices and magnifies them due to its flexibility. the people who love it don’t understand the extreme flexibility makes it fragile at scale and are willing to put up with its annoyances in an almost stockholm syndrome way

this is because we siphon water from rivers, mostly for agriculture

exactly. they are (and have been since their founding) too big to fail. the eu needs a domestic ai company. mistral is the only option

the one reliable longevity increasing action you can take across all humans is eat less calories. eating enough, but overall smaller amounts of calories, leads to longer lifespans in humans. eating too many calories leads to shorter lifespans. eating more calories than “normal,” but working out regularly so you are fit, still leads to shorter lifespans than eating less calories overall.

and yes i think most people would rather have the medium life span but a healthy one

decentralized solar will never be able to provide power at scale. even the scale of 1 household. only homes with lots of land could afford the amount of panels needed. the average home will always need to consume power generated offsite

we already have a wave of papers that no human has the capacity to verify

jeremy rowley has been C level at digi cert for over 7 years and is/was CISO. if anyone should have a completely overview of the entire system. it’s him

accountability at the top is a good thing

i like all of these except passing a remote url to .readAllBytes(). this seems fine for coding little things on your own. but in production i would recommend instead setting up an http client with the settings you want, calling a get merit that returns an input stream, and then calling .readAllBytes()

i don’t think it will be that bad. we have a standard in our projects today that all java variables in code we own are not null. if you would like to have a nullable variable, you must annotate it with @Null

this is only an issue at the boundaries of our code where we interact with libraries. i imagine that will be the case with this new syntax as well

how does the project level null flag work for libraries?

lets say a library was written with no nullability flag selected (legacy jar). i import that jar into my code. in my code i enable all variables as non-null by default

very common. we had many thousands of dollars in cloud provider credits through our investors

yelps relevancy had already declined by the time it was included in apple maps

propofol is a powerful drug that michael jackson would use to sleep because he had a personal physician. his doctor, conrad murray, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for giving michael jackson propofol leading to his death. murray received 4 years, served 2, and had his medical license revoked.

this is a multi level problem

trust is gone:

- trust in a brand

- trust in reviews

- trust in a store

this isn’t that bad. many things we buy don’t need high levels of trust. some items are cheap or low value enough that no one cares. if it doesn’t last long or is low quality

brand trust is gone for cheap products. why am i supposed to believe one brand is better than another when i can clearly see they are all the same with different names. these brands are sometimes random letters

review trust has been gone a long time. reviews mean nothing and i’m surprised when people use them

store trust is still extremely important. it’s very high on amazon because of their support and their returns. if you could buy something on amazon for the price you can get it on a discount store you would

this only really applies to cheap stuff. but i buy a lot of cheap stuff on aliexpress. i’d be happy to be on amazon instead. i wanted to buy a bike on amazon and saw many of them from no name brands for $200+. that’s when i stopped and would rather buy from a bike store directly

- message queues are still widely used and more cloud hosted than self hosted so you will see them less in arch diagrams

- event log (stateful multi-consumers) have taken a portion of the message queue workflow. this is more likely than moving them to redis/database

message queuing works incredibly well for many problems. it’s as critical to most companies architectures as an application database

i feel like parenting keeps regressing. at my kids school many parents walk their kids in. i get that for kindergarten, but 3rd grade? you live 3 blocks away. your kid could walk. and biking is out of the question, too dangerous. only 2 kids bike to school. and they wouldn’t let their kid walk home (probably a quarter mile) without a gps device. air tag is not enough because it’s not realtime and has no communication.

this isn’t an exaggeration. so many of my parent friends think this way. “they can’t bike to school because what if they fall and need help? they need a phone”

why as humans do we create more barriers and goalposts?

there are at least 20 companies, maybe 50, who have received founding rounds of $300M+ with the stated purpose of those funds to buy nvidia cards and run them in their own colo space. there’s even more established companies who can do this without funding rounds. as long as the cards are getting better every 2/3 years then if you want to be a player in this space you must buy a new $300M+ cluster every 3 years or get left behind.

there’s enough vc money to ensure some don’t get left behind. and there is one ai card company in the world

this only slows down when someone else can compete with nvidia and i don’t see any thing close

i think we are going to find way more comes from dna than we thought. Physiognomy is the science of determining your personality (and other traits) from the way your face looks. this was cast aside as pseudoscience like palm reading, until recently ai facial recognition found its real

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy

because the form factor of a laptop is better for typing. detachable key boards are awkward to carry and set up.

also lots of computer tasks require very precise clicks that mice do better with. touchscreens really need another interface and the keyboard only solves some of the issues. a solution here is to carry a stylus..

but if you’re walking around with a ipad, a key board, and a stylus, the laptop is simpler

i don’t think we need to respect these elite multi millionaires for not becoming even grander multi millionaires / billionaires