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I hear you on undoing the damage. Going on two years into a long break and I’m still improving my insomnia. Recovering from stress related health problems takes time, in my experience. I love tech and want to live a long time to see what amazing things we create. Sad that the industry takes such a toll on its workers.

A lot of people get their opinions from a chain of misinformation that starts from groups who are incentivized to keep the status quo.

Even so, there are a lot more high leverage ways to spend tax money on reducing carbon than car rebates. Car rebates are a way to buy votes. I think it's pretty obvious that $7500 could be spent in way that reduces much more CO2 and doesn't benefit people that are already pretty well off.

This hit close to home. I don't think it's exclusive to programmers. I think this is happening in all industries, we just see it to a greater degree. Everyone's aware of polarization in politics, but I think it's happening to race, gender, and any other culturally distinct segment of humanity. With all this increased connectedness, we're distilling into groups that are like-minded, politically and otherwise.

I went to an all boys school. I believe it was terrible for social development and made it hard to relate to women. When I see that same-sex education is on the rise I feel we're making a big mistake.

I believe Google Colab provides what you described.

Do we owe all our professors and textbook makers compensation when we make money off our brain neural networks that they trained? Everyone also keeps talking about how bad copilot is. It’s the first step! It’s only going to improve and probably fast, given the potential value creation.

Wouldn't attacks on Starlink be so asymmetrical that we'd want the enemy to try and shoot them down? They'd go bankrupt trying. We launch 60 satellites per Falcon, and who knows how many per Starship. Meanwhile the bad guys have to use a whole launch to take out one/few Starlink satellites.

For some reason my brain is incapable of keeping the definitions of these straight, no matter how many times I look them up.

I quit last June after 13 mostly consecutive years in tech. I haven't saved enough to be financially independent but I can coast for a while. Even at a company that seemed to have good work life balance, I couldn't take it so I have no idea how you FAANG folks do it. I don't know if I'm just not suited for the career or what, but working as a software engineer caused several stress related health problems that have either gone away or drastically improved over the past year. I can't imagine going back, it's not worth sacrificing my health and happiness.

What does LP mean? From the context it looks like something more basic than an MVP? Would you mind sharing what tech you used for the no-code stages (LP and MVP) of your product?

I wonder if the lack of concern is because of the future of autonomous warfare. There's drones of course, but also tech that enables things like aircraft carriers to run with much fewer crew.

I'm betting that national healthcare will cause a fitness boom. We'll start seeing each other's poor health as tax money, and there will be more stigma for being overweight.

Maybe with the right technology you could map out each nerves function for both donor and patient before the procedure and match them up. I wouldn't be surprised if brains and nerves don't work as simply as an API though.

I recently signed up for a course on Coursera. Maybe I wasn't paying attention or maybe I was tired, but I didn't realize the plan was a trial that would automatically start billing. It wasn't even a month before I received a bill. Their policy is no refunds. It's an easy mistake to make and many other apps offer refunds for this. It might seem minor but it got under my skin. I've decided to never used them again.

Is this sarcasm? Honestly can't tell.

Half speed... so we take half a week to watch it?

Why should one want to pay taxes on debt that was a result of stupidity?

I don't think you'd notice a 1.2 inch change in anything over 20 years. Especially something like the ocean, with tides and waves. Source for .06 inches per year: https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding but since this 3D CPU would be superconducting, it would conduct electricity without resistance and therefore not generate any heat while in use.

> Regulations and subsidies are what make solar cheaper than coal in the US.

Please stop parroting this. Coal is cheaper than solar in the same way that a house with no down payment is free. The environmental debt from coal's CO2 emissions will far exceed costs of solar.

I think we should strive to make more ways for people that "can't code" to be able to contribute. It's hard. I've been thinking recently that there might be an additional lesson behind Conway's Law; that the interface and character of a system mirrors its creator(s). This means if you hire super smart people to build something, it's going to require super smart people to interact with, operate, and maintain.

Water temperature has to be about 60-65C and be applied for a period of minutes (longer that bacteria) to harm viruses. Max water heater temperature is about 48C. You're only damaging your skin which will make it more susceptible to pathogens.

Source WHO: https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/Boiling_wate...

> The IT industry has huge problem with complexity. We need to simplify the whole computing stack in interest of reliability, security and future innovations.

Yes! I really hope I keep hearing more of this sentiment and that eventually we collectively take action. What would be the first practical step? There's a lot of effort duplicating the same functionality across different languages and frameworks. Is reducing this duplication a good first goal? Should we start at the bottom and convince ARM/x86/AMD64 to use the same instruction set? After that, should we reduce the number of programming languages? It seems there's still a lot of innovation going on, would it be worth stifling that?

Thanks!

- formally verified software

I only remember hearing about "mathematically proven software" as an undergrad and just googled to find this name. I've always been interested in learning more of what it's about but never jumped in.

If there was a maximum wage law then there would be no danger of poaching.

All definitions of the word "make" include phrases liking "combining parts" and "putting together"

Well it all happens for a reason. And I don't mean as part of some master plan, but cause and effect. Since we're talking about an alien civilization capable of traveling to earth, vastly technologically and intellectually superior to us, they'd probably be able to assess the problem pretty quickly based on human nature. It confuses us because we can't understand collective human behavior. This made me think of the line from MIB: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."

App Engine Flex has to spin up a Compute Engine VM so deploys are slow. Cloud Run deploys containers to Borg so it's significantly faster.

Seriously? It's the entire ocean... it's only going to get worse and possibly accelerate. What does a decade adding 1cm do to salinity, microscopic life, water temperature, storm surge and god knows what else? I read your quote from the article and panicked. I'm even more panicked that there's people who can read something like that and not be deeply alarmed. What's happening to our planet makes me sick, and your apathy makes me even more sick.

I've gotten similar responses arguing with climate crisis deniers. I think a reasonable retort is: how do you know there were countless high and low temperature phases? If you listened to overwhelming science for climate history why don't you agree with equally overwhelming science that we are the cause of the climate crisis?