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I'd like to hear more about people's experiences with Kotlin Multiplatform

Regardless of where you live - you're not building a household robot for much less than that.

I never said anything about the US's actions to protect anyone. I just said that Russia is weak.

On a $1000 hacker project that's only a 2% percent cost increase.

Russia lost many years ago. They just don't know it yet.

Russia is strong like an ant is strong: strong but insignificant. It only has any significance economically because it has oil and gas.

An Uno Q is like $60. So what % are you gonna save on the whole project by using a Chinese knockoff?

Or have the ability to issue a pardon

> It's great to see that my personal assistant can stop working and maybe report me to the police

That part has always been true

Vacant land has just one tax - which they can raise.

That used to be true - back when memory use mattered; before the code base grew to consume all available memory.

Did that every year visiting family all through the 70s and early 80s from age 5 through 15. Left an indelible mark.

Then it's just an argument about raising taxes, which any municipality could choose to do, rather than a question of land value tax.

Georgeism is just silly from economics standpoint

I spent a month in Italy and drank many fine wines. The most expensive sold at supermarket was 15 euo. Most were like 6.

> I think LVT does have a history in US, e.g Pittsburgh

Yeah, I looked at the map in the article and thought, wait a minute, why is Pennsylvania not colorcoded if Pittsburgh has a land value tax? So the map is only showing states that do? I didnt know there were any states that tax land. But do remember being confused when I moved to Pittsburgh by there being two separate taxes - for land and for property.

I also think that the pittsburgh example shows that LVT is meaningless. All homeowners care about here is their total real estate tax. How it is split between land and property nobody pays attention to.

I'm not sure if that last statement is true. I think there were many private rail passenger services back in the day.

Right, and that's why it doesn't really matter what innovative things don't get added to Excel because people wouldn't be using them.

Spreadsheets at their core are a visual intetaction model; a table with cells that can affect other cells. Beyond that core, you can do whatever you want - including with Excel, so the 10% that don't want to treated as a calculator can do so with a little bit of bespoke programming.

I've implemented several business applications where Excel was the user agent against specialized backend services. This was before the browser took over the front end in developer's mindset.

> A major instrument of that victory had been the spread of Western culture

That's the political fluff. The important thing was the spread of capitalism and its accompanying legal institutions such as trademark and copyright - which Tetris definitely represented.

> if I am not even quite sure what exactly I want to build myself

Sounded to me like you need a plan.

My approach is to take the statement of work or problem definition and iterate on that myself until I'm really clear on what is the goal. I therefore have a good some good ideas about what the plan should be.

If extending an existing application, which is usually the case, then make use of the plan documents that I had written before AI arrived on the scene. These sre documents in markdown form that say step-by-step how to, for example, add a new report to the system.

After programming for 40 years, my brain has many language parsers. But languages and interfaces and classes evolve and it been a huge productivity boost the use LLMs for coding.

I use AI like StackOverflow on steroids. And like using stackoverflow, I do it in a browser and I don't let the LLM touch my code.

I, personally, love programming more than ever!

"you only need your git repository to have a bug tracker"

What if my git repo doesn't have a bug tracker?

Probably pretraining but certainly posttraining filtering

That would be income tax

In Beijing, they're banned at the model weights level not in a front-end as this approach discusses.

The problem, in my opinion, isn't that they "do", but they "can". Once the windowing system gave up control, it disempowered the user. For example, allowing apps to change the window chrome. For me that was basically the end of usability of WIMP. We no longer have a strong separation of concerns. we need that back, and we need the user to be in charge of the behavior of the windowing system. my strong preference, for example, is that I cannot interact with any window that doesn't have focus until I give it focus. At some point in the last 20 years, that standard was broken, and I have been stuck ever since accidentally doing things to windows that don't have focus.

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Software engineers do code reviews, and in the age of AI, they have to do chat reviews.

Much of the knowledge of writing the software is manifest and captured in those chats. and we share them so that we can learn from each other.

My experience is that the LLM offers that approach from the get-go.

Also, I've worked with lots of humans who sadly would not notice the pattern.

> The more code AI writes for me the worse it gets.

That makes no sense unless you're claiming that the models are getting worse at writing code.

> Either AI gets smart enough that it won’t matter in the future or we’re going to have a huge mess to clean up.

My prediction is that both will happen.

They are priced out earlier - when they can't get the academic credentials to pass the medical school gatekeeping.