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stjohnswarts··on Wealthiest Californians are leaving the state. It's bad news for the economy
That's literally impossible given the way our Constitution and government is written. The only way would be a civil war by those who don't like the ideas of "states" and I don't think there are enough of those individuals.
stjohnswarts··on Wealthiest Californians are leaving the state. It's bad news for the economy
You're assuming Texas doesn't collect very many taxes, we're actually somewhere in the middle of "total tax load" for all 50 states, however the middle and lower class pay more than in other states to make up for tax laws that favor the 1% unlike in California.
stjohnswarts··on Wealthiest Californians are leaving the state. It's bad news for the economy
The governemnt isn't run by meritocracy, it's run by politicians looking to maximize their power and wealth. They could be perfectly logical and learn to compromise amongst all but the most extreme outliers of the various parties, however, that's not the case. It basically becomes all or nothing for them (and their party) and the government limps along behind that. It's nothing like machine learning unless you were to put those as goals of the algorithm.
stjohnswarts··on Fake Trees: Using Indents for Simpler UIs
I have tree logic in a c++/c/rust/javascript and have reused it several times for these UI tasks where we want a collapsible list. It's pretty easy to map most UI "tree" widgets to it as they mostly work the same.
stjohnswarts··on "No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel
They really aren't struggling we have plenty of firepower there. But yeah, China will soon outstrip our naval numbers by a large amount within the end out of the decade. We still have better tech but what do we do when they launch 200 "good enough" cruise missiles at each aircraft carrier sitting in the Taiwan Straight?
stjohnswarts··on "No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel
They really aren't struggling. But yeah, China will soon outstrip our naval numbers by a large amount within the end out of the decade. We still have better tech but what do we do when they launch, at the same time, 200 "good enough" cruise missiles at each aircraft carrier sitting in the Taiwan Straight?
stjohnswarts··on "No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel
And Chinese military build out seems to be "perfect is the enemy of good enough" and "quantity has a quality all its own", so soon we're likely to be the ones playing catch up despite our huge military budget and outlays.
stjohnswarts··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
I should fire it up, I haven't tried it in a while. It was the only thing I could use that seem to accurately (more or less) index large projects that you, uh, had some issues compiling and just want to navigate around and look through the code. now I mostly just use rg for big projects, inside of neovim
stjohnswarts··on Memory safety is necessary, not sufficient
You seem to be assuming that on a large code base that you have top 1% programmers. I suppose that is the case for some places that are paying $500k average pay, but most businesses don't pay that and have average developers and a few top 5% if big enough. That's why tools that check for issues like linters and sanitizers help, especially if you make them part of "the process" for checkin
stjohnswarts··on No star, No fix
not a bad idea. in that case you can just bookmark them, no?
stjohnswarts··on Microplastics: How much do we consume and from which sources?
in the usa, most people do not dry by hanging clothes. I suppose that's what they're talking about. Not everyone is going to take the context as "the entire world" most people will think of their home country I think, I could be wrong.
stjohnswarts··on Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020)
I don't think that these types of articles are meant to offend, just to point out how far miniaturization has come along as well as the software tools that support the silicon. That is no insult to the original engineers and scientists who actually sent a mfkn rocket to the mfkn moon. Those same engineers would have zero problems picking up on new hardware if they some how got time shifted to now. we're still the same humans using the same human brains.
stjohnswarts··on Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought
Why would living on long island mean you would watch a lot of people go through it? Is there some some kind of cancer hot spot on long island? Genuinely curious.
stjohnswarts··on Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra
They've definitely gotten more greedy and want to offer less and while making you pay for more. I have been on the fence since they started blocking VPN, this may be the nail in the coffin.
stjohnswarts··on Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra
they've been introducing it in some things over time. I think this may be my exit call. I've been using it less over time, I usually order enough to get the free shipping, etc, so ditching prime might be the best option as hint, if enough people do it.
stjohnswarts··on GTA 5 source code leaks online
Opioids are a hell of a drug
stjohnswarts··on Memory safety is necessary, not sufficient
They affect performance, forcing the dev to insure they aren't doing unsafe/ill-defined things which is almost impossible on huge code bases in c/c++
stjohnswarts··on Memory safety is necessary, not sufficient
Yeah it's hard for a lot of programmers to context switch back to when a megabyte a HUGE amount of memory (or even 640kB). I think everyone should play around on arduino uno or even smaller memory cpus to get some perspective. You didn't have gigabytes of rams to analyze all corner cases, data races, etc. during compilations.
stjohnswarts··on Unveiling the big leap in Ruby 3.3's IRB
I really wish ruby would have become the biggest scripting language rather than python.
stjohnswarts··on Rough.js: Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance
eeep chrome engine based browsers only
stjohnswarts··on Granting pardon for the offense of simple possession of or use of marijuana
I think most libertarians argue holds water that weed and dealing weed is a victimless crime. Now redo that with "how many people are in for dealing weed (and only weed) and other drugs" and that number goes way up. Obviously people found with guns and doing violence while selling drugs is another thing, no longer victimless. The War on Drugs is multidecade failure
stjohnswarts··on A clickjacking vulnerability in WhatsApp that enables phishing attacks
yeah looks fine on firefox/mac
stjohnswarts··on Shein forces Amazon to lower seller fees
same here, 1 or 2 on almost all prime orders. Of course I live pretty close to a shipping center, but I figure most americans did at this point.
stjohnswarts··on Google is apparently struggling to contain an ongoing spam attack
even a couple years ago. There is soooooo much AI generate trash nowadays like https://www.oggyboggydoop.com on the first page. How can google's SEO filtering be so bad?
stjohnswarts··on NewPipe 0.26
just white noise at this point for me
stjohnswarts··on LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limited Memory
The only thing that keeps me on a Mac is familiarity, and air macs are silent. I am open to any suggestions for Linux laptops that are quiet or almost silent, most have fans that rev up, I'll gladly sacrifice some CPU for quiet or even a quiet mode (easy switch on/off). Nothing I've seen matches the silence. I'm more than happy to hear anything that proves me wrong. I would be glad to hear about something like that, obviously it has to have plus like either cheaper/replaceable ram. Furthermore, I mostly use my Mac air as a remote terminal to web based services and my Linux server that I use for compiling bigger projects and home/self-hosting.
stjohnswarts··on Rite Aid banned from using AI facial recognition for five years
Why did you yell at the manager? I mean they don't have the power to change such things. They can report it to the higher ups, but yelling at them will only lower the chances that complaint would ever see the light of day.
stjohnswarts··on Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
I think on average, more competition is better for consumers than all these massive oligopolies. I doubt it is for stockholders, though, especially those who want to ditch the stock soon.
stjohnswarts··on Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
I agree, this is a big win for Figma customers as they aren't hampered by “even bigger” corporate politics and can be more nimble. I'm not so sure about stockholders at the companies, though. Furthermore, I'm sure they would have liked the boost. I don't care much about their stockholders though, they certainly don't care about me as a user :) .
stjohnswarts··on SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC
I never even thought of that, atlassian has a page on it: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/setting-up-...
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