uup

I guess I should have clarified that I've done both. For me, personally, having co-founders was more fun and more successful. YMMV of course :)

The argument isn’t a that convincing. Basically, instead of having a good co-founder you could have a bad one. I don’t know enough about the data used to comment on that aspect. Perhaps, statistically, it really is better to found solo. I’m just sharing my personal experience. Having founded solo once, I won’t do it again.

Lots of people have already given you plenty of opinions, but I’ll add one more: I love thinking about my child. Making her life amazing and safe makes me feel good.

It’s liberating but also tiring. Sometimes it’s nice to have someone to lean on. To commiserate with. To share success with. And no one is perfect. It’s nice to have someone fill in your weaknesses. I solo founded once. I won’t do it again. It’s too lonely. And I’m not even a social person.

You could use DoH, which you should do anyway. No reason to leak DNS lookups to anyone.

VPNs don’t help privacy at all. They allow you to substitute trust in your ISP for trust in a different entity. For some, that may be good, but for most others it’s a wash.

Yes, but that’s the OPs point. No one cares about the price of TVs. The metric (core inflation and CPI) isn’t measuring peoples experience accurately.

Inflation was high before the exchange rate started to dip.

I’ve only researched the U.S., but there is a lot of evidence that free money greatly increased demand and lead to inflation. Given that a lot of the world invests money in the U.S., the Fed’s loose money policy likely has knock on effects throughout the world. And then you add on the loose monetary policy of the other central banks…

> The fact that a service exists to make you better at interviews implies that interviews don't evaluate competency. If interviews evaluated competency

The only interpretation of this statement I can’t think of is “interviews do not measure competency.” That’s not true. They do, but the bias for high precision instead of high recall. That is, it’s better to pass on a competent person than to hire an incompetent one.

Regarding the guidelines, I’m not sure what you mean. One of the guidelines is to assume good faith, however.

Read the definitions of recall and precision. Interviews focus on precision at the expense of recall. That doesn’t mean interviews don’t evaluate competency. It’s just that not every competent candidate can pass.

Doesn’t a majority of the hash rate come from Chinese miners by hydroelectric dams? I remember there was flooding in China a year or two ago that wiped out like 50% of the hash rate. I’m always very skeptical of estimates about Bitcoin’s environmental cost. You can definitely roughly estimate the amount of power consumed. But understanding how that power is generated is much more difficult.

You would really like sqldelight[1] then. It takes the concept of an ORM and flips it on its head. Instead of mapping function calls to SQL statements, it lets you write SQL statements and then generates classes for you that have methods for those statements.

For instance, you could have a SQL statement like getCardsForFight: select * from fights where cardId = ? and titleFight = ?, and it would generate a class that has a method getCardsForFight(cardId: number, titleFight: number).

[1]: https://github.com/cashapp/sqldelight

> I look at these and see nothing but uncanny valley artifacts

Ok? It's a nascent technology. Look at the original DALL-E blog post from last year [1]. Now compare it to DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion.

[1]: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/

I think the author's fundamental misunderstanding is that most people, even people like himself who "take learning seriously" don't read popular non-fiction to learn. Most people read for entertainment. So you shouldn't be evaluating how much one learned from Guns, Germs, and Steel, rather, you should compare how much you got from Guns, Germs, and Steel compared to a TV show like Breaking Bad. So, to answer the author's question: what should be done about it? Nothing.

The reasons why textbooks work is because you don't just read a textbook. You go over the same information repetitively via exercises. And it's natural that a course is even more effective than a textbook. You can never ask a textbook a question for clarification like you can an instructor. That doesn't mean the textbook is bad, it just means that that a textbook + an instructor is better.

No one knows how a military conflict between China and Australia would end. I can’t imagine it helps Australia to have a major naval military installation between Australia and one of its major allies however.

China also has a security agreement with the Solomon Islands. While a tiny nation in and of itself, the use of the islands by the Chinese navy allow for quite a bit of force projection into the pacific. It would be very hard, for instance, for the U.S. to use their navy to defend Australia or Taiwan.

The history the object is what makes it interesting. A perfect replica of the painting will never have been touched by Frida Khalo, nor will a digital copy of her work.

Books and documents are mostly fungible. No one cares about the history or most books and documents.

That’s legal so I’m not sure what the SEC can do about that.

Let's saying the average human values shelter at $X. Even if it were always possible to arbitrarily build upwards, it still makes sense to buy land because the value of the land would be $X * number of people who want to live on the land. As long as the number of people who want to live on your land keeps growing, as seems to be the case in Santa Cruz, it makes sense to own land.

And of course, once you own the land, you may decide that maybe you don't want so many people around. The value of your land is based on desirability, not the actual density, after all. So instead of building an arbitrarily tall building, you band together with the other land owners and implement something called zoning that restricts how high buildings can be.

I'm not making a moral claim that this is right or wrong. I'm simply pointing out that this incentive structure is inherent to land ownership in our country.

The saying can apply to any arbitrary area of land. It doesn't necessarily mean the entire Earth.

There really is a lot of truth in Mark Twain's old adage: "Buy land, they're not making it anymore."

I think there is a certain amount of delusion in expecting any static resource to meet monotonically increasing amounts of demand.

I did qualify my statement with "in the past." I was pointing out that Java did, in fact, have a lot of annoying knobs to turn. tbrock was advocating against having such knobs as they make deploying a language diffcult. The fact that Java removed one of the annoying knobs doesn't disprove the fact that having such knobs is annoying.

Fabricating data is fraud. The reputation of the university is harmed. The public is harmed by potentially providing grants for follow up research. Other researchers are harmed by wasting their time. It seems like one potential fix would be to prosecute people who perpetrate such fraud.

I agree. It feels weird to attribute to cooling effect of the structure to the little holes and not to the thousands of tons of stone that can absorb heat. I just moved into an older building and it remains very cool. No jaali to be found, but plenty of old masonry walls.

Maybe now, but in the past you'd have to worry about things like running out of PermGen space. There were definitely more knobs than a typical container environment.

This situation is creating an entirely new meta in the chess world. It’s clearly advantageous to have others think you’re cheating. Players should start deactivating their chess.com accounts, start a rumor that they’ve cheated, and then take advantage of other players’ mental state during competition. The only downside is that a top GM could shadow an you by claiming you cheated without providing any evidence.

If you look at FIDE’s statement, all they did is ask for a single shred of evidence that Niemann is cheating OTB.

Yea, I see. I originally interpreted your comment as being about game developers, but you were actually talking about game engine developers. In which case, we agree :)

In most game engines, constructing the rotation matrix is trivial. Something like Quaternion.Euler(0, 45, 0). The ultimate position / rotation of any given object in a game is usually a compound transform computed via matrix multiplication anyway, e.g. a model view projection matrix. I'm not sure it's the best way, but that's just how most game engines work.

> The people I know who need that interaction and do not get enough from family or housemates solve it by gathering in groups in their local town and putting together their own working space.

This argument is always made by people who like WFH. I don't want another hobby. I want to spend my time building cool shit with cool people. That's just a personal preference. I absolutely must spend a large portion of my day working. To me, it just makes sense to work somewhere that I can be friends with my co-workers. I don't really want to dedicate a lot of extra time to going out and finding friends. This is just a personal preference. There isn't a right answer. Stop trying to tell others how to live.

> Personally, I find it odd if not downright disturbing

Personally, I find it disturbing that you find the GP's very reasonable personal opinion disturbing.