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You're claiming all of this without a product launch? If so, this doesn't seem like a counterpoint at all.

"Monopolies aren't so bad, the company is treating me quite well" is not a good counter argument.

Never works in practice is such a strong statement and I would argue that most of the time is because the technical people avoid politics entirely, like the article says

I think pretty much any non trivial C example has memory safety issues. It doesn't mean that they aren't useful and can't be used. But time and time again we have seen security reports that point to memory issues. So no, I don't think I'm asking for something obvious, quite the contrary. I think the claim that it's possible to write big C programs that are memory safe is really strong and I heavily disagree with it.

I wasn't trying to be a dick, I am saying that my experience is that no big C program is ever safe. You replied that it is possible and I asked for an example. Providing a small script to prove that big C programs are safe isn't enough.

>Yes it did, of course. Maybe it takes years of practice, the assistance of tools (there are many, most very good), but it's always been possible to write memory safe large C programs.

Can you provide examples for it? Because it honestly doesn't seem like it has ever been done.

Yeah, it's crazy. I have gotten ads on Gmail that are clearly fraud.

On my email! I really think Google should be liable for shit like that.

I find it so weird how we just accept the fact that ads can be for fake things and not blame YouTube/Google for those things.

That's bizarre. I watch a lot of great content on YouTube that's possible because those people get paid. I would rather like if YouTube paid them _more_ because the sponsors and patrons of the world prove that not all views are the same. Sadly, a lot of shit content gets lots and lots of views

I don't think it's reasonable. That becomes basically the only thing to do outside of work. Highly unlikely at the very least.

Athletes are not the same as normal people, who have 1h or so a day to exercise.

You can't outrun a bad diet is a common saying around my parts.

_Athletes_ are completely different from the normal people looking to exercise. Can you spend 4 hours of your day exercising?

That's really nice but not really true. There is another you that you need to convince to do boring stuff. That's our own body fighting against doing that stuff. Will is a finite resource.

Eeeh. Exercise doesn't spend enough energy for high calories foods to be worth it. If you want to lose weight that is. A donut is a lot of exercise and muscle building leads to a small but not sufficient calorie spend. The majority of calorie spend still comes from the organs and general body maintenance

Really? What was that? That's awesome

And who determines which is which? It is quite a hard problem.

What is a CEO if not a high level manager?

My experience is that sometimes they give you a 10x speedup but then you hit a wall and take 30 times longer to do a simple thing and a lot of people just keep hammering because of the first feeling. Outside of boilerplate, I haven't seen it be this magical tool people keep claiming it is.

It's gotten much worse. Before it was shit from people, now it's corporate shit. Corporate shit is so much worse.

Google search is absolutely not better.

This is such good news. The amount of value extracted of the brazillian people from outlandish interest rates from credit cards is unbelievable and this will free all of us from it.

We have a saying in Brazil that goes "The best thing in the world is QI."

QI meaning Quem Indica, meaning the best thing in the world is not technical skill, but who you know. This is what stuff like this looks like to me.

Some of the biggest codebases in the world are in Python, this is a bizarre statement that reeks of the hn superiority complex.

I would believe that an AI generated film will never win an Oscar.

I bet they will soon add rules that AI movies can't even compete on it.

It's a piece of mind thing. Everywhere I worked did a lot of stuff on the background. The db is already so full on a normal Rails application that adding more reads doesn't make sense to me when Sidekiq works so well. You never have to worry about Sidekiq throughput, or when you do is to be careful to not overload the db because Sidekiq is so fast.

Rails is already on a slow language, I don't understand why we want to overload even more with slow things.

Yeah, that exact timing is the whole deal.

The US presidential election is a mess compared to this.

Yeah, the Mercator projection misrepresents a lot of the Global South. So of course Russia is still massive.

It's hard to build big generators, so as we already struggle with infrastructure I don't think that's feasible, but it would be great.

> If people weren't liking it, it wouldn't be successful.

When you talk to people, most of them want to do less of those apps, so its not about wanting it. Its the fact that _all_ companies know how to make really addictive stuff and they only lose when more addictive things come out.

In Brazil too. Sexta feira Santa