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The problem is that dismantling their hegemony in too fast of a fashion will cause the rest of the world _a lot_ of trouble.

> you should probably have AI doing what should be simple, frontline support.

AI companies are going to prove (to the market or to the actual people using their products) that a bunch of "simple" problems aren't at all simple and have been undervalue for a long time.

Such as support.

This looks awesome.

On a side note, this looks like it could be used to make a great Armored Core like haha

Consistency is undesirable, because if everyone is breaking a law, you apply the hammer of justice only if they aren't a friend.

It's one of the best ways to look good to certain people as well,because you can claim to be just following the law.

>In my mind, a more advanced memory-safe system will likely overtake Rust and become adequate for the task of implementing codecs and other low level tools (perhaps integrated with a theorem prover and a proof assistant that lets the programmer clarify the assertions, preconditions, postconditions and invariants). However, I will stick with C for now. Ultimately, a lot of this boils down to personal preference, so try to not harass strangers online for their choices.

I seen this in basically every "I prefer C for this use case" blog post and its always unconvincing, because C is much worse for safety then Rust, so I always think the author would find other problems with these next tools because its just goal posts moving.

I have seen engineers defend that position here and on Github, so unless you assume they're lying, I would take them at their word.

Of course not all of them do, Google is a big company.

Also because Googles is part of the web committe because of Chrome, so it gets to dictate how much complexity is in a browser and stiffle competition like that.

The position is always, Google's position is so strong they can do whatever they want even if it isn't beneficial to users, this confirms that. I'm not sure the "they could have abused this sooner" defense is a good one.

Their engineers genuinely believe that shit too, which is just absurd bullshit.

That's a sad, cruel way of looking at it.

Yeah, Chesterton’s Fence is simply not a principle that people like Elon pay attention to. Sometimes for the better, mostly for the worse, specially when taking over something that's already there.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves against HN. It's also obvious ORMS won, every new framework creates them. People who keep speaking about not using them are crazy.

That's the salary but a mayor can hire so many people, like his entire family. So many small cities(and not so small) have entire families that don't do anything other than being relatives to the mayor.

>Software estimation is a joke because there's no penalty for underestimating.

Yeah, the other problem is that the company is constantly pressuring the developer to underestimate, and all the costs are on the developer if they can't deliver on that absurd date.

I feel crazy when I read comments like that about Rust. C is much, much harder than Rust. C is absolutely crazy difficult. Fairly simple to learn, but incredibly hard to actually write correctly. Rust is much, much easier. The learning curve isn't that hard. One week and you can be fairly productive with it.

Yeah, its those underdeveloped details that actually make it awesome. It just hints a world that is quite different and _maybe_ that has everything to do with the play/book? Its quite uncomfortable indeed. I really like it.

Such a fascinating book. I remember first reading it because of True Detective season 1. I was pretty into Lovecraft at the time. The first short story is still great

"I don't understand this complexity so this means it shouldn't exist"

I know several programmers who don't speak any english and can understand the things well enough.

I think this is a valid project and while most programmers I know eventually understand a bit of what the identifier of english mean, the concepts are much better explained in their native language. They can much better translate it later when moving to a "serious" programming language or even to Excel or something like that.

Excel functions are also translated, so stuff like that is really helpful even if you aren't going to become a programmer.

Sure, but the least awful of all awful is not great. Capitalism was the _least worse_ of the options we've seen. And even that can be debated, imo.

> Not super relevant here. This SCOTUS barely upheld the ban with Bytedance as the owner.

Given that the Court has been lobbied by billionaires, I find really hard to believe they wouldn't help an US company to buy it instead of a Hungarian or any other one.

Since the beginning of capitalism involved owning slaves, I find that very hard to believe.

This romanticization of early stage capitalism is awful. What is late stage capitalism? Because civil rights and women rights have been pretty recent in the grand scheme of things, so in that sense Capitalism was upheld and had most of its lifetime in a scheme that crushed the majority of its people I find the theory of:

> Capitalism is pretty great in the beginning

really hard to swallow.

Are the courts not US government? Do you think there isn't any collusion between Supreme Court and the other branches of government?

This is so much better! It basically makes the same changes as Firefox Reader's mode does.

Turning on reader mode on Firefox makes this so much easier to read, which basically means "put this into a column, please"

> Particularly interesting that quality seems to be dropping in an age where reviews are easier to find than ever.

I disagree, the world has decided that everyone is able to give out a review when it clearly isn't the case. We are distrustful of experts now, because they can be bought (which is true), and are relying on laymen that are much, much worse.

The old days of buying a magazine with experts reviewing something are gone, sadly.

_Usually_ the correct conclusion? Is it more common for pranks to exist than for money to have dropped on the street? C'mon.

> Evidently, he tried our product briefly, had an issue or thought he had an issue, investigated the issue briefly and came to the conclusion that he understood the technology better than people who have spent years working on it..

This doesn't match this:

> Syncing from Postrgres is the main offering (as in the offering with the most customers) from a leading data sync company, and we found that it would lose data, duplicate data, and corrupt data. After digging into it, it turns out that the product has a design that, among other issues, relies on the data source being able to seek backwards on its changelog. But Postgres throws changelogs away once they're consumed, so the Postgres data source can't support this operation. When their product attempts to do this and the operation fails, we end up with the sync getting "stuck", needing manual intervention from the vendor's operator and/or data loss. Since our data is still on Postgres, it's possible to recover from this by doing a full resync, but the data sync product tops out at 5MB/s for reasons that appear to be unknown to them, so a full resync can take days even on databases that aren't all that large. Resyncs will also silently drop and corrupt data, so multiple cycles of full resyncs followed by data integrity checks are sometimes necessary to recover from data corruption, which can take weeks. Despite being widely recommended and the leading product in the space, the product has a number of major design flaws that mean that it literally cannot work.

That description doesn't sound like _he_ briefly used your product, but that company he was working for used your product, found bugs and despite contacting support couldn't make it work. This doesn't read at all as a minor experiment that he didn't put in the time.

HAHAHA Only an HN comment could call the youngest person ever to do something would be said to "not that big of an accomplishment". How would you change that headline?

nvm is unbearably slow, this is really fast. 200 to 300ms latency whenever you open a terminal is noticible and I was getting far more than that sometimes, up to 1sec. Its really really bad.