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Some of the newer generations still write those themselves! Although it has become kind of a niche art, and it's hard to find mentors/teachers with that knowledge and the time to teach the younger generation... which is sad. I truly believe you can not understand something fully until you've implemented it yourself. That being said, I'm glad we have online resources/books to learn those

The same goes for every databases. If your database size scales with time too, instead of only usage, you have a time bomb.

Seriously, if you’re not pushing well crafted languages like F#, OCaml, Rust and Zig, you are hurting the software industry and guaranteeing we have keep swallowing warmed over garbage for the next decade Stop being lazy! Get AI to teach you these and push them at work!

"Intellectually molested"?? We saw her consciously take a moment to phrase her response in the most diplomatic way possible. It's like looking at Neo and claiming "oh the bullets just do that in the Matrix, no biggie"

Regretably, there is exactly one operational steamboat in the United States, on which @pandam0nial and I planned to host a speakers-only mini conference… just as COVID-19 hit.

Making a system that worked right after after installation was never the difficult part. The difficulty lies in having that system still work after going through 10y worth of changes.

Simple. They do not have a library of existing intellectual property that they can mine for easy nostalgia, and so their output actually needs to be good.

Pick the right tools (Tilt and Telepresence), accept the fact that “cloud development” means a 64G RAM laptop, and Kubernetes is not only a great simplifier and cloud vendor agnostic enabler, but… it’s fun.

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And to follow with two points of my own that echo conversations with @JustDeezGuy - 1) Compilers aren't "settled law" at the lower strata. CGRA and FPGA are enjoying new relevance (see 'dataflow' references above, and 2) This new art *will* provide some commercial heat shielding for designers/builders who might fear the AI replacement scenario. Working at the lower abstractions will have longer runway simply because the problem space and the relative freshness of these newly relevant architectures. There's a lot more professional runway starting at C++ and working your way down, rather than coming out of a python coding camp and thinking you're going to last long working your way *up* the abstraction ladder.

No matter how much you nerd snipe me, I'm not opening another tab. /me opens another a tab

I think it's justified tbh. It stands to reason that Zizek couldn't solve something like f''(x)=f(x), i.e. stuff that any physics junior would be familiar with 4 months in. So without hyperbole, such books feel like if an influencer said they'll wrote a book on Hegel but couldn't tell you which country the man was born, or whether Bismarck lived before or after. I enjoy Zizek and the bits of books I read from him, so this will just be painful to come to terms with. He will have had some conversations with people who told them what QM is about. It will be vibes based, he will draw analogs between the contents of how he understands QM (and it's relation with time, with measurement etc.) You want philosophers to know this stuff, talk about it, but clearly Zizek is the analog of someone who decides to write a book on China's century of humiliation without feeling they would need to know in what century that took place. Someone who heard people talk about that period of China and wants to work it into an analogy. This might be prejudice on my part, but I don't see the gray guy spending even a year's worth of weekends doing undergrad physics.

“If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.” — Ayn Rand

If "real" numbers are so "real", then why can't we implement them on computers?

this is from a (private) college math professor:

scala if its community management was a true opened and welcoming meritocracy and not driven by politics

If only there were a way to transfer one’s income to the poor without it being taxed

Since 1963, 75% of all nationwide injunctions have been against President Trump. 90% of those injunctions came from Democrat-appointed judges. Yet the Admin has a 92% win rate at SCOTUS. President Trump isn’t the one abusing his power. It’s Democrat-appointed judges.

At Wander, we’ve built new development infrastructure using Kubernetes, Tilt, and Telepresence on developers’ laptops, with images built directly in-cluster without pushing to a registry, and live update so code changes are visible in seconds. The laptop environment is ~identical to staging and production. Same version of Kubernetes, same container runtime, so there are minimal surprises.

So much of our political discourse is “how dare I have to face the obvious consequences of the policies I support?”