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ChadNauseam
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- 2 points
- ChadNauseamI wish that were true but it's not. If billionaires ran the country we wouldn't be starting trade wars and restricting immigration.
- Google makes money off search, which requires that users want to visit websites. All websites using HTTP are not secure. Unsecure websites are uninteresting to most users, but most users don't have the know-how to distinguish what sites are using HTTPS and which aren't. So the simplest solution is to get all websits to switch to HTTPS before it becomes a problem
- He cannot legally be deported without a deportation order, which they didn't have. And he had a withholding of removal order, which specifically made it illegal to deport him to El Salvador, which they did anyway. They deported him anyway by mistake, but it was certainly not following the law, which is why they brought him back.
- 6 points
- No one said it can't be changed back. No one called anyone weird or Hitler. They just said that "it was wasteful to change it from X to Y, so I'm changing it from Y back to X" isn't a logical argument.
- I'm using it for frontend web development and it's perfect. Much better than Go or Java would be. It's pretty wild that the language I use in the browser is also in the kernel.
- I'd disagree. Just like how no one needs to find an engine usable, no one needs to find a game fun. My personal itch.io account is full of games no one finds fun :)
- Unity can't really be said to have less or more features than Unreal IMO. Each has features lacked by the other, and neither lacks anything really major. But if I had to pick one for being the most featureful, I'd pick Unreal. Unreal has a built-in visual programming language* and some very advanced rendering tech you might have heard about. Unity has tons of features for 2D games lacking in Unreal and supports WebGL as a build target.
(Though imo unity is the better engine. Unreal has so many bugs and so much jank that to make a real game with it you basically need a large enough team that you can have a dedicated unreal-bug-fixer employee.)
*Technically Unity has a visual scripting language too but IIUC it's tacked on and I've never heard of anyone actually using it.
- I don't know that computers can model arbitrary length sine waves either. At least not in the sense of me being able to input any `x` and get `sin(x)` back out. All computers have finite memory, meaning they can only represent a finite number of numbers, so there is some number `x` above which they can't represent any number.
Neural networks are more limited of course, because there's no way to expand their equivalent of memory, while it's easy to expand a computer's memory.
- I don't understand this phrase. If I'm deciding whether to work for a company, I don't care about the ability to hold management decision-makers to account. I care only about the quality of the decisions. (I would rather an unaccountable decision maker that makes good decisions to an accountable decision maker that makes bad decisions.) Putting myself in the shoes of an owner of a company, I also have the same preference. The only person I can imagine actually preferring this rule is management themselves, as it means they can't be replaced by computers no matter how much worse they are at their jobs than a computer would be.
- 1 point
- For me, yes, it is. I make an app for myself, and I thought about making it a server-rendered app like you suggested. But it's just so much better in my opinion to do everything on the client side because it means that every interaction has zero latency, regardless of the quality of my internet (which is often bad).
- 43 points
- > It's not about productivity at all.
> WFH forces employers to compete. It gives a lot of power to employees, because they can [...] work fewer hours, moonlight for multiple companies, etc
Probably "working fewer hours" and "moonlight for multiple companies" has negative effects on productivity that employers would like to avoid.
- The old version stayed around but (essentially) nobody wanted to use it. If they had, the forked version would be worthless. That is the difference. A cryptocurrency fork cannot succeed without the consent of the community. No one is compelled to use it the way that you are compelled to accept the decisions of a regulator.
- > then during spikes in demand (or alleged spikes in demand) they coordinate to keep the price from dropping.
Why would they need to coordinate to keep the price from dropping during a spike in demand? a spike in demand will obviously not be expected to lower prices regardless of collusion
- I think they have other issues, for example, they have no FFI. I think focusing on the business is actually a pretty decent idea. Trying to make money will force them to focus on things that are important to users and not get distracted bike-shedding on things that I would if I were them (like typeclasses).
- Unison is one of the most exciting programming languages to me, and I'm a huge programming language nerd. A language with algebraic effects like Unison's really needs to hit the mainstream, as imo it's "the next big thing" after parametric polymorphism and algebraic data types. And Unison has a bunch of other cool ideas to go with it too.
This isn't really what they're going for, but I think it can potentially be a very interesting language for writing game mods in. One thing about game mods is that you want to run untrusted code that someone else wrote in your client, but you don't want to let just anyone easily hack your users. Unison seems well-designed for this use case because it seems like you could easily run untrusted Unison code without worrying about it escaping its sandbox due to the ability system. (Although this obviously requires that you typecheck the code before running it. And I don't know if Unison does that, but maybe it does.) There are other ways of implementing a sandbox, and Wasm is fairly well suited for this as well. But Unison seems like another interesting point in the design space.
Still on the subject of Game Dev, I also think that the ability system might be actually very cool for writing an ECS. For those who don't know, an ECS basically involves "entities" which have certain "components" on them, and then "systems" can run and access or modify the components on various entities. For performance, it can be very nice to be able to run different systems on different threads simultaneously. But to do this safely, you need to check that they're not going to try to access the same components. This limits current ECS implementations, because the user has to tediously tell the system scheduler what components each system is going to access. But Unison seems to have some kind of versatile system for inferring what abilities are needed by a given function. If it could do that, then accessing a component could be a an ability. So a function implementing a system that accesses 10 components would have 10 abilities. If those 10 abilities could be inferred, it would be a huge game changer for how nice it is to use an ECS.