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by d3ckard 28d ago
If it helps, I find a kid genuinely grounding. Absolutely best thing that happened to me. And I'm divorced, which isn't exactly optimal scenario. Lots of people talk about how kids are hard and there is some truth to it. Nobody me
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by d3ckard 3mo ago
Controversially, yes. The right frame of comparison is not towards average Joe, but towards governments. Billionaires, for better or worse, are independent power sources, which IMO in grand scheme of things are useful. I think the problem w
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by d3ckard 3mo ago
We invented those strategies when we had way less RAM. Vast majority of programs could be entirely allocated upfront those days.
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Ask HN: What Is Anthropic Doing?
10 points by d3ckard 5mo ago|8 comments
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by d3ckard 5mo ago
I'm using almost exclusively Apple Maps in Poland and never had any issue (that I remember). Your mileage may vary and so on.
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by d3ckard 5mo ago
Disputable. One could argue that artificial nature of US cities (i.e. lack of centuries of accumulated decisions) were bigger driver of this than cars themselves.
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by d3ckard 6mo ago
No, you don’t. It only sounds nice. In practice this enables all kinds of spontaneous prosecution with any possible motive.
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by d3ckard 6mo ago
They very much want to have manufacturing, since it’s a requirement for war. They just don’t realize it. Plus, it is a conflict between all the extra money to spend and long term state welfare.
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by d3ckard 6mo ago
It's not advantage, it makes for artificial demand for your currency, which completely screws up all the relevant metrics and makes you unable to actually inflate the currency when getting less competitive. It's resource curse o
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by d3ckard 6mo ago
Under normal conditions, when your economy becomes less competitive, your currency gets depreciated, increasing competitiveness. Unless of course everybody is forced to buy your currency to get an essential resource. This causes: - the curr
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by d3ckard 6mo ago
This is particularly funny if you consider petrodollar to be a bad deal for US, not a good one. Ironically, if yuan becomes new petroleum currency, it might hurt Chinese long term.
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by d3ckard 6mo ago
How about not starting a war? Especially as a sudden attack during negotiations? With a country that has been historically bending backwards to find some kind of diplomatic solution? And since when murdering the leaders repeatedly is a vali
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by d3ckard 6mo ago
Yes, especially murdering a school full of girls during the first days seems like a perfect example of extensive planning and preparation.
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by d3ckard 6mo ago
Yes, Betamax is undoubtedly the future.
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by d3ckard 6mo ago
False dichotomy. What ICEs are or aren't has zero impact on whether BEVs are the future.
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by d3ckard 6mo ago
It’s very disputable whether BEVs are industry’s future and your entire thesis depends on it to be true.
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by d3ckard 8mo ago
The main issue IMHO is the monopolization of the industry, especially in the US. Once the giants do layoffs, the rest of the market can't absorb the people effectively, which leads to oversaturated job market. We can of course discuss
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by d3ckard 8mo ago
I would argue effectiveness point. It's certainly helpful, but has a tendency to go for very non idiomatic patterns (like using exceptions for control flow). Plus, it has issues which I assume are the effect of reinforcement learning -
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by d3ckard 9mo ago
Yes, but allocations generate ever increasing combinatorial space of possible failure modes. Static allocation requires you to explicitly handle overflows, but also by centralizing them, you probably need not to have as many handlers. Techn
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by d3ckard 9mo ago
Personally, I see dynamic allocation more and more as a premature optimization and a historical wart. We used to have very little memory, so we developed many tricks to handle it. Now we have all the memory we need, but tricks remained. The
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by d3ckard 9mo ago
Nice correction :) It’s actually quite tricky though. The allocation still happens and it’s not limited to, so you could plausibly argue both ways.
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by d3ckard 9mo ago
Personally I believe static allocation has pretty huge consequences for theoretical computer science. It’s the only kind of program that can be actually reasoned about. Also, not exactly Turing complete in classic sense. Makes my little fin
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by d3ckard 10mo ago
Problem does not lay in not declaring wealth.
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by d3ckard 10mo ago
Because only poor people need income. If you have enough assets, income is optional.
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by d3ckard 10mo ago
You don’t get it. Tax system is already very skewed to the top, as in majority of the income comes from a few. The problem is that the top paying those taxes are not the rich people.
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by d3ckard 10mo ago
Eroding them is beneficial to other groups of society, not the rich. It's like with corporations. Corporations love complex legal systems, as they are the only ones with money to deal with them. Simplification actually benefits smaller
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by d3ckard 10mo ago
Generally, there are no systems that are 100% bulletproof. This applies to everything. So, the more power you have, the more likely you are to exploit the existing loops. Who is actually affected? Those less powerful. Progressive tax system
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by d3ckard 10mo ago
Common misconception IMO. High marginal taxes and high inheritance taxes do not affect the rich - they eliminate competition for them. I do agree on antitrust and antimonopoly though.
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by d3ckard 11mo ago
Honestly, have been excited about Zig for quite a while, dabbled a bit a while back and was waiting for it getting closer to 1.0 to actually do a deep dive... but that moment doesn't seem to come. I don't mind, it's up to the
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by d3ckard 1y ago
My biggest gripe with your reasoning is a hidden assumption that everything humans do is easily encodable in what we call AI today. I don’t think this is the case.

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