slashdev

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by slashdev 3mo ago
This sounds a lot like taxing unrealized gains on illiquid assets. A very dangerous idea that would kill innovation and job creation.
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by slashdev 4mo ago
Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp seemed to work out well. It’s always more complex than you think
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by slashdev 4mo ago
No, most of the rest of the large developed economies have some standards (e.g. against buying conflict minerals) and sanctions against certain regimes. China is quite happy to ignore that if they can get away with it.
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by slashdev 4mo ago
This is exactly my experience as well. If it were up to me, I'd start out by using the AI to port a Python web app to a compiled language like Go. Then we could maintain that going forward instead. In reality, a Python code base is mai
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by slashdev 4mo ago
I was there, I was one of the dynamic zealots. But at least I can't imagine how this trend reverses course now.
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by slashdev 4mo ago
The static vs dynamic language debate is decisively over and static has won. I called this out back in 2023, and I've only become more convinced since then. Statically typed languages are easier for the reader because you can see the t
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by slashdev 4mo ago
It's not over yet, but the status quo is certainly a loss for the US. Which to me indicates Trump won't stop here, he needs something he can at least spin as a win. I think Trump is about to lose patience with Iran again and we&#x
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by slashdev 4mo ago
As an engineer in Canada, I'm quite frustrated by US-only when it's a remote job and we have the same time zones and culture. It's so easy to employ Canadians either as a contractor or through a proxy like Rippling. I think i
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by slashdev 5mo ago
I disagree with your premise (I’ve worked on anonymous telemetry and it can be done well.) Not every company will do it well. Simpleanalytics.com seems to be one of the better ones. But it’s still way better than the alternatives which don’
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by slashdev 5mo ago
It’s already a law in Europe. GDPR and ePrivacy. You have to get consent from the user. Having worked for European companies, they take it seriously.
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by slashdev 5mo ago
Yes, that’s right. It seems to make up the bulk of the cost of a system call though, depending what it does, like read or write syscalls.
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by slashdev 5mo ago
That’s ignoring the other costs of syscalls like evicting your stuff from the CPU caches. But I agree with the conclusion, system calls are still pretty fast compared to a lot of other things.
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by slashdev 5mo ago
How much violence (government control) do you need to exert to block all of these tools? How successful have we been blocking pirated content? I don't think the genie is easily returned to the bottle and the cure may be worse than the
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by slashdev 5mo ago
You can bet on assassination. There are polymarket prediction markets for leaders of many countries where you can bet on if they will cease to be the leader by X date, for any reason. If they get assassinated, those markets will resolve to
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by slashdev 6mo ago
You only hurt yourself with that attitude. AI might take your job.
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by slashdev 6mo ago
We have the quietest on-call rotation of any company I've ever worked at. We have a high standard for code review, static verification, and tests. The fact that the code isn't hand-rolled artisanal code, and is generated by AI now
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by slashdev 6mo ago
Generating big chunks code is all I do, all day. I don't write code by hand any more, neither at work, nor for side projects. I work mostly in Rust and TypeScript at a developer tools company.
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by slashdev 6mo ago
I think your analysis is US-centric. I don't think non-shale oil has peaked yet globally. What you say about the economics getting worse and lower EROI may be true. It certainly seems like common sense. There are some counter-examples
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by slashdev 6mo ago
Plus you have no control over the standards for extractions (e.g. methane leaks), and shipping it causes more pollution. They're actually worse off, and they pay more for it instead of creating jobs and keeping the money in their own e
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by slashdev 6mo ago
> It’s entirely possible that sea temperature rise is a result of geologic processes at or near the sea bed, and when you warm a liquid dissolved gasses are liberated. You're mistaking possible for probable. There's no evidence
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by slashdev 6mo ago
I am 100% bullish on both solar energy and EVs, and I share your optimism around the technology. But I think you're being too optimistic about what this means for global fossil fuel usage. Definitely over the next decade, but potential
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by slashdev 6mo ago
It would be useful against future supply shocks, don't you think?
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by slashdev 6mo ago
No I don't think so. The oil industry is very good at discovering and developing resources previously thought to be out of reach. People have been talking about peak oil for decades, as long as I can remember, and it never happened. I
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by slashdev 6mo ago
We're making great progress, this is true. But we're also still increasing our consumption of fossil fuels. Let's put a number on it. When do you think we reach 50% of today's consumption of fossil fuels? IEA seems to th
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by slashdev 6mo ago
I agree, but that's the world we live in.
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by slashdev 6mo ago
I agree that it can. I won't live to see it, and I hope I live 50 years more. You're living in a fantasy world that doesn't exist. Global consumption of coal, oil, and natural gas all rose in 2025. We've not even peaked
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by slashdev 6mo ago
That may or may not be true. But it won't stay in the ground as long as there is money to be made by extracting and consuming it. Right now all that's happening is the US is extracting that natural gas, and the middle east extract
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by slashdev 6mo ago
You're talking about electricity, so I assume your answer is directed to the natural gas fields at Groningen. The EU imports a lot of natural gas. Don't you think it would be better to have a domestic supply? It's better for
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by slashdev 6mo ago
I think Europe should resume drilling in the North Sea and Groningen if they have exploitable reserves there. Europe depends on energy imports and that won't change in our lifetimes (I'm in my early forties, so at least in my life
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by slashdev 6mo ago
It varies quite a lot. You actually could find a reliable and cost effective source of ethical ranching, it typically requires buying e.g. a whole side of beef from a specific ranch. Not very convenient, but if you worry so much about the c

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