I do get it when companies who serve billions of people cannot do support like companies who support hundreds. But it should be possible to actually contact some human when you, as a customer, have proven that you have exhausted all other options.
As much as i did not like Broadcom purchasing Vmware and made everything a lot more expensive and annoying, i have to acknowledge that their chat support is pretty good, once you have exhausted all other options.
>Outside of buying sex and drugs the only uses for cryptocoins are, and always has been, ransoms, scams and gambling
That is a very shallow take. There are real non-criminal uses for crypto that people in stable, wealthy countries often overlook. Millions rely on it simply to move money between family members across borders when traditional banking is slow, blocked, or outright inaccessible due to politics. In several countries, people use crypto to buy food, medicine, or basic goods because their local currency is collapsing or their banking system is dysfunctional.
Its fine to criticise the scams and speculation — there is plenty of that — but pretending thats the only use case ignores the people who depend on it for everyday survival.
> Using the stack or the heap means your variables aren't always at the same memory address.
Your mention of STL makes it sound like you're talking about C++. But I don't know of any C++ compiler that lets you completely avoid use of the stack, even if you disable the usual suspects (RTTI and exceptions).
Sure, you'd have to avoid local variables, defined within a function's body (or at block scope), but that's nowhere near enough. The compiler would need to statically allocate space for every function's parameters and return address. That's actually how early compilers did work, but today it would be grossly inefficient (because there are surely so many functions defined in a program's binary compared to the number being executed at any given time). It would also mean that recursion would not work, even mutual recursion (so you'd need runtime checks because this would be hard to detect at compile/link time), although I suspect this is less of a problem than it sounds. And you'd also need to avoid creating any temporary variables at all e.g. y = a + b + c would not be allowed if a,b,c are non-trivial types. (y = a + b would be OK because the temporary could be constructed directly into y's footprint, or stored temporarily in the return space of the relevant operator+(), which again would be statically allocated).
I agree that HDR has been mostly misused, but on the other hand the difference between the color space sRGB and the wider-gamut rendering enabled by the Rec. 2020 encoding of the movie is extremely obvious for me (sRGB has a very bad red primary color, which forces the desaturation of the colors in the yellow-orange-red-purple sector, where the human eye is most sensitive to hues and where there are many objects with saturated colors, e.g. flowers, fruits, clothes).
Because I want the Rec. 2020 and 10-bit color encoding, I must also choose HDR, as these features are usually only available together, even if I do not get any serious advantage from HDR and HDR-encoded movies can usually be viewed well only in a room with no light or with dim light, otherwise most of them are too dark.
Continuously differentiable is fine with jumps in that derivative.
I agree in principle. And I also suggest that we should probably only have one bureaucracy that does means testing that can then administer both taxes and benefits. No need to duplicate the effort.
However most benefits and taxes aren't just means tested against income, but a myriad of other conditions. So net transfers aren't just a function of income.
Meanwhile on the other side of the world - I noticed in SEA businesses are more like "just contact us" with a phone number directly available / facebook page. Like, they don't want you to do anything with the website, they expect you to chat with them directly.
One of the concerns with the company though is are they really “software.” Many cite experiences with the where they deploy armies of people doing things to clean up data and other hands on labor for the “software” to work just “software” where you buy a license and off you go.
I don't think you can just take tesla supercharger is scale it that easily to use in ships. You have to think how thick charging cables you have, how many of those you need to connect to your ship, how heavy they are, how long they are, how much heat the generate. Remember such battery would be many orders of magnitude bigger than in tesla.
Well good news, these days there's another layer. "Not even GPT4-level LLM" bots that frustrate you into giving up by circling to the FAQs over and over.
Did he at least make good money though? It's so strange to me that someone can get a sense of purpose from building something specifically for wealthy people tbh
The amount of tap dancing and philosophizing some developers are willing to do to dodge estimates is hilarious.
It’s a skill… a basic part and critical part of engineering. IME the common thread between objectors is that they haven’t made a consistent effort to improve — developing, iterating, and refining their estimation process over time.
Yeah, every line of code is a unique snowflake piece of undefinable research the universe has never seen, equally unknowable and inscrutably enigmatic. But the workers at EngiCorp building EngiCorp products using EngiCorp project routines and resources first, second, and third quarter of 2025 are literal world experts at EngiCorp outcomes. They very reasonably should be able to estimate EngiCorp work in Q4, and account for EngiCorp realities, providing maps of future costs that can drive EngiCorp process improvement and investment.
If I ask for a decking estimate and get back sophistry and smug incompetence, I’m not talking with a super skilled professional deck builder. Doesn’t matter how they hammer, saw, or draw.
That's not true for the US, because minimum wage is so low you can be working full time and still be below the poverty line. The poverty line is not minimum wage, it's the amount it takes to afford to live.
Depends what you mean by stability. The post is complaining about the lack of lockfiles, and the problem you describe would also be an issue with lockfiles.
If you want actionable intuition, try "a human with almost zero self-awareness".
"Self-awareness" used in a purely mechanical sense here: having actionable information about itself and its own capabilities.
If you ask an old LLM whether it's able to count the Rs in "strawberry" successfully, it'll say "yes". And then you ask it to do so, and it'll say "2 Rs". It doesn't have the self-awareness to know the practical limits of its knowledge and capabilities. If it did, it would be able to work around the tokenizer and count the Rs successfully.
That's a major pattern in LLM behavior. They have a lot of capabilities and knowledge, but not nearly enough knowledge of how reliable those capabilities are, or meta-knowledge that tells them where the limits of their knowledge lie. So, unreliable reasoning, hallucinations and more.
NPAPI's death in non-IE-browsers started around 2015. Jobs announcing mobile Safari without Flash was 2010. Unfortunately, ActiveX still works to this very day.
Chrome built up a whole new PPAPI to support reasonably fast Flash support after the Jobs announcement. Microsoft launched a major release of Silverlight long after Jobs' speech, but Silverlight (rightfully) died with Windows Phone, which it was the main UI platform for around its practical death. Had Microsoft managed to launch a decent mobile operating system, we'd probably still be running Silverlight in some fashion today. Even still, Silverlight lasted well until 2021 before Silverlight actually fell out of support.
Jobs may have had a hand in the death of Flash websites, but when it came to Java Applets/Silverlight, the decision had little impact. That plugin model was slowly dying on its own already.
I'm glad they found a workflow that works for them, but
> but for some reason I cannot proceed on it while eg the CI is running, but I also don’t want to leave the commit and close my code editor etc. It would be simple to just stash everything and later pop the stash, but it still feels disruptive.
I have been using jj as my git client for 2 years now (wow), and I have never considered this to be disruptive. I just immediately switch to a new commit where I want to go, rather than making a new workspace to work in. Maybe it's a difference in the editor that I use (GNU Emacs) that makes this more natural?
There's actually plenty of examples out in the real world with competent administration to learn from. Especially if you generalise enough to look at how pockets of competence work even in an otherwise abysmal system, instead of demanding overall competence.
There’s a site that collects stories about experiences like this. It used to be called Clients From Hell, but got absorbed into a bigger site, called Not Always Right[0]. I suspect some of the stories are apocryphal, but it can be entertaining.
I do get it when companies who serve billions of people cannot do support like companies who support hundreds. But it should be possible to actually contact some human when you, as a customer, have proven that you have exhausted all other options.
As much as i did not like Broadcom purchasing Vmware and made everything a lot more expensive and annoying, i have to acknowledge that their chat support is pretty good, once you have exhausted all other options.