bruce343434

4 days agodiscuss

the optimal crime rate is non zero and the same goes for traffic death rate, because to bring them to zero would imply a dystopia where personal freedom is seriously limited

bruce343434

5 days agodiscuss

    :set {:job "Engineer"}
    :where |(= ($ :job) "Developer")

What is going on there in that where syntax?

bruce343434

7 days agodiscuss

Is there a nautical map equivalent of osm or organic maps? One that emphasizes waterways by drawing them thicker when zoomed out like regular maps draw roads thicker? Plan routes over the water? Even google maps lacks a nautical layer.

bruce343434

17 days agodiscuss

Because you can deduplicate certain parts of the logic which make the whole thing less error prone, such as

    if c
      x=1
    else
      x=2

If I ever want to change x, or refactor this code some other way, its a more brittle process over x=c?1:2

The ternary expression also takes up much less space so there is less of an emphasis on it, this can be a stylistic tool in a programmer's toolbox

bruce343434

18 days agodiscuss

tldw:

- wider wheels are marginally less efficient but almost negligible

- rims with larger diameter have larger air resistance. Probably because the rim patterns intersects the air in weird ways but it's not explained. Tire walls are relatively smooth, so tires with higher aspect are way more aero-efficient despite having more marginally lower rolling resistance.

bruce343434

24 days agodiscuss

“I have seen people technically meet the 30% rule and still feel financially strained,” shares Linda Grizely, a certified financial planner and financial wellness speaker. “The pressure isn’t the rent alone; it’s the combination of rent plus everything else in their financial life."

bruce343434

25 days agodiscuss

Why would the company pay more when they can just not pay more? The only things I can see happening is they might lower prices as competition ramps up, or in general as there is more supply for the same cost.

bruce343434

25 days agodiscuss

Everyone else will be 5% more productive. Then no one is "more" productive. So everyone has a higher output, but the same wages and hours worked. There was only a gap when usable AI first came out, some contractors could do the same quantity of work in less time and enjoy time off or do more jobs. Now the gap has closed or is closing. And using AI now is more about not being less productive than peers who do use it.

bruce343434

25 days agodiscuss

I want it to cause a traffic accident. If I'm going down, so is everyone else. I'm already dying anyway. Grok 10000%

bruce343434

last monthdiscuss

The issue is how easy computers make everything, and how well processes scale with computers. Back in the day to heist data you'd have to physically break in or infiltrate, rummage through files, copy them somehow or just straight up take them. In a briefcase?? How many files can you exfiltrate per day like that?

But on a database it's practically a matter of running a copy command and uploading it or exfiltrating it. And there will always be software vulnerabilities.

Computer processes have no inherent rate limiter to them, and they even allow you to run stuff from a distance.

bruce343434

last monthdiscuss

I agree. I tend to use the gnu "asprintf" which simply returns a properly allocated char buffer with the formatted string in it. And on platforms that don't feature asprintf (windows) you can build your own using sprintf!

bruce343434

last monthdiscuss

The accumulator pattern keeps simulations stable in the face of variable frame rate. Accumulate the frame dt into an accum variable. If accum>fixed_physics_dt then step_physics until false. I'm assuming the author did something like that because it's standard practise.

https://www.gafferongames.com/post/fix_your_timestep/

bruce343434

last monthdiscuss

I'll change your mind:

If you pass NULL as the destination pointer, it doesn't write any string. If you combine this with %n at the end of the format string, you can get the exact length that the output string would be. Then you allocate that, then you print again, into the actual destination buffer this time.

bruce343434

last monthdiscuss

what happens when ALL the stocks have been bought back? what is the natural conclusion? you get extra points if you mention dilution i.e. oops we turned on the ~~money~~ stock printer and your stock is now actually worth less!

bruce343434

last monthdiscuss

That's just dividend stocks with more shady. We promise to invest the dividend you would have gotten into ourselves to become more valuable bro. But that will only be reflected in "valuations" that don't directly affect your bank account. It is still the greater fool theory.

The worst is growth stocks that are a wrapper around actual dividend stocks. Beyond number going up, what actual concrete utility are you getting? Beyond waiting for the line to go up to eventually sell it to a greater fool, what can you _actually_ do with it? It's not real.

It is only real because enough people believe it is real. And they believe it because they want to believe it, because they are greedy and want easy money.

Once the market tanks and the greed turns into fear, there will be bagholders and the brokers will be laughing. The people who skim fees and percentages will be cozy.

"Now is the time to invest" they will say, because from here the line can only go up! And it will, eventually, because people want to believe, because they are greedy.

The only thing the stock market makes money on is greed. That is the thing that drives stock value. Not the economy.

bruce343434

last monthdiscuss

> not concerned about the actual economy.

Why would it be? Non dividend stocks only have value because other people think they have value (i.e. greater fool theory).

Only dividend stocks have some base value connected to how well the company does. (Higher dividend if it does well, lower if it does poorly.) But they still also have a lot of "greater fool" value.

Beyond dividend, stocks have no intrinsic value. Nowadays you don't even get a piece of paper to wipe your ass with anymore, it's all digital.

bruce343434

last monthdiscuss

HaikuOS got this right. Tabs are a property of the OS side of the window, not the application side

bruce343434

last monthdiscuss

More efficient in terms of bandwidth (not) used. More costly because it has to be stored somewhere instead.

bruce343434

2 months agodiscuss

Are C++ concepts not enough?

bruce343434

3 months agodiscuss

You wouldn't have spent that time with loved ones, you would have been doing other tasks. Just like now, we no longer need to wait for programs to be submitted compiled and ran on the mainframe, we don't get that time for ourselves.

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