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bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
Are you looking for non-browser performance such as 3d? I see no case that another language is going to bring performance to the DOM. You'd have to be rendering straight to canvas/webgl for me to believe any of this.
bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
This is so good that it's disarming. People are going to blabber everything to it, so we need a local private model. It's a lot to ask, I know. Incredible tech.
bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
they use winter like a nuclear deterrent. It’s as good as having an ocean.
bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
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bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
This is hopeful news, because we need a leader right now.
bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
How can you afford an indefinite war against a nuclear power? He will just drag you into a quagmire, which always works against the west. I'm genuinely curious what strategy Europe will have here to squeeze Russia.
bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
Everything he does is related to grift. A Ukraine-American minerals deal will probably have many layers of agencies and private contractors involved. All kinds of side dealings and under the table contracts will be exchanged where the Trump enterprise can skim off everything, like hedge fund fees.

Such a deal has no place in a peace deal where thousands of people have died. Stop the war first.
bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
The regions Russia is taking from Ukraine have some value in terms of GDP. It's interesting that the Freudian slip US offering involved an additional minerals deal (as in, this is the main interest of the taking parties). Russia is not going to give back GDP, and that's probably behind the break in negotiations. Russia is not relinquishing any gains, and the US wants more resources, and there is no guarantee given to Ukraine regarding its remaining territorial integrity. They are trying to make Ukraine eat shit.
bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
Yeah but what was the prevalence of anti-Israeli sentiment prior to the 40k civilian massacre?

I wasn’t even paying attention to the news one day and CNN was casually interviewing a Palestinian father holding a dead baby corpse in his hands, with the head covered in a blood soaked bag. On CNN, at 10am.

You don’t have to be particularly impressionable to be affected by this.

History is going to be unmerciful in its documenting of this, no one is going to forget the sin here.
bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
Circa 1968 America:

We have a TV problem, more specifically, lots of coffins on TV problem.

Circa 2003 America:

We have TV problem, a media problem, specifically coffins all over the media problem
bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/05/06/senato...

Vs

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/iran-tiktok...

Mitch Hedberg:

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?
bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
I think the only way to play this is to be heavily invested (if possible) on the AI buildout. If we get AI at this rate, then these investments as of today truly will be a meal ticket.

It’s a huge conviction, that means every dollar you earn during this phase has to be leveraged into this build out because at the end there won’t be any jobs left.

When this happens at scale, and everyone is on social security, the government will inevitably cut/tax your social security income, which is going to be insane for the retired crowd who will literally have no recourse in the economy. Foreign nations already want to de-dollarize, so a situation in 20 years can easily arise where America cannot raise debt because no one wants to buy it (aged highly-taxed population, no jobs due to automation, and no creditors. Fall of an empire, we’re crying wolf again but this time it feels real).

The only way the American demographic will be able to maintain its lifestyle is to do the opposite of what we are doing now. We’d need mass immigration, to fill a underclass that we can tax to maintain the QoL of the retired American class (or in simpler terms, saturating the bottom of the pyramid to pay into social security, everyone else is old or out of a job). This might cause civil unrest.

It’s best to prepare. America has UBI via SS, it just hasn’t been stress tested. What if we put everyone on it for life? It’s going to cause so many moral hazard issues. Why should I pay into supporting people who don’t do anything? Well, what are they supposed to do? There’s nothing to do. Should they not eat then?
bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
Your question is grounded in your desire for a money (or in nicer terms, a livelihood). A mid life change should be grounded in something more sound. Money and your career are mostly practical matters, not issues of the soul. You need to know the answer here believe it or not, and the hard advice is it’s going to take personal reflection.

What do you want to live for?

Who can answer that for you?
bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
It's a vent. I don't like writing comprehensive code for simple things. Philosophically, I believe code is a liability. Each line is a problem.

The article alludes to something people do. They wrote a whole lot of code to not write a whole lot of code. These are deep stories.
bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
Perfect world:

JS and CSS compile to native, somehow.

My ability to do this

function App() () { const items = get(url); render(items) }

Does not exist on native. It's 2025. Why is this?

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It's because we don't have literate programmers. They don't know how to speak CLEARLY.
bloomingkales
·vorig jaar·discuss
I just kinda looked around the Shopify app to get a feel for it. There are a few frameworks that tap into native view switching (transitioning between pages and tabs), which creates most of the native feeling (along with native view components like lists/menus/switches).

I don’t know why the quality of the app feels cheap, but it just feels so (the web views load in with zero ease, they just jank onto the screen. So while you have native screen transitioning, you still have this low quality feeling of a bad nypost article shitting out an ad popup on you. Hard to explain, but that’s my my general feeling).

Regardless, while not impressive, it’s in this non-impressiveness that informs my unwillingness to invest into native or something like Flutter. These apps are too simple to go through the hoops.

Shopify RN app is a good example of a mundane non-sexy tech decision.

Overall nothing beats CSS and JavaScript for UI, but even in 2025 we cannot reliably push 60fps.
bloomingkales
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
People are very unaware just how much better a gaming laptop from 3 years ago is (compared to a copilot laptop). These laptops are sub $500 on eBay, and Best Buy won’t give you more than $150 for it as a trade in (almost like they won’t admit that those laptops outclass the new category type of AI pc).
bloomingkales
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
https://fortune.com/2023/11/11/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-...

I can't find the exact Youtube video, but it's out there.
bloomingkales
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Jensen did say in recent interview, paraphrasing, “they are trying to kill my company”.

Those Macs with unified memory is a threat he is immediately addressing. Jensen is a wartime ceo from the looks of it, he’s not joking.

No wonder AMD is staying out of the high end space, since NVIDIA is going head on with Apple (and AMD is not in the business of competing with Apple).
bloomingkales
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
For sure but I think people on the fine tuning/training/stable diffusion side are more concerned with that. They make a big fuss about this and basically talk people out of a perfectly good and well priced 16gb vram card that literally works out of the box with ollama, lmstudio for text inferencing.

Kind of one of the reasons AMD is a sleeper stock for me. If people only knew.