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slashdev

17,056 karmajoined há 13 anos
A middle-aged software developer with 20 years experience, grieving the loss of his career as computer programmer. Now working as a technically minded product person with LLMs crafting the code.

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slashdev
·há 4 horas·discuss
It works on planes, ships, and in remote areas with no coverage. I live in Canada where the whole of Europe would fit many times over, nothing else would work in the remote areas at that scale. My parents live in Panama and use starlink to get reliable high speed internet at the beach. Even when the power goes out, their solar panels keep the internet online.
slashdev
·há 8 dias·discuss
What is Microsoft rust? I’ve never heard of such a thing. Or did I miss the joke?
slashdev
·há 16 dias·discuss
Waste heat into the atmosphere is hardly pollution. I think you don’t understand the scales involved
slashdev
·há 16 dias·discuss
Very surprising! Thanks for sharing
slashdev
·há 17 dias·discuss
It is when you have a billion dollars.

It’s all relative.
slashdev
·há 17 dias·discuss
That’s crazy. I thought maybe some of the other elements used in modern semiconductors might melt first. The wiring seems like a potential problem. But before that even the elements they use in the transistors themselves could be an issue.
slashdev
·há 17 dias·discuss
Pure silicon melts at 1400 C

You must be thinking of something else
slashdev
·há 21 dias·discuss
They can use it at home.

Using it school is likely undermining their learning.
slashdev
·há 22 dias·discuss
> Pretty humble/modest for a guy like that.

Modest was qualified. The statement is accurate. Your objection doesn’t make sense.
slashdev
·há 23 dias·discuss
If that were to become reality, and I won’t guess at the odds of that, is because it grew the world economic pie. Thinking about it in terms of the size of the pie today is treating it like a zero sum game. It’s a different game.
slashdev
·há 25 dias·discuss
Over what period of time?

By 2030? No way

By 2050? Maybe?

Obviously during an IPO you’re trying to make the bull case (unhinged or not). What does it look like in the best case scenario.
slashdev
·mês passado·discuss
That’s way too simplistic.

Not all immigrants are good. Many cost society more than they contribute. The right kind of immigrants are good.
slashdev
·mês passado·discuss
That’s a very simplistic take on a complex problem.

Unrestricted immigration destroys democratic high trust societies.

There is a balance to be found, as in all things. It isn’t simply diversity always good or always bad.
slashdev
·mês passado·discuss
We can see a little of that in California and also Norway. So, yes, there is some of that going on.
slashdev
·mês passado·discuss
Suppose you add a very high tax (it would have to be a wealth tax, not income, because they don’t have much income.)

Zuckerberg just moved to Florida for a tiny wealth tax in California.

These people would just leave the state or leave the country. It’s been happening in Norway with just a small wealth tax.

It’s not impossible, but it’s also not that simple to do.

These kind of policies are risky, because you may drive away the next generation of entrepreneurs and the jobs they create.

The rich should pay more taxes, but not to the point that it would chase them away or disincentive them from building companies.

That being said, taxes are incredibly destructive. Every dollar you tax someone is much more than a dollar you take from that person and the economy. Government is too big, it’s out of control. They can’t balance a budget either, so we pay an additional destructive tax called inflation. I would personally like to see government go on a diet to half or a quarter of the size it is and reduce taxes at the low end instead.
slashdev
·mês passado·discuss
This sounds a lot like taxing unrealized gains on illiquid assets. A very dangerous idea that would kill innovation and job creation.
slashdev
·há 2 meses·discuss
Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp seemed to work out well.

It’s always more complex than you think
slashdev
·há 2 meses·discuss
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.
slashdev
·há 2 meses·discuss
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 maintained by Python programmers, most of whom would vote against such a change.
slashdev
·há 2 meses·discuss
I was there, I was one of the dynamic zealots.

But at least I can't imagine how this trend reverses course now.