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nrclark
·4 ngày trước·discuss
That's around 100k/year if used at the same rate for every workday. So the question becomes: does it make your engineer X% more productive, where X is some multiplier based on their salary? There are some software engineers out for sure who are expensive enough that this is worth it.
nrclark
·26 ngày trước·discuss
I don't see this happening any time in the near future. The extra hardware cost is nontrivial, and there's a software support burden. Cellular bandwidth also isn't free, and probably wouldn't be covered by the value of any ads/telemetry that it carried.
nrclark
·tháng trước·discuss
OK, but SpaceX is not printing money out of thin air. And neither does the stock market. Somebody will be left holding the bag eventually.
nrclark
·tháng trước·discuss
> Children are expensive, but highly subsidized, and just not expensive enough to explain the whole picture.

Highly subsidized? I have to assume you're not talking about America. I pay $3200/mo to send my kids to a very middle-of-the-road preschool. That's almost $40k/year just in childcare costs so that my wife and I can go to work. The difference between a 1-bedroom apartment and a 3-bedroom apartment is an extra $20k/yr or so in my area. Then there's health care premiums, taking them out for activities sometimes, etc.

I can ballpark the cost of having preschoolers in my area as $30k/yr each. And I don't know about you, but I don't exactly see any government subsidies helping me carry that burden.
nrclark
·tháng trước·discuss
PEGs are a great replacement for a complicated regex, and can express a lot of things that are hard to do with a regex. But they're also more verbose, and fewer developers are familiar with their usage. PCRE regex is kind of the lingua franca of text-matching, and making it available would be helpful for newcomers imo.
nrclark
·tháng trước·discuss
Something I'd observe here: without expressing an opinion about PEGs vs regexes, I'd note that regexes are much more widely used. They're also completely sufficient for an awful lot of text processing tasks. PCRE regexes would be a great inclusion to the stdlib, and would probably be popular.
nrclark
·tháng trước·discuss
Tcl is pretty good at functional-programming type stuff, and it can absolutely do anything that you could do with a macro. It isn't Algol-like at all imo, maybe beyond some superficial syntax. It feels a lot more like if LISP and Bash had a baby out of wedlock.

(I've written a lot of Tcl over the years and it'll always have a spot in my heart)
nrclark
·2 tháng trước·discuss
Not the parent, but yes I would/do write that way for effect.
nrclark
·2 tháng trước·discuss
We use a Docker Compose setup for our team's devcontainer. It's defined right in the repo alongside the Dockerfile used to build our image. Our build scripts are all set up to start/stop/use the container automatically. Integration with Vscode's devcontainer system will come next.

It's been a great way for us to make sure that developers and CI/CD get exactly the same build environment, mount-points, paths, network access, permissions, etc.

It's been a super solid tool overall, and I'm pretty happy with it. The only thing that would make our setup better would be if we could figure out how to go rootless/daemonless with it.
nrclark
·3 tháng trước·discuss
Tar doesn't need to imply gzip (or bzip2, or zstd, etc). Tar's default operation produces uncompressed archives.
nrclark
·3 tháng trước·discuss
out of curiosity - any reason not to use it?
nrclark
·3 tháng trước·discuss
You only have to decompress it first if it's compressed (commonly using gzip, which is shown with the .gz suffix).

Otherwise, you can randomly access any file in a .tar as long as: - the file is seekable/range-addressible - you scan through it and build the file index first, either at runtime or in advance.

Uncompressed .tar is a reasonable choice for this application because the tools to read/write tar files are very standard, the file format is simple and well-documented, and it incurs no computational overhead.
nrclark
·3 tháng trước·discuss
This isn't very surprising. Typical US economic policy aims for 2-3% annual inflation. That counter shows an average 2.6% inflation across 26 years, which is kind of right in the range we'd expect.

It's debatable whether this is good longterm policy - but it's been the norm in the US for decades.
nrclark
·4 tháng trước·discuss
If Windows wants to commit to quality and user experience, they can do it by moving closer to the experience that made a generation fall in love with it.

  - Turn Notepad back into a text editor.
  - Remove ads from your operating system. Yes it feels like a license to print money, but it makes your users hate your product. 
  - Stop charging money for Freecell and Minesweeper.
  - Converge your three control panels back into one. The classic control panel was not broken.
  - Drop the mandatory Microsoft User accounts. Nobody wants this except your bean counters.
When 3 out of these 5 happen, I'll believe that Microsoft is actually recommitting to their users.
nrclark
·5 tháng trước·discuss
Not the grandparent, but I've used most of the OpenAI models that have been released in the last year. Out of all of them, o3 was the best at the programming tasks I do. I liked it a lot more than I like GPT 5.2 Thinking/Pro. Overall, I'm not at all convinced that models are making forward progress in general.
nrclark
·5 tháng trước·discuss
I get your point about camera vs lidar. Humans do have other senses in play while driving though. We have touch/vibration (feeling the road surface texture), hearing, proprioception / acceleration sense, etc. These are all involved for me when I drive a car.
nrclark
·6 tháng trước·discuss
Kind of reads 25 people's stories about "How I became a parasite". Why not create new things, instead of making a career out of leeching the wealth created by others?
nrclark
·6 tháng trước·discuss
I’ve disputed fraud a couple of times on my Chase cards. It was.. fine? Uneventful and simple.
nrclark
·6 tháng trước·discuss
Interesting, I wonder if this will spike VPN traffic into Vietnam.
nrclark
·6 tháng trước·discuss
Agree. Even asking it can anchor your thinking.