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New comment by cplusplusfellow in "Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization"

cplusplusfellow — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 02:28:19 +0000

How typical of Congress to intentionally set up fights every 2-3 years over completely obvious BS, and summarily shut down the government and scapegoat something else like top-line rates on the "working rich" while playing class warfare politics.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization"

cplusplusfellow — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 02:26:05 +0000

I respectfully disagree. By these arguments, literally every deduction from revenue to calculate taxable income is a "loophole". How far does that go?

What's more absurd than life itself is that you can deduct 100% of a 6000GVWR truck which you financed for 7 years, but my engineers salaries aren't deductible because I'm "building some product" so that's "development".

I mean give me a freaking break.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector"

cplusplusfellow — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 16:09:05 +0000

For all of the reasons you note above, this is why I've almost exclusively dealt with arena-style allocations of fixed-object-sizes when doing ultra low latency work.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization"

cplusplusfellow — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:18:00 +0000

But it would be so draconian to not increase spending insanely every year!

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points"

cplusplusfellow — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:18:18 +0000

Companies really, really want their employees to perform specific behaviors that they desire, except they don't want to compensate them extra.

In truth, a base pay + bonus structure that is commensurate with the outcomes the company desires is the best solution.

Leaders shouldn't trust folks who go into HR to come up with these.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "Remote work % in industry not correlated with excess productivity growth"

cplusplusfellow — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 15:29:36 +0000

Really difficult to comprehend why this is so difficult for people to understand. I recently started sharing a small office on the lake with a friend. I have about 180sf of it to myself. There are boats that cruise by, views are incredible, the environment is fun an inviting -- and I still have my privacy. It's like WFH but 5 feet from the water.

I've been a WFH advocate for 22 years, having spend 20 of those working in my own home. I still refuse to go downtown, but I don't mind going to a place like this. I still work about 70% from my house, and 30% from the office. I work from the office when it suits me.

Perhaps if they weren't trying to shove us into a singular zip code from a radius 50 miles away, distract and annoy us, force us to deal with traffic, not to mention the personal and monetary expense of it all -- I'd be willing to entertain the idea that an office is "better."

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant"

cplusplusfellow — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:03:37 +0000

We have enough fissile material to support the planet for 10s of thousands of years, so the nuclear proponents can speak in theoretical maximums and still beat you. You don't have enough raw materials on planet earth to continue making solar panels for the next 10s of 1000s of years, given that you need to replace the panels every 10-20 years (optimistically).

Commercial nuclear fission is completely viable for anyone not allowing it to become unviable with lawsuits. See: China.

Downvote me all you want, but you'll live in poverty when there are no factories in your town because the lights turn off during a snowstorm.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant"

cplusplusfellow — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:48:37 +0000

If only the "systems" we were considering were meant to provide limitless and virtually free electricity (nuclear), which is congruence with the "systems" of reducing poverty.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "The future of nuclear energy in a carbon-constrained world (2018)"

cplusplusfellow — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:59:24 +0000

Are you familiar with all the newer generation technologies that haven’t been phased out and are under development?

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "The future of nuclear energy in a carbon-constrained world (2018)"

cplusplusfellow — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:37:28 +0000

> are not necessarily aligned with the key problems in nuclear, which are currently construction project management related

I think the hope is that with passive cooling and passive anti-meltdown characteristics, the complexity of the constriction can be reduced. And that has exponential returns for cost structure.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "Genetic variants for male bisexuality, risk-taking linked to more children"

cplusplusfellow — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 01:49:10 +0000

the basis of the civil rights movement and the LGB community is that these characteristics are immutable on the basis of genetics.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "The merge vs. rebase debate"

cplusplusfellow — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 19:13:11 +0000

You’re translating the problem from : searching through branches that are named according to their ticket and what they are meant to accomplish to: complex and not-context-free git bisect.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "Spain confirms nuclear power phase-out, extends renewable projects deadlines"

cplusplusfellow — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 19:11:54 +0000

Rockets on Zaporischja do advocate for something but it isn’t less nuclear power.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "The merge vs. rebase debate"

cplusplusfellow — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:14:44 +0000

I’ve known developers who left the company over the rebase mandate for this exact reason.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "The merge vs. rebase debate"

cplusplusfellow — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:13:22 +0000

Branches are mostly free, so this isn’t a problem if they are properly named.

“try-again-something5” doesn’t cut it but “$ticket-at-least-five-words-here” does.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation"

cplusplusfellow — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 21:44:40 +0000

> Nuclear as it exists today is not cost competitive.

At the risk of stating the obvious, this notion entirely depends upon your definition of costs, and the definition of what is competitive. It's vastly more costly to society to have unreliable power (e.g., blackouts, brownouts, or weeks on end of lowered usage restrictions) than it is to have slightly more expensive electricity.

There is no rich country in the world with expensive energy.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "Low Vitamin D levels may not play as big a role in preventing/treating diseases"

cplusplusfellow — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 18:25:43 +0000

No. The mandates were to shelter in place. Stay indoors. Wear masks outside.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "Low Vitamin D levels may not play as big a role in preventing/treating diseases"

cplusplusfellow — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 18:25:08 +0000

I guess I can be forgiven since society did that for 3 solid years or more.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "Low Vitamin D levels may not play as big a role in preventing/treating diseases"

cplusplusfellow — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:06:56 +0000

Anytime I see these vitamin D (negative) studies I am inclined to yawn and just assume we are trying to deflect attention from “stay inside and don’t get sunlight and try not to get sick” covid mandates.

We aren’t even scratching the surface of how contra-evidentiary the instructions to the general population (since elites didn’t follow them) were.

New comment by cplusplusfellow in "Get rid of YouTube advertising without Adblocker"

cplusplusfellow — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 14:28:54 +0000

I have YTP but when I installed the app on my iPhone, they still served me Ads. I don’t see ads if I use chrome to browse to YT. Or on my desktop.

Does anyone else experience this?