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New comment by dixego in "Silicon Valley is wrong about the future of transportation"

dixego — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 17:33:41 +0000

Key takeaway from this I think is: technology alone cannot solve problems engendered by policy.

New comment by dixego in "Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++"

dixego — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:04:13 +0000

From the "Why build Carbon?" section:

> The best way to address these problems is to avoid inheriting the legacy of C or C++ directly, and instead start with solid language foundations like a modern generics system, modular code organization, and consistent, simple syntax.

That last part seems to imply that the authors don't consider C++ syntax to be a good foundation for a modern successor language, so they chose to change it. As to why change it in a Rust-like direction I'd imagine that it's both because it's what fashionable at the time and possibly to attract people who are already familiar with that style.

New comment by dixego in "Who is going to replace Google for us?"

dixego — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 19:52:39 +0000

Who mentioned left wing news sources?

New comment by dixego in "Who is going to replace Google for us?"

dixego — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 17:24:39 +0000

If you don't think "Breitbart is not a credible news source" is not a valid point then oof, yikes, etc.

New comment by dixego in "Where did the long tail go?"

dixego — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 15:55:50 +0000

Some people have already mentioned several problems with the article, but there's a thing that's not really discussed that I'd like to know more about: how many of the people on the "creation" side of the Long Tail i.e. the movie makers, the musicians, the writers, are actually making a living out of finding their own small niche? I have to imagine there can't be that many.

New comment by dixego in "Goodbye Zachtronics"

dixego — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 17:38:49 +0000

Opus Magnum is very fun and doesn't use too much of the Programming parts of the brain!

New comment by dixego in "“True” Damascus steel is not a “lost art”"

dixego — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:38:08 +0000

Gotta love a several-hundred word essay about swords posted on reddit by user "IPostSwords".

New comment by dixego in "Ante: A low-level functional language"

dixego — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 20:26:46 +0000

What is the specification problem? I don't think I've heard the term before.

New comment by dixego in "Shepard Tone"

dixego — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 17:11:37 +0000

Franz Ferdinand's "Always Ascending" is a fun rock song featuring a Shepard Tone in the background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjugtkXZN4

New comment by dixego in "Mundane chores are all the rage in gaming"

dixego — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:18:20 +0000

And of course, don't forget "The Painting Goblin", in which you make an inescapeable, fully equipped basement home and lock one of your sims in there. Then you force them to get _extremely_ good at painting, such that one of their paintings can sell for thousands and comfortably support the rest of your sims family, who never have to work a day in their lives.

New comment by dixego in "Fresh – Next-gen web framework"

dixego — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:34:51 +0000

Sometimes I wonder how much time humanity as a species has collectively spent first inventing and then trying to solve the problem of "making a website".

New comment by dixego in "Plain text, with lines"

dixego — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:05:55 +0000

Isn't making your own tool to satisfy your own needs the most "Our tools should adapt to us" possible, though?

New comment by dixego in "The curse of strong typing"

dixego — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 04:34:15 +0000

Programmers, much like compilers, read things until they reach a point they disagree with and then stop there to write a comment.

New comment by dixego in "The US “labor shortage” is just a wage shortage (2021)"

dixego — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 20:21:17 +0000

You could start with wage theft — unpaid overtime, not respecting break times, things of that nature.

New comment by dixego in "Programming in the Apocalypse"

dixego — Mon, 30 May 2022 17:30:34 +0000

Fiction is a tool used by humans to elicit, experience and process feelings under (mostly) safe circumstances. The details (such as how much the sea level would have to rise for this to be accurate) are not quite relevant; the point is to make the reader think about how they would feel if this sort of concern was just a commonplace consideration in their daily life. Is it not shocking? Uncomfortable? Sorta nihilism-inducing?

In summary: doesn't it make you want to act towards preventing this from ever being close to happening?

New comment by dixego in "Programming in the Apocalypse"

dixego — Mon, 30 May 2022 17:26:15 +0000

> Just wanted to follow up on my note from a few days ago in case it got buried under all of those e-mails about the flood. I’m concerned about how the Eastern Seaboard being swallowed by the Atlantic Ocean is going to affect our Q4 numbers, so I’d like to get your eyes on the latest earnings figures ASAP. On the bright side, the Asheville branch is just a five-minute drive from the beach now, so the all-hands meeting should be a lot more fun this year. Silver linings!

I... I don't think I'm psychologically prepared for tolerating the fauxptimism of corpospeak under the Slow Motion Apocalypse.

New comment by dixego in "I don't trust papers out of “Top Labs” anymore"

dixego — Sat, 28 May 2022 14:47:43 +0000

What would be a good place to post your misgivings about a general research area?

New comment by dixego in "I'm quitting my PhD"

dixego — Mon, 23 May 2022 16:07:18 +0000

From what I can tell, the cause of this is that "number of papers published per unit of time" is the only metric institutions seem to care about when it comes to evaluating researchers' work.

New comment by dixego in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

dixego — Tue, 17 May 2022 16:26:32 +0000

I just don't like Apple, what's the problem?

New comment by dixego in "Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots"

dixego — Mon, 16 May 2022 16:21:55 +0000

Google is an advertising company. It has been for a good while.