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New comment by zibby8 in "Apple is top funder of lobby group that says it represents small developers"

zibby8 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 05:04:11 +0000

Ok, now imagine Amazon only allowed you to list a book if it was self-published via KDP.

New comment by zibby8 in "Magnus Carlsen resigns against Hans Niemann in the second move"

zibby8 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:01:58 +0000

In addition to that one, very concrete impact, the situation may also have subtle effects. Players may be going into matches against Hans being down a point when they would have been tied, changing the psychology of their play style. Similarly, Hans may play more confidently being up a point. Even spending a single second thinking about the situation is an unnecessary impact forced on the other players by Magnus. Pretty unsportsmanlike.

New comment by zibby8 in "It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++"

zibby8 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:58:02 +0000

It looks like this official MS Rust library adds a lot of Win32 support: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

It should work well with VS Code.

New comment by zibby8 in "Why kids are afraid to ask for help"

zibby8 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:52:58 +0000

I experienced this a lot as a kid. Adults tend to leave out a lot of context in their answers to children. Often, it seems like they don’t even try to see the question from the child’s point of view. For instance, I didn’t do well in school. When I asked adults why doing well was necessary, they would give answer along the lines of “if you don’t do well, then the only job you’ll be able to get is as a janitor.” Perhaps that’s true, (or not?) but the answer was largely devoid of meaning to me as a child.

New comment by zibby8 in "It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++"

zibby8 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:44:47 +0000

Why does Visual Studio need to support Rust when VS Code has amazing Rust support?

New comment by zibby8 in "Magnus Carlsen resigns against Hans Niemann in the second move"

zibby8 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:42:20 +0000

Talk about moving goal posts

New comment by zibby8 in "Magnus Carlsen resigns against Hans Niemann in the second move"

zibby8 — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 23:31:39 +0000

The top 8 players in the tournament get invited to the next tournament. Hans Niemann got a free point from the game Carlsen resigned. That impacts the standings for all the other players. It’s hard to see how they’re not impacted.

New comment by zibby8 in "Magnus Carlsen resigns against Hans Niemann in the second move"

zibby8 — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 20:35:05 +0000

The issue isn't his belief. It's that he's throwing a tantrum and has ruined two Chess tournaments (so far). He's free to believe whatever he likes, but to resign in a match in a tournament is not fair to all the other players.

New comment by zibby8 in "Magnus Carlsen resigns against Hans Niemann in the second move"

zibby8 — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:42:58 +0000

Top athletes have a history of having mental breakdowns as they realize they've aged and no longer can dominate as they once had. Famously, Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear off during a match, but there are other examples like Serena Williams' berating of the umpire during her loss to Naomi Osaka. It's always a bit sad / pathetic to see adults lose their cool when losing to a child.

New comment by zibby8 in "I’m a productive programmer with a memory of a fruit fly"

zibby8 — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:26:58 +0000

CPUs don't have logic or reason, so it's not a good analogy. E.g. you can replace an infinite set of memories by distilling them into a few bits of knowledge that underpin that given set of experiences.

New comment by zibby8 in "Asked GPT3 to write all necessary Ruby on Rails functions to build a Yelp clone"

zibby8 — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 16:39:21 +0000

> The bare minimum to compete would be native and web apps with good UX, competitive reviews and search, and better social features. Then you can fight the other half.

That does not seem like a winning recipe for competition. The bare minimum for competition would be some type of product differentiation that substantially differentiates the experience. Trying to compete on things like data, UX, or search doesn't seem like a winning formula to me.

New comment by zibby8 in "Asked GPT3 to write all necessary Ruby on Rails functions to build a Yelp clone"

zibby8 — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:39:22 +0000

I think I could write a yelp clone in 3 weeks. The product is not the hard part. Getting people to use it is.

New comment by zibby8 in "Fly fishing holds lessons about art and design (2014)"

zibby8 — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 21:30:38 +0000

I don’t think they consider it cheating. It’s often illegal because it is more likely to harm the fish.

New comment by zibby8 in "Fly fishing holds lessons about art and design (2014)"

zibby8 — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 21:28:23 +0000

In your anecdote, your comparing tourists to a local. Of course a local is going to be more productive regardless of tackle. There are a lot of anecdotes here, with very little data.

New comment by zibby8 in "Fly fishing holds lessons about art and design (2014)"

zibby8 — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 15:19:05 +0000

I agree that fly fishing is beautiful, but disagree that it is an elective way to make things more difficult in the name of beauty. Most fly fishing happens in relatively shallow rivers where flies comprise a large part of the fish diet. There isn't really any other way to catch the fish. What I love about fly fishing, though, is that it often takes place is beautiful mountain streams. The beauty of the environment is hard to beat.

New comment by zibby8 in "World’s longest journey by pumpkin boat"

zibby8 — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 01:34:26 +0000

Yes it's correct. Setting sail is an idiom.

New comment by zibby8 in "America’s stealth aircraft you've never heard of"

zibby8 — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 19:00:40 +0000

The problem with your argument is that you’re only looking at the negatives. If you believe that weapons can only be used to kill children, then, yes, your view makes sense. If you’ve been adversely affected by weaponry, you likely hate weapons with every fiber of your being. However, there are others who have used weapons to defend themselves against unjust aggression and those people may view weapons favorably. And finally, there are most people who have never been directly impacted by the machines of war. Those people probably fall around a neutral opinion of weapons. Some may skew towards a positive opinion, some, like yourself, skew negative, but overall largely neutral. Given this sentiment distribution, I don’t think you can make a judgment on whether or not it is immoral to like reading about weaponry.

New comment by zibby8 in "Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive"

zibby8 — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 18:41:24 +0000

I agree with your general assessment of the economy, but those are all factors everyone knows.

The adjustment we saw earlier this year was going from “the economy is booming and interest rates will be 0 forever” to “interest rates are going to 4% and we’re going to have a recession.” That’s an absolutely massive adjustment in expectations and stock prices, especially of high growth tech companies, reflect that adjustment.

In order for valuations to drop substantially further, a similar expectation adjustment would need to happen. Something like “I thought we were going to have a recession but now it’s worse than the Great Depression”. Simply adjusting expectations from “minor recession” to “moderate recession” isn’t big enough to crater the markets like we saw earlier this year.

New comment by zibby8 in "Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive"

zibby8 — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:43:54 +0000

But did the bubble already burst in tech? Valuations are very low right now. I don't think we're necessarily at the bottom yet, but I think the worst has already come to pass.

New comment by zibby8 in "America’s stealth aircraft you've never heard of"

zibby8 — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:27:22 +0000

But there are other cases where peoples’ lives were saved by such machines. E.g. billions of dollars in weaponry has been supplied to Ukraine to defend the country from invasion. Was that immoral too?