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Drakim commented on U.S. unemployment rose in November despite job gains wsj.com/economy/jobs/jobs... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

almosthere · 3 days ago

So you've never had a cart FULL of groceries? Or are you one of those people that do 30 items at self checkout?

Drakim · 3 days ago

Buying an entire cart full of groceries that will last for weeks is a somewhat American cultural thing. I'm not saying that I've never seen it, but the norm where I live in Europe is to have one of those hand-held baskets and getting enough for 2-3 days tops.

Drakim commented on PGlite – Embeddable Postgres pglite.dev/... · Posted by u/dsego

lionelholt · 10 days ago

I wonder if those issues are resolved by using the Dexie.js wrapper, because I've had no problems with that.

Drakim · 5 days ago

It does not, I've also used Dexie.js. Your usecase has most likely been too small to run into the very annoying walls.

Drakim commented on PGlite – Embeddable Postgres pglite.dev/... · Posted by u/dsego

guardian5x · 15 days ago

What is the advantage of using something like this instead of the IndexedDB Browser Feature

Drakim · 15 days ago

I was shocked to discover how incredibly poorly IndexedDB works. I always thought it would be fast and snappy if a bit alien. But nope, it's incredibly bad!

Despite being a native feature to the browser it's incredibly slow, and the way it works in terms of fetching records based on non-primary keys forces you to either load your entire dataset into RAM at once or iterate though it record-by-record in a slow callback. Something as trivial as 10k records can bring your webapp to a crawl.

Drakim commented on Exploring the limits of large language models as quant traders nof1.ai/blog/TechPost1... · Posted by u/rzk

p1dda · a month ago

LLM's can do language but not much else, not poker, not trading and definitely no intelligence

Drakim · a month ago

Language is powerful.

Language can do poker, trading, and other intelligent activities.

Drakim commented on Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists theguardian.com/inequalit... · Posted by u/prmph

blargthorwars · 2 months ago

No money is a bit of hyperbole, but fundamentally, nobody really wants to work hard for the exclusive benefit of everybody else.

Greed is an innate human trait.

Drakim · 2 months ago

So there would be money, it would just be less efficient. That's a fair enough claim, but I don't understand why I was downvoted for asking.

Drakim commented on Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists theguardian.com/inequalit... · Posted by u/prmph

cynicalsecurity · 2 months ago

Capitalism creates inequality, but in a socialism/communism economy there would be either no money or no goods. Everyone would be equally poor, not just some.

Drakim · 2 months ago

Why would there be no money under socialism?

Drakim commented on How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly medium.com/@jonas.eschenb... · Posted by u/indyjo

brabel · 2 months ago

Amazing work. I am the same age às the author and also would love to tinker with old hardware. This article taught me that I can do that with emulators all the while using modern developer tools! That’s very motivating, will see if I can get started. My first computer was a PC XT 386 IIRC, maybe I can do the same kind of thing on that.

Drakim · 2 months ago

Emulators are wonderful, I got into assembly for the 6502 processor used in the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and it's been an absolute blast, there is something so inherently satisfying and almost zen-like in it.

Drakim commented on Society will accept a death caused by a robotaxi, Waymo co-CEO says sfgate.com/tech/article/s... · Posted by u/c420

spankalee · 2 months ago

We already accept 40,000 vehicle deaths a year, 7,500 pedestrian deaths a year, 1,100 by police, 260 by train, and almost 50,000 deaths from falls.

Nothing is completely safe, and it's just factually correct to say that there will be a fatal crash at some point that's the fault of an autonomous car (there actually have been already), but that Waymo's at least are already far safer than human drivers, and if that remains true, then society will "accept" it.

Also, the question was literally "Will society accept a death potentially caused by a robot?" which is not great, IMO. What does it mean for "society" to "accept" a death? There will be lawsuits, regulations, etc. Is the question whether self-driving cars will be banned everywhere after one fatality?

Drakim · 2 months ago

A big difference is that you can't put a robot in jail. Even though the person driving the car is usually not harmed by hitting somebody on foot, it's still a life-or-death level situation, they might be looking at multiple years in prison, a large portion of their life gone.

The same even stakes are not there with robots killing humans. For one side it's a life-or-death situation, while for the other side it's profit margins and numbers. Companies are usually very happy to increase yearly profit for something as minor as a decimal percentage rise in human deaths spread across society, that's not even controversial.

Heck, not only can you not put a robot in jail, you can't even stop it from driving the next day as if nothing happened because it's duplicate running the exact same software and hardware is all over society.

I still think robot cars is a good thing though, because they will have a lot less accidents than us humans who love to drink and drive, or speed for no good reason. Still, it will raise some big important questions.

Drakim commented on Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons aeaweb.org/articles?id=10... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers

golergka · 4 months ago

> if a restaurant abuses its staff

What exactly counts as "abuse"?

Here's what I've seen first-hand in a "labour-friendly" country. An employee doesn't show up at his workplace a few days a week, for several months, without doctor's notes or any real reason. Employer finally fires them. Employee goes to court and after a year gets a $20k compensation for "unlawful termination", even though his absence on the workplace was documented (but not properly processed, apparently).

Drakim · 4 months ago

I'm not saying that stuff like that doesn't happen, but what do you think is the ratio between employers abusing their employees compared to employees abusing their employers?

And with the different kinds of abuse, which "side" do you think causes the most genuine harm to the other though their actions?

Drakim commented on We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism democracyjournal.org/maga... · Posted by u/nobet

jhbadger · 4 months ago

The problem with that argument (which people also use on animals like sharks) is it assumes that these other organisms haven't also been evolving in the human timeframe. Yes, you can find evidence of organisms that look more or less like modern bacteria or sharks long before humans existed, but the idea that these organisms haven't been under selective pressure since is false. Indeed, they are probably under greater selective pressure now due to the effects of humans on the planet.

Drakim · 4 months ago

Bit of a ship of Theseus situation I suppose. Humans have been and will continue to evolve as well, but you still want to credit them as "humans", so why not give the same logic to the bacteria?