If most of that debt was an investment on energy transition, education, research, we'd be absolutely fine. But from what I gathered it's mostly QE that ends up as extra dividends.
Readit Newssgu999 commented on As world debt hits $100T, IMF warns deficit must be brought under control politico.eu/article/imf-w... · Posted by u/hhs
Would this not also be partially connected to not wanting to throw away your 15 years experience with C for 1 year experience in Rust assuming the company actually ditches C? (or any other direct replacement language/tool scenario)
Sounds like a way to replace yourself by 2 low pay students who also have 1 year of Rust experience.
That's really just being a Luddite, I understand the mindset but that's a very poor strategy if one cares about job security. A (good!) senior developer has a ton of value outside of the pure mastery of a language specs, not to mention that learning a language for 1 year with 15 years of prior knowledge really doesn't lead to the same level as a student who does the same.
sgu999 commented on Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video] twitter.com/SpaceX/status... · Posted by u/alecco
Does anyone know of a live map where we can see the trajectory of launches? Wondering if starship went above my head during reentry, but I can't find the info
I guess cell-to-pack has some disadvantages otherwise everyone would have started there?
The closest city from where I currently live has been trying really hard to push for alternative means of transportation. They envision more bycicles and public transport, and in order to get there, they've been systematically making it harder for cars to operate in the city. Measures include less parking, low speed limits in the inner city, lots of one-way streets everywhere, presumably all with the intention of making car usage less appealing.
And it is.
Except that the result is that instead of switching to bikes or PT, people still use their cars but drive around in circles much longer which cannot be in anybody's interest. Or, if folks are sick of being nannied, they just drive to another big city that's not too far away, and do their shopping there.
> Except that the result is that instead of switching to bikes or PT, people still use their cars but drive around in circles much longer
Do you have sources for that claim? Most cities in western Europe have been doing that, and it seems to pay off. The whole of the Netherlands or Copenhaguen are very good examples of policies like these having worked to the perfection, but it takes time for people to change their habits.
sgu999 commented on $2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst latent.space/p/gpu-bubble... · Posted by u/swyx
the marketplaces like sfcompute do great, bc so much cheap supply and theres lots of demand. its the foundation model startups who locked into peak hype contracts for access that are eating a lot of losses right now... (which perhaps explains why the bigcos are acquiring only the founders and not assuming the liabilities of the oldco...)
> which perhaps explains why the bigcos are acquiring only the founders and not assuming the liabilities of the oldco...
Who did?
sgu999 commented on All We Have in This World Is Ourselves rxjourney.com.ng/all-we-r... · Posted by u/chistev
> Over the next couple of days, we sent condolence messages through our internship WhatsApp group chat or privately to her, or both. But here's the truly sad part—after those two days, it was business as usual.
I lost my father a couple years ago over the span of a day, too. I was on the receiving end of this. The sad reality is that the people I'd have expected the most from didn't even bother with a heartful message. And others revealed themselves as being the most empathetic and kind. It takes that experience to learn to spot the ones who actually deserve your friendship, I guess.
The other sad reality is that aside from the deeply selfish and unkind, we will all go through grief and have to deal with it. Being supportive of others when they do is crucial, but we don't have to feel as much pain as them to achieve that.
sgu999 commented on John Carmack on inlined code (2014) number-none.com/blow/blog... · Posted by u/bpierre
Or rather, senior devs have learned to care more for having clear code rather than (over-)applying principles like DRY, separation of concerns etc., while juniors haven't (yet)...
good devs*, not all senior devs have learned that, sadly. As a junior dev I've worked under the rule of senior devs who were over-applying arbitrary principles, and that wasn't fun. Some absolute nerds have a hard time understanding where their narrow expertise is meant to fit, and they usually don't get better with age.
sgu999 commented on Could we build a computer designed to last at least fifty years? (2021) ploum.net/the-computer-bu... · Posted by u/andai
Whether it happens in tens, hundreds, thousands, or more years, every physical product has a finite lifespan.
So it might be simpler to charge a fee when a product is initially manufactured that is based on the current cost of disposing that product. Perhaps this could even replace things like consumer sales tax or VAT.
That would incentivize manufacturers to create products with minimal disposal costs, and it would incentivize consumers to hang on to products longer or buy used.
We've had this in France for a bit more than 10 years: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Éco-participation
It's a fixed fee based on the category of the device though, so not really an incentive for companies to change their ways, other than moving the entire business line from making iPhones to light bulbs.