I maintain that TypeScript is probably the best language you’ll be able to get paid to write.
C# pays fine
Readit Newssuprfnk commented on New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class? jsdate.wtf... · Posted by u/OuterVale
> Specialist knowledge is for cowards
What a strange and thought provoking statement.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
That could just as easily be turned on it's head too - if you don't need skilled (or any) staff to shop, cook, serve, and then washup, why would you ever NOT eat at home?
Especially if it can operate very quietly, one fairly slow robot could do probably all the housework, and could do it at night when it's literally out of sight and out of mind. It would feel like magic. You'd wake up every morning to a clean house and hot breakfast.
A tiny bit of this is already here: our robot vacuum & mop vacuums and mops the living room, kitchen, and dining room every night at 01:00.
Coming downstairs in the morning to a completely clean floor is definitely a tiny bit of that magic.
I am in that 21%. Heck, I would MUCH prefer to buy a car with no touch screens at all. All I want is a decent car ala 2004ish but with modern crash safety and headlights that don’t suck. I do not care about Bluetooth even!
I realize I will not be able to buy a car with no screens due to the backup camera rules. But there is actual safety value in that for me so I’m ok with it.
I agree with the sentiment, but: how do you navigate? Especially to unknown places?
@wwilson How do you define the X/Y "distance" of a non-Mario application? I.e. any (distributed or not) system that doesn't have a relatively trivial "higher x/y is better" fitness function?
suprfnk commented on Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics thedrive.com/news/tire-du... · Posted by u/geox
>The positive externalities are even more enormous
What do cars specifically positively provide? NOT including the positives that exists due to constructing infrastructure around that mode of transportation (artificial issues).
Being by far the most convenient way to travel from home to pretty much any random location.
Speaking from the Netherlands with a relatively good public transit system.
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suprfnk commented on LCD TVs won’t see any further development tomsguide.com/news/its-of... · Posted by u/belltaco
It's amazing that pixel density has been stagnant since 2014, when the first 5k TV (low ppi) and 5k desktop displays (>200 ppi) were released. It's 2023 now and it still takes a kidney to get 5k >200 ppi, and we only recently got the 6k >200 ppi option for 2 kidneys. Pixel density, however, is stagnant.
I expect the industry realizes 6k is basically the stopping point so they're intentionally approaching it very slowly.
Edit: Updated with ppi specs to draw focus to pixel density of desktop displays.
It just doesn't matter that much for the average consumer. Most office workers (that is, not silicon valley programmers) work on 1920x1080 and that's fine. There really is not much to gain by doubling or tripling the resolution.
I'm working on a 27" 2560x1440 screen. I can see pixels, but that really doesn't matter. Text is readable, nothing is blurry, I can do my work and get on with my day. Screens are good enough, they work, and there is not much to gain by having higher resolutions.
suprfnk commented on DeviceScript – TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices github.com/microsoft/devi... · Posted by u/stunt
Is really hard for me to understand how running an VM on a resource constrained device has any benefit. There is a reason why those devices run using very lightweight "OS"s like FreeRTOS and Embedded C.
Why the constant obsession to apply a technology designed for a specific purpose everywhere else, even when it doesn't make sense?
Easy: because TypeScript or Python are way easier to learn than C. Learning C is a long, arduous, uphill battle against arcane error messages and undefined behaviour.
Unless you have a background in C/C++ already, most people can probably get up and running with something like this way, way faster.