We should have made it clearer that monied interests have a choice: be kept in check by the law, or by the guillotine.
I'm too entralled by TikTok to build a guillotine.
Readit Newsvaliant55 commented on Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/krustyburger
I’m increasingly convinced that the single most important concept to understand in the 21st century is Chesterton’s Fence:
"Chesterton's fence" is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
Gambling isn’t a new problem, but apparently we thought it would turn out differently this time, for some vague unclear reason.
I think the simplified version of that reason is: no one really believes in anything anymore, except in the value that acquiring money by any means necessary is a good thing.
The powers that be have always saught wealth. At some point they gained enough power to start usurping the law that was supposed to keep them in check.
valiant55 commented on Sergey Brin's Unretirement inc.com/jessica-stillman/... · Posted by u/iancmceachern
Would you mind me asking what age you were when you retired? I'm 28 and five years into my boring corpo career and need something to lust after lol
I'm not doing FIRE, I have children and just live below my means. I'm hoping to retire around 55 assuming the AI bubble doesn't nuke everyones portfolio.
valiant55 commented on The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow venturebeat.com/technolog... · Posted by u/weinzierl
> "If you're not reading the Claude Code best practices straight from its creator, you're behind as a programmer,"
The amount of “you are doing it wrong if you don’t get on our bandwagon” rhetoric I see surrounding AI coding has me convinced that this is a bandwagon I don’t want to be on. That level of insecurity is just not for me.
Yeah, and the tooling is changing more quickly than JavaScript and is riddled with security issues. I think the best move right now is at best using AI as a (in)glorified Google / Stack overflow and waiting until the dust settles on tooling.
valiant55 commented on Was it a billion dollar mistake? gingerbill.org/article/20... · Posted by u/signa11
The section "The Problem of the Individual-Element Mindset" bugs me quite a bit, the core of it being:
> This architectural mindset does lead to loads of problems as a project scales. Unfortunately, a lot of people never move past this point on their journey as a programmer. Sometimes they do not move past this point as they only program in a language with automatic memory management (e.g. garbage collection or automatic reference counting), and when you are in such a language, you pretty much never think about these aspects as much.
Billions of dollars worth of useful software has been shipped in languages with garbage collection or ARC: roughly the entire Android (JVM) and iOS (ARC) application ecosystems, massively successful websites built on top of JVM languages, Python (Instagram etc.), PHP (Wikipedia, Facebook, ...).
In game development specifically, since there's a Casey Muratori video linked here, we have the entire Unity engine set of games written in garbage-collected C#, including a freaking BAFTA winner in Outer Wilds. Casey, meanwhile, has worked on a low-level game development video series for a decade and... never actually shipped a game?
Unity isn't written in C#, it's C++. C# is used as the scripting engine.
> They all end up in town. At the same time. ... Don’t spawn everyone at the same starting point at the same time.
I hadn't thought about that. The perspective I am coming from (Runescape, Final Fantasy XIV) has players starting in one (or three) locations when they begin the game.
Thanks for the Ashes of Creation name-drop. I don't know if I'll play it but I'm definitely interested in watching the trajectory of this game.
Buyer beware, this game has been in alpha for 10 years despite sufficient funding. The cash shop is charging $25 for skins in a alpha game.
I wish they'd let me recover my original -- I lost my TOTP generator, and the codes I'd written down in a paper notebook were rejected. I even hunted down the electronic copy in case there was a transcription error -- seemed like some failure in their systems was causing me to lose access despite having followed proper procedures.
Lost a decade and a half of correspondence dating back to my teenage years. I had imported my phone number I'd had since I was 16 into voice, and it doubled as my Signal number. I even had a Gsuite subscription so I could use their (admittedly decently) UI to power my firstname @ lastname dot com email address.
I will never use their services again, I was really digusted by this failure.
I had this issue with my alternative account. Despite my main account being associated (not by recovery, I think this predates that feature), and most messages being forwaded to my main I was never able to successfully recover the credentials.
valiant55 commented on Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale eliocapella.com/blog/perm... · Posted by u/eliocs
>We added a point of failure, as the permissions table can get out of sync with the actual data.
>The main risk with pre-computed permissions is data getting out of sync.
It would make sense to have permissions be a first class concept for databases and to ensure such a desync could never happen. Data being only read or written from specific users is a very common thing for data so it would be worth having first class support for it.
I'm struggling to understand what the issue that the author is getting at. The point of a database is that it's ACID compliant, wrap insets/updates/deletes in a transaction and no such drift would occur. What am I missing?
Having clicked on the link, it's one commit with the commit message "wtf"
The README also says "License: MIT - Do whatever you want with it (except deploy to production )"
It's that perfect level of absurdity that captures so much of the terrible complexity that often happens.
There's a guy complaining that the creator is poisoning the collective code used to train LLMs. If that's all it takes we have a moral responsibility to flood GitHub with garbage.