> but I feel like it makes it very difficult to reason about performance This seems like a form of premature optimization. I mean, you're not wrong technically, but if you were exceptionally performance concerned, you…
They mention doing this a decade ago. They were probably using utilities to manage downloads from the ruby application archive (which would have still been around at the time) and automate running `setup.rb`
> Sure the water in that creek might be falling hundreds of meters, or even kilometers, but without a dam the height differential at your generator is only going to he a few metres at best. Enough to power the lighting,…
That really depends on what percentage of water's potential energy is expended in small creeks and the like vs big rivers. I actually have no idea how to estimate that. Anyone have a good estimate on that? Intuitively,…
Wait... so the US army did poorly against guerilla combatants half way across the world, and therefore another country that lost in Afghanastan and a country that hasn't successfully invaded anyone that doesn't border…
> Yes, I mostly see people saying that laws don't matter because billionaires are beyond law at this point. Huh. Weird. Well, I don't see it brought up on HN all that often (once a month tops?), so we must hang out in…
> When people air opinions they're unwilling to change That's the thing, there are a lot more positions these days that people seem to be unwilling to change.
That may very well be. What's the windows support like/does it come with windows pre-installed? I may personally hate windows with a passion, but if we're talking about the layman's definition of "PC", I think that's…
> That political party's actions are about weakening the federal government so as to make it easier for large corporations to behave abusively, not because of trust. Can you think of a reason people would do that if…
> I don't think Americans and American companies understand how little trust rest of us have for the American government. Have you... have you seen our politics? What makes you think that we think other people trust our…
> Water, air, chicken, dirt, star stuff. God, the Captain Planet re-boot got weird...
> how is that not putting code in the driver's seat? Because humans enter into them. What you're describing is not a problem of the code making decisions for people, it's a problem of people not being able to back out…
It's considered to have ended (and possibly started reversing) in developed countries starting in the mid 1990s. Your link even covers it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...
> but that puts implacable emotionless code in the driving seat, and the article explains very eloquently why that's a bad thing. To re-iterate my previous point, putting code in the driver's seat would imply that…
> Which is why punitive fines ought to scale with income and/or wealth That really seems like it depends on what the damage a particular action causes. Property destruction, for example, probably shouldn't scale. If I,…
Of course. You have a good day.
> What about the people who don't have that advantage? For the text editor? For general help, they will probably google "gnome text editor help" or "gnome text editor docs" like I just did, which returns >80% results…
> "Vi" is not "just naming the editor what it is", it's a relatively distinct short name that doesn't actually mean anything unless you know the reason for the name (which I did not for years after being introduced to…
I mean, yeah? Are you new to internet drama? People use it to feel high and mighty for a couple weeks and get some sweet, sweet dopamine hits, and then they go back to doing exactly what they were doing before.
> What is the advantage of paying 270€ per month for a 60GB RAM instance with 8 cores if you can get the same instance on Contabo for 27€? For some random raw EC2 server? Zilch. Zero. EC2 isn't really worth it by…
There's a long tradition of just naming things what they are. ed (editor) vi (visual) and emacs (editor macros) all stem from this. They're shorter, but when they were released (70s for all of them), there was a 6…
Depends on the size of the company. Over $X revenue or over Y employees and you have to pay. Note that it says revenue, not profit there, be careful with that.
Pretty much. People say that tech people switching doesn't do anything, but when tech people switch, semi-technical people get it via osmosis (forum posts for FF the first time, presumably reddit posts today). Suddenly…
> JS isn't supposed to have only one relevant implementation I mean, alright, but the way things are supposed to be doesn't have any bearing on the way things actually are. And if you plan based on how things are…
That's fine in a language with a bunch of implementations, but JS only has one (relevant) implementation. V8 powers Chrome, all Chrome-based browsers (Brave, Edge, etc), node, and deno. Sure, you can switch your backend…
> but I feel like it makes it very difficult to reason about performance This seems like a form of premature optimization. I mean, you're not wrong technically, but if you were exceptionally performance concerned, you…
They mention doing this a decade ago. They were probably using utilities to manage downloads from the ruby application archive (which would have still been around at the time) and automate running `setup.rb`
> Sure the water in that creek might be falling hundreds of meters, or even kilometers, but without a dam the height differential at your generator is only going to he a few metres at best. Enough to power the lighting,…
That really depends on what percentage of water's potential energy is expended in small creeks and the like vs big rivers. I actually have no idea how to estimate that. Anyone have a good estimate on that? Intuitively,…
Wait... so the US army did poorly against guerilla combatants half way across the world, and therefore another country that lost in Afghanastan and a country that hasn't successfully invaded anyone that doesn't border…
> Yes, I mostly see people saying that laws don't matter because billionaires are beyond law at this point. Huh. Weird. Well, I don't see it brought up on HN all that often (once a month tops?), so we must hang out in…
> When people air opinions they're unwilling to change That's the thing, there are a lot more positions these days that people seem to be unwilling to change.
That may very well be. What's the windows support like/does it come with windows pre-installed? I may personally hate windows with a passion, but if we're talking about the layman's definition of "PC", I think that's…
> That political party's actions are about weakening the federal government so as to make it easier for large corporations to behave abusively, not because of trust. Can you think of a reason people would do that if…
> I don't think Americans and American companies understand how little trust rest of us have for the American government. Have you... have you seen our politics? What makes you think that we think other people trust our…
> Water, air, chicken, dirt, star stuff. God, the Captain Planet re-boot got weird...
> how is that not putting code in the driver's seat? Because humans enter into them. What you're describing is not a problem of the code making decisions for people, it's a problem of people not being able to back out…
It's considered to have ended (and possibly started reversing) in developed countries starting in the mid 1990s. Your link even covers it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...
> but that puts implacable emotionless code in the driving seat, and the article explains very eloquently why that's a bad thing. To re-iterate my previous point, putting code in the driver's seat would imply that…
> Which is why punitive fines ought to scale with income and/or wealth That really seems like it depends on what the damage a particular action causes. Property destruction, for example, probably shouldn't scale. If I,…
Of course. You have a good day.
> What about the people who don't have that advantage? For the text editor? For general help, they will probably google "gnome text editor help" or "gnome text editor docs" like I just did, which returns >80% results…
> "Vi" is not "just naming the editor what it is", it's a relatively distinct short name that doesn't actually mean anything unless you know the reason for the name (which I did not for years after being introduced to…
I mean, yeah? Are you new to internet drama? People use it to feel high and mighty for a couple weeks and get some sweet, sweet dopamine hits, and then they go back to doing exactly what they were doing before.
> What is the advantage of paying 270€ per month for a 60GB RAM instance with 8 cores if you can get the same instance on Contabo for 27€? For some random raw EC2 server? Zilch. Zero. EC2 isn't really worth it by…
There's a long tradition of just naming things what they are. ed (editor) vi (visual) and emacs (editor macros) all stem from this. They're shorter, but when they were released (70s for all of them), there was a 6…
Depends on the size of the company. Over $X revenue or over Y employees and you have to pay. Note that it says revenue, not profit there, be careful with that.
Pretty much. People say that tech people switching doesn't do anything, but when tech people switch, semi-technical people get it via osmosis (forum posts for FF the first time, presumably reddit posts today). Suddenly…
> JS isn't supposed to have only one relevant implementation I mean, alright, but the way things are supposed to be doesn't have any bearing on the way things actually are. And if you plan based on how things are…
That's fine in a language with a bunch of implementations, but JS only has one (relevant) implementation. V8 powers Chrome, all Chrome-based browsers (Brave, Edge, etc), node, and deno. Sure, you can switch your backend…