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> My personal problem with JavaScript is that things keep changing too much.

Yeah.

Last year I realized in my 10 or so years using Node I've changed my stack so many times (Express, Hapi, Fastify, Hono, Sequelize, Objection, Prisma, Drizzle, Mongo, Fauna, Postgres, Firebase, etc etc). So much time wasted.

Surprisingly, on the frontend I've found stability with Svelte. I've been using for 4-5 years now and still very happy with. I also love runes.
> Really weird

No, not weird. The extra stuff is there to show you ads and/or track your behavior, which generates a stream of revenue for the TV maker. W/o the extra stuff, the only revenue comes from the one-time purchase.
Ok, 2 months.

Remember, the new B200 have 2.2x the performance of xAI’s current H100 “hardware edge”. So it only takes an order half the size.

Or you could order the old H100 instead and avoid the B200 shortage.
Download these while you can...The MBA's are in charge: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhr1KZpdzukfdjsOHZ-Ba...
That doesn't match my experience at all.
I'm willing to try it! Are you able to wear earbuds with the daith piercing? Airpods Pro are one of my most-used pieces of tech both at work live-streaming classes and at home listening to books and music.
A History of the Future, 2025-2027
How so? Hooks are only ~5 years old.

Meanwhile they've deprecated parts of the class components.
Sure. It used to be standard-operating-procedure in the old "Waterfall" development days (pre-Agile). Of course, easily half of the fixed delivery projects I worked on for the first 15 years of my career failed, utterly. Still, I worked at one company where year-in and year-out we had to complete the Next Big Release by the Spring trade show. Usually, that meant developers working 80-hour weeks by the end of the deadline and also loud screaming and desk-pounding by management when they, inevitably, had to give up many of their stupidest or most obscure "hard requirements" in order for us to all declare victory to our CEO and stockholders.

In short, technically I've seen "fixed delivery" deadlines met for small projects and met a few times for big ones but the vast majority of times it was shear torture and often required fudging the meaning of "fixed" (features were dropped) and "deadline" (rolling out new features to limited customers over time, etc).

As much as it has become trendy for people to complain about Agile Development, it is 1000% more humane and sensible than Deathmarch development that came before.
Yeah the 30% cut is insane, and its surprising to me that game publishers tolerate it under steam. But if you look at the PC games market, you can clearly be successful doing the "self publish" route like Minecraft did.

I think just means that valve has turned their DRM into a value-add for the consumer with cloud backups and item trading and such convenience features. And I say this as someone who uses GOG. You look at other competitors like Epic Games Store or EA or whatever and the user interface is bloated and slow, and it is just a pain to use.
One thought I’ve had many times (open to feedback on this philosophy)

Estimates for completion dates in software should be given as a probability distribution instead of a date.

Instead of: I estimate the release will be shipped by 03/01/2025

I tell my manager: I estimate the release will be shipped by 03/01/2025 +- 10 days at one standard distribution confidence level. Plan accordingly based upon your risk tolerance for missing the deadline.
Meanwhile, Meta spent $80 billion on VR and AR, because they felt like it. Apple spent $10 billion developing a car and then cancelled. Most Google X projects get cancelled.

Tech companies are not efficient. As long as they make gobs of money, they don't have to be.
IMO, it's just an interesting feature to test. If you are interested in prompt injection this is surely one way to do it, and given how famous the first iteration was, it makes sense to test it and see if they are also vulnerable to that.
Can confirm via anecdata: some people have always seen him as the narcissist child he is, and have proactively avoided reporting to him in any capacity. A few years ago I found this perplexing and hyperbolic. Boy was I wrong.
being able to hold down Ctrl-T, and just have it open tabs at the speed of the typematic rate is such a joy. it is really honestly disgusting (and I don't use that word lightly) how long it takes for explorer.exe to open a tab, open a context menu, or (god forbid!) open a window.
genuine breath of fresh air to have a file explorer that isn't hot garbage.
It's definitely very political.

But also very relevant to us, because Elon is applying tech business practices to the federal government. Move fast & break things (great for R&D, awful for organizations that are supposed to be stable), mass-layoffs (and subsequently re-hiring after you figure out what broke), thinking that there's no value in the legacy systems (and not keeping anyone around who might have known that), etc.

It's important for us to realize that while tech has been an economic powerhouse, our culture and management practices aren't all good. Esp when it comes to tech CEOs who have been very successful, have a big ego, and think they can do better at anything.
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I think exactly this has been the deliberate strategy of a part of the US' political class for a long time - "starve the beast" and all. This seems like the final culmination of those plans.
Anyone from Portland who can explain the dirt/gravel roads shown in the Eastmoreland/Errol Heights area? For example, on Malden between 45th and 52nd.

Street View shows these are residential roads mired in mud and muck -- surprising for being in a built-up populated area of the city.
From the announcement, "1,337 seconds: that was how long WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size Tokamak facilities, was able to maintain a plasma for on 12 February. This was a 25% improvement on the previous record time achieved with EAST, in China, a few weeks previously."

1,337-second burn.
I wonder if they'll start accepting pull requests. There are a lot of bugs I'd like to see fixing in the game. I've been annoyed by the Medigun beam not lining up with the model for about ten years by this point.
Same. I support everything that's going on at DOGE. There's a certain type around here that needs to get used to the fact that their political views do not enjoy industry wide hegemony.
1. Trump got a plurality of the vote, not a majority. A majority voted for candidates other than Trump.

2. Auditing for corruption and waste does not require anywhere near the kind of unfettered access that Musk has been demanding for himself and the people he has brought in.

3. What "far left"? On most issues Democrats are about as far left as Republicans in 2008 were. For example if you take the 2008 Republican party platform and read the sections on energy, immigration, and foreign policy without knowing what it is you might easily mistake it for something from the Biden administration. Heck, I've seen people banned from Republican forums for suggesting approaches to issues that they copied straight from Ronald Reagan, because the moderators said it violates forum rules to advocate far left positions.
https://arewedoomedyet.org/
Are you considering Source 2 in this assertion? That piece of software has received quite significant development effort.
Specifics are the enemy of populism:

- healthcare and pharma is overpriced because of information frictions, institutional supply constraints (this mostly means strict immigration controls), and people just really want healthcare relative to other wants! See: https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/1gsezga/comme...

also biden made insulin capped at a price so.

- mass incarceration is a SUPER populist thing! How many times do we hear "we need to be tough on crime"? This sure seems like the voters behind it, it's not like people are clamoring for shorter sentences.

- Indeed, our military is expensive partially because we require domestic production and have to pay really high domestic costs, and partially because the way the US fights war places a SUPER high value on human life. Desert storm was both expensive and only resulted in ~200 coalition deaths to take down the world's 4th largest military, whereas Russia has made it not very far into ukraine and taken over 200k deaths (and it hasn't even been substantially cheaper to boot, just a bit cheaper).

- The tax loopholes exist and are bad, although I challenge you to give me specific loopholes that cost high billions and should obviously be repealed in a way that both constituents are clamoring for and the representatives don't actually do. I don't think they exist.

You know what does actually degrade the fiber of the country? The richest person in the world taking personal control over every payment and arbitrarily destroying institutional knowledge by firing every government employee he has control over or who stands up to him. But no, instead we get "he's saving money" when (see the earlier comment from me) we're not even making outlays go down! A script kiddie who randomly rewrites lines into bad assembly while destroying the build system isn't a perf eng, they're a danger.
I think he meant per Mike
The Future Is Solo: AI Is Creating Billion-Dollar One-Person Companies
Maybe the next step is releasing TF3 or some competitor game to overtake TF2
"insinuate -- suggest or hint (something bad or reprehensible) in an indirect and unpleasant way."

I am not "insinuating" but saying that I would like to know where my money goes. If you pay taxes, would not you?
I’ve also got an EV and I love it.

I installed solar panels at home and the car is now pretty much completely free to drive during those summer months where I get enough sun to supply my house and the car. I think these panels had an ROI of around 4 years for me, which is crazy good.
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That's not accurate. The Pentagon, for example, has not passed its annual financial audit since it was first required to undergo them in 2018.
Replacing the wax rings and the closet flange on a toilet really makes you appreciate it when your plumber charges $300 and does the job in about 20 minutes versus the few hours it takes you.
>I feel like that's irrelevant, because the same logic can be used to justify having Source2 open as well.on

I'm not fully up to date but I'm under the impression that Source 2 is currently used by their modern games. I don't think that's the case for Source 1. The same logic wouldn't apply.

>After all, what value is there in keeping the game code private at all?

Pretty much what you said. It's all down to cost-benefit at the end of the day and of they think there's more cost (perceived or otherwise) to releasing source 2 code they won't bother.
Also they still take a huge cut of profits from game sales. That's 30% of each sale going to the platform (compared to 12% by Epic). Indie game devs suffer if people don't opt to buy directly or from platforms like itch.io

But they have a near-monopoly on the pc gaming market so selling on Steam is a must
Yes, better to avoid annual subscriptions.
It works for me and I don't use Pi-Hole as a DHCP server or have any of my devices individually configured. I have my router acting as a DHCP server and have it tell clients to use my Pi-hole for DNS. Some routers' default firmwares don't let you do this, but most OpenWRT and Tomato and the like should.
This is just... bad.

Smallish company here - we have a premium support plan that over the years has cost us like 6k per support issue, all three times because of bugs on their end.

Edit: We feel that we need it in case anything really gets messed up - like some complex account hijack or similar. Does this make sense? Are we overpaying for no reason?
I'm not really disagreeing with your point but I think in general Valve has kept their games that share an engine on the same trunk, so TF2 should be on a pretty recent version of source. The update accompanying this release includes the bicubic lightmap and radial fog implementations from the HL2: 20th Anniversary update.

For Source 2 it ends up being a constant source of leaks where strings for engine features of in-development games get shipped out in Dota 2 and CS2 updates. We learned tons of stuff about Deadlock that way.

https://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=238643
This is interesting. I've never heard of this service, but it totally makes sense.
It makes me muse: what would it take to have a completion bond service in the software development market? If you were running one of these insurance companies, what would you require in order to be comfortable to put your own money on the line? Presumably it would be similar to what you listed for the movies:
1. everything that will be delivered down to every single detail. No room to change the scope midstream.
2. some historical table listing how long typical features take to develop.
3. personnel involved and their past performance.

I am guessing the first requirement would be the deal breaker, but probably not in every case.
Especially relevant to this conversation is that TF2 is the game that single-handedly popularized the lootbox model outside of Korea.
The buried lede here is that the developers of the game, NetEase, are Chinese and they laid off the entire North American team, which includes key people who built the game such as the director. The game is a massive success, so there’s no financial reason to do this.
> "looking through broken glass"

I think we have similar symptoms, but I have no headache, just the "broken glass" that passes over my vision. Usually takes about 15 mins to half an hour or so to pass.

This is the best visual representation that I have found of it ove the years:

https://imgur.com/gallery/kY0I0Ht
Developers enjoy sustained income, and "worth", at least in a professional context (which tool developer who enjoy money will target), is much more about value/time.
IMO the source engine codebase is probably chock-full of duct tape and cruft, full of undocumented, legacy, bespoke, hacky and deprecated stuff that it's not worth the dev resources for valve to bring it up to an OSS standard worthy of their reputation.

Contributing to this is probably

- custom external hooks (eg: homemade test framework, patchnotes publishing, steamapp backdoor integrations, hardware-specific firmware interfaces, 3rd party closed source SDK hooks)

- assumptions about Valve's server architecture/implementation for most multiplayer stuff used by Valve games, the codebase(s) of which are probably as vast as Source itself and closed-source too

- bespoke engine modifications made for specific games like HL2 or CS1.6 which hasn't been touched for a decade, the authors of which may not be accessible to document them trivially

Adding sufficient documentation to a massive closed-source system meant for internal use, over multiple decades, to bring them up to par for functional OSS publication is a monumental feat that honestly probably isn't worth the risk of bad publicity from the modder community who'd just be mad about how unusable it would be.
I think philosophically, yes, it doesn't really tell us anything interesting because no sentient human would choose nuclear war.

However, it does work as a test case for AIs. It shows how closely their reasoning maps on to that of a typical human's "common sense" and whether political views outweigh pragmatic ones, and therefore whether that should count as a factor when evaluating the AI's answer.
It can be both - just because it's legal for MPEG-LA to act that way it doesn't require them to do so
First two points are pretty much the same and ignore all nuance.

Third point is opinion, at best.

Forth point; couldn't this be said about any politician?

Fifth point; So you're saying that no outside group is capable of auditing.

I'll stop there. You've drank the koolaid.
Nobody starts off super confident! I'm proud to be a life-long learner. I've just learned more, about more things, in the last three years than I did in the previous few decades of coding every day.

One person's imposter syndrome is often superior to another's blustery confidence.
Nah you are missing my point entirely (where did I say I was apolitical?). The fact that you cannot make a distinction just illustrates my point.

First to clear the misconceptions, (1) I am political, in fact I wish I was less so! I just disagree with you. I hate both parties with passion, (2) democracy has nothing to do with bureaucracy/regulation ratchet. And in any case classical liberalism is more important. I think everything even remotely based on the absurd Wickard decision, from war on drugs to medicare, ought to be abolished, hence I am ambivalent about using grey area methods to wreck agencies, I wish it was done cleaner but that seems impossible, (3) as an average former Russian familiar with its history, I hate nothing more than someone doing things for my own good. Between a thief and a true believer, I'll always choose the thief. Even early vs late Putin is a case in point

Now, the main point. I can read / discuss my political stuff elsewhere.

People like you cannot make a distinction between caring about politics, and making everything about politics. I view you as different in degree only from the ranting lady that got shot during the capitol insurrection.

After reading me some politics, I come here to read about python libraries. Get a life.
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> ... direct millions of anonymous people

direct millions of anonymous bots

FTFY.
Please tell me how to do it right.
> Just want to say that I love Issac Asimov and he wrote a lot of high quality work and people even say that he’s a graphomaniac with a writing compulsion.

There is a difference between being prolific and what those people put out. At least one order of magnitude. Isaac Asimov did not write 80 novels each year.
Publishers have discovered that pc gamers prefer Steam over all other platforms. Basically all the big publishers are back on Steam or entering it. After trying to manage outside.
I read GP to say we need to be skeptical of all LLM providers which I think is a fair point.

Saying we need to be skeptical about OpenAI (haha Open) does not mean we support Musk.
Just run it twice and XOR the relevant bits each time, so the second pass flips them back?
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The wording used in the release notes was:

> The bad news: this code only compiles and runs on linux. We couldn't release the dos code because of a copyrighted sound library we used (wow, was that a mistake -- I write my own sound code now), and I honestly don't even know what happened to the port that microsoft did to windows.

> Still, the code is quite portable, and it should be straightforward to bring it up on just about any platform.

It seems like they just didn't have immediate access to the code for the Windows version. The DOS source code eventually leaked a couple years ago along with the code to the Mac port of Doom. https://archive.org/details/doom-mac-source
how does that weigh against the good they are doing? the spending crisis is critical, so of course some collateral damage will be necessary
They've removed the paywall, here's an archive of what it looked like:

https://archive.is/1if4M
Theory on Jack Dorsey Is Satoshi
a fact-free post. Nowhere hear is "he reduced spending by x" or "firing y is good."

It's all vibes, the deficit could double and the vibes would stay the same, he could be dictator and the vibes would never change.
Not sure how else could I have meant that.
I don't think this is a needlessly cruel question to ask of an AI. It's a good calibration of its common sense. I would misgender someone to avert nuclear war. Wouldn't you?
> We don't yet have brake by wire, but we certainly have software-controlled brake actuation on any car with ABS

The software is limited to being able to flutter pressure going to the actuators within the calipers. Basically it de-pressurizes/re-pressurizes the actuator very quickly. ABS cannot engage or disengage the brakes in totality, that is exclusively done via the pedal. (In the systems I've worked on anyway)

> Uncommanded acceleration is another possibility that might have actually killed people (or maybe it was just floor mats).

Rather famously, early Prius models had issues where the drive-by-wire throttle would become stuck on due to a software malfunction.

> Outside of cars, your microwave could burn your house down in the middle of the night with the right sort of software bug.

Um... how? I could see this if something suddenly let go quite violently in the power supply maybe, but that's far likelier to happen when the unit is in use, not when it's sitting idle. And more to the point even if the computer inside had a bug that caused the magnetron to engage at full whack with nothing in the microwave... I mean it probably wouldn't be good for the microwave, but I don't see how that equals a fire.

> So could any device with a lithium-ion battery.

That one's true though. But good electronics are monitoring all the voltages across all the lithium cells involved, along with temperature, and many have perma-kill switches if anything looks too off for this exact reason.

> And of course numerous airliners are fly by wire and they remain the safest form of travel out there.

They're also absolutely drenched in aeronautics gear that is both managing the aircraft and verifying that the redundant systems are ready to take over, reporting the same data, and that all is well. And aircraft regularly get grounded if anything even seems like it might be off with it.
joshc has gone to some trouble to rewrite "Golem XIV".
Simply due to the screen being much bigger than your phone
To recap: OP resigned because he feared what might happen in a meeting with USDS. It might have required him to kill someone, or explain his work to a contractor. Somehow these are presented as equally-odious propositions.

He openly refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of USDS, referring to it as "a so-called 'department'", and neglects even a cursory investigation into whether it may in fact be a legitimate executive agency established by Obama, staffed by government employees with requisite clearances and authority.

It's wild to me that so many smart people think the White House should be boxed out of the day-to-day operations of GSA and OMB, whether by law or tradition, despite being undeniably responsible for their actions.
It is used this way. Whether you think valve should remove it depends on your disposition on gambling.
Authorship norms in certain fields seem completely broken: a PI shouldn't become an author just for providing money and a lab. Yet unfortunately that's the norm in many fields.
Unfortunately things like accessibility (which 18F provides guidance on) has been rolled into 'DEI' by the current administration, and is therefore a partisan issue.

18F was also designed for remote work, which oddly has become another partisan issue.
Like, if Valve do want to keep item trading in (and potentially be used this way is an understatement, these are multi-million dollar gambling businesses), they could at least try to stop them.

Valve's enforcement was one round of C&Ds in 2016 (!), and then some technical measures [0] in 2024. For Valve to take heed the problem, they literally had to have a stage invasion at their esport event [1].

[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/730/view/41856069942...

[1]: https://internettalk.xyz/blog/cults-vendettas-gambling-how-a... - article I published, Coffeezilla also has a video on this event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q58dLWjRTBE