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human extinction is far more likely if we keep reproducing than if we slow down. See: climate change etc

"sometimes" is doing a lot of work there. Sometimes it is, but also sometimes it isn't, and Rust at least gives you a choice (you can use Arc all over the place, or if performance …

it's both the economic relationship but also because the Conservative government defunded metrication in the 80's about halfway through it's timeline.

in terms of things that the government provides to the public, absolutely. The US is incapable of doing anything other than through the military.

probably? even if the LLM is trained on flawless C code (which it isn't) it still has no way of reasoning about a complex system, it's just "what token is statistically most likely…

did an oil industry write this?

other than to ensure a cheap exploitable workforce, who cares? Why is it a bad thing?

that's not even a league of "who is the best athlete" it's a league of "who is the best athlete willing to destroy their body"

> There's very little voluntary about signing up to rules that you're required to sign up to in order to have a career in your field. The rules are signed well before a career even…

It's probably better for both companies that he isn't. Better for him to torch a $6b series B and Twitter than mess up spacex & tesla more than he already has

That's an argument about Windows being production ready though, not Postgres...

we must imagine Sisyphus happy...

I'm bearish only in so far as I feel LLM's are not completely useless, but they'll be as revolutionary as spellcheck was. Which is to say, it'll make a few jobs a bit easier.

GraphQL is great if you're a frontend developer. REST is great if you're a backend or infra developer (not because of complexity of developing it, because of complexity of using it…

The only reason companies are mandating RTO is because C suite and investors are heavily leveraged in commercial real estate. It doesn't matter that it's worse for the company it's…

Try using that argument with a xenophobic highschool dropout immigration official...

TN visas are not for software engineers, they are for software analysts, or actual engineers. And they are not dual intent (you can't convert them to a green card).

This is the real reason for the RTO push. Lotta VC's leveraged in to commercial real estate

Not in California, no. It’s why the tech industry exists there and not (as much) in eg Texas. California has a bunch of laws related to labor ( section 96, section 2870 ) that have…

A person who "disagrees" with a federally protected right can simply not exercise that right (don't get an abortion.)

Yeah, just abandon all your friends and family (and don't worry about them, they're on their own), whatever life you've got set up and just move! it's easy!

The people who are going to be screwed the most are immigrants who now have to find another visa sponsor & fast

Do these qualify for the French tech worker visa? Could someone who wants to move to France decide to just start a co-op ?

No, because concerted activity is protected at work. Being a nazi on twitter isn't.

> Seems like that was by design. It is. Philanthropy exists to launder the reputations of the rich, on the one hand, and are paternalistic on the other. The only things that get fu…