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Controversially, yes. The right frame of comparison is not towards average Joe, but towards governments. Billionaires, for better or worse, are independent power sources, which IMO…

We invented those strategies when we had way less RAM. Vast majority of programs could be entirely allocated upfront those days.

I'm without words with Opus 4.7. This is possibly the biggest quality regression of a computer product since Windows Vista. Or maybe ever. So, here is my question to the community:…

I'm using almost exclusively Apple Maps in Poland and never had any issue (that I remember). Your mileage may vary and so on.

Disputable. One could argue that artificial nature of US cities (i.e. lack of centuries of accumulated decisions) were bigger driver of this than cars themselves.

No, you don’t. It only sounds nice. In practice this enables all kinds of spontaneous prosecution with any possible motive.

They very much want to have manufacturing, since it’s a requirement for war. They just don’t realize it. Plus, it is a conflict between all the extra money to spend and long term s…

It's not advantage, it makes for artificial demand for your currency, which completely screws up all the relevant metrics and makes you unable to actually inflate the currency when…

Under normal conditions, when your economy becomes less competitive, your currency gets depreciated, increasing competitiveness. Unless of course everybody is forced to buy your cu…

This is particularly funny if you consider petrodollar to be a bad deal for US, not a good one. Ironically, if yuan becomes new petroleum currency, it might hurt Chinese long term.…

How about not starting a war? Especially as a sudden attack during negotiations? With a country that has been historically bending backwards to find some kind of diplomatic solutio…

Yes, especially murdering a school full of girls during the first days seems like a perfect example of extensive planning and preparation.

Yes, Betamax is undoubtedly the future.

False dichotomy. What ICEs are or aren't has zero impact on whether BEVs are the future.

It’s very disputable whether BEVs are industry’s future and your entire thesis depends on it to be true.

The main issue IMHO is the monopolization of the industry, especially in the US. Once the giants do layoffs, the rest of the market can't absorb the people effectively, which leads…

I would argue effectiveness point. It's certainly helpful, but has a tendency to go for very non idiomatic patterns (like using exceptions for control flow). Plus, it has issues wh…

Yes, but allocations generate ever increasing combinatorial space of possible failure modes. Static allocation requires you to explicitly handle overflows, but also by centralizing…

Personally, I see dynamic allocation more and more as a premature optimization and a historical wart. We used to have very little memory, so we developed many tricks to handle it. …

Nice correction :) It’s actually quite tricky though. The allocation still happens and it’s not limited to, so you could plausibly argue both ways.

Personally I believe static allocation has pretty huge consequences for theoretical computer science. It’s the only kind of program that can be actually reasoned about. Also, not e…

Problem does not lay in not declaring wealth.

Because only poor people need income. If you have enough assets, income is optional.

You don’t get it. Tax system is already very skewed to the top, as in majority of the income comes from a few. The problem is that the top paying those taxes are not the rich peopl…

Eroding them is beneficial to other groups of society, not the rich. It's like with corporations. Corporations love complex legal systems, as they are the only ones with money to d…