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The grandparent I was responding to said: >If a stock never intends to pay dividends, the value of the stock is simply the price the next shumck is willing to pay. So, by construct…

And you can sell your tulip. But if the mania stopped and you suddenly _couldn’t_ find another person to sell it to, would you now be upset you paid $5000 for a tulip? What’s the v…

Yes, the profits it pays out are the one thing that actually makes sense, but the premise of the grandparent post was to ask what a share is worth _without_ dividends. And the answ…

That’s the story, but it’s bullshit. The underlying intrinsic value of a stock can only be materialized if the company liquidates and you receive a share of the sell off of its ass…

Amen. It always baffled me that cross compiling was ever considered a special, weird, off-nominal thing. I’d love to understand the history of that better, because it seems like it…

The tough truth is that there already is a cargo for C/C++: Conan2. I know, python, ick. I know, conanfile.py, ick. But despite its warts, Conan fundamentally CAN handle every part…

The ENIAC team’s decision to spin off and incorporate was surely pushed along by how they got screwed multiple times by the academics - Goldstine and Von Neumann, plus the universi…

Wait, where are you thinking the von Neumann paper which came from?

I was sad to see you guys shut down - I think you were on to something with deterministic faster-than-realtime replay. Not surprised it was hard to find paying customers, but for w…

The real answer is that once LLMs passed a "casual" application of the Turing test, it just made us realize that the "casual Turing test" is not particularly interesting. It turns …

Firstly, the models that pass the Math Olympiad aren’t the same models as the ones you’re saying “pass the Turing test”. Secondly, nothing actually passes the Turing test. They pas…

Before you can learn how far away an object is, you must decide: which laser return corresponds to which object? In fact, what counts as an object? Where does a tree stop and becom…

Then you deeply underestimate how difficult the problem is, and deeply misunderstand where all the effort has been spent in developing autonomous vehicles.

Insightful points! It would be interesting if, with all the anxiety about vibe coding becoming the new normal, its only lasting effect is the emergence of smaller B2B companies tha…

Great take. There's a line in the first season that runs as an undercurrent through the whole show ("Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets you to the thing"). Joe…

But invoking No True Scotsman would imply that the focus is on gatekeeping the profession of programming. I don’t think the above poster is really concerned with the prestige aspec…

We’re using the C++ Actor Framework (CAF) to provide the actor system implementation, and then we ended up using a stupid old protobuf to describe the compute graph. Protobuf doubl…

Hmm, you think? I’m currently engineering a system that uses an actor framework to describe graphs of concurrent processing. We’re going to a lot of trouble to set up a system that…

As Douglas Adams and xkcd #1227 have pointed out, the older generations have complained about this sort of thing since Plato. However, I do not believe this observation settles the…

Ok - it sounds like you’re right, but I think despite your clarification I remain confused. Isn’t the linked post all about how those two things always have a mingling at the bound…

>(which it rarely is) You're saying it's _rare_ for developers to want to advance a dependency past the ancient version contained in is? Speaking for the robotics and ML space, tha…

Check it in and build it yourself using the common build system that you and the third party dependency definitely definitely share, because this is the C/C++ ecosystem?

I find this sentiment bewildering. Can you help me understand your perspective? Is this specifically C or C++? How do you manage a C/C++ project across a team without a package man…

Genuine question - are there examples (research? old systems?) of the interface to the operating system being exposed differently than a library? How might that work exactly?

But if I get to Bring My Own Dependencies, then I know the exact versions of all my dependencies. That makes testing and development faster because I don’t have to expend effort te…