wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

The frustrating thing isn't the small problems, in chasing these small problems one might find a big one that isn't as easy to fix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

Crumbs and pennies I need all of mine

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

I've heart this being repeated a lot so it is likely not something you came up with yourself.

I always become suspicious when a software engineer has been working on a problem +10 years. The type that spend their time upgrading angularJS to angular or something like that.

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

He is a kwak, instead of actual science he shills these ideas on podcasts because the general public is interested in it or something like that. Whenever I meet someone from Harvard I think of this guy and automatically think less of them. Maybe that is wrong of me but then the Harvard alumni ought to have called him out on his BS.

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

I've been part of 4 commercial project that used the semantic web in one way or another. All these project or at least their semantic web part where a failure. I think that I have a good idea on where the misunderstanding about the semantic web originate. The author does seem to have a good understanding and is right about the semantic web forcing everything into a single schema. Academia sells the straight jacked of the semantic web as a life long free lunch at an all-you-can eat-buffet but instead you are convicted to a life sentence in prison. Adopting RDF is just too costly because it is never the way computers or humans structure data in order to work with it. Of course everything can be organised in a hyper graph, there is a reason why Steven Wolfram also uses this structure, they just so flexible. At the end of the day I don't agree with the author opinion of the semantic web having much of a future, I did my best but it didn't work out, time for other things.

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

Unrelenting these people pretending to be your friend, life so futile it borders on evil.

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

People I know in academia complain about the same issues, publish or perish and all that. They even opine about formal economic models that predict that more funding/subsidies for science leads perversely to less outcome in total and not just relative to the size of the additional investment. However when you take all this as a reason to not take this industry as serious as they would like they get all offended.

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

Funny he don't mention recruiting engineers hate it but is what the OG's did.

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

It is the opinion of the EU Comission that monopolies are ok as long as they do not abuse their power and if they do they get slapped with a fine.

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

I bet C# and F# are actually nice languages and I shortly considered adopting them together with Unity but at the end of the day I was still suspicious of Microsoft, and support for other platforms then windows. The article honestly sounds a bit like a straw man argument. Maybe bloomberg could have made another tech choice but then again I don't know the details.

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

This will clear that up for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjSE1h_Ad9E

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

He got fired because he was embarrassing his employer.

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

It might have some explaining power but I can think of counter examples from my own personal life. Schizophrenia just like autism a very defuse category that covers many non overlapping conditions.

I think this silly joke by jreg about Schizotism/Autizmophrenia explains it best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHuFSnhKG9I

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

This happens a lot mathematicians might have their favourite object they study like Category theory and then get hung up on categories of categories but might forget that many simple things aren't categories like the prime numbers under addition because 2 + 2 = 4 and that is not prime.

Not just programming or math, in physiology you have entire research groups worked up about a molecule that causes dementia and after decades of research realise that the story was a lot more complicated than that.

You can almost recognise a healthy mind by the lack of such dogma, just don't make it a rule that would defeat its purpose.

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

  if timeslots.stream().matchNone(Timeslot::hasntEnded) {
    new Timeslot()
  }

Would be an improvement I guess. The way I found this code it was also wrapped in a @Transaction so it creates a new object in the database with spring magic. There was a lot of other things wrong with the code, that was not my point though. Lots of people just think FP better and of course in theory they are right but most people don't think for themselfs.

People are quick to act insulted whenever I give some critical remarks about FP.

When would you use a forEach function instead of a for each statement, I suggest maybe only use the function if the callback is actually a higher order function you get from somewhere else as I don't see the point of wrapping your logic in a closure.

Same thing with the use of observables/reactivity in UI programming, again it is illegal to question this orthodoxy. But then you take a look at how graphics programmers use immediate mode programming and fancy compute shaders to draw the entire frame every frame it makes me smile at how much simpler everything becomes.

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

Great I am looking forward to seeing mode code like this:

  timeslotRepo.findAll().stream().filter(timeslot->timeslot.getEndDate()==null).first().ifPresentOrElse(()->{}, ()->{new Timeslot(DateTime.now())})

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

Yea but HOW? Do you think there is some cheap pareto improvement to be had here. For god sake, the article is advocating for hurting and killing people and then complaining about a lack of political consensus.

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

The is wrong on so many levels, in most places be it country or company the bus is being steered towards what is thought to result in global carbon reduction. This is a classic example of a moth and bailey argument, if only we had the same confidence about what to do about climate change as the fact of climate change. According to this article it is as if we only need to elect the right people and then those shall do the right thing.

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

CO2 is not irrelevant to this story, the nitrogen produced by farming in bad for a type of growth called raised bogs that thrives only in nitrogen poor conditions. Now you might not care about this unimpressive shrugs and grasses but they are one of natures most effective ways of storing carbon.

To be honest I don't know how much this raised bogs plays a role in the carbon calculus, but the dutch government is not doing a god job explaining this.

wrnr

hace 4 añosdiscuss

The third system, WebGPU, solves the memory management problem. Another thing cuda does it gives you is a convenient way to describe how to share data between cpu and gpu. No good solution for this yet, I'm hoping for some procedural rust macro.

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