>Think deeply about it and tell me if it is not or or not even

I think I just experienced a segfault

Why do they call it even when you of in the true number of out false odd the number?

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do Look more like?

Hey, why segfault and not stack overflow?

Nice, that swaps odd and even around.

Leadership roles, especially in large corporations, often favor people who are opportunistic. They don’t care about the product, they want that promo.

And to win that promo you have to ship big and ship fast. So often times what you see is people delivering vaporware that has the appearance of high quality (lots of promises, looks amazing in the slides deck, carefully selected data shows great numbers, etc). It’s a gamble, and sometimes it pays off.

By the time people accept that it’s hot garbage, the leaders have already moved on to the next opportunity. And it’s not that they were able to fool their managers, because their managers are playing the same game on an even larger scale, so they care even less.

Of course, this is not always the case. But there is a bias, and it tends to show up more in large organizations (government, large corporations, etc.)

Citizens of those same rich countries will often say with a straight face that rich people need to pay more to support the poor.

How about rich counties paying more to support the poor counties? Should we all pay 90% tax to support the billions of the third world?

The usual first-world disapproval over wealth disparity... often oblivious to the fact that you, the reader, were the global 1% all along

The minimum entry requirement for top 1% inclusion is about 1 million dollars.

So your comment is just wrong.

oh damn i guess its 2%. radically different. if its lower then skill issue

For programmers I would say graphs or at least thinking in graphs is a common one.

Some would say SAT is also a handy trick but I’ve personally never used it.

SAT, SMT, ILP, MILP.

Bailouts are not capitalism

They are if they happen under capitalist states, which is what the US is.

So if something is declared "capitalist", it maintains that state in perpetuity, regardless of the actions it takes in reality?

That is not what I said, nor implied. In the US the means of production are owned by private individuals. It is capitalist. You may not like the form it's taking but it is what it is.

No, but it is a materialist analysis of capitalism in practice, rather than unrealized idealism

Queues are not socialism?

That’s a very clean API.

It's very close to the SMTLIB API.

Page 19 in https://smt.st/SAT_SMT_by_example.pdf shows an example in both Python and SMTLIB. After looking at a guide like TFA this book is a good next step.

>warmer

I actually wish they’d make it colder.

Matter of fact, my ideal “assistant” is not an assistant. It doesn’t pretend to be a human, it doesn’t even use the word “I”, it just answers my fucking question in the coldest most succinct way possible.

When I buy a refrigerator, if a model has insane power consumption that makes me think about my electric bill, I’d be less inclined to buy it. The refrigerator manufacturer is going to sell less. So in a way, you can say that they’re definitely paying for those wasted resources.

For software companies it’s the same, in a way. They pay whatever the consumers deem appropriate. It’s just that consumers don’t really care for the most part, so the cost is basically $0. RAM is cheap, and if a company prioritizes shipping features over optimizing RAM, that’s almost always going to be the deciding factor.

First of all, RAM is not cheap. Second, the average consumer is not able to install more RAM even if it was. Consumer hardware often has barely enough RAM to run Windows.

> It’s just that consumers don’t really care for the most part, so the cost is basically $0.

It's zero, because most people cannot just not use WhatsApp, M$ Teams, etc. because WhatsApp has a monopoly on their centralized garden.

It's not like a Matrix where I can easily switch clients like I can switch refrigerators.

Even if someone would be able to provide an alternative, Facebook would just "kill" them like Apple did kill Beepers iMessage alternative.

Power consumption of newly sold refrigerators is regulated by the U.S. government (and, I assume, other big countries), so I don't think this argument works in your favor.

> RAM is cheap

My time isn't

How expensive is it? Is it expensive enough to suffer a month of feature lag? A year of feature lag? A decade of feature lag? Probably not.

Regardless, we’re talking about the average user. As the article implies, on average, users’ time is in fact cheap compared to the alternative, or maybe the time cost is simply insignificant.

What is the alternative?

Additional 100k cost per year vs time, energy and hardware for billions of users?

> RAM is cheap

Have you checked RAM prices this week?

Cheap in the sense that most target users don’t have to worry about allocating it

Are you sure? Or do you think users only run one app on their desktop?

Do you think most people have 128GB laptop? It’s more likely to be 8 or 16 GB. The OS os likely taking 4 or more, the browser two or more. And if you add any office applications, that’s another few GB gone. Then how many Electron monstrosities you think the user can add on top of that?

Some PM: users are locked in to our ecosystem; they can't load other apps after ours! /s

But for real, the average number of apps people downloading get fewer year over year. When the most popular/essential apps take up more RAM, this effect will only exacerbate. RAM prices have also doubled over the last 3 months and I expect this to hold true for a couple more years.

> And honestly when things are cheap, who cares.

It depends what metrics are considered. We can’t continue to transform earth into a wasteland eternally just because in the narrow window it takes as reference a system disconnect reward from long terms effects.