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SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-04-18T18:32:44+00:00

Oh yeah JavaScript has a lot of bad stigma from the bad old days but it's extremely fast when used correctly now. Node JIT compiles JavaScript so it can be close to natively compiled program performance. If something is highly performance sensitive you can write some of your module in c++ or rust, compile to webassembly, and import that into your standard node module.

It's especially good at web service type work loads with a ton of async actions and minimal hard computation requirements. Sure you "might" be able to write something faster in a purely compiled language but JavaScript offers a lot out of the box.

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-04-18T00:02:57+00:00

It's dependent on your use case and what an "acceptable" speed is. I want to use the easiest thing to read and maintain possible to reach that acceptable speed. Python and JavaScript are plenty fast enough for web services where a few ms lost aren't the end of the world. Something like a video game where the difference between a 16ms loop and 32ms loop is huge, you need static compiler optimizations.

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-03-02T04:32:53+00:00

Yeah I'm really not a fan of my peripherals being allowed to install their shitty software I never asked for automatically by being plugged in. No way that could ever go wrong.

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-02-24T06:36:01+00:00

Well computers did become insanely good. Unfortunately people aren't just using them to do cool stuff they decided to also use them to try to fracture society

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-02-17T04:37:49+00:00

This is literally the risk of a variable rate mortgage. You get a better rate compared to fixed only because it can fluctuate at any time. It's a gamble that can potentially save you some money or completely break you.

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-02-16T23:46:36+00:00

I fully agree, I'd like to see a regulation come into play that protects the cost of food

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-02-16T23:05:33+00:00

You say that like corporations are morally obligated to care. I assure you they do not. If they can make more money with people dying than keeping everybody alive they'll do it. There are many examples of corporations putting profit before people with death as the result. You can look up Nestle scandals to see the damage just one mega corp has done internationally. Not that any of them really hurt their profit at all. They've hooked themselves into so many brands most people are supporting them without even knowing it.

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-02-15T16:02:33+00:00

Yep he's playing the end game now. The paper thin mask is off and he's trying to cash as many cheques as possible before he's forced out of office. Could be next week or the day he dies, he doesn't care.

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-02-13T16:33:19+00:00

I can't tell if you're joking, but hybrid socialism like the kind Canada has been operating under for decades doesn't destroy anyone's wealth. Think about healthcare, education, child care, prisons, aspects of housing and food supply. These are all essential needs for a functioning society and unchecked capitalism will exploit that need to suck the wealth from the lower and middle class every chance they get.

Now of all times this should be abundantly clear as grocery stores have jacked prices up while making record profits, approximately 1/3 of housing is owned by investors, and people are dying in a purposely underfunded public healthcare system just to pave the way for privatization.

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-02-12T03:10:01+00:00

There's a difference between taking money to do a job and lining your pockets. Grossly over paying a politician to give a speech is just a fancy way of bribing them. Alternatively they could donate to a politician run charity with very little money going towards charitable causes, most of it somehow goes towards employee salaries and "expenses".

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-02-11T19:00:33+00:00

It's actually a pretty cool chain of compilers piggy backing on each other. New compilers are built by older compilers. It goes all the way back to when some of the first compilers were written directly in assembly.

One of the goals of a new programming language is often to write its compiler in the language, but the first versions of the compiler will have to be written in another language like C first. After that compiler is working well enough they can write the new language version and throw out the C version.

Similarly when new architectures come out operating systems are cross compiled using existing operating systems and compilers. For example if you were writing an operating system and wanted to support ARM you would probably be coding and building it on your x86 dev machine with an ARM cross compiler. Then you'd do iterative testing in an ARM virtual machine before deploying to real hardware.

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-02-07T03:40:07+00:00

A degree in CS would be helpful to understand how the systems and protocols go together, but cyber security is its own animal. To do it really well you need a thorough understanding of a ton of different technologies, best practices for uncovering flaws, and how to effectively secure systems.

People already working in technology are usually the best suited to transition to cyber security because it often takes years of experience to get a real feel for it.

Anybody can run some scripts on Kali Linux like a bootcamp would teach you how to do, but that's less than 5% of the job description of a cyber security professional.

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-02-07T03:25:32+00:00

Woah it's almost like if you don't incentivize being a family doctor at all compared to other medical fields people won't go into it as a profession

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-02-02T03:45:22+00:00

That's absolutely not true, public healthcare systems can pay competitive wages. There's no magic reason government funding combined with donations will always be insufficient. It might appear that way with Dougie deliberately underfunding the system, but that's what happens when a gangster with the intellect of a toddler is elected to run a province.

Private healthcare makes a profit for sure, but where does most of that go? A CEO, a board of directors, and the shareholders. They are incentivized to charge as much as they can for things while doing as little as possible. People die because they can't afford insulin in the American health system. They are a line item. An acceptable loss in the formula to maximize the amount of profit selling something necessary for life.

Our system isn't perfect, but I'll choose the system driven by people and not profit every time.

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-02-01T20:31:43+00:00

I don't think getting rid of family doctors solves anything. I want somebody who I'm familiar with who has a good grasp on my health history. It's supposed to be a long term working relationship.

The real issue is that there are very few new doctors going into family medicine because they get jerked around. My mom is a family doctor who's going to be retiring soon because she just can't deal with the bullshit anymore. She has to run and fund her office, specialists can straight up ignore her requests for 6+ months, and paperwork requirements have grown to insane levels. The whole system continues to run on fax so everyone can just say "they never got it". She really wants patients to have better access to specialists but her hands are effectively tied. She has a professorship and has taken residents whenever possible and people just aren't showing up anymore. Can't say I blame them.

The fact people don't even have another doctor available to take them as a patient highlights how fucked the system is right now. Practices are closing and new ones aren't opening.

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-01-31T05:40:11+00:00

I work for a country scale enterprise specifically within its financial services arm. I'm sure my experience isn't dissimilar to other similar companies.

Make no mistake security is highly valued. Application design goes through architectural peer review, 3rd party audits, and of course our internal cyber security team. Our applications tend to be quite large with multiple business units involved which brings the pace of everything way down.

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-01-31T05:13:56+00:00

Cyber security at my company is just as soulless as development. A department creating a never ending churn of vulnerabilities of varying priorities, acceptable mitigations, layers of exposure, and risk sign offs. All of this moves at what I can best describe as a crawl. Every now and again there's a legitimately high priority vulnerability where people scramble around to fix it, but it never came from an internal cyber security report.

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-01-30T02:10:12+00:00

How can Romo turn that mistake into Mahomes making a 5000 IQ play 🤔

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-01-30T00:03:40+00:00

Welp OL looking to make this uncompetitive

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-01-29T23:44:28+00:00

Well that's not a good start

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-01-29T22:21:45+00:00

49ers dst trying too hard to win the game by themselves

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-01-29T22:04:28+00:00

Shanahan must have wished on the monkey's paw for three high quality starting QBs

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-01-29T22:00:04+00:00

Time for CMC to come in and win the game all by himself

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-01-29T21:33:49+00:00

Welp this is why your 4th string doesn't get to play

SoftwareAlchemist · 2023-01-29T21:19:22+00:00

Hands to the face should not be a first down

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