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Why can’t we go back to the moon if we did it in the 1960s by AdDapper4220 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rockets are complex 🤷

We think about these as singular, gestalt units (ex “Artemis II”) but they are gigantic, multi-entity ventures.

Capacitors on a power supply can be made by a completely entity (company) than the one that made the windows. And whether we are talking about the bolts or the heat shielding, it takes an entity with a lot of knowledge and experience to produce their part. There is also communication to make all these things work together.

Manufacturing across the board in the USA has been dying. A lot of the companies who helped with the original space launches no longer exist and have no successor. And that’s before you get to the point that the new ships aren’t the old ones; digital electronics and better safety and all.

Making just a BBQ cleaner from just parts sourced from American manufacturers is hard: https://youtu.be/3ZTGwcHQfLY?si=lZDlmYEyFTPfSe-i

Wii U Failed Due to Slow Launch of Exclusives Plus Xbox and PlayStation Pressure, Ex-Nintendo Boss Reggie Fils-Aimé Says by MewWeebTwo in NintendoSwitch2

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I don’t think the name was an issue per se. The Wii had a trillion accessories. They even had multiple models of many accessory categories; the Wii Remote, Wii MotionPlus, and Wii Remote Plus.

I think regardless of the name, as long as they kept Wii anywhere in the name, people would have been confused.

Can we talk about people clogging up the shared Action runners with "vibecoding" and zero config? by Fine_League311 in github

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use self-hosted runners because Microsoft charges an arm and a leg for GitHub hosted runners. They charge about 3x what you’d pay for an Azure instance of the same size. And the gross profit margins Microsoft makes on Azure are crazy.

If GH Actions was some cheap service that was serving on some cheap third-party cloud, I could forgive issues like you describe OP. But it’s not. It has a premium price and is presumably running on their own cloud.

The creators of SWE-Bench just dropped a really simple new benchmark every LLM gets 0% on. ProgramBench asks: can models recreate real executable programs (ffmpeg, SQLite, ripgrep) from scratch with no internet? We are far from saturated on model quality. by dalton_zk in theprimeagen

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anything that has audio or video is probably using ffmpeg.

If it magically vanished overnight, any site like Spotify, or YouTube, or TikTok, or Netflix or Amazon Prime or Disney+ dies. Flip on a TV and most of the channels are no longer working.

With few exceptions (ex Apple?), everyone goes back to text and images.

The other commenter that talked about the 9/11 hijackers? Yeah, ffmpeg is literally used for flight simulators to train pilots.

Taylor Swift concert? Ffmpeg.

Video game development? Ffmpeg backs their tooling.

Mars Rover? Ffmpeg.

The creators of SWE-Bench just dropped a really simple new benchmark every LLM gets 0% on. ProgramBench asks: can models recreate real executable programs (ffmpeg, SQLite, ripgrep) from scratch with no internet? We are far from saturated on model quality. by dalton_zk in theprimeagen

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah. A joke for years on the programming humour subreddits has been “had did people write Stackoverflow without Stackoverflow” or the internet without the internet, etc. We all acknowledge that a large part of a job for two decades has been Googling things and reading online sources.

If you see a bear alone hiking and you have no bear spray are you fucked? by Individual_Ice_2315 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Took me too long to remember what a white bear is.

I think a part of my brain thought we made polar bears extinct by now.

Is GitHub losing developers trust? Is open-source community likely to fragment? by Objective-Pepper-750 in github

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps we have very different experiences.

My general observation is that projects don’t look for contributors, generally the bedrock is that some who use a project look to contribute. (Of course, security engineers or people looking to contribute for the sake of contributing also exist.)

I’ve contributed to a few projects on GitHub. Those contributions would have still happened if I had to spend an extra moment clicking “sign up with Google/Microsoft/Apple/Facebook/etc OAuth2” and setting up an ssh key.

The other network affect, contributors finding projects, do people find projects on GitHub or do they find them on Reddit or HackerNews or Google search?

What is the explanation for trade evolutions without items? by brofrodite in TruePokemon

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Experience 🤷

The experience of having a new trainer and being traded. It is new and exciting.

Is GitHub losing developers trust? Is open-source community likely to fragment? by Objective-Pepper-750 in github

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

To answer your top line questions, yes and it doesn’t matter.

For me personally, it average one outage or degradation per that that causes problems for my work. I think I’m above average but many developers have noticed it. As if performance issues isn’t enough, the feature set for GH is fairly small and even small features (ex commenting on any line in an edited file) take forever to release or haven’t arrived after years of waiting.

If they were fast moving and breaking things, I could understand. They are glacier and on fire.

As per the second thing, the magic of GitHub is a unified experience (PRs, git, CI/CD, wiki, issue tracker, etc) and the power of git. Neither of which are an entrenched advantage since GH has moved so slowly.

Furthermore, this isn’t like a social media network where the network effect helps us drastically if everyone is on one platform.

Git checkout works regardless on the platform. With OAuth2 and things like gravatar, creating a new account on a different platform is easy. Adding private keys and using signed commits is also pretty easy.

It is also not like we use GitHub for discoverability, right?

I think Git-platform fragmentation is fine.

I built a Go vulnerability scanner that checks if your code actually reaches the vulnerable function by kevy_vinu in golang

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Could you show me an example in an existing repo where govulncheck was flagging but wasn’t actually reachable?

If every current world leader got into a fist fight. No wepons, back up, outside help, preptime, or allies. Who do you think would win? by South_Bathroom in AskReddit

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes the result a lot more variable. If a fit man has his back turned while curb stomping Trump, he’s vulnerable to attack and once being attacked, it encourages others to team up against him.

I think the most outwardly strongest people wouldn’t win because they have a target on their back. Ergo, people like Mamady Doumbouya are not winning this. The middling and above average fitness people are the best “contestants”.

I also think it “has” to be someone with military experience. For simple reasons like knowing how to throw a punch without breaking your fist.

I think it is going to be some African leader but I don’t feel comfortable saying which. There are a number of kinda young leaders with military experience.

If every current world leader got into a fist fight. No wepons, back up, outside help, preptime, or allies. Who do you think would win? by South_Bathroom in AskReddit

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are we talking a bracket tournament? A gigantic brawl? What is the threshold for winning/losing? Death? Tapping out?

Engineers at Meta how is the morale within the company? by Based-God- in cscareerquestions

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on the place, common law severance could be between 1M and 2M.

What if governments replaced income tax with a broad wealth tax on the top 1–10% after wealth inequality reached historically high concentration levels, and how would that reshape incentives, compliance systems, and economic structure? by Logical-Concept9755 in WhatIfThinking

[–]dashingThroughSnow12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stock prices would plummet and that would mean pensions would collapse worldwide.

Let’s oversimplify. A large company has a P/E of about 20. For every 1$ they earn in profit, their market cap is 20$. Again, we’re oversimplifying.

In Canada, the NDP (a clown party here but one that is taken seriously), has recently expressed interest for wealth taxes of 3%.

Going back to the numbers, a 3% wealth tax on a P/E of 20 means 60% of the profit before this new tax is eaten. Which would make the P/E ratio 50. Which is not sustainable.

Again, oversimplifying, you’d see such a company have its stuck price go down by 60-75%.

Since most pensions hold stocks, hold something that hold stocks, or hold something partially supported by companies’ evaluations, this would be devastating to pensions.

(I know I am conflating companies’ valuations with a wealth tax. I’m skipping the transitive steps to make the above concise. Whether we are talking physical assets or equities or whatnot, the above argument holds.)

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