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I just recently started using Babashka and it is great, excellent productivity boost for text manipulation scripting tasks.

My last job was mostly C++, my current job is mostly Clojure but I still do a lot of C++ stuff on the side as it is appropriate for some of my side projects.

Clojure is so much nicer to work with and this really resonates with me; I'm always still having to check language docs for C++ stuff but only very rarely for Clojure. Being able to keep almost all of it in my head is a huge benefit as I don't have to break my "flow" nearly as much.

This was my first thought when I saw the screenshots of it being sad that it had no memory. One of my favorite shows.

Children sticking around isn't the only option. My mom intends to follow me once I've found a place to settle down in the next few years. I'll give her extra money which should allow her to live quite well on top of what she has saved and she's already expressed interest in helping with grandkids if I have any (I probably will at some point).

Obviously this plan is made much easier by remote work and good earning potential for tech workers and I suppose some parents will be more attached to where they currently live than my mom is. But multi-generational is not outright impossible, I'd wager a significant chunk of the population could pull it off to varying degrees in one way or another.

I think they mean apps that don't just stop working when you're offline, not apps that are always offline.

Seconding avoid benzos, nearly saw them destroy someone's life and it seems like doctors prescribe them way too easily.

Yeah I meant together, I didn't make that obvious at all. I still think that is a far cry from "no commercial use" though.

I agree it seems a little odd, there's probably some kind of a bias for people using those languages being more likely to answer the survey.

Within 3 years Within 7 years

What is your justification for these estimates? I've been trying to pay attention to what various experts think (I'm not one) and it seems like far from a foregone conclusion that this will be the case, and it might not even be the case that scaling up produces the same outsized benefits we've seen so far.

François Chollet for example seems like someone who is pretty in the know about current SOTA and is not nearly as optimistic best I can tell.

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1620617016024645634?cxt=...

But at the same time they absolutely have to learn how to use the new AI tools. It will be critical to stay competitively productive as an adult or just to be able to fit in. There will be important new tools every few months or years.

Definitely agree here.

Where this is really headed in my opinion is by the 2040s high bandwidth brain computer interfaces that tightly integrate cognition with advanced AI systems (2-10 X smarter than humans) start to become commonplace.

My gut feeling is this is pretty insane and unlikely to be the case but I suppose insane things have happened before.

Eh what? My last job was at a bank, not exactly known for having the most interesting tech. They had several teams that used Scala and I've seen a lot of job listings for roles using Scala.

Haskell and Prolog slightly less so but at my current job (mostly Clojure, which is even less popular than Scala and Haskell according to the stackoverflow dev survey) we do have one guy who prototypes stuff in Prolog sometimes.

In fact according to the SO dev survey Scala and Haskell are used by almost 5% of professional developers, almost as much as Swift which is hardly seen as a language with "effectively zero" commercial use. They also rank a lot higher in the salaries section than many more popular languages. And I don't know how recruiters think but if somebody lists that they know Haskell on their resume and are applying for a JS job I'd assume they can learn JS pretty quick.

I tested this on FF/Chrome/Safari on an M1 Max, couldn't see any difference at all between FF and Chrome but on Safari it was incredibly slow (which actually let me drive the car, that thing turns fast). I also wasn't aware prior to clicking that it was even possible to create web apps like this.

Just to be clear I'm not trying to equate child abuse to circumcision or view them as morally equivalent, I just don't think its a stretch to call circumcision mutilation, even if it generally isn't intended to be harmful.

I'm not trying to equate circumcision with child abuse. Most people having their kids circumcised aren't intending any harm, although some proponents (looking at you Kellogg) did believe that it caused harm and promoted it for that purpose.

Chopping off body parts without consent? Really? It isn't as bad as FGM but I think it could definitely qualify as mutilation even if it is socially acceptable in the US and Jewish/Muslim communities.

Yeah I think you're definitely right wrt the attitude big studios are taking with their games these days. If they swap to mobile they might pick up a different audience but someone will have to fill the void with quality PC games. If Finnish and Japanese (and small US) studios fill that void I'm totally A-OK with that personally.

I should quit playing games

Sadly I'm right there with you... life has gotten too busy and most of my old gamer friends have moved on to other games that would require a huge time investment to get up to speed in. Now I just play casual games with IRL friends and my brother, haven't played a PC game in ages. Fingers crossed for Starfield though.

PC and console gaming have been shrinking relative to mobile gaming in recent years

Is mobile gaming actually taking customers from PC though or is it just growing faster because there are a lot of accessible casual games? I know a lot of PC gamers and I can't imagine any of them swapping to gaming primarily on mobile. I don't know any people who are hobbyist mobile gamers.

elevated for blacks because the commit more crime

True perhaps, but very misleading. Consider that blacks are far more likely to end up in jail (and for longer) for the same crime a white person commits. Consider that ending up in jail and with a criminal record puts someone in a situation where they're more likely to commit crimes in the future. Sounds to me like racial bias is creating a higher likelihood of the police encounters that may result in shootings occurring.

https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/demographic-d... https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/racial-disparity-us... https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2019...

This is patently absurd. I'm neither trans nor religious but hypothetically I'd much rather announce that I joined a religion anywhere in the US than announce being trans in the small town where my grandparents live today. Let alone Alabama 50 years ago.

Yes in very progressive environments you will get more support for announcing the later but that's because being in the later group is actually a challenge while religion has built up a reputation for maligning groups of people for things out of their control and for generally anti-scientific beliefs. Being part of a group that largely denies evolution and climate change is obviously not going to grant you any favors in groups with an academic (especially STEM) background.

I think this is the answer, I opened Amazon in Firefox where I have an adblocker and the first result was KitchenAid. In Safari w/ no adblocker the entire first row was ads and there was an extra ad above that for spatulas taking up another row's worth of space for effectively two rows of ads before real results.

I'm probably in the minority but pasta and frozen pizzas are about the extent of my cooking skill and there are about dozen excellent restaurants within a 10 minute walk... it isn't good for my wallet.

I'm just mildly annoyed that most languages disallow kebab-case I assume almost entirely so '-' can be used for infix subtraction (and maybe decrement) without having to surround it with spaces... not a good tradeoff imo.

Furthermore, matters defined in s. 847.001 include "Nudity," "Sexual battery," and "Sexual conduct" defined pretty much as you'd expect but without any reference to would-be exonerating literary context.

If you inject part of the definition of "knowingly" in 847.012 1a into 3b you end up with something like:

"A person may not knowingly provide to a minor a printed item containing any matter defined in s. 847.001 if the person has knowledge of the character and content of any material described in this section which is reasonably susceptible of examination by the defendant/provider and which warrants further inquiry."

I'm not proficient in legalese but there exists a reading of this where I can't hand 1984 or To Kill a Mockingbird to my (hypothetical) 17 year old child without committing a felony because I have knowledge of the character and content of the books. Both reference rape and at least 1984 has sexual acts as part of the narrative (maybe TKaM too, it has been a minute since reading it). A series like ASOIAF would be similarly impacted and maybe even some young adult books I read while in high school.

Maybe the written works have to have no literary value for their distribution to be made illegal? That certainly isn't obvious though, is incredibly subjective, and the statutes are incredibly vague. Very puritanical and regressive imo.

Reading, writing, arithmetic... not always science though right? I bet a good chunk of parents don't want evolution taught in schools. A smaller but significant chunk probably don't want climate change taught in environmental science either.

On the subject of political graft and schools, my Florida high school purchased *every single student* a pair of cheap earbuds for a *single* audio question on a standardized test everyone in the school had to take. Probably in 2015 or 2016. Pretty sure some politician was friends with or related to someone who stood to make money off those earbuds...

edit: everyone in my grade at least

And interestingly there's a strong argument to be made that gun control has already been implemented by the conservatives of a different era to hurt a specific out-group people were conditioned into hating at the time.

https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-...

According to the article

The law requires that all library books selected be: 1. Free of pornography and material prohibited under s. 847.012.

s. 847.012. includes...

(3) A person may not knowingly sell, rent, or loan for monetary consideration to a minor: (b) Any book, pamphlet, magazine, printed matter however reproduced, or sound recording that *contains* any matter defined in s. 847.001, ...

s. 847.001 includes numerous definitions (including a rather broad "Sexual content") many of which are devoid of exonerating literary context. I think the implication here is that many popular books like the ASOIAF series, many young adult books that I personally read in high school, and many important classics like 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, etc. that I don't find at all age-inappropriate for a high schooler would all be banned from school libraries. Unless I'm having some grave misunderstanding here Florida has just made it a felony for a high school lit teacher to loan a student a copy of *1984*.

This is absurd puritanical behavior that frankly this makes me frightened for the US.

Although it isn't clear I'm assuming the explanation of the second ranking omits some information about it taking cost of living into account.

Best I can tell these new laws apply to all grade levels. What justifiable reason is there for limiting what books high schoolers can access other than "I don't want my kid to come across facts or opinions that might contradict my worldview."

High schoolers are going through puberty and many are sexually active so statutes (s. 847.012) banning "detailed verbal descriptions or narrative accounts of sexual excitement" in books are just puritanical nonsense. That would definitely rule out ASOIAF and probably 1984. I'm pretty sure it would even rule out some young adult novels I read in high school and high schoolers are the target audience.

For lower grade levels I suppose there is maybe a more reasonable argument to be had over what is age appropriate but "felony for unapproved books" seems like a pretty absurd conclusion to reach.

Frankly I don't think I need any cover to demonize parents calling for book bans.

The implication of your first claim seems to be that fringe opinions would never become mainstream in society. I think essentially all of human history contradicts that pretty well...

I think the "no need" is referencing the lack of a societal or consumer need, not the "need" of the company to make more money.

So... Microsoft bought 48 or 49% of OpenAI right? Integrating this into Excel would make everyone an excel power user.