truckerbill

Never underestimate the amount of people that just go where the wind blows

I'm saying be more specific not less

Haha oh you're right, was misframing in my head the word countable as meaning finite.

I even provide the definition of countable infinity in my counterargument without realising it, though maybe that too is a misunderstanding.

You are right because you can recursively add clauses. 'Buffalo buffalo...' or 'This was my dad's dad's dad's...' If you think you have a full set you can always add one more

I meant here, though I think there is also tendency in general

As a side note I think the state of current discourse has shown that anything other than concrete language presents too much opportunity to talk past each other. So I don't think talking about yimbys is specific enough (and its too tempting to strawman). Same for magas and libs, they are broad labels for a broad spectrum of people

That's kinda the whole point, but noone is framing that situation as the problem. They would rather think that homeless people are innately inferior and thus deserve to suffer, rather than victims of circumstance in one way or another.

It never changed from the single-income household era. And people wonder why the high street is dying.

The government is accountable (in theory). The government is a different kind of entity with different behaviour to a single human, or even a corporation. Your argument is a semantic one and was not made in good faith I think...

But if the government acted more selfishly , like a corporation (it's heading that way), then yes you are also competing with the government in certain areas. It partly depends if the billionaires in question and your semi-fictional idea of government are colluding directly. In which case you would be competing with a n-trillion dollars of capital for things like housing, some of which is controlled by billionaire beneficiaries. Essentially government monopolies are what you might be worried about, which do exist.

In reality the government also spends some of its money on infrastructure and other common-goods, which creates common wealth. The government (with central banks) also creates money so the idea of direct competition (which makes no sense to me outside of something like sovereignty over large amounts of land / mineral wealth / taxable subjects ) isn't so relevant.

If you are competing for resources with billionaires, who's taxes also go down, you are losing money.

Compute shaders from a high-level pipeline perspective. How data moves from CPU and between shaders to accomplish a task.

Thanks. Yes I was thinking more about the (traditionally) CPU side of graphics or games, things like CPU skinning or skeletal animation.

I was wondering mostly about the FFI overhead. So the question should really be, is it suitable for real-time low-latency contexts? But I have your answer :)

I still would love to find a use for it one day. If there's ever a chance you could go the futhark route and allow for compilation of CPU/GPU routines I think it would be an ideal kind of syntax.

Is it possible to use BQN in a high performance context? How much overhead does the runtime, and FFI have? Could it be used for graphics?

How much savings do you have? Is it used for rent-seeking behaviour? I think that's the key issue the country is facing.

If you have a little padding no-one will be coming for you.

Everyone in power is desparately trying dance around tax reform. When you tax productive work much more heavily than unproductive work (looking at our etf holdings grow and crowding out home/business owners with buy-to-lets), you are going to get stagnation.

it’s more about wealth. You need a functioning welfare state to allow people to take risks

I see the logic there, though I think there's more to it. Like quality of work, and reward structures for hard work. Carrots work much better than sticks, with much lower risk of social unrest.

I think those on the broad right are also undervaluing the power of idle hands at this point in time: some small percentage curious people with free time are largely responsible for innovations in society that everyone benefits from, the rich most of all.

We still need at this point, new ideas with which to feed into the training data of the coming AI labor decimators.

A guess: If you could ask a (nice) djinn to make rent-seeking businesses disappear - those with net negative real productivity -> happiness generation - society would bounce back.

That includes real estate / landlordism, sorry!

Many people aren't motivated by the absolute number in their bank account. But we're taking away their security in the form of precarious living situations, which is a universal need.

Are you saying: people aren't scared enough? Or poor enough?

People are struggling

<2 months rent p.m. and no savings basically, is a generous definition

Cool! Did you just prompt -> copy -> paste or did you come up with some specific workflow?

Sources and sinks - where does the money go? What is it subsequently used for?

electoral college

The point is it’s easier to just tax wealth a bit more and let everyone get on the bloody train… It’s mostly people just going to work/school, makes sense to be free

Poetic analogy for modern times , short term gain over cooperation inspiration and discovery.

Also ironic coming from the company revitalising space tech. But cynically this benefits their business.

We shouldn’t let powerful people hold us ransom in these ways

Things that annoy me about Figma:

- No way to set defaults for new frames etc ( that I know of )

- Some things rely on mouse input (setting width modes etc) which breaks flow

- Generally not for power users

- No decent code export

- No stylesheets for retheming components /showing variation (I know there's a Variant workflow for it but it's not simple to restyle an entire hierarchy)

Would love to see you tackle those if you're not already. Great to see you following CSS more closely, makes so much sense.

But if you aren't allowing us to extract the code / self host then I'll be passing on it. Digital feudalism

I bet most of the authors and proponents of that hypothesis don't actually think it at all. It's justification aimed at useful idiots.

The downside is you are walking into an inviting mono/duopoly. Things like this and cloudflare are amazing until the wind changes and the entire internet has a failure mode

The bigger problem is the lack of bindless textures etc

Check out cozo

Is it possible to do custom drawing modes for diagrams and viewers?