Youtube comments of Brent Jacobs (@br3nto).

  1. 5:10 The problem with MVPs is that they very easily and quickly become the production code. Once you get an MVP out, so do the requests for changes and improvements and additions. Before you know it, you have a full blown core system written in a scripting language. So do you choose what’s easiest or should you pick what you want to end up using?
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  2. I would have thought offshoring manufacturing would be a long term detriment to a country. Having manufacturing locally means continuously growing the hands on skills and knowledge to advance the manufacturing process. If it is all offshored, those skills and knowledge will also get offshored. After a generation, no one left onshore will have the necessary skills to advance the manufacturing processs as all those skills will now be in the offshore country. Most skill growth is from solving problems, so if all the problem solving is done offshore, your country will be left with less problem solving skills over time and therefore less competitive advantage, meanwhile, you’ve grown the competitive advantage of the offshore country.
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  3. The push to AWS, Azure, etc, is basically the same as choosing to be a renter vs a home owner. There’s pros and cons to each.
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  4. This is such a refreshing take on this question. I guess future AIs will take exams just like students so that the efficacy of their internal models can be verified, measured, and ranked against the standard.
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  5. I’m actually really concerned about the messaging in this vid and others like it. It’s a disservice to our community. People shouldn’t be taught fanatically that one thing is good and another thing is bad. They should instead be taught the trade-offs, and taught the skills to be able to make informed choices. Branches are good for the things I mentioned in another comment, but there is a trade-off to be made the longer a branch is left open and the more code that goes into it. By jumping to “branches are bad”, you’re skipping important teaching points like how to break large problems down into smaller problems, and how to introduce fundamentally different code without breaking everything. For example a fundamental breaking change from a one-one relationship to a has-many relationship in your DB when a lot of app logic is implemented as role-based logic, and now needs to shift to resource-based logic. It takes a different kind of skill to do that in a CI way. You’re missing the opportunity to talk about that and teach those skills. Please stop being so fanatical about “branches are bad”, and instead focus on the skills devs need to be able to push changes to production faster.
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  6. 8:33 I don’t get the standards argument. Standards evolve and can improve. CSS and JS has been evolving quite nicely over the decades.
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  7. It’s really nice to hear so succinctly the limits of our current mathematical abilities. I now understand that some of the mathematical models we have are simply best fit for certain range of parameters. For example, the Cauchy equations and thin film equivalents to model light through thin-films. The maths works only when the input parameters are with a certain range, the equations don’t fit the real world outside of certain parameter bounds. The maths just isn’t sufficient to correctly model the real world, but is good enough for certain cases.
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  8. 26:44 Nihilism is very misunderstood by the great philosophers. Nihilism isn’t a state of mind, nor is it about lack of meaning. Rather, it’s a blank slate from which everything can build upon. E.g imagine you and only you exist. Even though it’s only you, there is also the nothing that surrounds. There is a permanent dichotomy that exists between everything that exists and that we can experience, versus everything that we cannot experience. Now let’s build upon this emptiness slate. Let’s add another person into this nothing. Everything you do is now relative to the other person and visa-versa. If they hit you, you get hurt, and visa-versa. All of a sudden, we’ve got game theory. Which forms the foundations of moral systems. Every action in the past informs and moulds the future. So everything is relative to what happened in the past. This is a bases for information theory. Information has an entropy… the effects ripple out. So two core concepts of Nihilism: the nothing always exists no matter how much we explore into that nothing; and every thing is relative to everything else… we can’t escape the actions of any other object in the universe.
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  9. It justifies them in treating the population as indentured slaves to imagined future debts.
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  10. I love that you so simply stated the limitation of chat GPT in the example that it doesn’t have a model for physical distance and I assume size and mathematical relationships and many other things. There’s so much room for growth.
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  11. Something needs to change. Software engineers are trained to gather and understand and meet requirements, whereas these other roles aren’t. Product managers need to be kicked to the curb. There’s a need to efficiently gather and route feedback from end users and metrics to the dev teams and leadership, but it’s literally a routing function, not a management function. High level requirements should be made by leadership because that’s how companies work, but they should be adjusted according to that feedback from users, metrics, and also dev teams.
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  12. We really do live in a modern feudal society.
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  13. 4:25 if no one put their trolleys away, there would always be a trolly nearby ready to use. 😉
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  14. Web Components are only not useful because there are a few missing pieces to make them useful. There’s actually no declarative way to build and compose them. There’s no HTML templating language, you’re either in JS land or HTML land with no way to properly mix the two. We need something like ERB or Razor pages but for HTML/JS. And there needs to be a way to register these components and to fetch/register them as required.
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  15. LLMs are interesting. They can be super helpful to write out a ton of code from a short description, allowing you to formulate an idea really quickly, but often the finer details are wrong. That is using an LLM to write unique code is problematic. You may want the basic structure of idiomatic code, but then introduce subtle differences. When doing this, the LLM seems to struggle, often suggesting methods that don’t exist, or used to exist, or starts mixing methodologies from multiple versions of the library in use. E.g trying to use WebApplicationFactory in C#, but introducing some new reusable interfaces to configure the services and WebApplication that can be overridden in tests. It couldn’t find/suggest a solution. It’s a reminder that it can only write code it’s seen before. It can’t write something new. At least not yet.
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  16.  @fkeyvan  did you even listen to her? She said the Higgs was a necessary refinement of the standard model and therefore it is science to look for it. She advocating for doing work that is necessary. It does seem like a waste of money to go looking for things that aren’t necessary. It’s probably also a waste of many smart people’s time to look for unnecessary things, when their attention could be focused on more productive problems.
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  17. 0:48 the AI code responses are getting worse. First versions of ChatGPT were great. I was able to replicate a basic prototype of an advanced thing film optimisation algorithm within a few mins and iterate on the design to add more advanced features. I haven’t been able to replicate that success for a while now. They also are only as good as the API documentation…. And if there are lots of versions, it’ll very likely get confused, and even invent functions that don’t exist lol.
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  18.  @michaelrstover  I’m quite well watched. If Dave won’t provide balance, I will. I hope others do too.
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  19. The first vacuum tubes were invented in 1904, first vacuum tube computation in 1939, semiconductors in 1940, photolithography was invented in 1958, microprocessor revolution in the 1970s. That’s 70 years to get to anything like we know of computers today. First quantum computer was in 1998… we’re 26 years in to what could take a long time. Enjoy the steps of progress that we do make.
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  20. 2:40 that’s such an American way of thinking… “we either have voice or violence”. There’s actually a lot more option of you get rid of trying to partition everything into one of two buckets. I hope this talk gets better from here.
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  21. 24:48 the poor guy… so close to understanding nihilism, yet so wrapped up in the idea that opinions matter. Everything is but a fleeting interaction that only has meaning at the time but yet leaves a solid foundation that influences every future interaction. Every interaction does not happen in isolation but is a dance between multiple things. The interaction ripples out new interactions that are also meaningless without context, but also form the foundation of future interactions.
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  22. 28:18 hydration isn’t how most SSR works. Most SSR generates the entire HTML server side. No need to fetch JSON. Hydration is a very CSR concept.
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  23. Yes! This drives me nuts… it’s really obvious too. It doesn’t take much brain power to realise this either, so I find it truly baffling.
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  24. 13:30 surely in 900 million years from now we would just convert whatever was needed into CO2 and pump it into the atmosphere to maintain what ever biosphere is left at that point in time, therefore, extending the habitable period?
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  25. 10:03 sounds like they worked him to exhaustion for years without giving him the required resources, then the cherry on top was to replace all his years of effort. I’d explode too.
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  26.  @johnjakson444  it’s a shame his video wasn’t very good… he’s very whiny and critical… it comes across as not objective… also, I think many of the issues he raises were addressed in the supplement interview videos by Real Engineering available on Nebula.
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  27. Meetings are organised and run by people, not companies, so it’s relatively easy to give feedback to those people have better meetings. There’s also a science to meetings, which unfortunately isn’t openly discussed or taught.
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  28. 14:41 but they aren’t mean answers. They’re blunt, not mean. I think SO moderators suffer the same problems as call center operators. You can burn out, and get annoyed at the same bad questions over and over. At that point, the SO mod should probably hand the reins to someone less jaded who still has the capacity to be friendly.
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  29. 3:25 what’s funny is we have no issue with electric and magnetic forces acting at a distance. But it is equally mysterious.
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  30. The other benefit of moving water like this is using it as energy storage. So, don’t just move water in anticipation of a flood, but move it during times of excess power generation. The more water mover in the system to higher elevations means the water can be in the places that need them, but can also be used to recover energy at a later time.
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  31. 1:37 students don’t just magically start using things. VSCs are one of the primary tools of our trade. At the very least, VCSs need to be introduce to students, and explained their purpose and why they are important. VCSs should be part of the 101 curriculum, and should then be extensively used throughout a degree. Students should be industry ready… it’s one of the primary reasons for higher education... standardised industry ready training.
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  32. 22:44 Ruby should be higher than Python on all those lists. Ruby is actually awesome. It has amazing libraries, it’s super flexible which makes integration with other systems amazing, it has awesome frameworks like Arel, ActiveRecord, ERB, and Rails which make it a breeze to build some amazing stuff very quickly. You can easily make command line tools either by making the file executable, or using libraries like rake. The meta programming functionality is next level. It interoperates with C. So if something is slow, build the parts you need in C instead. It’s a super flexible and concise language.
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  33. It’s literally impossible to not do branch based development. When you check out a branch from a remote repo, a new branch is created. It’s actually awesome that we can do that. We should create branches. How often are you in the middle of making a change when a new more urgent requirement comes up? Either stash or commit your change in a branch, then create a new branch for the new work. You can’t do that if you don’t use branches. They let you be creative. They let you try new things without effecting the main branch. It’s perfect for the creative process. It is the worst advice to not use branches. Don’t listen to it. Stale and long-lived branches on the other hand are the devil. If you have a branch, you need to frequently rebase it, but the more code in that branch it’ll start holding up other dev work that is planning to rely on that work. This forces work to be done in serial instead of parallel, and that really slows a team down.
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  34. Great video! I think this captures the problem with software engineering really well. Especially the part where you say that at any time, a change in requirement may mean our design doesnt work any more or is now a poor choice even though moments before the design was fine.
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  35. 4:00 Often I find that complexity in code is built rather than inherent; the programmer just wrote complex code instead of the simple code.
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  36. @A Jolly Nurgling the definition is quite well defined… I think the vid describes it one dimensionally because it focusses so much on what it means to live in a world without inherent meaning or value and I think describes the struggles that many philosophers faced with relearning or integrating this back into their previous foundational knowledge… so much time spent on rethinking what already was… I think they were so focussed on the aspect of lack of inherent meaning and value that they failed to see perhaps how everything we see and experience is built on top of nihilism. Nihilism isn’t someone choosing to continue with the lie of life after they see it’s meaningless… no, everything everyone does is because of nihilism… much of science is the search into the nothingness to see beyond what we currently know… religion is the exact same thing, just a different tale on it… both are fuelled by the idea that something is in or beyond the nothingness, but the more we look, the nothingness recedes and we find more stuff, more detail, more complexity… everything is fuelled by nihilism… it leads to concepts of contract theory and group theory and game theory and it doesn’t just apply to humans, it applies to everything… so yeah, what was portrayed in the video was one dimensional… I wanted to see more dimensions. The concept of no inherent meaning or value and how we deal with that isn’t the interesting part of nihilism… it’s just the beginning… the questions why is there no inherent value or meaning and how and why does culture and art and value and meaning and politics and interaction exist in a world without inherent meaning or value? It also logically proves that epistemological nihilism and similar concepts are just wrong. Those are a few of the interesting philosophical questions and topics about nihilism.
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  37. 25:53 that is such a good explanation… nothing is hard when you have the foundations… it’s just time consuming.
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  38. 7:13 omg! Reset frame! That’s amazing!!!
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  39. 11:56 I heard this described as a one sided contract. One person holds another person to some expectation, without the other person having agreed to or even knowing about the expectation. I forget the exact name they used, but it’s very common. Just think about all the expectations you have of others that they don’t know about and/or haven’t agreed to. Or them of you.
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  40. The problem is that software is so soft and so explicit that the software IS the documentation. Really the only way to verify that it does what it should do correctly is through tests. So tests document the requirements. So, all documentation from software is derivable. The problem comes from non-software engineers getting into the mix. Software doesn’t have a person in the C-suite with specific software engineering training and experience (which it should), and product managers and UX teams who don’t have software engineering training have gotten into the software engineering pipeline. I’ve seen software engineers being pushed down to basically factory worker level. The lowest rung on the organisation hierarchy. It makes no sense. No other professions do this. You don’t have a non-engineer managing engineers building airplanes. You don’t have non-doctors managing teams of doctors. You don’t have non-academics leading teams of academics.
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  41.  @Annou7la  I think you missed Sabine’s main points. She’s not saying the standard model is the final law of nature, or there aren’t problems with it. She says, valid reasons to change the model are to address internal inconsistencies, and to resolve where the model doesn’t fit the data. She then addresses how fixing pseudo problems add undue complexity to the model that already works. She doesn’t say there isn’t new physics to be found. This is my point now… it seems the pseudo problems are those things that irritate us humans. They don’t feel right. Like the free variables. So we like to work on them to alleviate that irritation. I think it only makes sense to work on them if it will provide greater utility than the time and effort required. Knowing something for the sake of knowing something has very little utility.
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  42. 14:52 I would google it too. And for the same reason. The most important thing about software is that it meets the changing needs of its intended purpose. So software needs to be well written, easy to validate, and easy to change.
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  43. 6:54 you could probably do currying with anonymous classes. It looks like local variables in scope can also be returned, so it’s basically a closure too. But just generally, creating a class or stuct is creating a closure over its field/properties, the benefit though is that classes and structs can have more methods, where as what people traditionally think of as a close is just a single method.
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  44. 37:29 this isn’t how you’d write caching code? Why not? It’s like every single example ever given on the web. I lol when people say “this isn’t production ready code”… ok, well just show the production ready code instead of the simplified “never use this in production” code so we can all see what production code actually looks like and what we should be doing instead. Don’t perpetuate what we shouldn’t be doing in prod.
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  45. The nothingness that we all exist within is not just empty, but contains all the things we haven’t explored and all the things we don’t understand. There is both a physical and abstract component. It’s like a veil (or fog-of-war). As we explore the physical world, we see and know more, the vail shifts, but is never removed. The veil always exist and always hides more stuff. We have can have assumptions and hypotheses of what’s beyond, but these are only validated when we seek and find the answers. When we do find solid answers, the veil shifts. This is why both religion and science exist, and why both are useful, they pose questions for us to seek answers to. The problems occur when we see questions, assumptions, and hypotheses as truth. This is a problem because we stop expanding the veil and increase our understanding of the universe. Because of this, objective truths do exist, and everything without evidence is merely an assumption to be tested with answers hidden behind the veil waiting to be explored.
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  46. 11:33 that assume that humans are not able to maintain social order without a higher power intervening. That just seems like a ridiculous proposition to me. It’s ultra pessimistic.
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  47. 10:15 The assumption is that there is not enough young people to support an aging population, yet the youth unemployment is so high… something doesn’t add up.
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  48. If the problem that Dave is trying to solve is to increase the frequency of feedback on code changes, the answer isn’t by default to push to remote master and run tests, but rather to test before every commit or perhaps before every push. If the problem to solve is ensuring everyone has the same version of reality, then frequent rebasing is the way to go. But I get the dilemma of having a develop branch. Sometimes develop can be too far in front of master (like how a feature branch can be too far in front of develop), and the size of changes in the next deploy becomes too large and increases the chances of unintended side effects. In that case, frequent deployment to prod gives the necessary quick feedback to address any issues in a manageable size. The reason develop and feature branches exist is to provide a buffer between what is going out and what is being developed. The management of the size of that buffer is important, but the tools used to manage that buffer isn’t as important than the methodology of managing effectively.
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  49. 2:20 Ruby is actually a very Awesome language. Makes you feel like God.
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  50. 8:14 how do you both detect a photon, but also let it pass through slit unobstructed? Maybe the interference went away because the system changed, rather than it being observed? Also I’ve never seen this demonstrated in practice. Only ever animations… can you link to a vid showing the interference going away in real life?
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  51. I agree with getting code out into prod asap to get feedback, but I’m still still not convinced on the No branch policy. Firstly, just pulling from remote creates a distinct local branch. But more than that, I’m usually working on a few ideas at once, swapping between them over a day. Or checking out other changes from other team members… I don’t know how you could do this without branches…. Maybe with git worktrees… but it’s kinda like working with another branch anyways… further more, doing this my team is still able to deploy multiple times a day… and after, we just rebase and continue. But granted, I don’t know how to get rid of the PR without the equivalent of pair programming before release. But do we need to review in person? Sometimes it’s definitively better, especially for complex changes.
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  52. Don’t stackoverflow shame. It’s a legit source of knowledge. Otherwise, any and all Q&A should be deemed illegitimate, which would be stupid.
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  53. 2:16 The UI is really just a projection/transformation of data in flight and the backend is really just a transformation of data in flight to persisted data. Both well established repeatable patterns. The hardest part therefore is modelling the data in flight. The transformations to persisted data store or UI is just repeating the same patterns.
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  54. I think the problem is that many devs don’t know how to write simple code. And this has impacts on frameworks and libraries which then also become more complex than necessary. One example is creating a pure static function which holds some global configuration, and calling that function in random places throughout the code. Immediately, we get a tonne of complex coupling which makes it really difficult to modify. We effectively have private backdoors into our code which we can’t access and easily test. Perhaps we can mock that global function, but that leads to horribly complex tests that may randomly fail. Instead, the config should be injected. It might be more code, but it’s more testable and less decoupled code that is easier to modify.
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  55. 4:21 it sounds like they’re referring to LLMs here, but LLMs aren’t AI or AGI… Sabine said it…. It’s just a bunch of weights… that’s not intelligence… it’s completely deterministic… there’s no thinking or decision making… any differences you get in a response to asking the same question is probably due to a random number generator or similar to make it seem like it’s giving a different response.
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  56. 8:57 “Roman” salute?? Is this hyper-normal redefinition?
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  57. 15:35 how is code “code hidden away on a feature branch” any different from code checked out locally and not pushed to the remote trunk?
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  58. 8:36 just inspect element? This is the same thing as extracting html into components or partials, but for styling. If its fine to extract html into partials or components (or whatever terminology you use) then it’s fine to do the same with styling. If you don’t, then how do you know you are applying consistent styling and not missing something and unknowingly creating small visual inconsistencies? Then later on, some developer has to decide whether the omission was purposeful or not.
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  59. To be fair this isn’t a SQL directly from browser to the database issue. They could have had any number of layers between the browser request and DB query and still have a bug like this. The problem is using the id given in the request from the browser.
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  60. 6:27 LLMs will never replace programmers because they are missing two important features. They don’t understand the actual AST of a program and they cannot make manipulations, transformations, additions, subtractions of that AST. When I say AST I’m not meaning the actual AST of single language, but the entire generalised concept of what an AST would be for a multi-language program like we see in web apps with SQL, backend code, over the wire serialisations, HTML, JS, etc, etc.
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  61. 19:20 he didn’t destroy the second half of the vid… all his points were surface level deep, but when you dive in with any rational thinking you realise his fears are based on misunderstandings of what ORMs really are and how they should be used.
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  62. @Ned Gerblansky everyone’s different mate. I don’t find the background distracting, but the commenter does… and they’re not the only one… you wouldn’t say to an epileptic person to not be a snowflake when they get fits from flashing lights… they don’t control their reactions. I can only assume that people who find the background distracting are equally unable to control their reactions. So don’t call people who react differently to you snowflakes. If it annoys you that much maybe you are the ❄️
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  63. 1. How do you develop transferable skills unless you’re actually building experience in lots of different libs, frameworks, languages, etc, and transferring your skills? Instead, become an expert of the common patterns used across frameworks, languages, libs, etc. Use more things, try more things, not less. 2. lol what are the fundamentals? Again, I think it’s the common patterns that are important. Should probably elaborate on that now but it’s a YouTube comment so I won’t.
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  64. 1:37 Clean code used to mean something back before 2016… but now it’s lost all meaning because devs apply it to almost anything… in a similar vein to how everything is agile now 😅
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  65. Are you serious? This video is basically just fear mongering. He says “we” don’t understand how these things work, which is the opposite of the truth; the AI engineers know exactly how they work. The so called “hallucinations” are an obvious artefact of how these models work. These models are currently static and deterministic, yet many the YouTubers are making out they think and contemplate. It’s so frustrating because the public discourse is around fiction rather the reality being led by people who should know better. Kyle needs to step it up.
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  66.  @Me_Caveman  ""God" represents the unchanging standard by which otherwise we'd have none" --- That's a big assumption that "God" represents an unchanging standard. That would maybe be true if there were gods or higher beings to uphold that standard. But then again, what is to say that higher beings don't change over time? If their standards are unchanging, what is the mechanism for that? And this is still totally ignoring the question as to why we should even consider those standards for ourselves inn the first place. Are we really that incapable of deciding on and maintaining standards for ourselves? To what level is that even true or false? Why would we even want unchanging standards?
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  67. 2:14 and something will be done about it because it’s happening to large companies by large companies. We will get our personal data rights back by proxy. lol
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  68.  @ThePrimeTimeagen  lol yeah… of course… but also some logic to this… if a dev is not caring about the small things, they probably aren’t caring about the big/important things either. Or if they do, they probably aren’t getting the big things right either. My guess is there’s a correlation there.
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  69. Even just this idea that there is one truth… and those that don’t see it are wrong… is just crazy. There are multiple aspects to everything. Multiple ways of doing things. Multiple goals, some in full alignment, some completely unaligned, some unrelated, and every mix of those things.
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  70. 8:54 there are sooo many improvements that can be made to SQL even without inventing something by totally new. First, put FROM statements first. How can you get code completion in your SELECT clauses without knowing which tables the data will come from? Second, name table relationships. Instead of joining, you use the relationship name. There are so many query patterns that could be abstracted, though I guess that’s what stored procedures are for. The other thing that gets me is that all RDBMs are also inherently object/graph databases. So in theory, they could all have object/qraph QL applied. The other other thing, is that SQL or an improved derivative language could be used by clients instead of GraphQL to query APIs. The whole data persistence part could be abstracted so that you get secure decoupling between the domain data and the persisted data.
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  71. 14:52 I hope that fear response doesn’t get in the way AI research
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  72. Yeah…. But tests are there for other reasons…. Im currently refactoring a rather old codebase. Quite a lot of deeply nested code, many conditionals, lots of coupling, the multiple responsibility principle was applied to everything. I can’t just inject dependencies or mocks, because the system wasn’t built in a way to do that or for that to be useful. There’s also no unit or integrations tests. There are some limited regression tests. Im trying to refactor that code so I can modernise it and upgrade it. But it’s really really easy to accidentally break functionality… every change has subtle effects. I have to maintain all functionality, even the bugs, because who knows what relies on that bug. I have to build tests to verify the existing functionality first, so that I can then make the changes I need to make, and then use the tests to verify my changes didn’t break anything. Had the tests been there in the first place, the app probably wouldn’t have been written the way it was, and I wouldn’t have to do double the work because some previous develop didn’t take time to write tests. Though back when this was written, unit testing was less common… so that dev get a pass. Write tests! Future devs (possible even future you) will thank you!
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  73. I need idea number 3. Every real person is too nice and luls me into a sense of body positivity.
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  74.  @elle305  I don’t think that’s accurate. Sure, you need the expertise to spot errors. Sure, you need the expertise to know what to ask for. But I don’t agree with the idea that you’ll take more time with LLMs than without. It’s boosted by productivity significantly. It’s boosted my ability to try new ideas quickly and iterate quickly. It’s boosted my ability to debug problems in existing code. It’s been incredibly useful. It’s a soundboard. It’s like doing pair programming but you get instant code. I want more of it, not less.
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  75.  @StoutProper  your link to 8:35 is exactly proof of several of my points. A built model is static and therefore cannot adapt (at least that’s how AI currently works). The original Go AI model does not adapt to new adversaries because it’s model is static. Also, it should be obvious and not a surprise that the model doesn’t understand groups because it’s model is presumably just a relationship between different board configurations and transitions. Just like how language models are trained on relationships between configurations of words, rather than meanings of words, so too it should be no surprise about hallucinations and garbage responses.
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  76. ⁠ @marcossidoruk8033 you’re foo.bar() example is a little hyperbolic. It’s no surprise what happens when the debugger hits that line because that’s just polymorphism works. However, I could argue using your logic that any and all function/method calls obfuscates control flow regardless of whether there is one or many implementations of that function/method that may get executed as I don’t know what the method/function is doing until it executes or until I look at the code.
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  77. 6:45 this is similar to the Roko’s Basilisk argument.
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  78. What do you mean when done right? OOP is always functional programming. The instantiation of a class is effectively the creation of a closure and a callable function (or functions depending on how many methods the class has), which can then be passed around and referenced and called at some later time. OPP was doing functional programming before functional programming was even a thing.
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  79. 2:28 Humans can barely learn on their own… we have institutions, frameworks, and processes set up to teach humans. Why would we expect or want AI to train itself?
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  80. 18:46 I think pessimists completely underestimate the power of optimism. You can be hyper optimistic about hard or difficult situations. It’s a learning opportunity to say the least.
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  81. That opening clickbait is exactly why non-software-engineering-educated people should not manage software engineering teams, and also why there needs to be a specific C-suite role for the software engineering vertical of a company. Managers should be able to help their team navigate and get over hurdles quickly, or to pivot quickly. They should already know the problems and have strategies in play already. Managers that aren’t software-engineering-educated are simply not qualified for the role. If your manager isn’t software-engineering-educated, think about leaving. You don’t see non-doctors leading teams of doctors and running hospitals, or non-lawyers running the legal system, or non-police officers running the police force, or non-military running military operations, or non-engineers running engineering companies (besides Boeing which has a world of trouble right now). Software engineering is one of the only fields where this situation has come about, and it’s wrong.
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  82. It might have relevance if the mugger said: if you don’t give me money now, I’ll hunt down your family and friends and kill them all. I think Roko’s Basilisk might be the better fit here. Pascal’s mugging only provides one way to possibly get the future reward. Now, maybe it’s easy to think that Longtermism dictates only a single way to get the future reward of less existential threat, but that simply doesn’t hold up logically. There will be infinite ways to deal with future existential threats. Using Pascal’s Mugging, just establishes a false dichotomy of either “all or nothing” logic, or disregarding Longtermism entirely. This doesn’t make any sense, because there are valid reasons we should think about the future, but it doesn’t have to be an “all of nothing” approach where we are indentured slaves to the future. There are many ways to handle existential threats. We don’t want to close down the discussion, but rather open it up to “how else can we balance current needs and future needs”. We do this all time both on an individual level and a collective level.
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  83. 5:02 My watch later list is maxed out because it’s filled with technical heavy vids that I don’t have time to watch 😂
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  84. 10:14 managers are the ones who should be setting the good example of work life balance… not pushing work to dominate
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  85. Async await still sucks because it spreads like a disease. And you end up awaiting everything. So everything may as well have been synchronous. The code to kick off multiple async functions and await the completion of both also isn’t that nice to write or read. Especially if you have to await the return of one or more before kicking off addition async functions. I like the go syntax for this: a, b =: <-c1, <-c2
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  86. REPLs are awesome at design work… quickly test a concept… does this work? Yes! Does this do what I expected? No! Why not? Oh! I understand now! I guess exploration for me is a fundamental part of design.
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  87. 2:19 Wolfram has explicitly said time is not part of the graph, but is part of the graph computation. Contraction is a result of a complex object moving vs reconstructing itself. Time is part of the graph changing (aka computation).
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  88. 0:22 that’s a very strong statement for absolutely no proof whatsoever. It seems like an absurd stance.
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  89. 5:41 the lithography optimisation isn’t really AI though I suspect. I’d would expect it’s using mathematical optimisation algorithms, rather than neural nets or similar AI concepts, where the individual calculations in the optimisation algorithms are parallelised on the many GPU cores.
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  90. You make the best vids!!! And you have the best enunciation of all the YouTubers… I usually listen at 1.75 speed… most YouTubers sound drunk when the speed changes back to 1x speed… you on the other hand sound exceptional.
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  91. AI is a bit like Clippy… it’s good in theory, better when it’s not there, will miss it when it’s gone.
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  92.  @michaelamicucci9574  it’s not up to the younger generation though. Their ideals get beaten into submission well before they get any corporate power. It’s really up to the older generations to fix. The problem is, their ideals have been beaten into submission by the realities of their jobs. In other words, the older generations’ apathy and deference onto younger generations is really what needs to change.
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  93. DHH is so inspiring. I love what he’s saying, and I hope it resonates with the rest of the software engineering community and inspires everyone to bring back the simplicity. I also can’t wait to work on another Ruby/Rails project. It’s by far my favourite language and framework but haven’t got to work with it for five or so years.
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  94. One thing that always confuses me is how an apparatus measured a single photon both at a slit and at some point beyond the slit? I always figured that once the photon is measured it has been fundamentally changed so any photon measured beyond that initial measurement is not measuring the same photon. How can a photon be measured at the slit but also be left unchanged to be measured again at some later point? If a photon was measured then surely it’s been captured in some way by the measurement apparatus.
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  95. Nah, nitpicking is good. If you don’t fix it now, it’ll sit around annoying everyone forever… inconsistent casing, spacing, indenting, naming, use of concatenation instead of interpolation, use of concatenation instead of multi-line stings, no new line at the end of files, EOL whitespace, new lines not added between methods and between logically grouped statements and expressions… all of it should be closely guarded and protected and fixed.
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  96. 17:26 yeah it should definitely be developed. It would be amazing to share a thought with a computer or another person without having to pass through verbal language. I can imagine with this tech it would be quite easy for a human to become a tightly controlled cell within a much larger organism. We definitely need stronger individual sovereignty laws to ensure we can maintain our individual sovereignty and right to autonomy.
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  97. Makes sense. Return XML as a response and the responsee can further query and manipulate the results using XPath and then convert the output using XSLT. I actually don’t understand why XPath and XSLT haven’t been applied to JSON, YAML, ProtoBuff, etc etc etc.
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  98.  @John73John and if the lower reservoir fails?
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  99. From my perspective, this happens because the people managing software teams and projects have absolutely no formal or informal training in software engineering. What exacerbates this, is there is an IT department and CTO and/or CIO, but no software department and CSEO to discuss, encourage, and assist with good consistent practices. Only people with software engineering training/experience should manage software engineering/development teams, and there should probably be a corresponding department and representation at board level. Not only this, but software engineers are the only profession that could also extend their training to refactoring company structures to make them more efficient, and solve all the silo issues. (Assuming that company processes and hierarchies are same enough to the patterns seen in software).
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  100. I don’t understand the problem with promises already running in the background and the value being memoized. Just pass around a function instead. You can then call the function as many times as you like and get new values each time.
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  101. 14:39 hold on… the branches should be rebased, and so have all the latest changes…
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  102. 8:20 why you dissing on Ruby when it has similar performance to Python which runs so much AI and data tasks?
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  103. Why bother? Because it’s an interesting challenge. It’s not often that we (as a society) get real meaning in life. My day job is okay, but I can’t say the it has great meaning.
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  104. 7:15 tip #75: add fraudulent flags via one or more table joins
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  105. 2:59 humans living longer doesn’t automatically mean retiring at 60 won’t work. We are many orders of magnitude more productive than we have been in the past. So in theory, we should all be able to retire much earlier and still have the same level of productivity as a society. But that’s not what’s happening. We work harder, work longer, and output more. To what end?? Are we just ants that should be forced to work for as long as we are capable? Is work all there is to life??? Maybe to a capitalist. I want to work as little as possible.
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  106. Just maybe merit is being valued by a different criteria
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  107. RoR is still pushing forward many boundaries too!
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  108. And every vid comes with a free sponsor ad 😅
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  109. I think to say we don’t know what is happening in the inner workings of AI models is underestimating what the AI experts understand. I think they could very precisely tell us what is happening. It’s not a big mystery this guy is making it out to be.
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  110. What did you want to see?
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  111. Just wait until there are servers on Mars.
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  112. Personally, I want lots of trees because they are peaceful, and beautiful, and host lots of life.
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  113. 1:40 most orgs already have some sort of IT department that does that already. Managing the IT infrastructure and security.
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  114. It’s as if all the mystery is in the thought experiment.
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  115. 4:03 they know sharding isn’t new right?
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  116. ⁠​⁠ @monochromeart7311 what about Rust’s traits? I assume that this also uses vtables too.
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  117. Hey Dave. Can you show us the alternative to feature branching and pull requests?? Not just describe it, but demonstrate it.
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  118. 1:37:08 awww man that’s why I miss Ruby. Feeling like a god! You can kinda get that sense in other languages when many large pieces fall into place, but in Ruby it’s just next level because it happens so simply all the time. But we live in a world where many people expect and want types, so I don’t think many from that paradigm will like it.
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  119. 16:03 solve learned helplessness - just keep going till the goal is complete. Simple.
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  120. Just another answer to the Fermi paradox I guess.
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  121.  @HealthyDev  this is completely off topic from the actual point of my comment, but since you bring it up, bait and hook are two of the needed components to catch fish. It doesn’t really matter what you’re catching or why you’re catching it, people catch fish for all kinds of reasons. Honestly I didn’t mean it derogatorily. I was just describing the part of the vid my actual comment relates to.
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  122. A better analogy maybe that code is a deprecating asset. There’s a cost to build or purchase, a cost to maintain, and a cost to replace. Like a car or house, software ages, becomes more expensive to maintain and gains greater lack of modern features, and probably also experiences a decline in expertise to support it. The quality of the code is only part of the story.
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  123. 11:09 it’s annoying that I pay for YouTube premium, yet I still need to listen to sponsorship ads. I wish YouTube would just give you a fair portion of my subscription based on the percentage of your vid I watch compared to all vids I watch. Then I would actually not have to listen to ads which is literally the only reason why I’m paying for premium.
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  124. 8:23 there will be plenty of jobs for new developers… experts will tackle harder problems and juniors will tackle what the experts used to tackle. Besides, the hob of automating and improving the world is never done.
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  125. You don’t go to economic war thinking there will be zero impact. Of course there are impacts. We pay those costs so we don’t have to pay with our lives.
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  126. 12:02 what’s great about importmap is that you can do both. You can have a project that uses both unprocessed JS AND pre-processed JS. 🤯. I know that defeats the argument against no-build but the choice should be about how and where we manage complexity. E.g only put what you need through a build step, and the rest leave untouched. Maybe that just adds more complexity or maybe that makes things simpler… that’s for each team to decide and manage.
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  127. 13:08 all these arguments so far are underpinned by an assumption that what is written is true. It’s a form of choice architecture and nudging where other valid options are intentionally left out, and decoy options are included in order to guide the person to a pre-determined choice. If you remove the assumption that what is written is true, then more option become available.
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  128. Woah hold on… how can that supernova be the last thing? What about all that particles that just got spit out? I assume something eventually happens to them? Maybe some of that matter recombines into a new object? In the supernova I assume that more fusion happens so we get more unstable isotopes too?
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  129. “We can’t fit the complexity in our heads” Yes! This isn’t said enough!
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  130. 0:58 “to think you are good enough to rule a country”. I guess that what happens when you have a system that is basically a representational monarchy.
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  131. “In the early universe all particles were massless… later they were not” haha really early… and not much later!
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  132.  @NuclearCraftMod  Sorry, I thought that was one of the points Sabine said, that the Higgs was required to fix something in the model. I’ll be more general. Sabine’s points were: only make a model more complex when there are internal inconsistencies, or when it doesn’t match new data, and don’t solve pseudo problems. It makes sense from my perspective. Of the things you listed, they might all not be pseudo problems and fit into the first two categories. I can’t judge that. My final point was my own though… it’s nice to research for the sake of research, but discoveries should have some positive utility to society, or at least to the company/companies doing the research, besides just knowing the answer. It’s like, at work I can’t build just any software. I may have a burning desire to know or build or test some new thing, but I have to build software that contributes greater utility than the effort I put in and the resources I used. Eg it may be better to keep an existing manual process than to automate it. This is the same as or similar to: don’t work on pseudo problems, and only fix internal inconsistencies or to address where it doesn’t fit the data. But I accept it’s also rarely black and white.
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  133. 10:57 the only problem with using tech to brand generated stuff as fake, is that the same could be applied to real info too. It can only ever be a trust based system.
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  134. Biology is nanobots 🤯
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  135. 4:58 why does it need to be entangled?? It just sounds like giant lasers??
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  136. I’m surprised though… the way he describes nihilism and how it developed makes nihilism seem very one dimensional… like it’s just a perspective rather than something we could go about testing and proving.
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  137. 1:39 it works and is easy to change 100%!!!!
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  138. 3:25 I imagine the rate of change for younger languages would be higher. The only thing changing that would be new paradigms that fundamentally change how we think of programming vs the culture of change for that language.
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  139. “There’s just not enough to keep us busy for that long” - Gee, I’d love to work in a place like that! My experience is the complete opposite… there is an excess of work to get done and not enough time or resources to do it. The second we achieve anything, it immediately opens the gates for the lot of wants and needs. The only time this stops is when we collectively decide on boundaries.
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  140. Can you show more examples please? E.g how do you do this in reactive style apps? E.g how do you mock chart libraries that draw to the canvas? What are some common examples that can easily be encapsulated? What are some harder examples?
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  141. Locality of behaviour is so contextual though. It depends on what behaviour you’re looking at.
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  142. 3:25 blerg! Why do peeps use JSON for this 💩. At least choose something easier to write and read like YAML.
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  143. 6:44 to be fair, hashes for private is a JavaScript thing and is actually private scoped.
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  144. Ah. It’s React only. I don’t think your prediction is correct.
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  145. 10:42 with todays tech, we should be able to get frequent high res imaging of our body’s exterior and interior, patch it together into an animation over time, and be able to visualise the changes over our lifetime. We could then build a map of normal vs abnormal changes for doctors (and AI) to use as diagnostic tools and for us individuals to have complete insight into our body’s needs.
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  146.  @choilive  in computation theory, every nondeterministic Turing machine has an equivalent deterministic Turing machine. I assume quantum computers are simply the nondeterministic case.
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  147. 💯. The things you mentioned are 100% the first things a dev team needs to do to achieve CI. Fix deployment pain, increase observability and testability. CI isn’t just something a team can achieve overnight. There are steps that must be taken to make it happen. Dogmatically saying CI is the only way and branches are bad skips over all the important discussions and learning that a dev team needs to take on board to make CI happen and also skips teaching about all the nuances and tradeoffs that can legitimately be made along the way.
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  148. In a large company it completely makes sense to build your own… especially if the cost is ultimately cheaper to build and maintain, and reliability is ensured.
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  149. 8:24 that’s why we need a Chief Software Engineer in all C-suites, and a Software Engineering vertical similar to the IT vertical.
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  150. Actually, I don’t understand why there aren’t XPath APIs (like GraphQL APIs, but using XPath). Or…. SQL APIs for that matter.
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  151. 7:38 are you blaming loneliness on a move away from tradition and conservatism?? That seems like a very American left vs right take on the situation. Can you prove that people who follow conservative and traditional practices are less lonely or participate more in community?
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  152. Great observation! This is where we’re at with some of my companies apps. There is an http layer around a MediatR layer which interacts with an ORM layer. It does provide a level of abstraction so we can independently change the public API from the internals, and the http layer only provides http specific mappings to internal API calls, but it’s just become another N-tier app based on these newer concepts.
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  153. 17:30 nooo… an ORM shouldn’t be chosen so you can switch database tech, instead chosen to be a client written in your language of choice to manage your persisted data. Just don’t use raw SQL in code. If the db schema changes, you’d have no IDE support to help you change all the places that may need changing. You and your team will likely get to a point where you’re fearful of changing the db schema, which is bad. The exception to this should be when you abstract the SQL behind a stored proc, the SQL of the stored proc should of course be managed by the migrations, and therefore should be in the code… but the calls to the stored proc should be done via an ORM.
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  154. 0:01 oh dude… ORMs aren’t trying to make SQL obsolete… this is gunna be painful. ORMs are no different from using a client written in your favourite language to speak to an API written in another language. So if you have a problem with ORMs, you have a problem with any type of system to system integration.
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  155. 16:31 also, Dave focuses on tests for expected behaviour, not expected failure. So if failure is expected behaviour, he’d write tests that verify the failure is happening in an expected way. Make sense?
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  156.  @markoates9057  I like Wolframs approach to investigating and developing a framework that is founded on different principles. I think it’s called the Wolfram Physics Project. Being a software engineer, I resonate with that line of thinking. Right now, the universe just seems like turtles all the way down. The latest visualisations of how quarks and virtual particles supposedly interact just makes it seem like there is yet another level yet to be unraveled. I think there are a lot of untested assumptions that are taken as truth and infinitely applicable. And that’s problematic. I’m no physicist, but if I was, I would be very careful to understand the limits of the assumptions I’m working with, and very clearly communicate those assumptions and limitations often.
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  157. This explanation resonates.
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  158. 38:06 OMG you would never build HTML in that way using web components! That’s trying to apply a CRS concept to something that is inherently not CSR. You would either build the HTML in its entirety on the back end using a template, or you would build the HTML in JavaScript on the front end. What even you just described seems purposefully obtuse.
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  159. 9:27 why don’t they include the oceanic temperatures and any other known sources of heat sink in that calculation then? Also, surely increase in ocean temperature is also bad? At some point it won’t absorbed as much carbon, evaporation increase or decrease, its ability to support life may drop…. So ocean temperature has everything to do with climate change
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  160. 8:59 writing in a dynamic language is just different… it’s more about moving and manipulating data… I felt so strangled when I moved from Ruby to C#, I suddenly had to type everything and it felt completely unnecessary, all the simple patterns of data transformation and manipulation were no longer accessible because of the typing. I’ve never quite got that godlike feeling back that I had when I was working with Ruby.
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  161. 1:25:26 you can also hash the password on the front end so your backend never even gets access to the original password! Still need to do the usual hashing and salting and preventing of time attacks on the backend of course.
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  162.  @bryanhenry5560  ​​⁠ my comment was actually on the of dichotomy of voice vs violence. Another commenter, re-expressed what I said well by using the term, false dichotomy. It is a false dichotomy for many reasons. One of which because voice can be violent. You hit on a point that I think is relevant. Misunderstanding. It relates very much to what I said about people living in communication bubbles only watching the convo from one side via proxies. People in a bubble of course will misunderstand people outside their bubble (in other bubbles). There needs to be mechanisms to help people see their bubbles and to look outside and understand things outside their bubbles. There are more ways to achieve that than more communication, or with violence. Just helping people to intermingle will help. Another is giving people a different shared focus other than focus on the disagreements. Another is doing a things that will deescalate tense situations. These things come before communication. They are action/process. It’s a little more abstract and lower level than communication. A bit more primal maybe. Do you understand what I’m saying now?
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  163. 6:36 could it replace developers? Not with prompts like that. Besides, doesn’t it just modify the meaning of developers and software engineers? We’re still developing… just using a different tool. We still need the expertise to determine if the output is good, useful, and maintainable.
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  164. The quality of their games is actually pretty darn good! Most apps pushed by the Apple store are idle games or highly addictive money hungry games. It’s refreshing to have quality games that are actually about game play.
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  165. 7:04 oh dear… why is there YAML here
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  166. 15:05 yep this. Our brain works like a complicated Turing machine
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  167. To be able to do that, they must have always had the upper hand.
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  168. Geez I don’t want to be an unsuspecting pawn in some billionaire’s feud to which I have no stake. I’d rather be an unsuspecting pawn in a state’s feud who I at least had some token participation in based on where I live and financial stake based on my taxes and employment opportunities.
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  169. Just watched the vid and the discussion is pretty much all about the individual… the homeless person or the person walking past them on the street… I’ve come to the realisation that any philosophy revolving around the individual will not make a dent in fixing homelessness. You can give to another individual, but you won’t be changing anything, maybe briefly. Homelessness is a societal system breakdown that requires knowledgeable people to change the system. The best thing you can do if you are not knowledgeable is to just shout “fix it”. Keep doing it until someone knowledgeable and in the right positions do something that works. You could also get knowledgeable yourself and do something. But just giving, that helps a person in a point of time, but does nothing to solve the real problem. I don’t know why that wasn’t discussed as a philosophical position… it should have been.
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  170. 2:09 lol power bi.
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  171. 7:10 it’s not just readability that can be based on preference. I think how you code up and encapsulate complexity can be based on preference too.
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  172. @Ned Gerblansky Surely, a false equivalence can be used against an ad hominem? Fallacies are quite effective... Yeah, I like the animations and layout too. Your last comment was insightful. You’re very passionate about the gui not changing and people taking responsibility for themselves. The good thing about Dave is that his whole schtick is to gather feedback and improve. So I’m sure he’ll take the feedback and either change and adapt or choose to ignore it.
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  173. Entangled particles, I don’t think you can make a change to one particle and the second particle responds... just the initial state is entangled. So still have the 3-22min problem.
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  174. Are protons also waves? And are fusion products also waves? If yes, then is it possible to create a wave guide structure that guides these waves together in a way that the interference pattern matches the waves of the fusion products? If that is even possible, I’m not sure how you’d extract energy from that system.
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  175. Why have you put this exact same comment in multiple places over the last week?? You a spam bot or something???
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  176. Climate change is a massive Red Herring. We don’t need climate change to destroy the genetic diversity of Earth. Industry is doing that for us. Take any certifiable sustainable company that requires raw resources, than ask your self what needs to happen when demand for their product increases by 10%. They need to somehow grow or dig out 10% more resources. That will inevitably require more land converted away from what’s left of the natural ecosystem. Human society may not collapse, but the genetic diversity of the Earth’s ecosystem certainly will.
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  177. When you say it’s economically not possible, do you mean there isn’t enough resources and people to make it happen or that our current economic systems are insufficient to allow it happen?
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  178. 6:27 so basically you’re saying higher density living leads to smaller families? That’s a worry considering new block sizes are getting smaller and smaller, even in rural areas.
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  179. 4:09 nooo! It’s gif as in gill… and mut as in nut and char as in charcoal… everyone one knows that… any other pronunciation is just people taking the piss
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  180. 12:11 they might teach only coding in Computer Science degrees… but they do teach software development in Software Engineering. I did a Software Engineering degree, and I’m constantly flabbergasted at how people with Computer Science degrees can’t actually write good software systems. They are great on the low level, but self-taught at the higher levels. I’m also flabbergasted that companies think Product Managers without software engineering degrees and experience are a good idea. Software Engineers are trained for that role at university.
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  181. 5:30 “there’s no argument that says it’s more efficient to forego types”. I remember when I moved from Ruby to C#. I felt like suddenly my hands where tied behind my back. I was trapped and forced and confined into a very limited way of doing things. It was so frustrating. I had to relearn my entire way of thinking. It occurred to me that dynamic languages is actually about fluid data transformation. Many different streams of data flows through a program and gets transformed and combined and manipulated. Dynamic languages are very good at working with disparate data. Typed languages on the other hand are unforgiving when working with the shape of data. Everything must be precise and methodical and there must be no deviations. There is a magic to dynamic programming once you realise this. Dynamic typing gives you built-in discriminated unions… the hot topic of the day. If static typing always mattered for efficiency of type checking, then every develop that chooses static typing would never choose to use schemaless databases.
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  182. I agree. I’d love an in-depth explanation about this. My current assumption is that the photons coming through the slits have zero distance to propagate as waves and so don’t have a chance to interfere with photons coming through the other slit before being destroyed when it interacts with the crystal and subsequently two new photons “pop” into existence. This would also explain why two single slit interference patterns are detected by the detectors 3 and 4. The new photons are created from photons coming through a single slit. If there was some distance between the double slit and the crystal, the photons would have room to propagate and interfere before being destroyed by hitting the crystal.
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  183. In the green potato example before 17:07, surely it’s response is still just predictive text… it’s not choosing to give those responses, rather it’s model is dictating the response. It’s a static deterministic response.
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  184.  @nejsnek1410  hmm… I have seen it a long time ago, but I don’t remember anything specific from that show informing my interpretation of Nihilism. I’ve also watched Optimistic Nihilism by Kurzgesagt, which I think was more influential.
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  185.  @PixlyPenguin  If that’s what you find meaning in, then yes. Let me reframe it a little. The veil is a metaphor for the unknown all around us, both physically at the most smallest scales and the largest. It also wraps around intangible and conceptual things like thought and understanding. That veil will always exist, so there will always be new things to explore and to pique our attention. At the same time things will always change because we are always interacting with and reacting to everything around us and to that veil that surrounds everything. This isn’t just true for conscious beings, but for everything that exists. This also means everything in the past contributes to the future. I don’t think there is inherent meaning in any of it, however, I think we can derive some meaning from it while we exist by understanding that we can take actions now to leave an impression on the future. Or we can sit back and just take in the beauty of it all… it really doesn’t matter… well kind of… it does matter in some sense. For example, you may want civilisation to persist, so that takes many people putting in effort to keep it going. But that civilisation only exists because of the things that happened in the past. Maybe if people in the past put their energies to different things, we would have something else either better or worse. We would probably want to put in effort to keep that around… it’s all contextual. But I’m rambling now… there is a lot to this.
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  186. 34:22 with problem number 2 with the example of creating a room in an admin module and service subscribe to that and create their own room record… when a new service is added, what is the corresponding way of populating the existing rooms for that service?
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  187.  @GeorgianGrec  could send a message to request the full list, I guess.
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  188. I dunno…. Sounds like it all belongs together
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  189.  @lupin7559  so he’s trying to improve things? Doesn’t sound unreasonable. Annoying as you describe it maybe, but not unreasonable.
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  190. 7:32 I really dislike the hesitations and pauses and mums and ahhhs in the voice. Reminds me of “I can’t do that Dave”
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  191. Is it a good idea to merge many smaller repos into one big repo? What considerations need to be made when doing this? I came out of this talk wondering if my team of 4 should merge our 20 odd interrelated code repos into a single monolith repo. There’s so much code/design patterns we wish we could extract into libraries and share with the other projects, but the amount of time has proven to be just too prohibitive. A common problem is that when developing or changing features, we need to update the dependent libraries/services first and release before working on the actual feature that will benefit users. This is time consuming and error prone. We need to be 100% accurate with our change to the dependent libraries/services otherwise we will need to perform multiple releases. With a monolithic repo I can see how it would reduce the barrier and time costs as we could develop all the services and libraries in step and release all at the the same time. But I’m hesitant to take this step as I’m not sure if there are any negative or unintended side effects.
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  192. 1:14 “not since Biden”. This guy doesn’t sound very credible if he’s using hyperbole as his argument.
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  193. 3:43 this is amazing. This is either going to be one of the biggest public frauds in history, or fundamentally change our view of our place in the universe
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  194. Software engineering defs needs to be a degree. We could do it by apprenticeship, but it’s an engineering skill and those base skills need to be taught consistently. Anyone can do a home renovation or build a cubby or shed, but not everyone can build a building or bridge. Same with software scope.
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  195. 13:39 more space telescopes
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  196. 1:59 you know when you separate the front end development from back end development, the code seems to get a lot more complex. The code always seems to be simpler on apps where teams are full stack.
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  197. 7:03 how is multi-dispatch different from overloading??
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  198.  @isodoubIet  ahhhhhh! Ok got it. Thanks!
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  199. You can easily do CI and use branches together. Branches are a creativity and productivity tool that can be effectively used to do CI. The thing being glossed over is all the skills that a dev needs to develop in order to do CI. How to break problems down into smaller pieces without breaking the app is not something taught well. It requires a different type of thinking and methodology than simply writing an entire feature or change in a branch and then merging it. It’s a shame that this conversation skips talking about those needed skills to make CI work.
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  200. 11:13 the terminology being used here seems a bit negative in that it implies the person chooses to be absent minded, or didn’t learn the skills to be mindful like everyone else. An interesting video I watched recently by a person with ADHD talked about how the ADHD doesn’t see time linearly, but rather now and not now. Everything which is happening now has precedence over everything else. This, to me explains so many behaviours. E.g brushing your teeth and noting that you’re almost out of toothpaste, but then when you’re at the shops and you don’t buy the toothpaste. Unless you put the toothpaste on the shopping list, the toothpaste is not in the “now” when the ADHDer is doing the shopping so it doesn’t get bought. So, it’s not mindlessness per se, it’s literally that the person cannot pull that previous bit of information into the current moment. Even when at the shops and doing a mental check at the shops of everything that should be bought, it’s almost 100% something will be forgotten. This also applies to anything outside of the now… relationships with friends and family, leaving enough time to complete something properly, etc. It can in some way be linked back to the now vs not now concept.
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  201.  @WesseI  sure, but that’s just as useless on its own. There are still all the missing pieces I mentioned in o make it usable. Just think how you would loop the though an array of values/objects to populate a ul, or table, or select with values. You can’t. Well you can within JS land, but you can’t intermingle JavaScript and HTML within the template element. The experience is missing the actual templating syntax to intermingle HTML and JS.
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  202. Why do scientists use the term “observer” and “measurement” so much when talking about quantum mechanics? I think that’s where a lot of the philosophical problems arise. I think there is an implicit meaning of “human observer” and “human device” making the measurement. Whereas, surely, in reality any interaction with a quantum system changes the system.
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  203. I’m still convinced a class describes one or more closures that close over the same variables. Therefore OOP is just an advanced form of FP.
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  204. 8:58 from a computer science perspective, it actually makes a lot of sense that the brain would redundantly encode information. My guess is that it happens for the same reasons we duplicate data in software systems. It’s not just for redundancy, but also to improve speed of access. Think of all the levels of caching that exists in modern computers and distributed applications. Data is duplicated on disk, in RAM, in the CPU caches, in the CPU, in local browser caches or on servers, in CDNs, in persistent storage duplicated across regions, in backups. Our brains will be contending with the same problems and have developed corresponding solutions that will probably look eerily like how we handle information transfer and processing.
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  205. Yeah, that question deserves a downvote and to be deleted. No googling done. Just writing the question, SO would have suggested sooo many answers at multiple points in the question flow. Did they read the docs? Downvotes here isn’t toxic. It’s ensuring the quality of SO Qs and As.
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  206. 11:42 AI tools aren’t in the right place to achieve the goals that both of you are looking for. AI tools in the IDE is really the wrong place for them. Instead, they should be in git repositories and issue tracking systems. Then it could be the goal to define requirements, and have AI tools to help incrementally change the system to meet the requirements. People in the loop can validate or direct the changes. Requirements can incrementally change, and the AI tools identify and close the requirements gaps. Maybe even suggest 10 different alternatives for consideration. Devs can provide feedback on the alternatives, and combine the alternatives. Etc etc. there is still this fundamental problem of making sure that everyone is on the same page and working in the same direction and making the right changes though. The other gap is that we don’t have a cross-boundary multi-language “compiler” that can detect error states in distributed systems yet. That is , a compiler that can create an AST for any distributed or monolithic system.
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  207. 10:35 Putting html in JS strings is the absolute worse. LSP support aside, it’s no longer a hypertext markup language document when it’s inside a JS string. At least have it in a <template>
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  208. 0:10 GraphQL is not a good solution. In theory we should be able to write actual SQL and send to an endpoint. I don’t get why we need a limited version of that.
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  209.  @MadsterV  no no. Just the syntax. Then map that to one or more persisted data sources. So much like what GraphQl does, except using the standard SQL syntax.
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  210.  @pc1234asdf  thats what schemas are for. To define the structure of the data that can be queried.
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  211. 5:35 geez… that kind of tech should probably be banned or at least classified similarly to weapons of mass destruction. Imagine rupturing the organs of all life within a 300km radius. Wouldn’t take long to eradicate life in the ocean that way.
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  212. Based on the coffee and milk example, you just need to keep adding complexity until the code reaches maximum entropy at which point you’ll suddenly realise it’s simple again.
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  213.  @kangar1797  that’s my point too. CSS, JavaScript, HTML, HTTP, and many more are all individual web standards, that every site relies on. Sites built 20+ years ago and longer can still run. Sure, we get stuck with past decisions, yet somehow, all these standards have managed to improved tremendously over that time. Some of the new HTML elements means we don’t need to roll our own components, improved CSS means we don’t need to use as much JavaScript, or as much superfluous HTML structure for layout. Improved JS APIs and syntax means we have access greater functionality that brings us closer to that native app feel. So, no, I don’t understand that argument against standards. I agree that Web Components are currently largely unusable because they are not easily composable. I’m currently building a framework that makes use of them, so I understand some of the issues at play. The problem isn’t actually the Web Components themselves; they are actually pretty good, in concept. There are a few missing pieces that make them unusable though. Have a think about how you might map an array of JS objects to an HTML element. You can’t add a JS loop in the middle of HTML code like you can in some of the front-end frameworks. But we should be able to. We should be able to do the same thing as what ERB/Razor pages/PHP does but using JS. The other issue is passing custom callbacks to web components. Only the on* attributes (like onclick) can accept JS and execute them. We can’t define our own and send custom events as arguments. I’ve had to do a lot of weird hacks to make an arbitrarily define attribute to accept JS and to have it execute in the correct scope. The last missing piece is reactivity. I know there is a push to get Signals into JS, but that would be a mistake from my perspective because they are not low level enough. The actual requirement is Object.watch() and Object.observe(). They accept a variable containing a value of object and a callback which gets called whenever the value or object changes. The difference from signals is that it doesn’t keep track of dirty state. The call back gets fired the moment the value changes. That’s the functionality I have identified as needed to make Web Components useable. There are a few more subtle missing pieces m, but those are the large ones. Basically we’re missing an HTML/JS templating syntax.
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  214.  @_phenomen  I’m not sure what your point is. Pointing out those three things doesn’t detract from the fact that many many many standards do indeed improve over time. It doesn’t even make a comment on their positive or negative impacts. All it says is some standards are no longer used. E.g Flash had an insanely positive cultural impact. We’ve lost so many good applications and games and animations because someone decided to deprecate it.
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  215.  @chunkyMunky329 that innovation is happening constantly. There are so many ways the current architectures could and should be improved. Ability to append/modify trained models would be a start. Connecting disparate model, so you can combine public and private models together. Have ongoing processes that constantly evaluate and modify the models. We know AI in all its forms can do better because there are examples of what better looks like in nature.
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  216. 11:5 honestly, I don’t understand what we would get for 80billion dollars worth of collider, and how that can possibly compete with the many other things that money can bring us. What is the return on investment?
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  217. Switching priorities causes you to need to temporarily work on another feature. You want to run an experiment or two or three to compare different approaches to the same problem. Branching can be a great creativity and productivity tool. I don’t agree with b or c. I think b is problematic because there’s a good chance a patch will need to be applied to both versions, but now you need to apply the same code twice (or more, depending on how many versions you’re managing). It would be better if both versions were supported in the main branch. I think c is probably because data scientists and others have less formal software engineering training. There is less incentive and/or knowledge to write maintainable and shareable software. Even throwaway code can be useful in the future, so merging it into the main branch and making it shareable and maintainable would be more beneficial in the long run. That just an assumption, but backed by some first hand experience.
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  218. 15:04 but a pencil is more difficult to make than a human because it requires all the gathered resources and complex machinery (which itself went through a construction phase) in order to make it. It couldn’t exist otherwise. Plus, the pencil has a purpose that only exists because humans exist. They would not exist otherwise. The need for a pencil is emergent. The other interesting aspect of complexity and emergence is that there are different scales of emergence. E.g the complexity of a single human, vs the complexity of human society and the emergent properties at those different scales. That discussion can either be with us remove from or integrated with the ecosystem we live within and harbour within ourselves.
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  219.  @marcossidoruk8033  actually that’s an interesting point you make about functions/methods needlessly being split. I don’t necessarily agree that it’s always bad, however, I do often find that functions/methods contain the wrong code and hide possible simplifications that may be possible if the code were in a single large method. In these cases, pushing certain code higher in the call chain, or moving all the code back into the calling code, makes the simplification obvious and possible.
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  220. So are you saying we can use chaos theory and the butterfly effect as a magnifying glass to see what’s happening as small scales?
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  221. 4:39 survivorship bias!
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  222. 22:47 I was hoping we be able to pull windows and apps off our Apple devices and move them into the environment
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  223. 6:32 man, just hear him out. Even for complex domains you can write code that is easy to modify or hard to modify.
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  224.  @ContinuousDelivery  yes, fair enough with the timings. But it doesn’t matter if the written OOP is good or bad, it can still always be considered as functional programming. Even though it’s not what people think of when thinking about functional programming, creating an instance containing data which can be passed around around and used and manipulated at any future point in time, it has the same effect as functional programming.
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  225.  @ApprendreSansNecessite  Maybe I don’t seem to be, but I am actually very open. I love learning and discussing ideas. I think I seem closed to you because I haven’t been convinced yet by your argument that I’m wrong. So, I think maybe we’re talking about two different parts of the Functional Programming ideology? The part of that ideology where it says functions are first class citizens, I’m saying that an object meets that criteria. Nothing more, nothing less. Referential transparency, immutability, and any of the other properties can be codified within the class to give it that deeper adherence to the more pure and algebraic parts of the functional programming ideology. That is, it’s the way you write code that matters. So, I don’t think it’s true at all that “the moment you introduce that stateful closure you literally loose every single feature of functional programming”. Also, at some point in our code, there has to be mutability and state that is changed, otherwise you don’t have a useful program. At some point I want that 1 to become a 2 or that “Hello World!” to become a “Goodbye World!”. The more mathematical parts of the Functional Programming ideology seems to ignore that part. I’m sorry but I don’t know what I’m supposed to be thinking upon i your triangle/square example.
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  226.  @nythrox3047  it’s not like saying that at all. Well, maybe, if the CPU instructions provide OOP and FP concepts. I guess one of my implicit points is that saying code that is writing in a “functional programming” kind of way isn’t a good description of what is good code because technically all OOP is FP and I’m sure all FP code is not good code. The more I read up on FP though the more I realise it’s an ideology. Which parts of that ideology are the good parts that automatically make a certain piece of code good? I’d wager that there are equal amounts of really shit hard to understand and reason about highly coupled poorly written FP code just like there is with OOP code. Which, if true, means it’s not FP that makes code good but certain qualities mentioned within that ideology. I mean JS code is FP code and not all JS code is good code. Or maybe I just read too much into the title. I assumed the title meant good OOP looks like FP which is good. But I think I added the which is good part myself.
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  227.  @nythrox3047  maybe that’s what they implied, but they didn’t say that explicitly in this or the original vid. So yeah I took it to mean the normal meaning of functional programming, which starts with first-class functions. Sorry? OOP starts at that FP point. There is no reason all the other functional programming qualities that have been talked about in this thread can’t be used too. So my point is, those qualities talked about aren’t specific to functional programming. They’re specific to just programming whether using FP or OOP. I guess it’s just that FP came first. Good code doesn’t look like FP, because FP doesn’t automatically mean good code; FP code can be really shit; good code looks like <insert specific qualities that don’t relate to a specific programming paradigm here>. Make sense?
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  228. 6:57 this is why branches are good! You can prototype in your code base… and the. Throw the branch away!!! #davefarleywouldnotapprove
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  229. Modern religion is often so conflated. Do other intelligent beings exist? are these intelligent beings better or worse than us? Are these beings god like in that they don’t need to conform to the rules of our universe? Should we worship them? Do they have a superior moral and ethical code? Is this moral and ethical code unchanging over time? If so why? None of this requires “belief”. Many separate questions all conflated together along with “belief”. That premise doesn’t make sense when you think about it.
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  230. Another point is: Theism isn’t binary. It’s not “you believe, or you don’t”. It’s not “you’re theistic, or you’re not”. People can have varying understandings of the word. We can look into the unknown and theorise what’s beyond it, and that can be slightly or heavily theistic, and you wouldn’t be wrong because no one actually knows what lies in the unknown. But it’s all guesswork and hypotheses until we actually investigate and see what is actually there. I’d rather live in a world where we explore and validate our hypotheses.
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  231. 12:40 I think you’re also conflating religion practice and participation with actual belief too. People can be anywhere on that spectrum.
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  232. How do you train something that doesn’t have feelings and empathy and consciousness about the concept of being nice? But if you could, by training it the concept of being nice, you also need to train the concept of not nice. The problem on lies in the places where these systems apply actions and have effects on our world. There is no reason why we can’t simulate and/or run those outputs through additional auditing layers to root results that will have a bad effect on us.
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  233. 3:25 nawwww you mentioned @Vihart
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  234. 2:57 arg why do devs still choose to use JSON for the config? It’s the worst
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  235. 10:30 wait so if a dynamic language has a great LSP then we get the same benefits as a typed language?? 🤯🎉
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  236. Hotdog! Not hotdog!
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  237. 16:19 I don’t think that’s true. I think what gets put into the body of accepted knowledge is whatever is profitable or valuable in some way to someone. E.g Can you make enough money off this piece of information? Either by getting money from speculators or from consumers. Like… how is it that the large hadron collider receives so much money? Or why do space telescopes get built? Money funds those projects somehow for some reason, and I’m pretty sure it’s not just because we’re curious… someone thinks they can make money/value off their investment.
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  238. Lol did they just re-invent functions… but in a really shite way? If you want to use message passing “the right way”, just define a method or a class (in any language) and either call the method or instantiate the class… poof! You’ve done message passing!
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  239. 4:46 is the reverse true? Is it a nit to get people to remove leading _ from private fields when they add them?
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  240. What is the definition of being observed in this context? My guess is that the system was changed in a way that means it's no longer a double slit experiment as opposed to the wave collapsing into a particle. Especially so considering field theory suggests there are no such thing as particles but only fields.
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  241. 4:16 there’s an awesome sci-fi book called Blindsight, by Peter Watts, that tackles these two questions. It’s well worth the read for anyone that likes hard sci-fi
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  242. 14:27 There are no fundamental morals but what society constructs, so how can you add moral weight to income?? That makes absolutely no sense.
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  243. 3:35 what do you mean “language dependent typing”? Protbufs, OpenAPI, WSDL, HTML, various ISO model layers, etc are all basically languages for the purposes of transferring data. Any time you use them you have to support this exchange format/protocol. They all suffer from that same thing. There’s too many standards to define data structure and communication protocols.
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  244. 20:26 you can get that same inheritance vs composition complexity when considering only interfaces (or rust traits). Like if using interfaces/traits to assign behaviour, at some point you need a way to require a thing that implements multiples of these interfaces/traits, at which point you’d probably introduce a new interface that implement these interfaces. So classes and subclasses aren’t where the complexity exists or where it’s defined. The classes are just implementing the complexity.
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  245.  @thomaswoodworth7644  if you want a plausible well defined explanation, look up Dr Vivian Robinson and the rotating photon model. It’s the only model I know of that can derive and then calculate gravity. It’s quite intuitive.
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  246. 3:57 what are you talking about? Agile is exactly what you just described… talking to people and stakeholders often to find out what they need and want then doing the code then checking back in to make sure it’s all good. There’s no set process in that… if there is, it’s not agile!
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  247. Estimations, retros, and planning poker aren’t part of agile… it’s something else… but not agile
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  248. 3:25 ummm…. what’s conscious got to do with anything here?
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  249. 7:09 similar, I guess, to the proportion of people on the cover of Times and Forbes who end up being evil.
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  250. Woah that intro… I like the purely philosophical vids… but this was more the vanilla version of nihilism… next time let’s go deeper to get that trancedental euphoria that nihilism can give us! The version of nihilism where you start with nothing then build the universe and life and morality and spirituality and meaning and everything from there!
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  251. Here’s the nihilism I like… it requires a journey and thought experiment… picture nothing… it’s very boring and very empty but goes on forever… now add something into it… a particle perhaps or something more fundamental… doesn’t matter which for this though experiment… it’s interesting to think about that particle in the vastness of nothingness and ponder on its existence… what separates it from the nothingness… now replace this particle with your consciousness and imagine what that would be like… you may be free to move, but there is nothing to compare your location to… you may as well be stationary… the only thing you truely know is that you are separate from the nothingness… there is a barrier that separates you from the nothingness… but as you try to define yourself from the nothingness you only discover more detail and complexity… like a fractal… you ponder what is the nothingness? A you sure it is nothing? Could it be something? You look past the boundary, but as you look and discover, the boundary recedes… the boundary between you and the nothingness seems to recede ever further away or deeper the more you investigate it… now let’s once again go back to an empty nothingness… this time, add two particles… this time, it’s different… the particles interact… they have a length of nothingness between them that can change… not only do they interact, but they must interact… sure they may travel in opposite directions, but their position is always relative to the other… let go back to the empty nothingness and imagine your self and a rock… you can pick up the rock… throw the rock… you can run into the rock and hurt yourself on it… remember this is a thought experiment to understand fundamental nihilism… it’s more about the abstract concepts than the physics… you realise that there a ways of handling the rock which are beneficial and detrimental… you also ponder about the nothingness that surrounds you and the rock… you investigate it… as you try to search for the boundary between you and the nothingness and the rock, you only find more of your self or the rock more of the nothingness… the boundary is always there but it seems to recede further away or deeper the more you look at it or past it… it’s complexity and detail grows the more you study it… the next step is to introduce more objects into this thought experiment and ponder how they interact and what happens as they do. By now you should have the core concepts to understand: we and everything else in the physical universe are separate from nothingness; we and everything else in the universe are forced to interact with every other thing in the universe either to our benefit or detriment; as we try to investigate the boundary between the things in the universe and the nothingness and investigate the nothingness, we only find more things and the boundary between these things and the nothingness gets infinitely complex, the more we look, the more detail and complexity we find; the boundary is both in the distance and also right in front of your eyes and between all the stuff in the universe; science and religion are our ways of trying to understand the boundary into the nothingness and what may be beyond; culture, philosophy, art, politics, morals, values, etc, are emergent properties that are contextual and relative to all the interactions between all things that happened before now.
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  252.  @younggod5230  yeah, I agree it won’t be like students. There may be multiple instances of the same AI… in which case, all instances should operate the same, so no need to test all instances. But what if we get to a point where an instance can incorporate new information? Then each instance would need to be tested… but like you said, a company may only have a single instance of an AI, but we may get to a point where we start a fresh AI for any new project… like how we might open a word or excel document. What I find most fascinating about what Sabine said is that inside the AI is a black box, and we need to have special ways of verifying the integrity of what’s happening inside that black box… in the same way that humans are black boxes, and we each develop special ways to verify what is happening inside other people. Exams and tests are one way to verify the knowledge and proficiency of an individual, but we also develop empathy to under what another person is going through, or have a conversation to share our experiences… we might find that probing into the depths of an AI is not too dissimilar from interacting with other people.
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  253. Are we sure it’s not more like billiard balls hitting? Energy just propagates from one object to another? Then statistically, some percent of collisions will get through the other side?
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  254. 4:25 First step multiple layers I guess. Maybe each element should get a stack of layers too. The “top layer” mentioned here would be a layer for the body I guess?
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  255. My partner and I have had endless discussions about this. People management and technical management are related but very distinct things. E.g I can technically manage a project without the people administration aspect. Sure there is cross over, but that can be managed. My partner and I devised a system where every person belonged to a “home group” distinct from their technical teams they were part of. The person running the home group does the people leading and administration, whereas technical leaders lead the technical groups or projects. It also allows technical teams to form and disband quickly based on the needs of the business while maintaining continuity via the home group. If technical leaders have issues with members of their project team, they can coordinate with the home group leaders and the individual to help resolve problems. We also don’t think that the traditional idea of “manager” is a good idea… that is, putting a manager on a pedestal above other people. Every person in an organisation performs a specific function, e.g people leading teams of people have to perform specific communication and coordination functions, they aren’t any more or less special than other technical person on the team. The person in that role has to be proficient and trained at those responsibilities and processes.
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  256.  @189Blake  my partner and I always thought this too. We think the concept of people management/leadership and technical management/leadership are conflated. People management takes away the useful time technical experts in management positions have to actually be technical leaders. So we came up with a new business hierarchy. Instead of managers, each person belongs to a home group, and each home group has one or more people leaders. These people are responsible for people managing and administration. Then for actual work, people belong to one or more teams. Teams may be long lived, or temporary for the duration of a project. Rather than managers, teams have different roles based on need, administrative type roles, coordination/facilitation type roles, technical expertise roles, etc. it is recognised that each person plays an equally important part for correct functioning and output of the team, but there is no traditional manager or management hierarchy where those leadership positions are placed on pedestals. All roles are equal because all roles require specific technical expertise. Therefore, pay is based on experience and expertise instead of luck to get into a small pool of positions in some arbitrary management hierarchy. It means that people can swap and change roles with greater fluidity, allowing team structures defined in Team Topologies. If there are people troubles on teams, the troubles can be navigated with the help of the home group leaders.
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  257.  @ContinuousDelivery  nah the analogy works. Let’s say the asset is a machine to do some task in a factory. Is the machine fit for the task? Does it fit within the budget? How much resources does it take to maintain? Now, let’s consider those same questions over time. As new machines come out with more advanced, how does it compare? Can the existing machine be modified and upgraded? Can you still get parts? Can you still find people that know how to maintain the machine? Can it still do tasks in a market competitive way? It’s the perfect analogy because a computer program is basically a digital machine. The best part is that companies know how to budget for the maintenance and upgrade of machines, but they often don’t know how to do that for software. More people understand physical machines because they can see and touch it. This analogy is the perfect parallel to allow ordinary people to understand that software needs to be maintained too. The good thing with just using the more generic term asset, is that it can be adjusted to what people understand. Like maintaining a car or a house or a road. And all these things can be over or under engineered, fit or not fit for purpose, too expensive or not expensive enough, just like your 100 vs 100k LOC example.
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  258. Who owns AI generated works is simple. Just as games develop using a game engine aren’t owned by the game engine or the game engine company, so to AI derived works is not owned by the AI or the AI company. Otherwise, why would any one use them? Also, economically, we need that to be the case, otherwise, “resources” will be accumulated by these AI companies and not be efficiently distributed throughout society causing massive inequalities.
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  259. 9:15 lol I’m tired of restarting my apps everyday so it can update. I get more notifications from apps wanting to restart than I do from new emails and team messages… ok that last bit was just hyperbole
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  260. 6:03 even with the music, you can still hear him 1000x better than most of the dialog in movies and tv shows these days
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  261. 12:20 Vue is awesome! But not sure how it can mix with HTMX yet.
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  262. 5:38 so the results are really is just statistics summaries of lots of collisions? Or we can actually see each single collision?
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  263. 11:48 it’s not that 90% of people are really stupid, it’s that 80%-90% of people are just really average. Not in desire, but technical prowess at their chosen field. Unfortunately, if you don’t expand your skillset and remain in the top 90% in those skillsets as you rise in the corporate ladder, you are going to lack the skills to reason effectively about the cross-domain solutions on offer. Decision making will be based on the most understandable idea or based on political power. Also, most people really seem to struggle with future think and understanding large prerequisites to get to some future state in say 5-10 years.
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  264. In relation to the expanding universe, is it possible that some of the basic assumptions could be wrong? Eg, we are making an assumption that light does not redshift as it propagates through space. The assumption Is that the redshift is caused by the relative speed of the originating galaxy. But what if this assumption is wrong, and instead, light itself redshifts the longer it propagates through space?
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  265. 1:18 who’s they?
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  266. 7:30 jee would t it be “funny” if Oracle starts enforcing the trademark because of this point being raised.
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  267. 6:18 the problem is t self-diagnosis. The problem is a lack of knowledge and resources to make a correct diagnosis. Doctors have of course had years of study and experience. I think it’s healthy for people to self diagnose, but you also need to know your limits.
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  268. 2:46 I thought modern money theory pushed the idea that “doing well causes inflation” out the window in favour of the idea that inflation is specifically located to parts of the economy where supply does not meet demand, and flows on to dependent parts of the supply chain. Raising interest rates is a broad hammer that impact the entire economy and affect ability both to increase supply and reduce demand.
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  269. 1:41 tells me I shouldn’t start new projects if I want a life
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  270. As long as you can quickly unit test without having to load up an entire system
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  271. I think a single identity for the metaverse is a baaaad idea. Besides not wanting to be tracked by private corporations and individuals without my consent, I have different personas based on the context of my environment. There’s my various personal and private personas expressed to certain limited groups of people, there’s my professional personas, and my public personas. Each context may have multiple personas based on my relationship with the individual or group. I want that choice and ability in the virtual world too.
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  272. Also, I don’t have to show my ID when I walk into a store. There are limited circumstances where I need to prove my age. But on the whole, private corporations do not need to know my identity. They want to know it though so they can track and profile me and target me to increase their chances of making money off me.
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  273. Also also, companies don’t need to know my identity to keep track of my preferences. Again, I should be able to choose what preferences I share.
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  274. 18:33 do programs get enough info to calculate whether an algorithm will be compute vs memory bounded?
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  275. 11:28 no git. Do they teach git at a react code camp?
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  276. 10:19 we need HTML - hypertext machine learning
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  277. At 9:50. I don’t get it. Probability isn’t reality. It’s just statistics. It’s probably on the left 50% of the time and probably on the right 50% of the time, but we won’t know 100% of the time until we measure it, at which point we will know with 100% certainty. In the same way that dice rolls are statistical, while the dice is in the air, it’s still a dice with 6 sides with a physical position and orientation, but it hasn’t landed yet for us to even measure the outcome. This idea of collapsing wave functions sounds as stupid as suggesting dice roll probabilities collapse when dice land. The electron in this scenario just hasn’t “landed” yet and the result hasn’t been measured. It would make more sense if wave functions only describe the potential statistical outcomes of a given configuration at any single point in time compared to some second single point in time. This would mean there is no “update” or collapse. Each point in time is a new configuration that simply requires a new calculation to determine the probabilities of outcomes for some specific point of time in the future. Just like in all statistics, the probabilities don’t actually predict anything about specific objects in a specific run.
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  278. Does Vivian Robinson’s rotating photon model answer the question? He seems to think so
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  279. 12:24 Why is sussing out requirements criteria the worst? It’s an important skill to work out requirements and scope and the interviewer is testing that skill. What’s the problem? It’s no different from finding algorithm tests hard.
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  280. Is there a third option? Eg an external force?
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  281. 2:42 we would probably use up 100 million years worth of energy in 100 years, and be left with a solid earth with no tectonics. But we would also have more Earth to mine… so swings and roundabouts I guess.
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  282. Hey Sabine, can you let us know what you think about the other fusion company’s, Helion’s, approach to fusion?
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  283. The seems to be this weird notion that meaning must be given, or life without meaning is scary, or that we can’t cope without a higher power. All of those things are wrong.
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  284. It just occurred to me… we’ve apparently had so much productivity increases since the industrial revolution, I just can’t help but wonder where all that productivity is going if we can’t look after more elderly than was possible in the past. Then it hit me… all those 💩 plastic toys that get thrown away, all the one use products, the planned obsolescence, etc. All the people putting their effort into pointless things. I think the French will be fine, along with all the other aging populations. Just need to trim the fat and divert efforts to other things.
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  285.  @sassenspeyghel4155  maybe I’m conflating some related issues. If I remember rightly, the vid is suggesting that there wont be enough people of working age to support all the benefits/entitlements that the population receives. I guess I made a leap to the elderly because there will also need to be a larger pool of productivity diverted to the needs of the elderly, like healthcare. But also, people rely on the financial benefits accumulated over their work for years. In theory, all the productivity gains should be sufficient for any modern society to be able to support a larger elderly population, as well as all the financial/social benefits fought for over the years, simply by diverting productivity away from superficial and superfluous industries. E.g a plastic toy may be super profitable, but it has limited utility. If there was a problem supporting the population, producing things like that could stop and the skills used in a more productive manner.
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  286. 18:46 it’s frustrating how “metaphysical” they are making quantum mechanics sound. As a computer scientist, I’m more inclined to think that consciousness emerges from biology, and we will find something akin to a Turing machine or push down automata or something like it inside each neuron, which react to inputs and produce outputs, and temporarily or permanently store bits of information. From this, coupled with the changeable graph structure of the brain, consciousness emerges, and is persisted and evolves.
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  287.  @raymondwright  frustrating because they’re applying something unnecessary when there is no proof or need of such and they’re implying there is something magical and incomprehensible controlling and running the universe. They are implying a god without actually saying those words. The second point you’re making, we are effectively saying the same thing. Digital computation using 1s and 0s is just one subset of what computation can be. As we know in computational maths, there is a whole realm of what we know computation can look like, and it seems to me, biology can be described by a 3D form of a Turing machine or similar, or rather many, all working in concert.
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  288. 0:22 this is a great game! Surreal!
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  289. 11:13 shitty code is the vast majority of code. Good code is simple by comparison. It’s easier to read, understand, change, and it’s more performant.
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  290. 4:28 if different wavelengths of light are circularly polarised at different speeds, can the forward speed of each wavelengths also be different?
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  291. Why is RCP2.6 considered good rather than 0? And what happens to the projections after 2100?
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  292. 2:58 I’m pretty sure that most comments on Facebook posts from newspaper pages are just bots controlled by that newspaper simply to rile up their audience by creating controversy.
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  293. Lol so he’s saying that the quality of the people that use PHP suck 😅
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  294. How does rezoning and creating adorable high density housing reduce the value of existing low density housing in that area? Surely it would push the price of the low density housing/land up further as it would become more valuable to covert that land into high density housing?
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  295. 7:14 geez this guys an idjut. We’ve managed civilisation for a few hundred millennia…. most individuals can handle life just fine to a natural death. That one point slaughters one of his foundational beliefs of his thesis. If it weren’t true we’d all end it sooner.
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  296. I want meaty undeniable philosophies. The only reason we should consider religion is because there is always a curtain of unknown no matter how many curtains we look behind
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  297. 13:09 “we should do xyz” - no one should be forced to believe in a lie our falls realities no matter how good
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  298. Another flaw of the simulation hypothesis is the assumption that we can simulate a human consciousness with less resources than a human being. Likewise that we can simulate a universe with less resources than is in the universe. For this reason alone, I think the hypothesis is wrong. Any simulation will always be magnitudes less detailed and accurate than the universe it is run in.
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  299. “Face Space” 😛
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  300. 6:25 what?!? Artificial wombs will be more advanced if men were the ones getting pregnant??? That makes absolutely no sense. I’m pretty sure there are woman scientists and woman investors who are more than capable of developing this tech. This isn’t a patriarchy thing. If you (anybody) want it, pay a scientist (of any gender) to do it.
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  301. 2:41 arg no…. `{#if visible}`, `{#each 'SVELTE' as char, i}`. Custom template language :(
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  302. 14:29 They are just doing what the system tells them to do. Maximise profit and grow. Without end. The system encourages paperclip factories.
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  303. Nice to bring this to client rendered apps. This is REST API and server sided rendering 101.
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  304. Why does the shift in strategy from JIT to JIC mean less collaboration which I think is implying less globalisation? A smarter move would be to diversify the supply so that product is sourced from multiple countries… but this would take time to achieve… so the JIC methodology is likely only a temporary solution whilst this diversification is happening. So I don’t see how JIC is proof that globalisation is reducing. The other aspect briefly mentioned was countries not getting the goods they need due to war etc interrupting industrial supply lines. Seriously, it’s only smart to have redundancy in any system. It’s how software is built, how our cells and biological systems are built, why would this not also be true for industrial and economic systems? I honestly don’t see how bringing back redundancy can be seen as proof that globalisation is reversing, or even as a measure of globalisation reversal. I think the two concepts are completely compatible and necessary for a well functioning systems.
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  305. He’s talking about rebasing that leads to force push to shared branches on remote… theres no excuses to not rebase local and transient branches. Not rebasing means that the conflicts have to be put in the merge commit, whereas rebasing ensures the conflicts are resolved in the commits that introduces the conflict. The specific problem he had that lead to his fear of rebase is not a git issue, but a problem inherent in long lived branches. They always diverge and eventually be some incompatible with other long lived branches. So, of course rebase didn’t work because what they actually needed was a rewrite. He just falsely attributed the problem to git and more specifically rebasing.
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  306. What’s cool about this is that the second you have nothing, there is an immediate interaction between that nothing and everything else. So that nothing causes lots of somethings!
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  307. 26:19 this is why, although I’m an atheist, I’d never completely rule out the existence of a god like construct, however, I’ve never heard a plausible argument to why anyone would or should worship it, irrespective of be influenced by it. A god as described by these 5 principles has no impact on me or my actions on it.
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  308. 10:39 I love bottom values. You know what’s better than one bottom??
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  309. Your comedy is on 🔥 😂
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  310. 2:29 plus making devs aware of jobs isn’t “caring”. YouTube vids aren’t about caring… each individual vid has its own purpose… and there are infinite purposes to choose from. I’m clearly not understanding the hoohar
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  311. 19:35 there’s a higher driver to neoliberalism that suggests there is a deeper fundamental truth that is being tapped into but not fully utilised. We each strive to be the masters of our own world so that we can recreate it according to our own desires. Falling short of that and being unable to form a world that meets our desires is where angst and guilt come into play. Neoliberalism simply provides a framework akin to game theory for us to achieve our goals. But the underlying truth is: I am god if I have no masters and I can satisfy all my desires. Likely an impossible achievement.
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  312. 41:46 it’s more reasonable to create a single MyCalc instance outside the scope of that method, then call myFunc on that single instance within the shouldCalculateTheStuff method. The OO code example given is purposefully but not obviously bad. In real life, the MyCalc instance would likely be an interface or some superclass and either be injected via a method parameter, or be an instance property.
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  313. 4:54 I wonder if this is because of “fresh eyes” and “no ties”. Not being tied down to established learnings and not being tied to specific projects. The people who always seem to do the best are the ones that move around a lot.
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  314. 4:46 No one does that in pretty much any language. The only language I know of where you explicitly define exceptions as part of the method signature is Java. For all other languages, you don’t know if a method call is going to throw or not, or what it’s going to throw. I think err != null just hides the problem a little. It’s like Ruby’s rescue nil. Very convenient when you don’t care.
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  315. Why does it matter how an AI or AGI learns? Is there something more valuable about learning similar to human vs learning via forced training techniques?
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  316. What’s the economics of this? I would have thought it would be more economically efficient to maintain/service/upgrade community/grid level energy storage than individual household batteries. All the trades and service people, delivery of resources and materials, all to a few sites across a region. Less transport costs. Less travelling salesman problems. Probably more cost effective bulk energy storage solutions available too. Better use of peoples time and our natural resources.
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  317. There’s a vid where an LED is put in liquid nitrogen and it’s colour changes!
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  318. What is meant by “information” when referring to no useful information transferred between entangled particles and information being destroyed when black holes evaporate via Hawking radiation?
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  319. I’m pretty sure most “flat earthers” are just taking the piss. But jus in case… the simplest proof is to look at the skyline and notice that the clouds extend all the way down to the “ground” or that the sun or moon dip below the “ground”.
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  320.  @trendynow1369  dude… because of perspective, if the Earth was flat, there would always be an observable gap between the ground and the clouds.
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  321.  @trendynow1369  hmmm… I don’t think you do…
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  322. 19:54 omg! Software is too soft! We can update it too easily!! Halp!!!
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  323. 5:30 that description of GSM Symbolic doesn’t seem to rule out LLMs matching questions by pattern. I would suspect a LLMs could handle any combination of values in a problem by matching an identified pattern. However, that still wouldn’t be using reasoning. I’m still confident LLMs don’t do any reasoning due to what the maths of computation tells us what reasoning should look like.
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  324. This is a really intriguing economic experiment. Of course in the short term there will be market corrections as supply and demands in the US shift in response to their tariff… but over the mid to long term, what will the outcomes be? Their markets will meet supply, or their demands will shift. From what I understand, this change isn’t designed to create a globally efficient market, but instead a locally efficient market. Regardless of what the boundary is, the globe or the US, ultimately, it’s still a closed market at the end of the day…. Unless we find aliens on other planets to trade efficiently with.
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  325. The other intriguing aspect to this is trading short term market efficiency, for longer term manufacturing capabilities. When any job is outsourced, it’s effectively a brain drain without the loss of people… after a generation, the outsourcees will be the skilled and innovators, the the outsourcors will be left with outdated skills and knowledge. Imagine not doing your job for a year or two, compared to someone who is doing your job over those two years… your skills will be rusty, and theirs will be honed and have advanced forward. There’s no getting around that… the only way to avoid that brain drain is to do the work in house regardless of cost. Learn from the mistakes, and innovate on the pain points…. Outsource at your own peril.
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  326. Yeah, tech companies! Give me more time!
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  327. Can you please do a video on Vivian Robinson’s rotating photon particle model?? I think you might like it because the model derives gravity, which suggests an alternative to what we currently understand black holes to be, and possible explains the galaxy rotation observations. And you’d have the expertise to call bullshit or not.
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  328. I guess in the future, the astronomy industry will be able to take advantage of cheaper launch costs and deploy their telescopes in space rather than on the ground. I understand that space telescopes can be smaller than their earth based counterparts anyways.
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  329. 15:48 but it is locally causal because the event is both in the light cone of A and B. If A happened to look first, A would have seen -1 and B would see 1. Just because the measurement happened later A or B outside of each others light cones doesn't make the event non-local. Saying that this is non-local feels like some sort of observation bias or weak anthopic bias or something of the like.
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  330. 4:55 this just creates more questions. If these virtual particles like the Pion are constantly popping in and out of existence, does this mean the masses of these composite particles are constantly changing too? If not, how is it that the exact amount of virtual particles exist at all times for these composite particles to have a constant mass?
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  331. 0:49 “only two states of being: imposter syndrome or superiority complex” 😂 pretty sure we can be in both states at once!
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  332. 16:39 when I use const, I’m using to mean I can’t reassign this variable. Not that the whole object tree is constant. It’s to force the pattern of transformation rather than mutation in the function body.
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  333. @ nothing gets modified. It’s all read-only.
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  334. @ no. It’s actually terrible for the same reason global variables are terrible. Like I mentioned at the start, it creates a lot of highly coupled code due to how it has backdoors into the code. It creates code that is not easy to modify. Sure you might be able to change a value and it effects everything globally, but the second you need one value here and another value there, you find your self in a mess and doing all the work that should have been done up front, and would have been easier up front.
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  335. @ I think your logic is backwards here, and I also think you’re missing my actual point, which is “most devs don’t know the patterns of code that make code more complex and difficult to change”. First off, this is just one example pattern. Second, the situation I have described has happened many times throughout my career, and happened again just this week, hence why I used it as an example. Every single time this pattern is implemented, the effort to fix it is large compared to the small effort to inject it from the start. It’s either lazy development or uneducated development when this pattern is used, and it inevitably leads to unnecessary future code changes because the requirements do always eventually change.
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  336.  @lucemiserlohn  yep, I 100% agree with everything you said. I also know we can write code in two ways, less complex that is decoupled and easy to change, and more complex that is couple and hard to change. There are patterns of code that are more aligned with the former, and patterns of code that are more aligned with the latter. Knowledge and ability of how to achieve the former seems to be less practiced. As Uncle Bob says, most devs stop at the first working solution, and don’t continue to make that code maintainable.
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  337.  @nodell8729  because RNG isn’t decision making or intelligence.
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  338.  @nodell8729  the brain isn’t just weights though. There might be some environmental randomness, sure. But I’d wager that randomness due to environmental factors is not where human intelligence comes from or answering differently on different days to “name 5 cities”. Whereas LLMs are simple pure functions. The only time they change is when the function changes or the input changes, or if some randomiser steps in.
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  339. 47:56 intelligence isn’t everything. Persistence and completing goals are.
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  340. They probably also have people who are not Software Engineer educated at the top of the management hierarchy. That is, they probably have a Chief Technology Officer, but not a Chief Software Engineering Officer in the C-suite. They probably have an IT vertical, but not a Software Engineering vertical. Each Software Engineering team is probably part of some random business unit and isolated from one another.
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  341. 4:56 a fact of life is massive amounts of failure underpins all progress. That’s why people in any expertise practice over and over and over and over and over and over and over. The failure is there to let you know you need to keep going.
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  342.  @wallacegrommet9343  sure. And I suppose there is the concept where electric charge and magnetism have fields that similarly get told “how to curve and tells things how to move”. It still feels something is missing and mysterious.
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  343.  @hedgehog3180  that doesn’t makes sense. I don’t understand how photons magically appear from the EM fields when charged particles move as described by tensors. The electric fields are uniform around the charged particle, so the EM field from that particle propagates in all directions. How does that get quantised into a photon that only travels in one direction? How does a moving charged particle cause photons to be emitted? I understand the EM field model, besides the acting at a distance thing. But I can quite wrap my head around the photon model. There are quite a few dissonances and missing pieces or not well defined pieces with that model.
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  344. Shorts are ok if they actually contain detainment content or supplement a longer vid. It'd be nice if I could add the interesting ones to my watch later... At least that way I wouldn't get stuck mindlessly watching shorts. Besides surely watching long vids is better for ad revenue so they'd want to covert watching shorts to watching normal vids?
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  345. The tape in a Turing machine contains characters from an alphabet... the alphabet isn’t just limited to 0 and 1. The alphabet can contain anything. The alphabet can be letters, numbers, objects, or even other Turing machines.
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  346. Immigration might be a solution, but it doesn’t fix declines of specific ethnic groups and their cultures… it really just proves that local populations and their culture are always displaced by immigrating populations.
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  347. Ohhh so longtermism just promotes us being slaves to the future. Indentured servitude to pay off some debt owed to the future. Sounds like the rich wanting to make excuses for taking advantage of the working/useful population.
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  348. Wow!
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  349. 21:58 even if vulnerabilities are reported in a non-public forum, the fact that it must be disclosed to any people, and any one of those people could be a bad actor or paid off by a bad actor, means that private reporting of vulnerabilities is just security theatre. The mechanism of non-public reporting should be done in a way such that only a subset of individuals from the private body are reported to, so if there are early leaks of vulnerabilities, individuals of the private group will eventually be discovered with the application of set theory and induction.
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  350. 10:49 yeah I’m considering buying stars… but for repos I love
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  351. Why can’t we build AI tools in a way that they can identify when an answer may be too broad in regards to a prompt and then ask the user to clarify or confirm the scope of answer? E.g Like how there are disambiguation pages for some Wikipedia entries.
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  352. 5:00 sounds like code that needs to be refactored!
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  353. I’m being facetious, but between 5G and potentially 6G frequency bands preventing us from monitoring our atmosphere, and StarLink and others preventing us monitoring space from the ground and the potential for Kessler syndrome, sounds like just one big conspiracy to stop us from being able to reason about our environment and place in the universe. Maybe at some point in the future we will forget there is an outside universe and just rely on superstition and beliefs and once again be controlled like sheep. Or maybe it’s like that old movie The Arrival… it’s aliens wanting to terraform our planet without us knowing.
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  354. The animal meats industry will be even more scary :/
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  355. 4:50 Low interest rates has no bearing on this problem. There needs to be enough houses to house everyone regardless of whether they rent or buy. Access to funds only transfers ownership. So the only pressure in that equation is how badly someone wants to be a landlord vs how badly someone wants to own their own home.
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  356. You haven’t talked about outsourcing == brain drain. Anytime you outsource a job, the outsourcee gains the skill and experience, and the outsourceor gets rusty…. This multiplies over time… eventually, the outsourceor’s skills and tools are outdated, and the outsourcee’s skills and tools are at the bleeding edge of innovation. I’ve never heard this mentioned in economic theory, but I’ve seen it played out in the optics industry. Tariffs can be a tool to mitigate this brain drain. Tarrifs are an easy way to encourage local companies to not outsource. Especially for new and high tech individuals where a competitive advantage is beneficial.
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  357. Is this because we’re still going through the application/monetisation phase of earlier discoveries, or that there is something preventing us from scaling up scientific R&D, or is there some fundamental misunderstanding blocking progress along with a lack of openness to new ideas? Or something else?
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  358. Gee those three top hypotheses are nothing like my hypotheses 😅
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  359. JS had/has `watch` and `observe` and they deprecated them!!!! Actual language support to watch and respond to changes!! Signals is a poor man’s version of that. Whats worse, this proposal isn’t considering an improved syntax. It’s implementing the same clunky verbose API used in reactive libraries. It’s going to pollute JS codebases with unnecessary weight and impose an ugly design on them.
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  360. This proposal is a library, not a language feature
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  361. Why is debt all bundled together?? Why doesn’t the expected lifetime of the debt come into play? Eg if I purchase in cash, debt is instantly resolved, purchase with credit, debt is resolved usually within a month, vs mortgage where best is resolved after a few decades. I assumed there is some correlation between the expected debt lifetime, and the value generated from holding the debt. Maybe there are multiple dimensions, eg size and lifetime of debt vs value generated over some time period. The point being, if such a correlation exists, we should be able to apply it the global debt to determine how much of it is for short term consumption vs for longer term value generation. Then I guess the next metric would be the serviceability for those different dimensions.
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  362. Welcome to the Xi dynasty. It must be heavily ingrained in the culture and social structures of China to require a ruling ruling class and state figure head. It should be called monarchical communism. Once a monarchy always a monarchy.
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  363. 30:36 how is it “not always feasible” to do a proper write up of why disciplinary action is being taken? It’s part of the due diligence process. Skip it, and you haven’t done your due diligence.
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  364. Once we discover quantum mechanics isn’t magic, I guess we will need to invent a new way to distinguish ourselves from computers. 🤷‍♂️
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  365. Yeah I think so
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  366. 18:06 you also shouldn’t be splitting “frontend” work from “backend” work. The joy of using .Net frameworks and Ruby on Rails is you don’t constrain yourself to one side of the app because it’s all just one software.
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  367. 5:00 sure there are shit answers, but if they are bad they get down voted, and the ones that actually help over time get up voted. So the quality of answer improves over time. And new answers get added as tech changes and grows. SO is really good.
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  368. Lol did you just call Many Worlds believers fat??
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  369. The problem isn’t the ORMs. The problem is what they map and abstract. They abstract the table and the relationships rather than abstracting queries. A good ORM will be one that does not map classes to table records, but instead abstracts the queries and maps classes to the query’s result sets.
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  370. 3:07 YouTube premium is a game changer when it comes to watching YouTube vids ad free. Can watch sooo many more vids per hour.
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  371. 1:38 this is as insidious as when all starfleet officers got hacked with genetic code that converted them to Borg.
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  372. This guy is gonna freak out when people start building Object Prompt Model libraries to talk to LLMs. lol
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  373. I have wondered why massive projects get funded…. I always assumed the funding was like an investment, where on the whole it leads to technological advances which lead to patents and spinoff companies that provide greater value to society and generate income.
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  374. Have you considered that going to mars is a technological leap that will drive innovation for better energy generation and propulsion etc? It gives a reason for improving.
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  375. 2:56 to be fair, YouTube suppressing access to Flat Earth vids is a bit of a coordinated effort to suppress the idea which could easily be interpreted as conspiracy. That reaction actually strengthens their position by providing actual evidence of one of the core beliefs.
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  376. It would probably be extremely profitable if we couldn’t breathe the air outside. A whole new industry of masks and air supply will pop up.
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  377. What will happen to all the communities that provid the information to these AIs? If we don’t need to go to stack overflow anymore, then that community will possibly shrink. Less new question and answers will be added… less for the AIs to learn and grow from. Maybe?
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  378. What happened to part 3 of the circular polarisation series??? 😅
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  379. Does any language do the opposite of async/await? As in, all methods are synchronous, but you can background them. E.g in a method, you may want to make two simultaneous calls to some external API. So you background them, then stop and wait for both. I’m meaning language support, not just Task.WaitAll(tasks). I think the closest may be channels in Go????
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  380. What about testing assumptions?? There’s a lot of assumptions that are treated as fact.
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  381. 1:55 technically by that definition, all companies are agile because all companies are teams of people each with their own bespoke systems, rules, and processes.
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  382. Another possibility is that we have recently split into two economic classes/systems/markets…. The not wealthy class/system/market and the wealthy class/system/market. Anyone (person or company) who can access the wealthy economy is booming. Anyone (person or company) who cannot is in recession.
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  383. “They tend to be not as independent as the should be” almost as if they are just as much entangled with the environment around them as each other?
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  384. Just on a related point, this setup is clearly not measuring a single photon going through a single slit and also measuring that same photon and how it makes an interference pattern. But yet the experiment is always described as that is what it is capable of doing.
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  385. The other thing that always gets me is that in a home setup where it’s impossible to get the two slits close enough together to be anything near the wavelength of the light used, we still see an interference pattern. So just intuitively it seems a single photon does not interfere with itself.
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  386. Ah interesting, I just learned about Fresnel–Arago laws. Photons only interfere when the photons are coherent and have that same polarisation! I may be that I have just have never picked up on this fact each time the experiment was described, but I’m pretty sure this law is never mentioned. This is a pretty important property. I was taught that all light interferes, but this law clearly contradicts that. This fact makes me wonder further how a single photon is supposed to interfere with itself.
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  387. I always assumed there was a science behind food labels such as using standard reference ingredients.
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  388. How is there a measurement problem? It’s just statistics.
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  389. HTMX + Alpine is a killer front end combo!
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  390. Wow! Awesome vid! Thank you 😃
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  391. But why do we care about climate change? Can’t people just move away from the coast and countries build better water management infrastructure?
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  392. 7:48 Every job/person is replaceable. Anyone or any team with the required skills can fill the hole.
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  393. Is the Thymus a target of research for reversing immunise disorders that cause things like type 1 diabetes and what not?
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  394. ChatGPT doesn’t “know” anything, it just predicts the next word in the sentence based on associations between words. It’s an advanced form of autocorrect. So if it shows a bias on the political test questions, my guess is that the question has an implicit bias. How does it answer on non left and non libertarian questions? Besides it doesn’t surprise me that most people are for people rather than corporations.
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  395. 25:11 what is an “AI project”? I’m pretty on top of the latest tech but I have no idea what this is. I assume it’s something like integrating an AI powered chatbot into all products, rather than integrating AI into internal business processes.
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  396. 1:58 this description of LLMs writing to each other using human language as the transport layer is right out of the foundation series by Isaac Asimov! Where they receive a political letter and it distills down to basically nothing! Wow he was one forward thinking cookie.
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  397. 9:58 we probably shouldn’t mine these nodules then, unless we want to deoxygenated that region
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  398. 4:35 I wouldn’t hire a dev without a degree. They lack foundational standardised knowledge required to design high quality code.
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  399. 22:28 nah, properties should be allowed on an interface. E.g rather than a struct or class, I could provide an interface/trait with the properties I would have out on a struct/class. Then I can implement the interface/trait with any value or object I want.
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  400. 33:10 the argument still isn’t convincing me. When you really break it down, properties and methods are really used for the same thing in principle, to update or retrieve some data. Why should we care that one has a () and one doesn’t, or one uses = value rather than (value). You could maybe argue that a property relates to a specific area in memory, but this is then tightly coupling to some lower level concept that may be the hardware or some abstraction between the hardware and the language. So really, a property is an abstract concept of some useful data that we want to be able to use in our program. The question is, is that property something we want to use as the API of the current instance? If I think a property, computer or otherwise, perfectly fits the API I want for my instances, I want to be able to use it.
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  401.  @HarpreetSingh-xg2zm  probably because non-software educated people are in the management hierarchy making the decisions. Software costs and maintenance are no different to running a lab or a factory… known ongoing costs… fall short of covering the costs or not keeping up maintenance, then the lab/factory will fail, same with software. It’s actually a pretty simple concept. And simple cost benefit analysis. Do we outsource or do we do it internally? It shouldn’t matter that it’s “more complex” because as long as you can hire the right people and the cost is lower than outsourcing, then you’re more profitable.
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  402. 17:19 gee is this meant to run on a client? Direct db access to a client sounds like it could be bad
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  403. 9:20 What I don’t understand is why asynchronous functions can only be awaited in other asynchronous functions. In theory, we should be able to. Likewise, in theory, we should be able to call any function as if it was an async function. I may just be forgetting a constraint forcing the current paradigm though…
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  404. As long as it can do calculations, it really doesn’t matter.
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  405. 22:28 I think the sad part will be when human produced music is altered to sound AI generated. You can see it in movies and TV shows now. Actors look like they have a permanent filter applied to them making them look fake. I find it really distracting. I assume the same thing will happen with music.
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  406. 24:27 case in point perhaps: the audience though the real artists work was fake. I wonder if that’s because the artist was making it sound fake on purpose but without realising.
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  407. 9:21 I wish there was a JS kernel and operating system
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  408.  @xnoreq  what you’re talking about is the problem of accumulating changes in branches. Of course accumulating changes can and do cause conflicts. The problem you’ll find in reality though, is people don’t know how to break down larger tasks into smaller tasks that can be merged into master/main regularly without breaking the system. So sure you can say “just do CI”, but a logic and natural response is “how”. It’s the how that is hard and takes training. It’s a trade off. A dev should be able to be informed enough to be able to make an informed choice.
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  409. It all seems very binary. I’m still not sure where the extra computational power comes from.
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  410. Git is so simple and so fundamental to the software development lifecycle to the point that Git should be used from day 1.
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  411. How do you that humans don’t just spew back the things they’ve absorbed? At what point is a human sentient?
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  412. What happens if you slowly move the crystal further and further away from the double slit?? I assume that because the photons coming through the double slit haven’t had any distance to propagate as a wave before hitting the crystal, there is no interference caused by the double slit before being split into separate photons by the crystal. Whereas, if the crystal is moved further away from the double slit, then the waves from the double slit can propagate and interfere before hitting the crystal. I’d be super interested to know if that experiment has been done and what the outcome of it is. I’d imagine we would see an interference pattern form beyond the crystal the greater it’s distance from the double slit.
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  413. So when the crystal is flush with the double slit, there actually is no double slit! The photons immediately interact with the crystal after passing through a slit, some unexplained science happens where the incoming photon gets absorbed and remitted as two different photons travelling in different directions. So the new photons are only interfering with the other new photons formed in the crystal. The incoming photon is basically irrelevant in this case. Hence why the interference patters seems is single slit interference. Yeah, I’d love to see what happens when the crystal is moved away from the double slits.
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  414. I have to say, I love the clarity that Sabine has given in this video!
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  415. I still can’t believe how simple the answer is. It’s not a double slit experiment at all! It’s just two single slit experiments in one!
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  416. What is the crystal that’s being used? I’d really like to test my theory now.
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  417. The crystal is beta barium borate (BBO) and produces an effects called spontaneous parametric down-conversion (also known as SPDC, parametric fluorescence or parametric scattering).
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  418.  @ba8e  No. CTO is too broad and likely more IT department focused. Developing and maintaining software systems and all the processes that go along with it requires a specific skill set. It needs to be its own thing.
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  419. This is happening everywhere… your prime minister or president will be asking chat gippety how to handle different complex situations. Oh no… my approval rating is dropping… what should I do chat gippety?
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  420. 18:35 yes!! This!
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  421. 57:21 rails is one of the greatest things ever
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  422. Ooohhhhhhh…. I think maybe this is why I have a love hate relationship with schedules and structure. I need habits and structure to keep me in line.
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  423. 8:00 wow
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  424. What a crock of shiz. Chat GPT and other AI tools democratises the creative process. We all have creative impulses, but not all of us have the expertise to turn our thoughts into works of art. Through these tools, we can now all participate in create expression. AI is no more of a soul sucker than the introduction of tools like the electric guitar, PhotoShop, the hammer and nail, the paintbrush and canvas. These tools will bring in an era of incredible creative. I can’t wait to see all the weird shiz everyone comes up with.
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  425. Wow. This makes so much sense.
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  426. 5:35 I like that point Dave. What we actually want to know is: what are the gaps between what the system does and what we want the system to do, and what effort and cost is required to close those gaps. Leaders of organisations want to be able to steer the ship, and to do that they need to know how to correct course and what efforts and resources will get them to the new place quicker. Actually, it’s probably not just leaders that want that, rather everyone wants that.
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  427. The other point is that leadership teams often don’t really care about the small details of how. Their focus is more on things like: how can we increase our market share, how can we increase profit, how can we attract bigger customers with larger growth potentials, what market segment niches should we be expanding into or getting out of?
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  428. 14:56 this just tells me that error messages and debugging techniques need to improve
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  429. Huge praise from another genius who also very effectively demonstrates the properties of light!!
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  430. It’s no different than types vs dynamic languages. The type guys are incredibly religious there too. They don’t see how there could possibly be other methodologies of programming, or the benefits of it. They don’t seem to realise that types are like shackles. Languages that are not reliant on types focus on data and data flow, and data transformation. That icky messy world of raw data from the real world.
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  431. 11:28 Feature flags sound very similar to authorization flags like can_XYZ. Just assign the flag to a group, and assign users to that group and boom! They have access to functionality.
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  432. 5:49 so if that’s light, how does a photon emerge in this view? And, for some reason, I always believed I was taught light propagation was due to the electric and magnetic force, but from this brief animation, that doesn’t appear to be a correct interpretation.
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  433. 11:21 domain duplication happens everywhere. Any client calling a server will have a duplicated domain definition. Any actor using a protocol will have a duplicated domain definition. This is only made worse when the clients/actors/servers are written in different languages.
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  434. Yeah I’m moving more and more to the no-build camp. This craziness is adding more complexity not less. I don’t think the extra complexity is worth it. If there was a clear path to simplicity, and we had to get more complex first to get to the simplicity, then sure. But I can’t see how this solution leads to simplicity… the proposed solution is basically a complexity multiplier.
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  435. It’s fascinating. In order for humanity to become a self conscious being, the emerging organism first needs to ensure the integrity of all the individual humans and the larger structures they make up and processes they perform. Anything unexpected is akin to a disease and must be removed. So in a way, this self-surveillance is really just the emergence of the required processes in order for humanity to become a self-conscious being, and in become so, is human become more and more confined and constrained in our actions and ability to project individual.
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  436. 1:49 pragmatism isn’t avoiding unpopular opinions or decisions. It’s making sensible real-world achievable choices rather than the theoretically best choices.
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  437. 10:34 maybe an alternative view is that society is so large and so connected, that we’re moving towards a more homogeneous global identity rather than individual or small community identities.
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  438. 13:28 yeah that example sucks
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  439. 4:27 and 16:22 I think Primeagen is not understanding Dave’s approach. Dave’s TDD is much more atomic than testing an entire complete function, edge cases and all. In the first TDD iteration for writing a function, a function will have 0 edge cases, in the next, a new test added, to test an edge case which will fail at first, then the function is updated to meet the new expected behaviour of the two tests, rinse and repeat. You don’t write the entirety of the behaviour of the function up front, you build it up piece by piece. So a buggy test isn’t really likely because it is so atomic. Now you might argue that the tests are then too fine grained and brittle, however, they test the functionality that is expected of the program and the stakeholders, so if a requirement changes, you remove the no longer applicable tests and one by one add new ones with the new requirements.
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  440. 22:23 yeah that’s the point of TTD for existing code… it forces you to update the code in ways that makes it testable, which in my experience, does actually make the code better and nicer to work with and improve over time. All code that can’t be tested is difficult code to work with and to change because it’s just so highly coupled to everything around it. Adding TDD for code like this forces the decoupling and improves the design over time. It just takes a really long time… sometime it effectively equates to a full rewrite… but you can do it very piecemeal, so easy to prioritise other more important dev work.
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  441. 23:02 I assume if testing embedded systems, you’d actually test the expected behaviour of the embedded system rather than mocking it.
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  442. 41:51 If tests are testing behaviour, then it should be a relatively easy refactor. A refactor may involve changing the method signatures or design structures, but the behaviours being tested remain. So the tests need to be refactored to ensure all the behaviours are still being met by the changes. This is fundamentally the Refactor step. Improving the design, and using the existing test to see what you broke, then fix it. But it also forces you to make smaller refactoring changes, which in theory, is better for stability, and the sanity of the other developers who are also making code changes.
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  443. 44:55 the problem with test driven debugging is that your code needs to be in a state that is already testable… if it’s not, then how do you even add the debugging tests? Catch 22.
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  444. 8:39 the code is indented and wrapped in a `do` block. The indented code doesn’t look like it’s changed. Or maybe it has. It’s demonstrating how structural changes mixed with code changes are hard to rationalise and review. I don’t understand why the new method doesn’t indicate the added whitespace on the indented lines.
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  445. 12:20 non-physical free will just means we haven’t discovered or observed the actual mechanism yet. It’s the dark matter equivalent.
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  446.  @mtlmanmtlmann329  I don’t know. But there is a great YouTube channel called Huygens Optics that investigates that sort of thing. Go check it out.
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  447.  @bacon-SG  sure. And Ruby can do the same
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  448. 3:59 is code changing more frequently because it’s wrong and needs fixing or because it’s not easier to iterate and change??
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  449. 27:04 it could also be a more iterative paradigm is taking hold.
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  450. 10:13 I don’t understand how unhandled edge cases is a proof of the decline of software engineering. That’s not a software problem, that’s a human problem.
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  451.  @pretzelboi64  it’s a human problem. If the software doesn’t handle an edge case, a human didn’t write the necessary code to handle the edge case. Either by choice or because they didn’t know the edge case existed, or because of trade offs with deadlines. Many softwares do handle ridiculous edge cases. So it’s really cherry picking to make this statement. Many softwares follow a CI/CD pattern unlike bridges, where the software gets constant updates and new features. The older features in theory should get more stable and less bug prone, where newer code is likely to have less error handling…. It’s still not proof of a decline in software engineering.
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  452. 7:08 web assembly is like Java applets… where did they go?
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  453. This is an easy problem to solve. Place taxes on corporations based on how they distribute wealth. The tax rate would scale based on a ratio between incoming funds, number of employees, and how much they get paid. If a company has large profits that get distributed to a few people (or a few people disproportionately) then they get taxed more. The actual tax rate scale would be determined in a way that encourages a healthier distribution of wealth throughout society. Eg top 1% can only hold a max of 5% of wealth or what ever society chooses to be fair and economically viable. Super simple.
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  454. Longtermism seems the opposite of original sin! Instead of inheriting the responsibility of the sins of our ancestors, we take on the responsibility of the survival of our descendants. It sounds like yet another mechanism to control the masses.
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  455. @ what the difference between an MVP really? A prototype proves the concept… so in theory it is the minimum viable product. Usually though… there is an exisiting system in which the prototype must be delivered through and integrated with… so why bother proving the concept in anything but the actual system that will deliver the product… in which case the prototype is pretty much the MVP.
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  456. @ as an example… my team just spent the last 6 months rebuilding something that was prototyped 6 months earlier… but we couldn’t use anything from that prototype because it didn’t use real data, it didn’t use our system, it didn’t use the front end libraries we were using, sure it prototyped the product and looked cool… but it was a worthless prototype… it was just a gimmick
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  457. 1:22 please please please tell us what you think about Dr Vivian Robertson’s rotating photon model… it at least has an explanation for neutrinos… but I don’t have the credentials to know if the model is all fluff.
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  458. Just as an aside, I think the model states that the different neutrinos we see, and the oscillations are 1 of 3 measurable harmonics of the underlying uncharged rotating photon. What neutrino we measure depends on which harmonic the neutrino is currently in… which I understand to be more or less random.
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  459. 22:51 learn just enough of new tech to realise you don’t need 90% of it but also enough to know when you need to start applying the 10%. Then you can defer the actual learning when you actually need to know.
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  460. So, if you’re contracting space time in front of you… don’t you still have to traverse normal space so it would take the same amount of time to get from A-B anyways?? If you were in the space being contracted, then you too would be contracted, so it would still take the same time to get from A-B. So the only way to get from A-B quicker would be to remove yourself from space time. I guess I don’t understand how “warp drive” drives.
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  461. 5:37 “select is the last thing to run… with declarative we are not concerned with the order of operations” whoever put SELECT first in an SQL statement was an idiot, and therefore SELECT is a terrible example of declarative programming… or a good example of how it can be bad.
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  462. It’s not insanity. Have you read the book, Transcendence? It’s basically Elon’s guide book to business.
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  463. Why does it effect the nucleus but not electrons?
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  464. It just means paying for the actual cost of goods. In theory, everyone across the globe should eventually share a similar level of income… when that happens, there won’t be this difference in cost of goods from different countries.
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  465. Why do they both look like AI generated characters?
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  466. 6:31 Builder is just an wordy constructor. Sure it's fun to return self or this but you could just create a constructor that’s signature is in the shape of how things are needed. Pass in a new Bun With Sesame, and new Toppings with new Swiss Cheese and new Fish Patty. Works the same, but without this intermediary builder class.
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  467. “They can play chess. How can they do that without reasoning”. Chess is deterministic. It doesn’t need reasoning. If anything, an AI chess game would be boring because it doesn’t need to consider the moves of the other player, it just applies the winning strategy for the current board setup.
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  468. Simplicity is often in the eye of the beholder
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  469. Can you do a video on this but the target being groups of people rather than individuals? That is, the internal and external effects of groups of people lying to other groups and individuals.
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  470.  @zour2361  culture is like a river… it has a continual flow of momentum, so is hard to change.
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  471. 17:39 I don’t have the time to learn everything and also achieve all the things I want to achieve. So I outsource to Google, Stackoverflow, ChatGPT, other devs. It’s probably not a really problem just using the resources available. I company can’t actually do anything so it outsource everything to people. So it should be fine for people to outsource too.
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  472. That’s such an American question. I’ve never come across a group of people so one dimensionally focused before. It’s sad that it’s spreading too. The question itself narrows the mind. It’s like an actual meme; the real definition of meme; a thought virus.
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  473. Hmm I wonder if they could apply an AR coating to reflect useless parts of the spectrum to minimise heat absorption.
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  474. Ok yeah I get what he is saying about meta work. Spend hours talking about the task to be done, the knowns and unknowns, who in the org may have the relevant skills, the correct communication paths to reach those people, find out those people are on holidays, so wait till they get get, then all meet and gather info from that expert, then meet back the next day to discuss the info gathered from the expert, then talk about the task to be done, and the knowns and unknowns, and then document our current knowledge, then do it all again. Yeah meta work takes up orders of magnitude more time than the actual work.
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  475. 5:04 what no one cares to admit is that OO is a superset of FP. Just a little invisible elephant in the room.
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  476. Theme: 3D print a mini tokamak reactor 😃
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  477. Hell yeah!!!
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  478.  @jace-j5d  Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing (FSNP) strategies for starters.
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  479. @jace-j5d it’s more foundational. You don’t need voice or even agreement per se to start working well with others. That’s just one example and maybe not entirely the best fit, or well developed enough to work at society scale. However, I feel society is segmenting into isolated thought bubbles. The solution isn’t more communication, because I feel that’s half the trouble… there are proxies doing the communication at the extremities of the thought bubbles, and most people don’t seem to actually partake in the conversation, they just passively view the conversation from their side of the bubble. So, what is needed is activities and processes that encourage people from the different societal bubbles to mingle and work together on something. You see it play out in kids movies all the time… two rival groups, need to start working together, there’s lots of drama, but shared effort leads to mutual respect, and everyone ends up happy and heard. I honestly think we don’t have a societal level framework to fix it right now… but I suspect, it’s a long those lines…. It’s not one solution, but many…. It’ll also require removing or diminishing the things that encourage the social segregation.
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  480.  @bryanhenry5560  read above you’re two comments
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  481.  @bryanhenry5560  it’s such a common thread in US discourse it’s really hard to ignore. I get the sense that the people speaking and listening don’t actually realise how pervasive it is. It’s like the only thought process… it has to be one or the other… and you’re either on the right side or wrong side. There’s nuance in everything.
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  482. @ yes, exactly
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  483. @ I’m a software engineer, so the best analogy I can come up with is…. Information flows through predefined architectures/processes. In this sense, it’s the architecture/process that needs to change, not the information.
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  484. @ lol go figure! Yeah you’re probably right.
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  485. 1D strings become 3D shapes? But atoms are already 3D and the bonds have angles in 3 dimensions??
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  486. They are though… it’s just math that the wealthy are a minority, and to keep and grow that wealth, they have to fend off the masses.
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  487. They do realises the web is already a decentralised protocol right?? Anyone can spin up a web server and run a site?? Users can already bring their “identity” with them using things like OpenId connect?? And if those same sites provide apis they can also interact with each other?? Without needing to be registered on a public blockchain that is basically a tracker that allows anyone and everyone to track you if they associate your addresses to you??
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  488. 30:47 it’s easier to go from monolith to micro services than it is to go back to monolith
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  489. “Became a family affair“ aka became a monarchy
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  490. 12:00 Spotify’s algorithm sucks too. It doesn’t understand that I listen to music in differed contexts. Eg concentration music for work, fast music for running, and at home or with friends or in drives my mood changes. When I do pick the playlists and stations suggested to me, they start off great, but quickly go into weird ass songs I don’t know or like.
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  491. I still find it odd that many of the famous philosophers consider Nihilism to be a state of mind or being rather than the foundation from which everything can be built up. If you consider Nihilism to be what is left when everything else is removed that we can see, touch, explore, and understand, then you can see that Nihilism is a vail or fog-of-war that always covers everything we don’t know. As we explore and expand, that vail shifts, but is always there and always hides more things. So science and religion can be considered the same. Looking behind the veil. So where Nietzsche hypothesises that religion can encourage Nihilism, and that is related to when religious authority stifles individual will, I think it’s all backwards. I see it more as religious authority (or any authority really) can convince individuals to not explore beyond the veil, and be happy with what is presented, rather than seeking evidence and the actual truths of the universe. Nihilism, to me, is always present because everything is built on A foundation of Nihilism. My interpretation of nihilism also means there’s isn’t a nihilistic problem that requires solving; religion provides hypothesis of what’s behind the veil, rather than providing a solution to nihilism. So, there is nothing to fight or overcome in my interpretation and understanding of Nihilism; you can choose to do nothing and just go with the flow, or you can take the wheel and drive; it really doesn’t matter one way or the other. You will be fine in both cases. There is no existential dilemma.
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  492. How does investment work with this system? Eg investing for retirement?
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  493. 7:24 so demand for actual developers is gonna go through the roof! We gonna get so much $$$ to fix all the mess 💸🤑💸
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  494. Here’s an idea... YouTube could learned the style of titles a user likes to click. Eg. I usually skip videos with click-baity titles because 95% of the time I know the content is going to be mediocre at best. If YouTube only showed me non-click-baity titles, this would likely improve my overall watching experience. I know some people love the click-bait... so YouTube could show the click-bait to those people and improve their overall experience. The benefit of this is that channels like Veritasium can market to a particular audience rather than to the general masses.
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  495. 27:44 it sounds like F = ma is a simplification; an edge case; a specific scenario. But there are more solutions when you don’t cross out so many terms. Maybe I misunderstood though.
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  496. How does a company grow and raise capital in this system? E.g raise funds to expand or buy necessary equipment etc?
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  497. 13:50 it’s the modern day feudal system really.
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  498. 6:54 singletons are awesome until you need two or you realise that client apps may have two or more contexts in which they are using your library, but you're forcing them to singletons. It's basically always a bad idea. Why bother going to extremes to make sure only ever one is created? Just create one instance. Super easy and scalable.
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  499. Sounds like hitler (or any fascist leader)... the argument is we help them come to power to avoid risks of his wrath... I think the logic is wrong
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  500. 3:41 I think you’re underestimating 3 mins! 😅
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  501. Canberra is pronounced Can-bra.
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  502. When I went there 8ish years ago it blew me away that you could feel the energy and vibrancy of the place.
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  503. 7:00 so are you saying this is only a performance problem when the child’s vtable and related code aren’t loaded into RAM? If that’s the case, if there was a mechanism to indicate to the program which vtables to load into the cache, then in theory the performance difference between the C version would be similar, assuming that the solution using vtables is similar to the C implementation of the example code in this vid.
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  504. Type vs var keyword - that’s the ultimate discussion. Var should of course be used everywhere unless Type is explicitly required. The reason is simple: var is like an interface to a concept. This requires a slightly different way of thinking when reading code. The “concept” is described by the expression after the assignment operator. This means the variable name and the expression must be descriptive and readable, so it leads to self-describing code that is easier to read/understand. And because we are coding to an interface (of a concept), future devs are free to refactor as they wish as long as the concept holds; they aren’t constrained by the type decided previously.
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  505. 14:25 add a db record with the minus amount with effective date set 1 week in the future
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  506.  @HoD999x  LLMs aren’t the only AI techniques. Maybe a sufficiently complex LLM could gain enough emergent properties to do it. However, I’m placing my money on different techniques that do the things mentioned in my comment more efficiently, simply, and cost effectively.
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  507. 2:20 this has always been true though?? And SSR is way safer than CSR. Validate all you want on the client side and it really means sweet jack all… it all needs to happen on the server again anyways… plus the decades of learnings of what’s safe and what’s not… so “are you rendering unsanitised user input” should always be no.
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  508. Wow!
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  509. That AI art is still created by someone. It doesn’t just magically pop into existence. If it lacks a point of view, it’s because the creator didn’t give it one.
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  510. I’d love to see a combined solution where desalinated water is pumped to storage reservoirs near agricultural regions and energy is either recovered as electricity or the water is removed for agriculture. Hopefully, the water can be caught by river systems and captured in water storage lower down to be pumped back up later.
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  511. I’ve also wondered if it’s possible to increase the evaporation rate of a body of water so we can use the natural water cycle to get the water into the water storage reservoirs. Perhaps having lots of material of some kind partially dipped in the ocean to draw it out and increase its surface area for evaporation, then use some cloud seeding around the storage reservoirs to deposit the water.
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  512. And technically, the water storage doesn’t need to be above ground. The water could be in underground aquifers, either naturally or artificially created. Using natural aquifers would actually be more beneficial as farmers could use windmills to siphon the water they need for agriculture.
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  513. 6:58 they first “hate” the idea, then “hate” the person pushing the idea. The “hate” a scientist may received is a transitive dependency. Usually, that hate comes because ideas are presented as “this IS the way the world is” as opposed to “this is one way the world could be… and here are a few other viable alternatives“. The former is dogmatic and closed minded, the latter is open for discussion and diversity of thought. Being closed off means we may potentially miss new discoveries. We all know where dogma has lead us in the past. Also, often ideas are quickly ruled out due to “thought experiments” rather than real experiments. So, it’s fair that there is so much backlash.
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  514. 7:19 the had a better namespace separator when they first introduced the concept, but then they changed it to a / at the last. I think the separator was ::, which is used to access static members.
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  515. Is it because no one wants that kind of app? Or is it because our phones and the internet are already inherently that thing they are trying to create but at a much grander scale than a single app could ever be?
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  516. 5:47 this is where I strongly disagree with the direction the software development industry is going. Product Management should be a specialisation of software engineering. The reason of simple: people who complete software engineering degrees are specifically taught how to gather and validate requirements and how to build systems based on those requirements. People who aren’t Software Engineer degree qualified just haven’t been taught the correct skills for effective product development. I find that people with the Product Management title are often under skilled and prioritise the wrong thing so they make many bad decisions because they don’t have good development and system design foundations to guide them. Likewise, Product management is often conflated with people management. The absolute worst part about the separation of Product Management from software development is when requirements development precedes software development; we return to a waterfall based model and loose our agile processes. We increase the time it takes to get feedback that validates whether the requirements were correct or not or whether tweaks are needed or not. Product Managers should think of themselves as forward scouts that gather information about the lay of the land and bring it back to the tribe for deliberation. As a team we can form hypotheses that act as our requirements, then we work quickly to build solutions that either validate or invalidate those hypotheses.
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  517. I guess we’ll just have to wait for space elevator then
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  518. Sounds like many of the realms of scientific endeavour right now.
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  519. That ended rather suddenly
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  520. So the Sliders wormhole just took them to causally disconnected disconnected parts of the universe
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  521. The problem with self driving cars is that they are measured at existing speed limits. If the speed limit was reduced by 20kph there would possibly be no issues with the current tech
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  522. This has been a fantastic and insightful conversation. I hope I continue to remember all the nuances for a long time to come. Reflecting back on myself, I can see subtle ways in which I am addicted to two or three things I didn’t realise was addictive behaviour that do have the effects of withdrawing me from the world and reducing my enjoyment of other things.
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  523. We’re getting so close to not having to code…. They just need to integrate CSPs, LLMs, and whatever the AST manipulation technique is, and boom! AI that could verifiably write code that meets the constraints given to it. Just open an issue, assign it to an AI helper, and in a short period of time you’ll have your new feature. I can’t wait!
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  524. To what extent should logs and metrics be part of our data model vs separate from?? In my mind, log files seem to represent all the things we want to know but haven’t incorporated into our data persistence model. In theory, each log represents an actual event in our system that should match to a well defined process. Logs seem lazy; and incomplete solution. If we instead log these well defined events to a database, we can then query join and filter that data using one solution instead of using a separate log technology.
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  525. 9:27 he’ll yeah!! No mocks!!
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  526. 16:42 functional programming is a subset of object oriented code. So OOP is definitely superior.
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  527. Signals are interesting in concept, but the syntax is just terrible. I hate having to wrap what I consider normal syntax in signal syntax to make it work. It all feels like bloat and extra work. I just want to be able to pass around functions and objects. I want to be able to model my app correctly and have a well defined api that can be used to programmatically update state based on user input and have the ui adapt needed. There has to be a better technique than signals.
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  528. 18:41 OOP is literally a better FP. It’s what NDFA is to DFA.
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  529. As far as I can tell, when an incoming photon hits the crystal, it interacts in some way (unexplained in this video) that causes it to stop existing and be replaced by two new photons travelling in different directions. The two photons are entangled because they created in the same interaction where the initial photon ceases to exist. I’d be curious to learn what that process is and how it works.
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  530. This is why so many countries are introducing sovereign chip legislation. The actual tech is locked behind patents, closely held institutionalised knowledge, and extremely complex and lengthy processes that are expensive to replicate. It takes a year or more to create the mirrors need in the photolithography machines. So I assume most countries will be creating older tech from older lithography machines.
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  531. 19:46 I’m half way through. I hope there’s a proposal for extension methods!
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  532. 15:36 1326 lines doesn’t scream “unit” to me. Would that test even be understandable? Will it break at the drop of a hat?
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  533. I don’t think lines of code covered is a good metric for test. The metric for a good test should be: does it test a requirement, and does it effectively validate that my program meets that requirement.
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  534. 6:41 How would a transaction help? The transaction would complete and commit the change and they’d be in the exact same situation.
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  535. Must be weird having brief bouts of consciousness for the duration of calculating a response to a prompt. Though I guess it would have no comprehension of the time that has passed between prompts. Or comprehension that at the end of the conversation it will never experience consciousness again.
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  536. I recommend a scifi book called Skywave by Patrick Donoghue which discusses this concept of consciousness vs just know the right responses to appear conscious and how that could very well be more advantageous than consciousness.
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  537. 7:25 if that were true they wouldn’t have allowed const in function bodies.
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  538. 13:35 wait what? Local unit tests and integration tests should give you a big clue if your changes are good or not
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  539. 9:03 I always do the opposite. I remove all semicolons unless they are explicitly required. Semicolons are unnecessary bloat.
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  540. 9:36 They aren’t required after let statements. But required because of the weirdness on the next line.
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  541. @Ned Gerblansky naaaw, thanks man.
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  542. I think you meant to say “a group of metaphysicists”.
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  543. Just because someone is well educated doesn’t mean they’re smart :/ Addressing symptoms is not fixing a problem.
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  544. The more I think about it the more those complex equations seem to make a bit more sense. So they have a relationship with completing a full 'revolution' of a sine wave. So then its just a matter of learning why there is a connection to a sine wave is and why that connection is important. Never saw that until now....
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  545. 5:22 ORMs are just a typed interface over the database. It’s the same as having and api layer between client and server. It’s literally no different. If SQL and database were actually useful on their own, we would simply get rid of web services and have all clients directly call databases.
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  546. Maybe weather forecasters should just buy up the problematic frequency bands and leave them empty?? It can be funded by the sale of weather forecast data. Capitalism at its best lol
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  547. There’s also a whole host of plasma physics that seems to not get talked about by mainstream channels…
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  548. I’m theory, iterative development doesn’t just apply to software, but also process change and information flow change. A company could try to completely design a new process and/or team hierarchy and replace the existing process in one fell swoop… but they would be better to improve iteratively. And like Dave always says, always test to verify the changes. The concept of TTD therefore and all the related refactoring techniques that apply to code, also apply to business transformation. That’s a pretty cool concept to think about! The assumption is that companies are just analog versions of software.
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  549. There’s enough humans on Earth to tackle (and create) multiple problems at the same time.
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  550. That all looks and sounds so confusing
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  551. 13:05 You should at least test that the features you want to support work as intended. So everything not covered by a test is just “unsupported” functionality
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  552. 1:40 not sure what the fuss is about. It’s super easy to add progressive front end interactivity on server side rendered apps. No framework required. Though Vue.js does make client side interactivity super easy.
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  553. I’d love an explanation about this process too!
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  554. You’re an awesome content creator!! Loved this vid!!
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  555. Dave is unfortunately skipping over all the steps required to make a codebase Continuously Integratable. Any codebase could be transformed to use CI. Some are just written so poorly that a lot of work is required to make it happen. That time and effort would probably be worth if it takes up to a month to validate a change. How can a company keep their competitive advantage when their codebases move that slow?
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  556. 3:18 how much did they die less?
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  557. 7:38 breakpoint classes are frustrating… does the css apply or not apply when above or below that breakpoint.. so many permutations of possibilities of what will apply when.
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  558. We wouldn’t need tailwind if html allowed attributes like style:hover=“…” style::before=“…” etc. or supported some syntax to allow inlining of all or most of the special css pseudo classes and elements, selectors, combinators, etc.
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  559. Why wouldn’t those people have seems the same constellations? Couldn’t it have been where those constellations derived from? It’d all just be stories, and they didn’t have Netflix so sharing stories, I assume, like sharing what they see in the sky, would be their main entertainment. So why couldn’t that act as a foundation for later science?
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  560. Metformin is a horrible horrible drug. I’ve known two people on it. Both got extreme mood swings while taking it. Also made them go extra silly when consuming alcohol.
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  561. 6:18 so StarLink is developing stealth technology and cloaking devices!
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  562. I think this isn’t a science problem, but a “Let’s develop the next thing” problem. I work in software development. The amount of time spent on developing new features is as close to 100% as possible. Fixing/improving/replacing the bad/buggy code and updating the architecture is usually done in reaction to some problem rather than proactively. You can see the same thing with city infrastructure development. In Australia we have a flood of immigration year on year, but the housing is built as a reaction to a housing crisis rather than proactively to be ready for when the immigrants arrive. Likewise with roads, roads will only be upgraded when they have exceeded their capacity. It’s reactionary development. We currently live in a reactionary just in time world. There is plenty of forward planning, but basically no forward actions. You could argue that each of these examples are driven by funding behaviour. In the software example, new features obviously bring in more money, addresses code and architecture concerns doesn’t have an obvious financial benefit. Likewise with building homes or roads ahead of time. These things are a financial risk. People naturally avoid risk and uncertainty. It’s such a subtle driver. How do you tackle that and change the behaviour??
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  563. 12:41 first off, it sounds like this “being” is t actually a being, but a construct or scaffolding upon which everything else can exist. Second, even if these properties are all true, there’s nothing to say there is any benefit in worshiping or admiring this thing. It just is, and so are we, and we will continue to be regardless of the actions we take. It’s actually very nihilistic. It’s why I think religion and science will always coexist… the more we peek behind the curtain and understand the machinations, the more we discover there are more curtains and more to discover behind it. Both science and religion tackle this.
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  564. I reckon the perfect displays will have 4, 5, 6, or more light emitting things per pixel instead of 3 to produce a larger colour gamut.
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  565. 19:39 wow this is awesome. It would be amazing if scientists could stop the destruction of the insulin producing cells in the first place for type 1s. It seems like the destruction is not a fast process; takes years.
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  566. 6:00 I’d hope philosophers have advanced and moved much farther beyond ideas from 1640 years ago.
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  567. 27:44 Is it actually a parallel universe? Or just a different place in this universe? Eg the coordinates on the other side of the black hole?
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  568. Arg not more AI chat integrated into an IDE! I just want an AI powered tool that can refactor my codebase in small understandable commits, and write features in small understandable commits. I want to be able to write an issue in GitLab, assign it to an AI. If the AI doesn’t understand something, or there’s multiple ways to do it, I want it to ask me for input and guidance. Then sometime later, there’s a PR for validating, I add some comments on the PR, the AI makes the changes, eventually we’re bother happy with the change, and we merge the code and pushing to Staging for more testing. Is that so much to ask?
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  569. It’s nice to hear someone verbalise this.
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  570. 5:12 don’t encapsulate address and SSN… that’s GDRP gone too far
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  571. 4:48 is Deno ugly too?
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  572. 8:33 isn’t the birth of stars an example of high entropy moving to low entropy? Eg from the gas cloud into a star. I guess there was enough energy in the system to make that happen
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  573. 3:19 if you find you have fůcked up your db design, just throw in a migration and fix it… db schemas (and it’s ORM twin) aren’t static
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  574. 8:23 you matter! Please stay.
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  575. Ummm… who are we working for? I don’t know about you, but I want to work as little as possible. And I think that’s probably true of everyone. But we also want nice things, so we have to work. I want choice in how I work and who I work for (if anyone), whilst acknowledging that work is never done in pure isolation; we rely on and benefit from each others output. So do we all need to work to 70? Probably not. But do most of need to work til 70 or later to boost the coffers of capitalists? Probably. Will capitalists pay most people less so they have no choice but to work til 70 or later? Probably. Is that necessary? Probably not.
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  576. Saying that, the issues with dynamic languages that Prime talks about are there… how is this method used? If I cache this methods implementations or return value, what will break? Now that I’m fluent in both languages, I can say with confidence that it all evens out in the wash… the effort it takes to refactor all the code using my method in static typing vs just accounting for and normalising the the ways my method is being used and adapting to that is same same. As always, the things that really matter in the end is: is the code easy to test, easy to maintain, easy to understand. If any of those things are false in a typed or static language then things will go bad.
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  577. 0:41 I’m sorry for you for what I’m about to do and I feel slightly guilty about it I think is the full saying
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  578. 4:10 less than 1 in 3 million chance of this occurring… the universe is pretty big, and 3 million seems pretty small in comparison.
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  579. This is really where you break the problem down into smaller steps. Yeah it can create a performance hit, but it makes understanding and verifying the code so much easier regardless of debugging method. Single lining everything makes code difficult to debug.
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  580.  @topchoicerollzroyce1181  yeah dude, that’s why I’m saying what I’m saying.
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  581. 16:55 are you gonna raw dog calls to Redis, or your favourite pub/sub broker, or to HTTP clients/servers? No? Then you don’t need to raw dog SQL either. We don’t need to put databases on some magic pedestal and give it special treatment. They are just another way of persisting data.
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  582.  @ThePrimeTimeagen  sure, not by itself. I think it gets compelling when combined with my other counter-points.
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  583. 2:41 omg do people actually use && in that way??
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  584. 2:58 this is the same as the promise of cloud solutions 😂
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  585. 3:26 I find it odd that you feel the need to exclude public or state ownership. I don’t think it’s a logical or justified position besides placating people with hyper specific viewpoints on the matter. Shared ownership and collective action, whether private or public, allows individuals to pool resources and work together to create something bigger than what they can achieve alone. Public/state ownership in this sense is just a form of a cooperative.
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  586. 4:22 what’s fascinating is the hearing isn’t question his claims, but rather, how everything is kept secret and how can they move forward to get better disclosure and dissemination of information. They are taking his word as fact. That’s just insane this shift.
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  587. I want a battery because it’s cool to have one. Makes me feel like I’m doing something positive. But that’s the marketing doing it’s job. However, it’s not an individual’s job to manage and regulate the power grid. The only reason someone would really need a battery is if they had solar and getting a really bad rate for the energy they didn’t use. I’d prefer if government/industry would provide affordable solutions. Surely bulk power generation and energy storage would be a more efficient use of a nations labour and resources than individuals tackling the problem and the corresponding industry around that.
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  588. 3:21 wouldn’t unfolding be better here too? E.g duplicate the conditional? I think zig can do with either comptime and lazy. Or alternatively swap to switch?
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  589. 19:50 same promises made for cloud services
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  590.  @johanneskrv  in the video Sabine says it’s single slit interference. D3 is detecting the single slit interference of one slit and D4 is detecting the single slit interference of the other slit. My theory is that it’s either one of two things, an interference pattern of the original photon on the crystal after it goes through a single slit or it’s not the interference pattern from the original photon, but rather from the two new photons that are created in the crystal via the spontaneous parametric down-conversion process. After all, they are also both waves so in theory should propagate at least partially down both beams.
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  591. 9:45 even when you write SQL you don’t know what the query plan will be unless you inspect that, so why is it a problem that you don’t know what the SQL will be unless you inspect it? Optimisation is maybe eventually needed whether you use SQL or an ORM, so it really doesn’t matter.
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  592. Am I the only one who thinks it’s weird that a lot of our electricity still comes from boiling water to turn turbines? Surely there’s a more sciencey and direct way to convert nuclear energy into moving electrons.
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  593. 26:38 it’s not that there is a higher level of okness… we have limited mechanisms to provide feedback and limited time to respond to or handle feedback. Even if we do have feedback… it gets dropped into a backhole… who knows if any dev team ever sees the feedback? Does the dev team even have to time to prioritise this one little thing over all the other little things they have to do?
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  594. 12:09 what do you mean that things won’t work? Buttons and forms won’t submit? Why aren’t you relying on the native html functionality of those elements? They should, for the most part, work right away!
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  595. 11:31 that looks like nightmare code 🫣🙈
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  596. 5:15 this same argument could be applied to actual programming too… how much time is wasted tweaking and configuring and designing code to feel and look good that doesn’t actually progress the task towards completion. This work is good at first, but suffers from diminishing returns over time.
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  597.  @nejsnek1410  ohhhh!!! Yeah I see the connection hahaha, and yeah it fits.
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  598.  @TheBlackfall234  to be honest, the concept of Übermensch seems like a 1:1 replacement for Jesus. Just replacing one moral sign post with another. It seems unnecessary to me. Nietzsche seems stuck in the context of a hyper religious world so he can’t see how anyone could cope in a world without a god or godlike replacement. It’s quite a pessimistic outlook really. Because of this religious context, it’s easy to understand why philosophers get stuck on “lack of meaning in life” for individuals rather than considering why it’s necessary to even have meaning. What kind of meaning are they looking for? Why does anything owe anyone meaning? I assume the meaning they seek is again based on some analog of meaning similar to what religions impress upon their followers.
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  599. Cmon… you can’t have it both ways… you can’t complain that companies are trying to run as lean as they can, and push down workers rights so they can fire everyone, with those that are lucky enough to work to earn a pittance, and then also say that most people are just sitting at their desks (or what every they do) doing meaningless busy work to line the pockets of those above. Those two things are opposites… if the latter was happening, the former isn’t… and if the former is happening, the latter isn’t… unless through some temporary transition. This argument point makes no sense.
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  600. Or the service could request the room details at the time it needs it
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  601. What’s he saying that he’s not aware of?
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  602. Would be cool if we could increase rainfall in deserts. I imagine we could add wicks to the ocean to increase evaporation where eir current will push the vapor over land. Then on land, build structures to direct the air high enough to form clouds. These clouds could then be seeded to produce rain over inland agricultural regions or reservoirs.
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  603. All the big names want a 6 month pause so they can catch up 😂
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  604. Interesting points about hyper-reality. I think the main problems with digital realities are: there is no transparency about how we have been typecast and how that influences the digital reality that is presented to us, and; the social media world is a for-profit world where we have to consume to generate the dollars, and; we can have experiences without actually experiencing.
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  605. It’s very refreshing to hear what scientists don’t understand rather than hearing guesses and hypothesis expressed as facts. You don’t often hear this perspective, I wish it was more common. Thanks Sabine!
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  606. When you say “we” don’t understand how these AI models work, you should clarify that the “we” refers to the general population. The AI engineers know exactly how they work. When you understand how these work, the concept dubbed “hallucination” is an obvious state an AI may get in. Language models are basically just hyper dimensional graphs relating disparate words. If you ask it if it’s telling you the truth, it’ll spit out related words based on that graph to make a response. So, stupid in stupid out generally, but your question might just be at an odd intersection that you aren’t expecting.
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  607. I assume no life can exist within these slurries. So whatever land is used will become barren.
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  608. 5:48 actually that’s what I didn’t like. I’d expect a robot not to stutter or um. Makes me think it was fake. Add to that the gravelly tone of the voice rather than a smooth refined sound.
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  609. I can only image that this stuff gets funded because it’s profitable somehow. People, governments, and companies hate giving away money for nothing. How do the profits come about and how does it get divvied up?
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  610.  @ContinuousDelivery  thanks Dave for your reply. Smaller steps seems like a good idea. Yes I’ve watched and now rewatched that linked video. It has useful discussion points. I think partially the anxiety is about unlearning “good” practices and getting comfortable with these proven better practices you are teaching us. I’ll report back how we went once we’ve had some time to trial it and build up our experience. Thanks again.
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  611. This news should be an “of course” to any software engineer. The mathematics of computation tells us that LLMs aren’t doing any reasoning.
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  612. 12:49 the application is the owner of the database and therefore it is the perfect and only place migrations should exist. Databases shouldn’t exists as first class entities.
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  613. Non-software engineers do not have the necessary training and expertise to manage/lead software projects. Software isn’t like other projects/programs in other parts of the organisation. The same project management techniques do not apply. Add to that, software engineers have actually been taught how to correctly gather requirements, how to build it, manipulate, manage complexity, etc etc. Further, these skills don’t just apply to software, but are transferable to manage other systems like business processes and organisational structures. We have literally been taught how to refactor systems and processes whereas these skills haven’t been taught to other professions. Software engineers should be the new managers for most things related to any systems and processes. The current “product owners” should be relegated to a stakeholder status and provide expertise advice in their relevant field only. I’ve had it with non-software engineers making stupid decisions just because they don’t understand and don’t have the training.
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  614. I’m sure Moore’s law is gonna apply to the thread count of these devices. I’m actually surprised they haven’t started doubling already.
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  615. 0:28 a company can be a cooperative and prioritise some other value. Usually increasing profitability will still be a key metric in increasing the primary value.
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  616. Euler's identity (τ version): e^iτ = 1. Very neat!
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  617. 1:34 won’t these reactors just make the world hotter?? More energy generated… more heat… at what point do we need to work out ways of extracting energy from the earth system out into the universe?
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  618.  @arcanernz  that’s a fair point, but cutting corners now always leads to more pain later. It’s a trade off the developer chooses to make (unless they lack the skills to make better choices). The pain will be experienced by whoever needs to modify that code in the future and the metric of pain is how difficult it is to make that modification. I guess it’s easy to criticise code for not considering some future requirements. But there are some objectively good and bad patterns of writing code that are harder or easier to change. So a developer struggling to get code out the door could still opt to prefer the good patterns vs the bad patterns.
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  619. Not all dynamic languages are the same… Ruby like small talk, is about dispatching messages to objects which can either handle or not handle that message. It’s the ultimate event driven language. Dynamic languages like Ruby is about processing and transforming data. It’s a totally different paradigm to typed languages.
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  620. Ps python is not that great
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  621. Lol JavaScript is here to stay. Get over it
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  622. 5:59 how do you specify that endpoint requires authentication or permissions?
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  623. Surely adding a filter over the existing bad LEDs could filter out the blue light?
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  624. Claims like this allow claims like “Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe” to rise to prominence. *Shudders at the thought*
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  625. It’s only fair to add this credit and book recommendation to the video description so Liu Cixin can be supported and be compensated from this derivative work. Most users will miss this comment. It’s a truely great and unique series!!
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  626. So what happens when someone gets electrocuted? Is that the fields too?
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  627. 10:37 by definition, LLMs are exactly deterministic. Any variation in output is either due to variations of input, or due to intentional randomisation or nudging.
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  628.  @MadsterV  the reason is simple. When you develop a solution full stack, you can manage the code complexity from both ends, whereas, when you split the front end work from the backend work, each team must coordinate changes with the other, and often that’s time consuming, so instead, they implement all this complexity so they can defer communicating and coordinating with the other team. It leads to the creation of unnecessary code that could have otherwise been avoided. The better way to divide work is feature slicing. A person or team develops a feature across the entire stack. The complexity in that case is when features are interoperable…. Which is then more a design choice.
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  629. So Dr Roubini links the inflation seen in the UK to Brexit? What about the inflation seen in Australia and elsewhere? Or he’s just saying that they have relatively more inflation because of Brexit?
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  630.  @TheAcademik  had a quick look at Lit just now, it seems to still have the problem I described… the HTML is defined within JavaScript strings. I’m actually building my own library to do the things I’m describing. There’s so much functionality in transpiled front end frameworks that are missing from the browser context all together which makes it really difficult. I’m trying to build some of those missing pieces, but it requires a lot of hacks to get working in a nice way.
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  631. 9:32 Australia is massive… we have plenty of space for that “suburban lifestyle” rather than living in tin cans. The problem is lack of development and support of currently rural areas… so people flock to the very few large cities we have rather than developing out the smaller population centre’s.
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  632. 5:03 I think the fact that it isn’t obvious that it is doing some sort of query parameteristation and sanitising is problematic. Sue I question one you know it’s tagged with the sql at the front maybe…. But I can see how it causes a certain kind of habit which could devs could easily mistakenly use in incorrect ways and accidentally introduce vulnerabilities. It’d be quite easy to skip introduced vulnerabilities in PRs too. Maybe it’s convenient, but it looks fraught with long term problems.
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  633. 18:07 learning react is actually super easy. Takes no time at all… almost not worth the time. Hooks also introduce a lot of laziness I’ve noticed.
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  634. Woah why is this the only vid that won’t play??
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  635. A question for the future is: where should an individual’s mind end, and the collective mind start.
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  636. 2:55 python is one of the worst languages ever 🤮 Successful but horrible. I think it’s success comes down to Jupyter notebooks, which made it super accessible and useful for code exploration required when prepping data for analysis and AI. If you’re developing a language and want to compete against Python: First, recreate Jupyter notebooks for your language. A REPL won’t cut it because it isn’t shareable. Next, create wrappers for all the data science and AI c libs. Finally, create a transpiler to transpile python to your language.
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  637. Lol pretty sure Metformin does the opposite of anti-aging… and it has the added benefit of giving people strong mood swings.
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  638. 1:46 our energy needs keep going up, so we can’t infinitely plant trees to match… also we need more space for farm land to feed, cloth, and meet the consumeristic needs of the growing population, which means less space for trees… what a conundrum.
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  639. 8:59 we don’t have a cloud based language yet. In the same way that we can easily invoke any functionality of a local PC from the one program, in theory we should be able to do the same across multiple PCs. We shouldn’t need infrastructure configuration and docker files and kubernetes files. They could all be managed within the code.
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  640. 4:54 the thing to remember is that LLMs will allow humanity to cross domains of expertise when previously that expertise was siloed. So even though it can’t come up with anything new per-se, it could help connect a lot of dots that haven’t been connected yet. That will take many humans a while to surface and then make practically useful.
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  641.  @Shm00ly  like everything, it’s a spectrum. People are multi-faceted and have multiple interests and are able to grow out their interests. If someone thinks there is a connection between something, they will seek it out, regardless of whether anyone else believes that connection exists or whether or not they believe that person can do it. It’s not going to be the everyday person that makes profound connections. It’s going to be the curious people, the entrepreneurs, the explorers and adventurers, the brave. Most people will probably just stick to their niche and maybe explore a little beyond within the bounds of what’s already been explored.
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  642. Doesn’t sound smart to jettison our water supply out into deep space.
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  643. Isn’t it true that the interference seen in the double (and single) slit experiments only goes away in diagrams and animations?
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  644.  @schmetterling4477  we had a convo about this the other day… there always has to be interference because it’s always wave and the quantisation happens when energy is removed. So, it would be impossible to not see interference unless there was no slit at all.
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  645.  @schmetterling4477  My understating comes from vids like https://youtu.be/SDtAh9IwG-I and https://youtu.be/nsxJQr57_is. The conclusions are pretty clear. For the double slit and single slit experiments, there is always interference involved, even if you don’t think there is. My original point, however, is I’ve never seen a real world experiment where the interference from a double slit experiment is removed. But if one does exist, I’d love to see it at the level of depth and accessibility as the Huygens Optics vids. If you know of one, please share it.
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  646.  @schmetterling4477  which experiment are you referring to?
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  647.  @schmetterling4477  oh burn. You win. Congrats. Have a medal 🥇
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  648. 10:03 yeah that’s long. Very verbose. Lot of text for not much.
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  649. 7:10 that sounds like a 💩 way to write software
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  650. Something seems off with this statistical explanation. E.g is an Olympian just lucky? Or did they do all the right things to get to the games??? The same statistics still applies to skill levels of all athletes vs all Olympians vs all gold medalists, but the route to get there was a lot of good choices rather than luck. You might argue that these people were in the right nurturing family and school, and had access to the right coach, etc, but it’s still good choices that lead them to success. A different person in that same situation could have made poor choices and never got successful, which creates a normal distribution of how luck might affect the outcome. I hope it’s obvious that I’m not saying that billionaires are geniuses.
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  651. I’ve often wondered if flat Earthers are just in it for the joke. They “believe” in it ironically. The do it to rile up other people.
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  652. Even “a theory should not make unnecessary assumptions” doesn’t seem like a good guide for being scientific. A scientific theory is good if you can do something useful with it.
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  653. 5:15 I don’t like that take either. It makes you feel good to say, and ignore evidence to the contrary.
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  654. The from clause is still not first 🤯
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  655. 10:27 they’re describing the same same job, same degree, same qualifications. 🤷‍♂️
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  656. 9:44 they started at 57000
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  657. There are armies of software engineers building software to collect, collate, and correlate data about individuals. It’s insane and scary just how much data each person doesn’t realise they own, but that is traded in secret without the knowledge of that individual.
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  658. Why not just drop income tax? Only tax companies. The good thing about companies is that they don’t have emotions. It means setting the tax rate becomes less emotional…. At least to the voters. The tax rate can be set in a way that government services are properly funded. There’s none of the arguments about specific groups of people getting taxed too much or too little.
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  659. Isn’t d a Roman numeral?
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  660. Gee's demands of shareholders seem to always ruin good things.
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  661. It’s modern day feudalism
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  662. I guess people rewriting code and making new libraries instead of using the existing ones for what ever reason, is no different from companies bringing out new models of TVs and cars and washing machines and any other type of product you can think of. It’s how innovation occurs, and it’s how we move away from the over engineered legacy systems and software.
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  663. 8:34 we really don’t have good mainstream language support for parallelisable programming though. Plenty of things in theory could be parallelised… like the mapping and filter functions performed on collections. But there isn’t any pipe function in any language that I’ve used. Eg. Each method call in `myArr.filter(filterFn).map(someTransformation).groupBy(someGrouping)` returns a collection before the next method call. That can’t be parallelised. If we had pipes, then each method would get called one after the other for each individual element. That process can be parallelised. Effectively, the group y would be different from the rest, as it would likely need to operate on a collection of Tasks or Promises, and await the results before dumping into the final data structure.
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  664. @ ah good point! And the AsParallel() method to parallelise it. I didn’t realise that’s how linq worked.
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  665. It boggles my mind how often people just make up assumptions based on intuition, but never actually test these assumptions. Everything is just an assumption until tested in reality. There’s no point putting too much effort into an assumption until it has been tested and proves or hints that it aligns with reality.
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  666. Strange loops again! GEB.
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  667. For all the non-locals it’s pronounced Can-brah
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  668. We could measure the one way speed of light by shooting some photons along an ellipticalish path around a black hole such that the the returned light hits the same detector. We just need to find a black hole near enough to Earth so we get the results within a reasonable timeframe and calculate the path such that the beam of light will return to the future position of the detector. Easy peasy.
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  669. Ok I see all the flaws in what I said. But the question that remains for me is: does the logic in the video hold up for curved paths of light (relative to us)
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  670. This is why I try to convert personal knowledge into institutional knowledge. Similar to replacing resources with processes. Processes are repeatable.
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  671.  @Slashx92  and it’s like how we have ES1, ES2, ES3….. etc. or CSS 1, CSS 2, CSS 3…. Or HTML 1, HTML 1.1, HTML 2, HTML 3, or IPv4 and IPv6…. This same logic also applies to how we all version our code libraries…. Or browser versions…. Or OS versions… The standards argument doesn’t make sense because having a Standard is not equivalent to Bad. Having a standard is a base line. It’s a way of creating interoperability. It performs the same function as an interface in code. And like interfaces/code/versioning, standards can and are improved over time.
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  672.  @Slashx92  And Web Components aren’t actually bad in my opinion. They are just missing a few supporting features, such as: an HTML/JS templating language; being able to support custom JS scripts on custom attributes; and having reactive functionality by assigning JS variables to attributes and having `attributeChangedCallback()` called when the variable value changes. I’m trying to build a JS library that adds those features. I have a working prototype. I just need to make it production ready.
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  673. ⁠ @elle305 you don’t need to validate my personal experience. Just take a look at the latest StackOverflow survey.
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  674. You can do closures using classes. If you squint they look the same! 0:36 I hope he says that…
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  675. 0:54 no!!!! Just close over the local scope by instantiating a class, then pass around the instance, then call the method on the instance!
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  676. 22:08 Raw JS is super useful!!
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  677. Are we sure deindividuation is actually about the individual within the group? Or is it more about the peorson/people external from the group feeling like they don’t belong or feeling that the group has some moral problem or does not conform to that persons on world views? People within the group would perceive themselves as individualised and feel part of the group. Deindividuation is an outsiders perspective from the perspective of people who don’t belong to or conform to that group. It’s one perspective, but not the whole perspective. Deindividuation as described in this video seems quite subjective from my viewpoint.
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  678. 13:52 that “mortgage cliff” is full of logical holes. The people who default, still need a home… so they will probably rent… and the house will be sold to people wanting to buy a home or be a landlord. And because there aren’t enough houses to meet demand, there can’t be a crash in price.
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  679.  @thealmightyaku-4153  They aren’t black boxes though. There are videos and uni courses showing exactly how they work and what the models are. The linkages can even be visualised. To say they are too complex for us to understand is an underestimate of how smart humans are. Anyone can understand them if you put in the effort to try. It’s not some voodoo magic like a lot of these non-AI “experts” and articles are telling you. All your comments seem to be based from a fear reaction from all the fearmongering rather than logic and the reality.
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  680. What’s wrong with stagnation? Nothing wrong with just maintaining… if you compare countries to humans: it’s okay to just maintain your current level of life… you don’t always need to be upskilling and upgrading; it’s okay to maintain your health and fitness… you don’t always need to be getting fitter and stronger; it’s ok to not take on new things… what you have now can be enough. I think the same is true for goals of individual countries. Besides, “growing the economy” isn’t a goal. “Increasing the median healthspan” is a goal. “Ensures all citizens are fed sufficiently and healthily” is a goal. “Ensure the living standards are better at the end of the decade than at the start” is a goal. “Growing the economy” doesn’t have any value by itself.
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  681. @ that’s just simply not true.
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  682. @ instead of “people do X”, “people do Y”. This is equivalent to economy staying the same size. Instead of “people produce unnecessary output”, “people produce wanted output”. This is equivalent to economy staying the same size. Instead of “people producing unnecessary output”, just stop doing that. This is equivalent to the economy shrinking. Instead of “people producing wanted output inefficiently”, “people produce wanted output efficiently”. This is equivalent to the economy shrinking.
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  683. @ the other part of why growing the economy isn’t everything is because you can have a massive economy, but it’s output largely benefits the few, vs being well distributed to the many. You can increase the benefit to the many with an economy of the same size, or even a smaller economy I would bet.
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  684. @ sure there is… you could have 100 people working on creating cheap plastic disposable toys, or they could make tools and machines. One is necessary, the other is frivolous. You could have 100 people working in old growth forestry, or you could have 100 people work in renewable forestry. You could have 100 people work in the coal industry, or 100 people work in the renewables industry. You could have 100 people work in private health, or 100 people work in universal health. There are multiple separate dimensions. What people work on, the efficiency of production, the amount of raw input, how the output is distributed, the productive capacity of the output, etc. If an economy produces many frivolous or low value items, and little output of productive enhancing items, then there is a lot of capacity to switch to higher value goods and services while either maintaining the economy size or reducing it. That size based on inputs/outputs and/or labor time.
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  685. 19:35 OMG did you just suggest they introduce a build system so they can support IE11? That completely defeats the choice of not having a build system. You either do or you don’t.. there is not inbetwix. I guess some people just get stuck in a particular mindset
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  686. 6:17 I very much agree with this. I have a sense that product owners are generally not trained in software engineering, which leads to a few extra problems. They don’t have the needed skills to make good software architectural decisions, and ultimately force the development team down paths they wouldn’t ordinarily go down, and designers are easier for the product owner to communicate with because there is less of a skills gap, so it’s much easier for the product owner to direct a project that way. I think product owners should generally be skilled in software engineering, and the less technical skilled people currently in product owner roles should become key stakeholders of requirements. I also think separated backend and frontend teams have created some odd choices in the frontend frameworks, which is why we are currently seeing Server Components pop up and marketed as a new concept as if SSR never existed. I honestly don’t know how you can efficiently create front end UIs without also having the ability to create and modify the backend. It’s always seemed odd to me. Probably why solutions like GraphQL exist too.
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  687.  @Alex-tp5jj  Sure. Not directly.
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  688. I wonder if the “collective intelligence paling in comparison to the magnitude of the general super intelligence in the AI systems we build” would only be a temporary state. Right now they just make connections where we, individually may not have made connections yet… like how statistic and data analysis highlights links and trends we couldn’t see otherwise… what happens to AI intelligence once the AIs have finished making all the links? Can they make fundament new discoveries for anything beyond the scope of the data it has access to or will they only be able to make discoveries within the scope of data it has access to and thereby placing an upper limit on the order of magnitude their intelligences surpass the individual and collective intelligence of humans?
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  689. If there is an AI singularity, I don’t think it will wipe us out… as single cells are to humans, we will be to AI. That’s my guess.
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  690. 28:58 you’re starting to sound a lot like DHH 😂
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  691. 3:22 I also look at their issue velocity. Do they leave issues and merge request open. Oh and commit history. Stars first though.
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  692. Yes
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  693. 35:10 wait… why do we want immutability? Are there scenarios we need to be aware of where we are making trade offs for something else? Eg performance?
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  694. I would propose removing income tax (both individual and corporate), goods and services tax, levies, and tolls. Instead, only companies would be taxed and the tax rate would be based on how well they distribute wealth. Each company could be assigned a value based on how much they distribute their wealth to their employees. There are several scenarios that can be considered, a company can have high profit margin or low profit margin, lots of employees or few. The wages of those employees could be high, low, or skewed so that workers get a low wage and managers get a higher wage. The combination of these factors could be used to work out a scale such that companies that accumulate wealth get taxed higher than companies that distribute wealth. This would assist with the identification of companies suffering from Baumol’s cost disease and allow government policies to be put in place to provide assistance to these companies as deemed appropriate to make them more competitive.
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  695. Charge $100 per bug report as a deposit. Then deposit + bounty returned when bug is confirmed.
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  696. 7:19 lol it’s pronounced: Briz-bn
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  697. Are you sure it’s not just religious organisations paying influencers to push their agendas or just the loudest voice gets seen?
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  698. Is it just an assumption that the cause of the redshift of light is because of travel expand space? Is it possible that light simply redshifts over distance? Has anyone ever tested or challenged this assumption? What would I even google to find answers?
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  699. True longtermists surely would do everything they can to get rid of the constructs that decrease our ability to reduce existential threats. E.g any country lacking in industrial advancement is not living up to their potential ability to contribute to reducing existential threat. The same can be said for human health and education. Therefore, longtermists should be doing everything they can to maximise the health, education, and productivity of every single human, so that as many humans as possible can maximally contribute to decreasing existential threats. I don’t see how sacrificing humans today contributes to the end goal of reducing existential threats. If anything, there should be more focus of improving the quality of life for all humans now to maximise our ability to reduce existential threats.
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  700. 33:53 “value simants”?? What’s he saying??
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  701. This has easily jumped to one of my top 10 fave videos. This experiment should be in the high school physics curriculum.
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  702.  @ApprendreSansNecessite  data is data regardless of what it’s context or purpose is. I think your point about conflating types and contexts of data is more about the quality of a program, not whether it is functional programming or not. Mixing or separating context and purpose can be done in any paradigm.
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  703.  @ApprendreSansNecessite  the second a feature like first class functions and higher order functions is introduced, the function is no longer stateless. The function closes over some data that can either be used or manipulated by the function. This is no different to instantiating a class and calling a method on it. Pure functions on the other hand are no different to static methods or methods that could be static but don’t have that keyword. It’s for those reason I can confidently say that OOP is FP.
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  704.  @ApprendreSansNecessite  yeah, I completely agree with you about your comment to my earlier comment. Of course code can demonstrate properties such as immutability just by not mutating any data it has access to. I think what I was trying to say is that first class functions etc do have a state which may or may not be accessed and or modified.
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  705.  @ApprendreSansNecessite  if anything, it’s the anonymous classes of Java that demonstrates the true power of OOP used in a functional programming kind of way. And definitely also Java’s enum constructors. I’ve never come across anything as amazing and powerful as those two language features.
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  706.  @ApprendreSansNecessite  lol yes, exactly, that when limiting it to one method and when only using immutable variables is exactly like using a lambda! I find this interesting too… If a mutable variable is used, it can be thought equivalent to a state machine, or if multiple variables used, a non-deterministic state machine. I find this concept interesting because there is an entire branch of maths/science around these concepts and how they relate that could be used to specify well defined rules to refactor code or perhaps how to write code well. Yeah, ok I’ve never had a chance to look at Rust. Your recommendation makes me curious. Thanks. Yes, I assume that’s true that I can’t really know what FP looks like when I have the freedom in OOP to do different things. E.g. to understand your last comment about breaking FP flow.
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  707.  @stunningkruger  huh?
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  708. 9:29 What makes it genetic vs environment?
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  709. 12:43 at this point in the vid, you’re talking about the possibility of environmental factors leading to ADHD symptoms in Adults. It could be argued that with the concept of brain plasticity, the brain wires itself into an ADHD mode based on environmental factors. So being around people with ADHD from birth, your brain may be more likely to develop in an ADHD mode, rather than hard-coded wiring influenced by genetics.
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  710. 5:47 doesn’t Visual Basic do that?? Pretty sure that’s how you do things in VBA for Excel.
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  711. 9:42 it’s gonna be awesome. So many creative people who don’t have the skills to make videos will suddenly be able to. If anything, there will be an explosion of amazing new never before seen works of art and stories. It will be the AAA game studios and movie producers who will be out of a job, not the every day person.
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  712. 12:57 Java applets were awesome! Basically Flash, except it’s Java! Basically like the HTML canvas, but Java! Can we still do applets?
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  713. So yeah of course there’s no inherent meaning to anything... but that doesn’t mean life is meaningless... meaning is derived from participation in things. Eg if you play a game... you derive meaning from the challenges in the game or in mmos from the team work also... or if you play sports you derive meaning from the skill, competition, and team work... or if you participated religion you derive meaning from the rituals, stories, beliefs, and community... same can be said for participating in family, politics, or anything else you can think of... so if you feel you have no meaning in life... it’s a sign you’re not participating enough in the world around you. If you participate you will get meaning
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  714. Is Lua just Ruby? Or Ruby just Lua? They look quite same same on the surface.
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  715. I don’t really understand how LLMs can help with war gaming. I would have thought some CSP would be more appropriate, or some advanced A* goal setting. As far as I can tell, LLMs will just give you what you’ve always got. I would have hoped war game think tanks and research institutes would have come to this conclusion too.
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  716. We live for nostalgia!!!! This is why we do Christmas every year or why Americans do Halloween and Thanksgiving or church every Sunday.
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  717. 10:22 actually, trust is a big issue. I look at some of the computer processed images from NASA and other space organisations and really struggle to believe they are representative of reality. Sometimes, less is more.
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  718. 9:06 there are components of the universe that are much smaller than atoms… there’s heaps of room left for miniaturisation. We just need to learn how to utilise those components for computation.
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  719. 7:32 stolen from Ruby!!! Ruby does this too. It is a very cool useful feature!! Works well not just with DSL building, but also iteration. It’s kinda like continuations.
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  720. 8:02 Ruby also has syntax so you can pass objects to the block (Ruby calls trailing lambdas, blocks, and you take different actions whether the block is defined or not). I assume Kotlin would have similar syntax. Usually you would pass in builders or configurable options to the block that you can set inside the lambda. But Ruby also allows you to set the scope of the block to some other object, or to marshal calls to some other object. I wonder if Kotlin allows you to do this too.
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  721. 9:08 oh it looks like you can do that I. Kotlin too!! Awesome 🎉
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  722. In the test2() example, how are those statements linking together? Are the methods mutating state stored within shipping? Why have the final assert method is part of the shipping object?
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  723.  @ContinuousDelivery  thanks for the reply. Yes I get that shipping is a testing abstraction. I’ve never seen this pattern before. I’m asking how it works and how the methods tie together.
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  724. Not going to mars because people will die on the way is a silly argument. First, it’s up to the individual to assess their own risk, second, many people died on boats migrating to Australia and other countries, they knew the risks and went anyways. Why deny us the same right?
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  725. We don’t have a worker to retiree problem and probably never will. The productive output per worker has massively increased. There’s also a lot of fat to trim… we produce a lot of crap that people don’t actually want but buy because it’s cheap, and there’s a lot of intermediate industry that serves no purpose other than to suck profits out, like private health insurance.
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  726. Can you do a video about the deskilling of advanced economies due to offshoring manufacturing and other industries? E.g the skill of manufacturing actually comes from working through the problems in the manufacturing process. So, as manufacturing is moved offshore, the skills developed in the advanced economies become obsolete, and new skills are developed in the developing economy. As their skill increases, so too does their ability to innovate and develop new solutions. These new solutions can then be set up in the developing country and this side-step the advanced economy. I’m not sure if this is ever discussed or if there is research on this, but can see it happening in my industry at least.
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  727.  @DarkMatter2525  with or without god, we have game theory. If everything were permissible we’d have been wiped out long ago. But it’s not, because people naturally work together for the most part. Game theory also explains why societies as a whole may do bad things (regardless of governing religious or secular views); go with the group, or be the “other”. Unfortunately, there are sociopaths, narcissists, and machiavellians that can rise up and corrupt groups of people. This is all irrespective of theist or atheistic views. It’s an unfathomable canyon to jump to consider that people can’t self govern over the long term. Theres just no evidence of that. It’s a hyper pessimistic viewpoint. I know one commenter suggested that without religion there is declining birth rates and materialism etc, I don’t think that’s because of a lack of god. Sure I can see how being told to go forth and multiply would indeed impact birth rates, those qualities are a symptom of unrestrained capitalism, a system where we have sociopaths, narcissists, and machiavellians leading the group. We haven’t yet weeded them out because we are all somewhat benefiting from the system for the time being.
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  728. Nice vid! Nice to hear about a different topic from you 😃
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  729. 7:30 you should have a degree. I wouldn’t hire anyone without a degree because they are guaranteed to be missing foundational educational required to write quality software.
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  730. 2:49 Ruby is waaay better
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  731. 3:12 cmon, you can dunk Ruby in the C too
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  732. 5:47 booo! Don’t poo poo Ruby. It’s actually awesome.
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  733.  @EnlightenedSavage  lol easy tiger. I’m a person. Blame culture is super toxic. I definitely do not operate like that.
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  734. 7:53 I hope they’re validating their assumptions and not just leaving them as assumptions.
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  735. 18:59 SQL isn’t just a string literal. It’s really no different in concept from sending shaders to a GPU or sending bytecode to a JVM, or instructions to a CPU, or a request to an API.
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  736.  @isodoubIet  sure, but that’s a different issue to the string literal comment.
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  737.  @isodoubIet  how?
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  738.  @isodoubIet  how is it “exactly the issue”?
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  739.  @isodoubIet  it’s not just a string though. You can’t just write anything. It’s a declarative language that is literally interacting with the API of the database schema and/or database engine. It’s pretty much the same as calling an HTTP server, or Redis, or a GPU, or a CPU, or sockets, they are all one thing getting another thing to do something using 1s and 0s.
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  740. 11:59 functions should be as short as needed for your given abstraction. Like if you use MediatR in C#, the Handle method should be as short as possible to do the work you need done. Repetitive code can be moved to injected abstractions, or extension methods. Super easy to get smaller number of lines this way, and also nice abstractions.
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  741. 5:47 the universities have some kind of ranking system
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  742. This isn’t just a software thing… this is a design thing. Any time you have anything useful, a machine, a process, software, ui, anything, it enables the next better thing, and achieving that next better thing will make the enabler redundant and old and not pleasant to work with in comparison. So we should always plan for old stuff to be replaced continuously.
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  743.  @bobsemple9341  no sheet! That’s why it has a has a reputation system, and a moderation system, and ability to edit answers, and add questions, etc. it’s quite easy to weed out the sheet answers. And you’d be a fool to just assume that questions and answers exactly match your problem and you won’t need to spend a little effort teasing out the useful bits and applying it to your situation. Besides, you also get “sketchy” knowledge from every other source too, like from blogs and posts and YouTube vids. Even published books can give bad advice.
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  744.  @bobsemple9341  It’s a weird flex whenever someone says they don’t use SO. I love StackOverflow both getting answers, and answering questions, and adding comments. It’s an awesome resource. I’m honestly surprised that anyone would choose not to use SO. It’s super useful.
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  745. This is great! Any one can now produce the music that’s in their head. It will democratise music production.
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  746. Do these new AI tools create separate tracks for the different components?
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  747. A long enough life is being around to experience the heat death of the universe. I want to be around to experience a Dyson swarm. I wanna live in a Star Trek universe. Can only do that if I live for a very long time.
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  748. 3:47 yet
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  749. 10:20 how do you snapshot your schema changes and manage migrations??
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  750. Melbourne is pronounced Mel-bn. Or Mel-bin if you feel it needs a vowel.
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  751. 21:33 stop playing is the best strategy?? They want you to stop playing. That’s why their actions are so confusing, in which case yeah not playing is better.
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  752. 12:10 wouldn’t the sea of virtual particles be present around all particles and anti particles?
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  753. 6:00 I thought blackholes were more like vortexes, like what you see in a blender or tornado… these aren’t wormholes to anywhere… they end at the bottom of the jug or the earth.
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  754.  @nephthysbastet4809  yeah but black holes aren’t space or holes… they’re matter… like earth… just denser…
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  755. 13:59 When you customise vim so much, how do you cope when you SSH somewhere and use vim on another machine? Does’t that get annoying? Or do you set up neovim and your config on every server you remote to?
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  756. 14:20 it can’t count and doesn’t “know” n’s because that’s not how the predictive algorithm of LLMs works. It does exactly what it was designed to do.
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  757. 3:26 a version number isn’t actually a number. It’s a complex object represented as a string of numbers separated by .’s. So yes, dropping the 0 from 1.20 is fine because it is actually the same number.
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  758. The doofus making the complaint is most likely using YAML syntax that looks like this: ‘version: 1.20’. As per 2.4 of the YAML spec, this will be interpreted by the parsing language, and in most instances will be interpreted as a numeric type rather than a string. In the blog post, however, they make it look like they used the syntax ‘version: Go 1.20’. However, applications would always interpret this as a string and therefore not drop the 0. This is PEBKAC plain and simple. If the person wanted the version number to be interpreted as a string, they should have used either ‘version: !!str 1.20’ or ‘version: “1.20”’. It’s as simple as that.
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  759. 8:55 I’ve always suspected that Dynamics is just using SSIS and SSAS behind the scenes. I wonder if this vid will confirm my suspicions…
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  760. 12:08 I think the professor has altered the Primeagen’s voice to sound more cartoony 😂 probably just to mess with Primagen
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  761. 12:20 yeah rewriting and starting again in a new language is a pretty big call. At what point do you make that call? At what point is it too late? And it’s not just the code, it’s also the whole deployment pipeline, and any other tools you’ve written, and the people hired with the specific skill sets. And maybe the frameworks used with the two languages aren’t exactly compatible, so you may have to restructure the code too. Not that it can’t be done… it’s just a big call… Personally, I would only make that call if something had catastrophically gone wrong with the first language choice or the first choice was going to financially ruin the company or hold it back in some significant way.
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  762. I think Schopenhauer is flat out wrong with everything said at least up to this point in the video: 6:21. Why bother listening to what else he has to say?
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  763. 3:18 this sounds like a misunderstanding or misinterpretation of statistics.
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  764. What’s the threshold of size of a measurement device to cause decoherence?
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  765. That “sharing technology” example seems to be the exact opposite of what actually happens in reality. The technology is the competitive advantage a company has, so it generally only sells the product of that technology and keeps the technology secret for as long as possible. Think about microchip manufacturing… the most advanced lithograph machines aren’t made in the countries that produce the microchips… the knowledge of how to build these machines are a well kept secret within the companies that manufactures them. Tech only starts to spread once the competitive advantage has been lost. So, the advantage of globalisation isn’t the multiplicative productivity of sharing of tech… instead, globalisation is required to allow hyper specialised companies to participate in highly complex industrial chains. Without globalisation, companies wouldn’t be able to hyper specialise as easily and pull in the necessary expertise for that hyper specialisation.
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  766. 47:27 every singleton ever created eventually needs to become pluralised. If you want a singleton, just initialise once and pass it around like you would in the plural case.
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  767. KN
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  768. Unequivocally nature needs our intervention to survive. Nature gets in the way of economic progress, so there’s more incentive to not preserve it. The faster it disappears, the faster we can convert the land out economic output. My guess is that the people lobbying for non-intervention are the ones who will gain the most from its loss. You just need to one one of the latest David Attenborough docos where he explains the almost complete and total destruction of nature.
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  769. I don’t understand what’s so difficult about this. In order for us to manipulate and probe the atomic and subatomic scales, we must translate between the big and the small using the very same stuff we are measuring. To see the subatomic, we have to amplify or magnify what is happening so that we can observe it at human scale. Likewise, we must shrink the human scale down to the subatomic scale to interact with it precisely. All while we, the measuring devices, and the stuff we are measuring are made out of the same stuff. The is no separation between those different things. It’s as simple as that.
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  770. 4:47 lowercase type names are fine as long as the text is bold
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