The beetles and the bees won’t eat you either. They can harm you in other ways though.

Somebody has to sell it. How do they separate their customers?

Yeah, doesn’t look like APL to me, but I don’t know it well enough to tell for certain.

Either way, that much code in a language that is at least as concise as APL… what is this? a full office suite?

I was talking about real life, but I think factorio calculates damage in more than one physics iteration. If that’s the case, your odds increase a very small bit by going faster, but a bit that is way more significant than the “indistinguishable from zero” you get in real life.

Oh, and just to add, your hits of being hit by a meteor on any single trip reduce the faster you move. But the trains are always out there, so their odds of being hit in a game-play don’t change (or change very little).

It’s non-intuitive, but unless you are running really fast, your speed shouldn’t really change the odds of a meteor hitting you.

Oh, I see.

Good point. I didn’t notice the huge empirical test for it running right now.

Yes, inequality is increasing in the US.

But I don’t really get how that relates. Anyway, may point is that if you bracket the tax at high enough incomes, maybe not even a 99% marginal tax rate will suffice for making rich people move away. Those people are rich, they don’t care about spending some money to live where they want.

The same is not true about the poor, by the way. It’s easy to tax them so much that they leave.

And Laffer focusing his work on the rich was the cheapest and most plain sell-out on the academic history.

The way that theory is framed is the most ridiculous thing in the world. The rich are the least sensitive people to price increases.

When people say they “believe” in science, I think they mean they are putting their faith into the scientists performing the science. That whatever conclusion they come to after an experiment or study is the correct conclusion.

That’s literally what they mean, where “scientists” may as easily mean real scientists as charlatans.

It’s still completely antagonistic to how science is practiced (if scientists behaved like that, they would never learn anything), and something closer to religion than science.

Yeah, let’s pretend the vibe-coder creates praiseworthy code when everything is working…

That’s a conversation I’ve had more than once with my parents:

– Doing X is fine! Everybody did it in my time and we grew up just fine!

– Didn’t that friend of yours die because of it?

– Yeah, but he’s only a single person, and everybody did X…

I hope all those companies go bankrupt, people hiring those CEOs lose everything, and the CEOs never manage to find another job in their lives…

But that’s a not bad second option.

Early 80s: High level structured languages (Hello COBOL!)

Late 80s: 4th generation languages

At least before that people just assumed everybody that interacted with a computer was a programmer, so managers didn’t have a compulsion when hearing the name and decided to fire all programmers.

There’s a lot of people saying “well, not the year… but 2026 is going to be quite the year for Linux desktops” over the internet.

It’s easy to see where they are coming from. They just have more faith in Humanity than me.

Because of the intonation.

Yes, I’m not doing almost any of the things we do at work in my network.

I’m absolutely not running the same software. I’m not organizing the information the same way. I’m not using the same infrastructure abstraction, and even less configuring it in any similar way. I’m not writing the same languages.

The work environment is dictated by consensus between many people, with varying expertise, and weighted by how much work one is willing to put into each aspect of it. Each of those parts lead to bad tech, even though they lead to good people organization.

“Everything I do at work, I try out at home first.”

Absolutely no fucking way! And anything that touches work is isolated, their opsec sucks so much they didn’t even realized they mandate “security solutions” with known backdoors.

You have some of the world’s cheapest electricity wholesale. You also have a huge variance in prices to end-user, with the people that complain on the internet being among the most expensive in the world… because, of course, people that get cheaper prices don’t complain.

Also, yes, electricity in Germany is expensive as fuck.

I’m trying to test it for a couple of weeks already, but I got stuck not achieving the necessary tolerances.

Nah, remember that Australia is “western”, Chile is not… I’m pretty sure Ukraine doesn’t qualify.

US people have a great handling of geography.