The tradeoff always was to use higher level languages to increase development velocity, and then pay for it with larger and faster machines. Moore’s law made it where the software engineer’s time and labor was the expensive thing.

Moore’s law has been dying for a decade, if not more, and as a result of this I am definitely seeing people focus more on languages that are closer to hardware. My concern is that management will, like always, not accept the tradeoffs that performance oriented languages sometimes require and will still expect incredible levels of productivity from developers. Especially with all of nonsense around using LLMs to “increase code writing speed”

I still use Python very heavily, but have been investigating Zig on the side (Rust didn’t really scratch my itch) and I love the speed and performance, but you are absolutely taking a tradeoff when it comes to productivity. Things take longer to develop but once you finish developing it the performance is incredible.

I just don’t think the industry is prepared to take the productivity hit, and they’re fooling themselves, thinking there isn’t a tradeoff.

but the UI into a cross-platform library (written in, say, Rust)

Many have tried, none have succeeded. You can go allllll the way back to Java’s SWING, as well as Qt. This isn’t something that “just do it in Rust” is going to succeed at.

Good choice but do be aware that it’s changing rapidly with the IO rework

Use your corporate email instead of your personal

Classic “management who hasn’t read The Mythical Man Month” situation

Damage complete, no need for it anymore

The U.S. Navy confirmed the shake-up with The Daily Beast in a statement in which a spokesperson praised Riley as a Rhodes Scholar who has “led major defense and public-sector transformations as a partner at McKinsey and in senior government advisory roles, delivering measurable efficiency and performance gains.”

How is the standard McKinsey consulting advice of laying off workers and fixing bread prices going to apply to the Navy

Imagine the opening cinematic to Red Alert 2 where America gets invaded but instead of Yuri mind controlling the operators of the Nuclear missile silos, we just laid them off.

So, at least for my retirement accounts, I’m fine with being exposed to the market via stocks and SPY. I am old, but not old enough where I will be touching any of that soon. So, I don’t really care what happens to those accounts right now. I would take the same perspective for yours.

It’s the accounts that I am going to draw from in the next year that I’m de-risking.

Agreed. My only concern was that the bond market, despite claiming to not be correlated with stocks, could still get hit hard when this bubble popped. I had to go and look at VBTLX 's historical prices to see if it was indeed the case, and it doesn’t seem to be correlated, but also it obviously loses out on quite a lot of gains compared to stocks.

So, I do agree that moving into bonds is the right choice for some of my funds, so that I have some safety. The rest I will probably move into smaller cap or value stocks and avoid exposure to TSLA and NVDA. Basically, I was very invested in SPY for a long time and I made great gains, but some things in my life are changing in the next couple of months so I would like to reduce my risk for all my non-retirement funds.

Boring, privileged shit but thanks for letting me vent

The whole thing with Nvidia round-tripping cash between them and OpenAI and all the associated companies makes me very uneasy.

I have been pulling out of the S&P500 in accounts that I had put my savings into, since I really can’t stomach the risk right now. I’m not touching anything in my retirement accounts but for my savings I’m moving into things with less risk until this whole thing resolves itself

Go away, I’m 'batin

TREAT ECONOMY CRASHING

If these jobs truly can’t be done by American workers then a $100k fee for the application is just the cost of doing business.

If it turns out that it suddenly makes a lot of jobs done by H1Bs no longer economical, it makes you wonder why they were using H1B labor to do it? ( We all know the answer)

This is up there with Medicare For All in terms of broad support from people and our politicians absolutely do not give a fuck

It’s obviously bad that he’s using the FBI to fuck with people for no reason, but at least the first instance of abuse is funny because Bolton deserves far worse treatment

No, not for something that is over the network

No. You are using the APIs or scraping content.

The AGPL is meant to deal with making modifications to a GPL piece of software on a server and not releasing the source code (and changes).

For code to be GPL it needs to actually “link” in the sense of a compiler and linker, in order for it to be considered a derivative work.

Calling the REST API of AGPL software, I do not believe that meets the definition of linking.

I am not a lawyer but this is how I understand it

Ooh I’m going to have to check that out

I use Obsidian, and have the Vim bindings enabled.