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BigParm··on Indian-born CEO of Japanese company says nation needs immigration to thrive
They need higher wages to support a healthy birth rate. Importing slave labor benefits owners in the short term, but destroys the entire civilization in the also short term.
BigParm··on Most gamers prefer single-player games
The competitive shooters have been destroyed by cheaters. In the long term, and even the short term, cheats beat anticheat. That's why co-ops like Helldivers 2 are popular now.
BigParm··on Coppola on the parallels between the fall of Rome and U.S. decline
(median income) / (cost of living) is in decline.

It really is the same story, as we would expect it to be. The citizens were replaced by slaves. The middle class was eviscerated. There was no one left to buy the products of slavery. No one left to fill the military ranks. Slaves, petty lords, and starving Romans obviously makes for social instability.

In the modern west, every job that could be outsourced to actual slaves has been done. Some jobs cannot be outsourced, like mining say, so now they're shipping the slaves here. Birth rates are set to plummet because most of the citizens can't even afford to live.

It's like hunting all the Buffalo to extinction until there's nothing left to eat. That's what the owning class is doing. There's no way to stop it because it's a Darwinian system. The owners who are willing to ultimately cannibalize their own economy will win.

BigParm··on Nuclear war between US and Russia could kill 5B people
The only action that will cause a retaliatory nuclear strike is a first nuclear strike. That's the only red line wrt Russia et al vs the West.

If your primary military targets are innocent people then you should expect them to receive aid.

BigParm··on Some startups going 'fair source' to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing
If the license changes you can still use the most recent build with the license that suits you. If you need to update it then fork it.

Choose your dependencies wisely. 99.9999% of these projects will be archived one day anyways. Best you can find is a 5 year guarantee or something.

Software is always changing. Everyone has the same problem.

BigParm··on Turning Disposable Vapes into a Fast Charge Power Bank
You don't understand. Even if you are a competent blue collar person and you build your own house today, you hire qualified electricians. Everyone does this. It's a rule written in blood. With electrical, the catastrophic risks start right away. Especially with batteries, what a circus.

It's not learn-as-you-go like computers. A mistake doesn't give compiler errors. It might just kill you now, or get red hot later under certain conditions you haven't tested.

If you can't see that this gongshow is obviously dangerous then you are a fool.

BigParm··on Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy
That was based on strength, nothing to do with good/evil lol.
BigParm··on OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks
It's an ad dude. The upvotes are just a fugazi.
BigParm··on Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn
You can't derive an secp256k1 privkey from the associated pubkey. That's the whole point.
BigParm··on Turning Disposable Vapes into a Fast Charge Power Bank
How to accidentally electrocute yourself and start a house fire
BigParm··on Lottery Simulator (2023)
Your chances were 0, you buy a ticket, and now your chances are x. Where x is not infinitely greater than 0, it's x greater than 0. Pretty sure your proposition implies that 2 tickets provide the same odds as one ticket (2 infinity vs 1 infinity).

I haven't gotten into the discrete math in many years. If you're right do you mind explaining please? I can intuit what you're getting at. 0 odds * inf < (odds with one ticket). Is that a decent description?

BigParm··on Why GitHub won
People are just now catching on that Google services always fold and leave you hanging. Your comment is insightful. You're ahead of the curve predicting that eventually non-Google services will screw you too.

Whats the solution? Is the future self hosted? Making it accessible for non-technical people?

BigParm··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
I'm not a fan of their website's aesthetic. Looks like they let the devs do it without hiring an artist.
BigParm··on Show HN: Visahacks.in – you don't always need a visa
What is the point of India if everyone in it just wants to leave?
BigParm··on AI-powered music scam nets musician $10M in royalties–and federal charges
I love when corpos get scammed or stolen from. They know that the game is "take what you can" and it's about time the plebs learned that too.
BigParm··on Canadian mega landlord using AI 'pricing scheme' as it hikes rents
Can workers do this with wages? We all submit our wage data and then refuse to work for less than our oracle suggests?
BigParm··on The Art of Finishing
I have 3 categories of projects:

1. Bigger than I thought 2. Dumber than I thought 3. Too small to really be proud of

BigParm··on Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor
Makes sense. It's intuitive when you specify a number of bytes. I have myself been allocating memory using "new" so idk how my broken brain asked such a dumbass question.
BigParm··on The long road to ropeless fishing
It has to be sound. I think higher frequencies = lower range but more bandwidth and vice versa. Idk about ultrasonic. A trigger requires barely any data. So I'd guess lower frequency sound waves.

Any kind of underwater communication is strictly regulated. Someone told a story in a HN comment a few days ago about someone seeking a patent for something to do with underwater coms. The patent was denied, the DoD got involved saying this tech is classified, stop using it immediately. Any ropeless fishing the gov would be involved.

And besides, the anchor is on a chain anyways, why not the traps? What's the difference? We're not using wireless anchors

BigParm··on Why You Should Learn Linux (As a Developer)
You should use Linux because it has the best tooling. That's why you never see a Windows Docker container.
BigParm··on State and time are the same thing
OP should have said that change in state = time.

Anyone who has worked on secure consensus has had the same thought. You can't derive time from pure math. You must observe some state change.

It's a useful concept, but strictly speaking it's not true. If this universe was completely devoid of matter, time would still pass. "If a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

BigParm··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
I've read a ton of your writing on this topic. There is still much more, but I'm tired. You described the problem well, and if your software alleviates it, then I see the value.

I'd like to try the software if it'd available please. But I'm not sure where it is or if it's out yet. Is it the Obsidian template you linked here, or is it a separate software called Your Commonbase? Because the Obsidian vault has a different name.

I have to say that the irony is hilarious that I can't find this information in the (well written) sea of information you posted. But then of course I'm not using your solution yet!

BigParm··on Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM
Wtf is happening here what are the inputs and outputs? Hard to tell what this program does for me
BigParm··on Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor
How does it occupy 30MB ram but 5MB disk space does it grow
BigParm··on Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
Imagine inputting syntax highlighted code while running inference w LLMs? Currently its hard to read what's in your text area when asking ChatGPT a code question.

This is the most interesting post in a long time, bravo!

BigParm··on How to keep up with AI/ML as a full stack dev?
It's the best API searcher ever made but most people don't search APIs. They are waiting for it to make them a grilled cheese or something.
BigParm··on We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency
How much does it cost to have an ISP let you do that? What are the barriers generally?
BigParm··on 5G from AT&T and Verizon turns out to be Europe-level bad
They develop 5G which is allegedly good for up to 10 GB/s. Then they throttle your speeds to exactly what they were on 4G. Maybe they can serve more customers in densely populated areas, but I'll never get to see a difference anyways.
BigParm··on Older Adults Do Not Benefit from Moderate Drinking, Large Study Finds
If it doesn't kill me within 20 years idgaf
BigParm··on DHH: Cant believe I kept myself from Linux, Neovim, and mech keyboards this long
I was a kid in 2004 but it's astonishing to me that this guy developed rails on presumably Windows. By choice. Was Linux bad back then? Nowadays every software tool is linux-x86 first.
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