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iExploder

397 karma · joined August 23, 2020

I used to solve hardcore problems, now I just talk to Claude and try to dodge layoffs left and right.
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iExploder··on How computer programming became the worst choice of career
as a software dev? germany, norway, switzerland, denmark, ireland
iExploder··on Team lay-off
you could try to start a consulting company together
iExploder··on Ask HN: Why are UFO stories mainly from USA?
makes more sense to ask aliens riding the UFO's, doesn't it.
iExploder··on Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling
It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people. — Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"
iExploder··on Hire people who give a shit
expecting someone to "give a shit" is realistic when % ownership and profit sharing is thrown into the pot...

even this however does not guarantee people will give a shit, a sane person however might...

iExploder··on I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”
quoting people who were not born yet is not allowed
iExploder··on Ask HN: Is it time to quit tech industry?
many people around the globe entering the market via remote work or willing to relocate anywhere + automation, frameworks or pre made template solutions

as with every new and lucrative industry, people eventually figure out how to streamline it

I wonder whats the next gold rush? astronauts? space colonist/miners? :)

iExploder··on The Rust Performance Book
for the real work you'll have to use C. Rust use case is for crafting cool new age hacker news stories.
iExploder··on Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users (2019)
scalable paradigm disrupting shift on blockchain in rust
iExploder··on Is Rust web yet?
embedded / iot / automotive, this currently stands on c ecosystem due to suppliers and billions of lines of legacy code

the failure of rust was it tried to start from scratch where better solution would be to seamlessly integrate into c,

maybe if gcc has support for compiling rust the future switchover on embedded would be easier

iExploder··on Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps
how about KiCad as replacement for EDA? for CAD, yeah, that is really the last thing to be ported to linux afaik
iExploder··on Why Are There So Many Programming Languages? (2015)
the problem is new sw also didn't fix the last 10%,

solution? add the last 10% to the existing solution (possible with open source) without reinventing the wheel completely, just to be able to stick a flag in the mud

iExploder··on Raspberry Pi 4 can finally boot directly from USB
great point, especially since now they try to sell the "compute module" variants which are aimed at commercial use, having to use a blackbox bootloader is wtf and I dont think many companies will accept that
iExploder··on Animal Populations Fell by 68% in 50 Years and It’s Getting Worse
hiroshima nagasaki
iExploder··on Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life
does it ever bother you to be building the next skynet? no hate, but I wonder if people @ google really think about what kind of world and future they are building with their actions...
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