jmarchello

The "pay to win" feeling is really just in the competitive scene. You can choose to chase the ever-changing meta or just enjoy playing more narrative games.

ps. you can learn the basic mechanics of the game pretty quickly by watching "Battle reports" on youtube. Search for 11th edition specifically as it just came out in June and the rules changed a good bit.

Measuring python packages to indicate AI-based production is like measuring saw production to measure the effectiveness of the steam engine. You need to look at houses and communities being built, not the tools.

Simple, usable, timeless.

For me, this makes it so my expectations and muscle memory transfer cleanly between my workstation and other servers, devices, etc. I find the default tools are much more powerful than is often understood, and you can replicate most third party functionality fairly easily. That's not always the case mind you, and I happily use those tools.

This additionally is consistent and works without needing to “train” it first.

As soon as one graduates and enters the real world, the ability to learn is paramount, but the ability to grade said learning is never used again. We need to re-think the system from the ground up so that a student can leverage all available tools, AI included, and still develop a core ability to learn.

What's more, the current focus on grading has been shown to stunt the love of learning, because we're not stupid and we know when we're doing something that does not gain us anything beyond a grade.

If academia responds to this change properly we can eventually see a system that actually serves our students better than what we currently have.

> A microbenchmark made on Array#each, for instance, shows it is 7x faster.

This is awesome. I can’t wait to see further improvements as they continue to optimize for the JIT.

In my experience the 1 page constraint is less important so long as it’s easy to get a good picture of you on the first page.

This is such an effective and concise way to explain the difference between bootstrapping and vc funding.

I’m also of the opinion that most engineering/product orgs are extremely bloated and could move much faster with higher quality if they were cut 50-90%.

And while Spotify may not have hired for the sake of hiring, my comment was more targeted to the general behavior of tech startups during the ZIRP years, where I've personally experienced companies just hiring to show they they're growing, even when they have very little work for those extra personnel to do. It's not often intentional, but is rather the result of poor discipline or lack of forethought.

In my opinion they did these employees a disservice by hiring them in the first place. We need our companies to act more responsibly regardless of the price of capital. Innovate sure, but don't fill up your tank when gas is cheap just to do doughnuts in the parking lot.