DrewTheDev

He/Him/His. If Jon Skeet is the Chuck Norris of C#, I want to be Bruce Lee, or at least the Court Jester. Opinions own and not those of Employer/OSS projects.

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

I'm not even mad someone made this.

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

Ffs protobuf is such a PITA to optimize write patterns for compared to Messagepack.

VarInts are fricking -evil- compared to fixed encoding when forward length is not yet known...

Unless someone can school me (I get the potential size savings for many cases)

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

@softbruta1ist @kayleighrenel It's too close to redford.

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

@NodrogIce @PalmerLuckey @OverJumpRally Yep, I think only Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean got to 48MBit.

(Although, SO was technically bigger, just had a built in decompression chip)

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

My favorite example is a system that used VB6 code as individual COM modules, which were triggered in a workflow type fashion based on the XML definition.

Each module took a custom vb6 dictionary in, and out.

Code was not 'pretty', but easily maintainable and worked well.

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

IDK If I say I love VB6 but I do like that if you made a clever/good solution it was harder for people to accidentally overcomplicate it.

[John Crickett @johncrickett]

@htmx_org People loved VB6?

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

Plenty of cars still in good service life were taken off the market and it changed the cost equation, full stop.

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

You're ignoring the shock effects. The auto remarketing industry saw a huge boom after because of the market shift and elimination of a lot of good 'beaters'.

Heck the industry expansion led to me escaping HFC/Fiber design and getting my first real SWENG title.

[Bradley Brownell @PluginHyBrad]

@NigoNOWHEREJun A negligible amount. They were clunkers for a reason.

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

Anyway back to the main point, a 15-20MPG gas hog that refuses to die is still a better option for many than a 30-35MPG problem. My purchase of a bare Ion 2 brand new was based on math from maintaining a 120K mile neon for a year of college.

(The Ion payment was less per month)

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

The US has supported looting via charity for a long time. Just look at Scientology and Churches that quietly/cleverly ignore rules around their extra special exemption statuses.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Scam Altman and Greg Stockman stole a charity. Full stop.

Greg got tens of billions of stock for himself and Scam got dozens of OpenAI side deals with a piece of the action for himself, Y Combinator style. After this lawsuit, Scam will also be awarded tens of billions in stock directly.

The fundamental question is simply this:

Do you want to set legal precedent in the United States that it is ok to loot a charity? If so, you undermine all charitable giving in the United States forever.

I could have started OpenAI as a for-profit corporation. Instead, I started it, funded it, recruited critical talent and taught them everything I know about how to make a startup successful FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD.

Then they stole the charity.

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

@GitHubCopilot

Dumb question but did yall read this and then decide to kneecap individual Pro subscribers versus Enterprise on Opus Availability?

Asking for a friend.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

Lenny Kravitz in fro mode.

[ຸLaura Bennett @NefflynB]

Aparentemente, si usas el cerebro derecho ves un conejo, y si usas el cerebro izquierdo ves una tortuga.

¿Qué ves?

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

@RobertoftheRed @piyush784066 Move zig for great justice

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

Are you saying it needs copilot needlessly slammed in?

[Zac Bowden @zacbowden]

This interface is actually hilarious. It doesn't follow any of Microsoft's current design guidelines and is such a poor use of screen real estate. I hope with the company refocusing on craft, it's able to give the install and recovery screens a freshed interface that more closely aligns with Windows 11's design language

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

@DevLeaderCa LinqToDb.

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

@DE_Gifford ... it is weird. I remember in college biking from 6 and Livernios up to Ferndale and being amazed by the houses in the Palmer Park area.

So far from McMansions in the suburbs...

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

@SenatorCrossing @MIGOP @vance_gop @JohnJamesMI Im confused, that looks nothing like a helicopter.

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

@p1cklesneakers @jeremy_wokka @GreenTextRepost The simple bit where they are trying to turn greenbelt into a philosophical thing is just a bit over the top too.

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

@Aaronontheweb Well there was also the hentai browser/downloader app on /csharp/

Which aside from the NSFWness is pretty damn decent for a passion project...

Amusing state of things.

[DrewTheDev @DrewTheDev1]

@Havoc_Six Black Eagle.

Or IFV but IFV is practically cheating.