Yeah. I'm from Malaysia, and while we definitely benefited in many ways, to state that we do not still have massive and pervasive social issues as a result of colonization is insane. I'm glad you posted the link above and spoke up. I didn't even know where to start, but was worried someone might take the original comment seriously.
This viewpoint is still way too popular and was also used to genocide millions of indigenous people, we definitely need to keep speaking up against that.
I’ve carved out a niche of very low level systems programming and optimization. I think it’ll be awhile before LLMs can do what I do. I also moved to to staff so I think a lot of what I do now will still exist with junior/mid level devs being reduce by AI.
But I am focusing on maximizing my total comp so I can retire in 10-15 years if I need to. I think most devs are underestimating where this is eventually going to go.
I feel like he is missing the boat here. C++ is on a path to dying as a language because of a lack of safety features, and he’s talking about zero cost abstractions. Exceptions cause massive compiler issues and are hardly zero cost anyway, I don’t know how he can compare them at all to std::expected. Also anyone who has worked in an exception heavy codebase can attest to the fact that they do not lead to simpler code.
I have worked with C++ almost every day for a decade now, and I’ll be sad to see it go. This is not what the thought leaders should be focusing on at all. If you’re unhappy with std:: expected just don’t use it? Why can’t we focus on fixing the thousands of security vulnerabilities that cause real harm and money and endless developer time to try to work around.
All this recent safety talk is so strange to me, also a decade-long cpp dev. I read all this drama and worries, but that never relates to worries I experienced with the language. I've only ever seen safety issues with absurdly bad and old code that would never go past static analysis anyways, let alone a code review.
Real issues for my peers and myself are things like the thirst for reflections, the thirst for throwing out old garbage. Certain gripes with language details like initialization, the way a few things have been implemented etc.
I genuinely feel puzzled by the topics of all these cpp posts. Is everyone coding ultra low level with tooling from 1999?
Unit tests and code review are the exception, not the rule.
One thing that has changed is that nowadays software is everywhere, cyberattacks as well, with corporations and goverments putting numbers into the dollars that get burned in developer salaries, fixing CVEs, rolling out updates, downtimes caused by bug fixes, insurance claims, insurance premiums, lawsuits, malfunction software which consultancies have to fix free of charge,.....
I see safety issues all the time, even from mid level and seniorish devs who are not 100% familiar with cpp. I think it really depends on your codebase. Things like parsers tend to explode when you first put them in a fuzzer.
Well theres been like 3 C++ drama posts in the last 2 weeks detailing that the standards committee is definitely not heading towards a comprehensive safety solution. They have “profiles” which is a nothingburger, and they’re sticking to it.
How could it be? The radiation wavelength is far too high to cause any sort of chemistry. I know there are those that will still believe it does though.
> No evidence is needed. Tissue damage is damage and genetic stress. It can increase the risk of a local cancer.
"No evidence needed" works if you want to be an astrologer.
Then everything causes cancer (and death really) by means of break, bruise, bump, burn, cut, prick, sprain, tear, etc.
Where evidence is needed is if you want to show a statistically significant result of your analysis that something indeed causes injury, and does it often enough to cause cancer within a person's lifetime.
The healing of repeated damage to the body is a vector for cancer. For example, mesothelioma caused by asbestos. The asbestos is continuously damaging tissue in the body, and the healing of said damage leads to calcification of tissue and potentially cancer.
It's certainly possible that other repeated tissue damage, such as those from burns, could also be cancer causing.
..let’s assume that a specific area of our inner body is “micro-cooked” constantly, the body will certainly try to repair that area with higher frequency and therefore there would be a higher risk of cancer, wouldn’t it?
I guess we should consider heated seats dangerously carcinogenic then. They put out far more power than a cellphone. Same with heating bags and homes without air conditioning.
>Exposure to ionizing radiation causes cell damage to living tissue and organ damage.
>Gamma rays, X-rays, and the higher energy ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum are ionizing radiation, whereas the lower energy ultraviolet, visible light, nearly all types of laser light, infrared, microwaves, and radio waves are non-ionizing radiation
In other words, the UV causes cancer because it's in the ionizing range of the spectrum. Radio waves don't because they're not.
You're right! But also, it's effectively the same as ionizing:
"UV-A and UV-B are technically non-ionizing, but all UV wavelengths can cause photochemical reactions that to some extent mimic ionization. For example, ultraviolet light, even in the non-ionizing range, can produce free radicals that induce cellular damage and can cause skin cancer."
I think it depends on the amount of the radiation. While non-ionizating radiation doesn't have the ability to remove electrons, it still can heat up surfaces. Microwave ovens for example use non-ionizing radiation to heat up food, but this amount of radiation could potentially be dangerous if exposed to, because it could destroy human tissue.
You're right, it is entirely possible to get RF burns at the UHF frequencies involved here. I wouldn't want to hang out near a 1kW UHF antenna!
But let's look at the scale of emissions here. A microwave oven is going to be radiating anywhere from 800 to 1600 watts of energy into a box designed to focus most of the energy where the food is. A phone is going to emit maybe 2W of power at its peak transmission power omnidirectionally. Meaning a lot of that 2W isn't going anywhere near your head.
Wouldn’t it then hypothetically also kill the cancer cells? And due to increased water and blood flow, in an even higher rate compared to healthy cells?
Well, based upon some Googling, 2G's wavelength is ~33cm and 5G's is ~80mm, so that's a big increase, but the kicker is that ionizing radiation's wavelength starts at ~100nm, so we're still a huge distance away from dangerous. We're not even at visible light yet (~700nm). 5G has less potential for damage than your computer screen.
My understanding is that the theory behind nuclear winter is that all of the nuked cities will ignite, and the massive firestorms will eject ash into the upper atmosphere where it will persist for years. Aka you still need to blow up some cities to cause the winter.
Also nuclear winter is somewhat controversial, I don’t know what the latest model results are.
Yeah, because it’s bullshit. How would you even know the candidate’s sexual orientation? Even the article they link doesn’t say that, and mentions multiple times that there were no quotas. The most it says is “it seemed it would make HR happy” which as an interviewer I don’t know why I would give a shit about. Other than asks to throw another random candidate in the loop, which happens all the time for all sort of reasons, there is no more “push” because yeah that would be illegal.
If you think that an increase from 6.5% to 7% in Hispanic employees or from 28.6% to 29.7% in women is all driven by requiring exec approval for straight white men, then you’re delusional.
You don’t have to believe, I read the whole goddamned linked “article”, and parent misrepresented even that. There was a VP that approved promotions, but no particular requirement just for straight white males. That’s just one example of parent’s BS. They got other stuff from the link wrong, too.
Straight white males are the only “non-diverse” demographic. So they aren’t mentioned specifically in diversity quotas, of course. But if you hire too many of them, you can kiss some part of your bonus goodbye on account of not meeting quotas. How this is legal IDK
> But if you hire too many of them, you can kiss some part of your bonus goodbye on account of not meeting quotas. How this is legal IDK
Because you’re literally pulling that out of your ass. Even the article you link never mentions that and mentions multiple times that there was no such thing.
Pretty sure last time I tried to install an old enough version of Office, it forced me to upgrade somehow. I couldn't stop it either, it was a toxic UI.
Is there a way to get your house (currently with hydronic gas heat) retrofitted for heat pumps that doesn’t result in either a ton of demo or ugly lines all over the exterior? I tried to switch over last year only to find the savings were not that great in my climate, and that it would have an unacceptable aesthetic cost.
I had heat pumps installed in my house last year, to replace oil-based heat from baseboards. We have no drainage lines on the the front of the house, and only one bundle on the back. It follows the roof line, and then down a corner of the side of the house. So, yes, you will need drainage lines, but no, they shouldn't have to be all of the exterior. They should be able to be placed in an acceptable way. (Similar to, say, gutters.)
On the savings side: I think we're about even compared to oil. But I'm okay with that: we didn't have any air conditioning at all in the house, so we had no duct work. (We bought the house at the end of 2022 like this.) Since we were already doing significant work to install the duct work and get a new air conditioning system, I wanted to make them heat pumps to get off of oil. I think in the long run, we'll save money. I eventually plan on installing solar panels. And even if it's a wash in terms of money, I'm care about climate change, and I want to do what I can to electrify my house.
edit: After looking at other comments, I should clarify what we have. We have two condensers outside, and three air handlers inside. It acts like "central air", for the most part. We do have one mini-split, for the main bedroom, as we could not get ducts to it. My point here is that "heat pumps" do not necessarily mean "mini splits." My house is almost entirely centrally heated and cooled through duct work.
Air to water heat pumps exist that can efficiently supply flow/LWT* of 135°F, so if you can turn down your existing boiler to 135°F flow and maintain temperature in the house, you can retrofit to an A2W heat pump, which does not result in your home being festooned with linesets and covers running around the outside like plastic termite tunnels.
I also tried to switch in 2022 and found that it would literally never pay off due to the dramatically higher upfront project cost, and so a combi gas boiler now hangs on my basement wall.
* - LWT = "leaving water temp" aka "supply" aka "flow" depending on where you are in the world
I think probably the ugly lineset covers characteristic of lowest possible budget (and therefore overwhelmingly most common) installation of air-to-air heat pumps.
It is -- it looks just like an air conditioner plopped on a pad. There's two lines connected to it and leading into the house; one is an insulated copper pipe, and the other is the mains power connected to an electrical disconnect box.
> Is there a way to get your house (currently with hydronic gas heat) retrofitted for heat pumps that doesn’t result in either a ton of demo or ugly lines all over the exterior?
It's literally the same physical design as an air conditioner. So... yes, unless you hate seeing AC units too, I guess.
A house with hydronic gas heat probably doesn’t have ducts right now. An owner of a house asking how to retrofit a heatpump without a ton of demo increases the likelihood that their house doesn't have ducts.
Adding ducts to an existing house qualifies as a ton of demo in virtually every case.
No, I think you got it. You either have a lot of work to install ductwork or you're going to be doing lots of mini splits with ugly lines all over the exterior.
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