vasametropolis

joined 1 year ago
[–] vasametropolis 5 points 1 year ago

Has to be breaking a rule by this point

[–] vasametropolis 2 points 1 year ago

The design is still horrendous. I was hoping for a total do over.

[–] vasametropolis 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It has been predicted for years that the Internet would split and I'm all for it at this point.

[–] vasametropolis 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be fair, there's huge demand for a Swift-like language in the space Go operates, since nobody will ever adopt Swift outside of Apple use cases. Rust is excellent, but garbage collection is not awful at all for most Go use cases. I think Go designers made a mistake by not introducing sum types sooner since there are many ergonomic issues that could be solved with them.

This may lead people to argue for JVM-based languages, but Go seems like a leaner and nicer package overall and compiling to static binaries so simply is still a major winning feature. That and I think Go still has performance advantages over JVM and C#.

In many ways I think Swift is better than Go as a language, but we effectively will never have that as an option people freely choose to use so it would be nice for Go to close some ground where it can and where it makes sense to do so. Go is what people already want to use as a starting point, so it makes sense for it to try and modernize a tad.

[–] vasametropolis 4 points 1 year ago

It has to be satire.

[–] vasametropolis 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Edited for spoilers: I'm going to message you to ask but I'm wondering if I missed a lot of Ketheric as well.

[–] vasametropolis 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is the perspective that is totally forgotten and missed by most engaging in the discussion. Not to diminish Larian's achievement, but they literally busted out the old playbook. Credit where it's due, but BG3 shouldn't be controversial - it should be the standard because that's what the standard used to be.

[–] vasametropolis 4 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't undercut yourself so much - they have more experience but every situation is different. Inflation in July was largely due to increased mortgage payments (2.4% if you exclude mortgage increases from rate increases). So when the only knob they have can also cause a bigger issue, it's fair to criticize that they are just going with the flow and praying. If you jump from 0.25 to 5 in such a short time frame, you just worsened inflation on mortgages while improving everything else to the point where it might all cancel out.

They are absolutely flying by the seat of their pants and throwing the average worker under the bus.

[–] vasametropolis 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Interest rates don't unilaterally fix inflation though, which the BoC is either too stupid to admit or too reckless to care.

Raising interest rates won't fix inflation driven by gas prices.

[–] vasametropolis 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's employee hostile so their job is almost impossible.

Every employee should hold the line - if they fire you all they're fucked.

[–] vasametropolis 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Trouble completely avoiding it? Yes. I exclusively treat it as a search engine / knowledge resource now though, which I think is reasonable since it's a part of the Internet.

However, I contribute absolutely nothing to it and am now always signed out. Over time this would lead to it becoming an archive while decentralized platforms become the real meeting ground where new knowledge is accumulated. It's a long-term play. There's so much information on Reddit that it would be foolish to completely write it off - this is going to take a really long time, but anyone here knows that.

It took years to build Reddit to its glory and it will take years here - at least there are some awesome apps already and it feels like there is a good head start this time. We should not call out people for using Reddit for information, but we should encourage people to contribute to a more sustainable, community run alternative.

[–] vasametropolis 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not entirely wrong on productive assets, but what are they? Stocks? Progress has basically all but stalled in most areas. The new trend is rent-seeking and the market is totally stuck sideways. There is nowhere for money to grow and nowhere to hedge it against inflation. Cryptocurrency is even performing poorly. At least property entitles you to a real thing - land. I'm way more keen on stocks but they're performing like shit.

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