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Re:Why isn’t dotnet core popular among startups? on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @01:14PM (#37499079)
I find the opposite to be the case in all honesty.

I've never used C# or dotnet core but I know from word of mouth that it is a relatively well put together framework of tools for doing a lot of the things organizations with a lot of backend services to write might need. Many of those orgs are already very locked in with Microsoft, so the greater support by the open source community that comes with typescript is mostly irrelevant. Whatever the officially supported version of something is is what you will be required to use, and the typescript ecosystem provides very little if you want some big company to declare one particular thing to be the blessed solution.

Re:The modern CEO job is completely broken on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @01:08PM (#37499000)
The difficulty here is at any not tiny company nobody except a select few people at the very top can actually be led by the CEO in the way you are describing, and if they tried to lead the masses so to speak, it usually turns into a cult of personality, which actually doesn't look great to investors. So it's very difficult to lead large organizations in a way that doesn't necessarily result in scheming behind closed doors with a small club of in people, which doesn't look great either.

It seems to be almost a requirement for the CEO to be disliked for those reasons.

Obviously AI wouldn't be better and would be a black box to most employees, just like CEOs are already.

Re:China preparing for war with US, Air Force secretary says on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @01:03PM (#37498956)
Yes that's the implication
Re:A Texas Semiconductor Boom on the Horizon on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:55PM (#37475261)
For the same reason not grinding out the code by hand and copying from your LLM is going to result in you being a less competent programmer in the long run.

I really believe there is something to be said for putting yourself through the mental strain of evaluating the integrals (or code) and that doing so contributes to you having a better feel for how it works on a conceptual level as well, you don't just get better at calculating by doing things the hard way.

If you can easily see the solutions and manipulations you can make to an integral by hand, then you are more able to quickly get a feel for what it represents just by looking at it. If you are not as experienced doing them by hand, just reading them is going to sap some of your brain power and energy, and you will be less able to reason about them abstractly as a result.

I think the whole "just learn the concepts" approach to almost anything is fundamentally misguided and not at all how representative of how humans really learn.

Re:A Texas Semiconductor Boom on the Horizon on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:45PM (#37475196)
That's why they were banned back when I took the tests. Have they loosened the restrictions on the n-spire?

The standard back in the early 2010s was still definitely TI-84 being about the most powerful calculator you could use for most tests that mattered. Those calculators are intentionally kept slow by TI because of these requirements.

My impression of the n-spire was that it had always been marketed much more towards professionals. The first one I saw in person was at an electrical engineering internship where my boss had just bought one.