This is a nice idea, but it's empty. There were widely reported ICE operations in Minnesota over the past few days, yet it's blank on the map. Seems like a fun vibe-code project, but not useful w/o data.
Legal-tech: Using AI to help attorneys bill flat-rate instead of hourly. It's data intensive, but possible if you go through their old time entries and tell them the flat-rate price of all of their hourly work. 93% of attorneys bill hourly, primarily b/c they don't have any sense of the cost of the upcoming work. DM me if you want to work on these problems.
Saw both the movie and the real thing multiple times. Subject of numerous a heist fantasy… even today though, the MTA guys collecting money from the machines are escorted by NYPD conspicuously showing their firearms while giving you the eye. The attitude remains.
“Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act.
Power must be taken, it is never given.”
“‘This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.’
Abraham Lincoln”
Seems self-evidential that you should not let anyone who says this become a leader. And similarly, the problem solves itself if you elect someone who doesn't believe it.
> Instead, we should be using game-style "data oriented programming" a.k.a. "column databases" for a much higher performance.
This makes logical sense, but I don’t buy it in practice. Most of the heavy data reads are handled by databases, which do optimize for this stuff. I just doubt that, in most software, a significant amount of software performance issues are a result of poor memory alignment of data structures.
Everything depends on the access patterns in critical loops. If you need most of the fields of a struct in each iteration, the classic way is beneficial. If you need a narrow subset (a "column") of fields in a large collection of objects, splitting objects into these columns speeds things up.
> I don't think that being able to replace a library at runtime is a useful enough feature to justify the high maintenance cost of shared libraries.
We’re moving to a world where every program is containerized or sandboxed. There is no more real “sharing” of libraries, everything gets “statically linked” in a Docker image anyway.
If I do an `apt-get install` of the same packages in different containers, with anything different at all before it in the Dockerfiles, there's no way to share a common layer that includes the package contents between those images.
You could volume mount /usr and chunks of /var to help, but I'm not sure that would be sane.
> There are literally savings accounts with interest rate over my mortgage interest, meaning there is a zero risk arbitrage opportunity.
Many utilities give an 8-9% interest rate on bonds, with very little risk (Comcast isn't going bankrupt soon). That said, there's no such thing as zero-risk arbitrage.
When the savings are state guaranteed in the savings account, the risk is basically limited by the credit rating of the nation. It’s never zero but for stable economies it’s as low as you get
