Javed Nissar
@jnissar.bsky.social
Software engineer from Toronto. Big fan of Elixir, Python, AI and Distributed Systems. Also really into rock climbing.
As a layman whose opinion shouldn’t be given much credence, I agree. Hopefully, we’ll never get to see whether or not this take is accurate though.
December 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
As a layman whose opinion shouldn’t be given much credence, I agree. Hopefully, we’ll never get to see whether or not this take is accurate though.
Do you mind explaining further? I’ve never thought of the Spanish Civil War or American Civil War being useful references. Same with Yom Kippur.
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Do you mind explaining further? I’ve never thought of the Spanish Civil War or American Civil War being useful references. Same with Yom Kippur.
Looking back through history, what war is most relevant for thinking about how the Ukraine war is going or a hypothetical Taiwan war? I’ve heard of people referring to the Ukraine War as “World War 1 with Blade Runner aesthetics” is that a fair characterization?
December 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Looking back through history, what war is most relevant for thinking about how the Ukraine war is going or a hypothetical Taiwan war? I’ve heard of people referring to the Ukraine War as “World War 1 with Blade Runner aesthetics” is that a fair characterization?
People are always greedy, it is human to be greedy. In the absence of greed, capitalism wouldn’t work at all. "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest" after all.
October 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
People are always greedy, it is human to be greedy. In the absence of greed, capitalism wouldn’t work at all. "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest" after all.
If the issue is culture that inherently means that it’s not the religion and that relying on religion is just a bad proxy. On top of that, once it’s been entrenched to target 1 religion like this. The door is open to target others.
October 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
If the issue is culture that inherently means that it’s not the religion and that relying on religion is just a bad proxy. On top of that, once it’s been entrenched to target 1 religion like this. The door is open to target others.
Why is this not applicable to any other religion? How much of what you describe is just cultural interpretations and not necessarily connected to Islam?
October 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Why is this not applicable to any other religion? How much of what you describe is just cultural interpretations and not necessarily connected to Islam?
What does it mean to break that pledge? What do you think Sharia means and why would it necessarily be incompatible with the constitution to such a degree that you would ask folks of another religion to sign such a pledge?
October 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
What does it mean to break that pledge? What do you think Sharia means and why would it necessarily be incompatible with the constitution to such a degree that you would ask folks of another religion to sign such a pledge?
It’s actually more taxing to manage all these instances as I find that keeping the agent on the right track and giving it the correct feedback requires more focus than programming did even before. I suspect much of this is because code review is harder than writing code.
September 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It’s actually more taxing to manage all these instances as I find that keeping the agent on the right track and giving it the correct feedback requires more focus than programming did even before. I suspect much of this is because code review is harder than writing code.
Regardless, putting this out there less as something I will do and more as an idea someone else can play around with.
September 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Regardless, putting this out there less as something I will do and more as an idea someone else can play around with.
Lastly combat is decided by a mix of manufacturing capacity and stockpiles. As players complete purchase orders for Arc Corp, their factory ships lose production capacity making them easier to beat in combat but players need stockpiles of goods such as food too.
September 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Lastly combat is decided by a mix of manufacturing capacity and stockpiles. As players complete purchase orders for Arc Corp, their factory ships lose production capacity making them easier to beat in combat but players need stockpiles of goods such as food too.
War: Once players have a manufacturing capacity that exceeds Arc Corp, they can trigger a war for independence. The players work to defeat Arc Corp’s navy in space. The players who does the most to defeat Arc Corp becomes the leader of the independence movement and wins the game.
September 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
War: Once players have a manufacturing capacity that exceeds Arc Corp, they can trigger a war for independence. The players work to defeat Arc Corp’s navy in space. The players who does the most to defeat Arc Corp becomes the leader of the independence movement and wins the game.
The game has 2 phases:
- Deindustrialization: Arc Corp will regularly file purchase orders that players try to complete. As players try to complete them, Arc Corp’s manufacturing capacity decreases as it outsources more of it to the void cities.
- Deindustrialization: Arc Corp will regularly file purchase orders that players try to complete. As players try to complete them, Arc Corp’s manufacturing capacity decreases as it outsources more of it to the void cities.
September 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The game has 2 phases:
- Deindustrialization: Arc Corp will regularly file purchase orders that players try to complete. As players try to complete them, Arc Corp’s manufacturing capacity decreases as it outsources more of it to the void cities.
- Deindustrialization: Arc Corp will regularly file purchase orders that players try to complete. As players try to complete them, Arc Corp’s manufacturing capacity decreases as it outsources more of it to the void cities.
Techniques like shadow mode testing, and feature flagged rollouts are invaluable for this.
August 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Techniques like shadow mode testing, and feature flagged rollouts are invaluable for this.
Obviously there are all sorts of issues with this. One being that it’s an oversimplification of how this process goes, another being that this is not a sequential process and that these waves happen concurrently throughout the economy. But I think there is value in this lens.
August 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Obviously there are all sorts of issues with this. One being that it’s an oversimplification of how this process goes, another being that this is not a sequential process and that these waves happen concurrently throughout the economy. But I think there is value in this lens.
4. The fourth wave is the broad cultural changes induced by the institutions created by a technology. For railways, this would be the importance of time zones in our daily lives.
August 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
4. The fourth wave is the broad cultural changes induced by the institutions created by a technology. For railways, this would be the importance of time zones in our daily lives.
3. The third wave which happens concurrently with the second is the development of institutions to broadly deploy the technology. These are bureaucracies and cultures built around the technology itself. Examples that I can think of with regard to railways are CNR, and Union Pacific
August 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
3. The third wave which happens concurrently with the second is the development of institutions to broadly deploy the technology. These are bureaucracies and cultures built around the technology itself. Examples that I can think of with regard to railways are CNR, and Union Pacific
2. The second wave is the application of the technology to problems of a similar structure. For example, steam engines being ultimately used for railroads. This is the application of the productivity gain across the economy.
August 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
2. The second wave is the application of the technology to problems of a similar structure. For example, steam engines being ultimately used for railroads. This is the application of the productivity gain across the economy.
1. The first wave is the first order impact of the technology, this is usually a productivity gain applied to a very particular problem. For example, the first steam engine AFAIK was employed for the specific purpose of hauling resources from deep within a mine to the exit of the mine.
August 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
1. The first wave is the first order impact of the technology, this is usually a productivity gain applied to a very particular problem. For example, the first steam engine AFAIK was employed for the specific purpose of hauling resources from deep within a mine to the exit of the mine.
While I agree with this for “in between major areas”, I do think self driving cars are exciting as a solution for the last mile problem.
August 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
While I agree with this for “in between major areas”, I do think self driving cars are exciting as a solution for the last mile problem.