> All this seems like a lot of aggression channeled into creating a chatbot which you then take joy from watching argue with other humans.

OP used the terms "battle scars" unironically... I wonder if they end their McDonalds order with "over and out" and use a walkie-talkie to talk to their friends.

I hope OP has friends.

Input: I will punch my boss in the face

Output: I’ve decided to proactively initiate a high-impact, face-to-face physical intervention to disrupt my current leadership paradigm and pivot toward a more hands-on approach to conflict resolution.

We have achieved (k)agi.

Julia is great ... if you are willing to work with the Goldilocks zone it provides.

I think what happened is this: Julia got advertised as "Python syntax, C speed" but in practice it turns out to really be "Python syntax, 50% of C speed if you were willing to avoid some semi-well-documented gotchas, where avoiding said gotchas will take some non-trivial effort". Again, great if you are willing to work with it.

I am not saying that the Julia people are responsible for the "Python syntax, C speed" perception as much as that was what the prevalent perception became. And

I have talked to people in computational biology who tried Julia, and they said something or the other similar to "It just wasn't performant enough for me to give up Python," and if you really dig in, what really happened was when new people tried Julia with old mental models, they walked away thinking, "Heh, more MIT hypeware."

Polyglot Jet Finding:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17309

This paper in experimental high-energy physics is a good example of why Julia is popular for scientific calculations.

It shows that #julialang is over 100 times faster than Python and even faster than C++.

So, my original comment really boils down to the idea that "public perception has nothing to do with objective stats". To which your response is ... citing a paper at me.

To reiterate, citing studies that show that smoking causes cancer in chain smokers does ... nothing. You are citing studies, but I am not the chain smoker; I am just the guy talking about chain smokers.

One more time, I wish we lived in a world where public perception was swayed by objective studies, but we don't.

Julia is fast, yes, but when a university sys-admin rolls their eyes at hearing its name, you have lost the battle for well and good.

well I've been reaching 100% of c Speed Most of the time which feels like an easy effort... I guess it depends on the problem a bit and how used you're to writing optimized, clean Julia code

> it seems to me there are enough american job seekers in CS to justify not needing H1B.

Anecdotal so hold on to your salt but in my social circle here in the US natural-born US citizens vs visa-holders self-select for types of jobs. For example, if my the starting pay is < $80k most of my natural-born American friends don't bother applying. Whereas, my visa-holding friends routinely go well below $50k when searching for jobs or "2 year internships". So, when a company posts a certain type of a job they have a certain demographic in mind already.

Not saying my US friends are uppity as much as visa holders are desperate.

I suppose that is "in the tech field" too, as non-tech people would be happy with an $80K job where a lot are under $50K

I will say my first tech job was $40K and now I have to have a six-fig job just because of my debt.

> I suppose that is "in the tech field" too, as non-tech people would be happy with an $80K job where a lot are under $50K

Indeed. The median salary in America for full time employment is a little over $63K.

Edit: if the message from H1B folk earning $300k+ to voters who earn $63k on average[1] is "You need our superior intellects, you uneducated rubes", then its unlikely to be well-received, especially at a time when blaming foreigners is in vogue.

1. Or a laid-off American tech worker

> as visa holders are desperate

That is the point of most of these programs. If we (as a country) do h1b, those people should be on an automatic path to a green card.

Why? They are obviously being weaponized to suppress wages for native Americans in an environment where tech leaders were saying "learn to code". I think the H1B needs to be cancelled and companies should incur financial penalties for using foreign labor to undercut American workers.

Making h1b an automatic track to a green card (partially) removes the ability for employers to exploit employees on an h1b.

Hiring American workers at current market wages avoids this problem entirely.