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by 0xpgm 7mo ago
A good reason is that Lisp has almost no syntax. So it can act as a neutral language that is easy to learn for developers from other languages.
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by 0xpgm 8mo ago
There is such a thing as a distinct LLM writing style that is not just good structure. Anyone who's read more than five books can tell that. And the comment itself seems completely LLM generated.
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by 0xpgm 9mo ago
Is there such a thing as a modern Linux stack? Isn't it by design that linux has many optional components and one can pick and choose as they desire to create their distribution?
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by 0xpgm 9mo ago
I guess it happens when engineers stop driving decisions and the finance people take over. Won't be too good for the company's valuation if people can access the content elsewhere. I guess that's why Discord is also locked do
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by 0xpgm 9mo ago
To me, it's better than spending months of your free time grinding leetcode to get past an interview (everyone wants to hire like FAANG now). You get a small reward in return if the contribution is accepted and you get to contribute to
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Eventual Rust in CPython(lwn.net)
3 points by 0xpgm 9mo ago|1 comments
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by 0xpgm 9mo ago
I don't think they intend to supplant cPython, but to make it easier for someone to take a piece of software written in high-productivity Python and make it more performant on specialized hardware by using a similar syntax. Long term i
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by 0xpgm 9mo ago
Eating your own dogfood is good validation.
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by 0xpgm 9mo ago
I think it's part of the "AI replacing software developers" hype. Many beginners or aspiring developers swallow this whole and simply point an AI to a problem and submit the generated slop to maintainers.
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Oral History of Richard Greenblatt (2005) [pdf](archive.computerhistory.org)
18 points by 0xpgm 10mo ago|0 comments
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by 0xpgm 10mo ago
I believe just as human experts do peer review, someone will need to review the AI's work. The people who do this review will have to know enough to follow along.
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by 0xpgm 10mo ago
And their cited example was students. I think students would struggle at something new until they 'get it'. Would a software developer who does FPGA development professionally struggle more than, say, a hardware engineer?
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by 0xpgm 11mo ago
In my mind this highlights something I've been thinking about, the differences between FOSS influenced by corporate needs vs FOSS driven by the hacker community. FOSS driven by hackers is about increasing and maintaining support (old a
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by 0xpgm 11mo ago
So clearly there's only one correct answer here? Which is what the ffmpeg folks are driving at
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by 0xpgm 11mo ago
I for now prefer to stick to whatever the default is from the python packaging crew and standard library i.e. `python -m venv` and `pip install` inside of it. Python for me is great when things can remain as simple to wrap your head around
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by 0xpgm 1y ago
Still waiting to see how the VC-funded company behind Uv will make money. Before that, I wouldn't want to be too dependent on it.
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by 0xpgm 1y ago
I agree. Google killed off a perfectly good product (Google+) just because it could not compete with Facebook. I and a few others still remember the site fondly, and it had the best UX of any social media service I've used since.
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by 0xpgm 1y ago
So, what great new products or startups have these amazing coding agents helped create so far (and not on the AI supply side). Anywhere to check?
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by 0xpgm 1y ago
I'm with Luke Smith [1] when it comes to non-copyleft licenses like MIT. Andrew Tanenbaum of the MINIX fame was similarly surprised to find that Intel had quietly included the OS he wrote in Intel chips, making it perhaps the most wide
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by 0xpgm 1y ago
> “The truth is, if you want a job, you’re gonna go through this thing,” Adam Jackson, CEO and founder of Braintrust, a company that distributes AI interviewers, tells Fortune. “If there were a large portion of the job-seeking community
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by 0xpgm 1y ago
> The Firefox Multi-Account Containers feature, in my opinion, is what puts this browser at the top. For a long time this was the reason I didn't move to Brave, but eventually I realized I don't need it so much because Brave al
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by 0xpgm 1y ago
> Dedicated hardware? I doubt that we’ll ever see that again, although of course I could be wrong. Since we're now building specialized hardware for AI, emergence of languages like Mojo that take advantage of hardware architecture a
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by 0xpgm 1y ago
Your comment is quite subjective, and Python's popularity both in teaching and in industry would suggest otherwise.
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by 0xpgm 1y ago
Isn't that every new employee? The first few months you are not expected to be firing on all cylinders as you catch up and adjust to company norms An intern is much more valuable than AI in the sense that everyone makes micro decisions
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by 0xpgm 1y ago
It's about to change to doing more with less headcount and higher AI spend
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by 0xpgm 1y ago
What is the difference between treating CS as an engineering discipline vs a branch of applied math?
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by 0xpgm 1y ago
Comments by people with more points to their name are (or at least used to be) promoted higher, which naturally leads to more upvotes. So there's still an element of who says it that matters
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by 0xpgm 1y ago
At least in the case of Snap, I felt that Canonical itself played a role in making it dominant in Ubuntu so that they could control the ecosystem. Personally I use AppImage whenever it's an option. It's the closest we get to Windo
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
Clean code has lots of useful tips and techniques. When people are criticizing it they pick a concept from one or two pages out the hundreds and use it to dismiss the whole book. This is a worse mistake than introducing concepts that may be
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by 0xpgm 2y ago
I agree, that is a pretty good feature. You start feeling good when the data saved is in the gigabytes and time saved viewing ads is in the hours

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