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by 9rx 11mo ago
And off-by-one errors.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> I'm conflicted That's why I chose that specific example! What fun would there be in you not having to think about it?
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> The product name is not expected to describe what the product is. There are some exceptions, but the agriculture machinery industry has actually gotten pretty good at making the names useful, with reasonable consistency across brands
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by 9rx 11mo ago
If you didn't already know, what do you think a tool called a "combine" does? Combine things? Nope. Its purpose is to separate things... Its not just the software industry.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> The purpose of software for other people is not to make them go 'wow'; it's to help them with their jobs to be done. Aside from where you've only duplicated something that already exists (in which case why bother?
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by 9rx 11mo ago
People are building DBMSes and, instead of writing the engine from scratch, are choosing an off-the-shelf solution that integrates into a DBMS with ease. A better question to ask is why the world needs yet another DBMS, but the reasons are
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Unfortunately, also in academia you cannot just do what interests you, unless you got unlimited funding somehow. Okay, but you cannot be both in academia and accepting someone else's funding to work on their problems at the same
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> The same is not true for an LLM. Incorrect. LLMs are designed to be deterministic (when temperature=0). Only if you choose for them to be non-deterministic are they so. Which is no different in the case of GCC. You can add all kinds
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by 9rx 11mo ago
It says "more like", not "like". Javascript now performs more like a statically-typed language, as one example. That wasn't always the case. It used to be painfully slow — and was so when Go was created. The chasm b
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by 9rx 11mo ago
No need to outsource words. If I wanted to converse with Leapcell, I'd go to him directly. Especially when it doesn't even begin to address the concern. The disconnect is not in where Go generics are limited, but where you find th
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by 9rx 11mo ago
I don't see the difficulty here. The slice is to be thought of as value type, as demonstrated in the C version. Just like in C, you can return it from a function without the heap because it is copied.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> There is no way you don't know what vibecoding is. I'm old. I don't keep up with the kids. Maybe the kids have changed what a compiler is too. Is that the point of contention here? If so, that's pretty silly. When
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> You are trying to assert this equivalence to ultimately assert a similar equivalence between vibecoding and software engineering. I don't know what vibecoding is, but from past context and your arbitrary thoughts about about usi
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Which dynamically-typed language would you select for that?
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by 9rx 11mo ago
The semantics are clearly defined as being the same as the C code I posted earlier. Why would one try to complicate the situation by thinking that it would somehow magically change sometimes?
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> of course market cap of housing went down! individual houses fell down in price. Traditionally, market cap only refers to companies. I accept your pet definition that includes any kind of market, but then we can apply it to the softw
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by 9rx 11mo ago
"Went" is a curious turn of phrase, but I take it to mean that you used an LLM on someone else's hardware of unknown origin? How are you ensuring that said hardware isn't faulty? It is a known condition. After all, I alr
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> This seems to be a persistent source of confusion. Why? It is the same as in C. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> struct slice { int *data; size_t len; size_t cap; }; s
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Except the Go's implementation is not as capable as Java's one. I have no idea what you think is on the other side of that exception. Please clarify.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Why read comments in isolation? We already went over this: - Rapid price appreciation - Speculation - A disconnect from fundamentals - Widespread media attention - An eventual correction If market cap, how do you explain housing bubbles? Ma
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Works perfectly fine for me. Did you do that stupid HN thing where you failed to read the entire comment and then went off to try it on faulty hardware?
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by 9rx 11mo ago
An LLM will also give the same output for the same input when the temperature is zero[1]. It only becomes non-deterministic if you choose for it to be. Which is the same for a C compiler. You can choose to add as many random conditionals as
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Looks like the opposite of generics. Go's generics story is intrinsically linked to Java. It was the Java team that told the Go team to not implement generics until they were perfectly satisfied with the solution, and it was the same g
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by 9rx 11mo ago
The point of laws is to document what everyone in a community has come to agree on, assuming a democracy. Or, in a dictatorship, what the dear leader has decided upon. Any punishments encoded into those laws may serve as a counter-incentive
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> You are trying to assert an equivalence between compilers and AI systems that simply does not exist. The equivalence is between typing out what you want and having a machine produce code from that and compilers. Call that "AI sy
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> the labour market has not much to do with whether it is a bubble or not How can the very market we're talking about not indicate whether there is a bubble in that market or not? Do you think we should be looking at the price of
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> If a compiler counts as AI then so does literally every other program out there (at least the ones with well-defined inputs and outputs). You seem to be missing some context. We were talking about a system that takes a typed descript
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Determining whether there is an actual labor shortage is pretty difficult. Using the technical definition, it's actually pretty easy. There is also a colloquial definition. But under the colloquial definition it is not just pret
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> The government has laws saying people under 16 can't drive cars We did, though. The chances of getting caught were slim to nil. Will kids (and adults for that matter) have the same easy opportunity to evade enforcement here?
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> How do you prove that software development is a bubble? By looking at the software development market. How else would you do it? Salaries rose sharply from 2020-2023, but then plateaued and are now starting to decline. Slowly, however.

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