AdieuToLogic

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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> Not if an LLM writes your code. I get thousands of lines of high quality Rust per day without ever stepping into VScode. LSPs are orthogonal to both LLMs and VSCode. For example, see Metals[0]. 0 - https://metals-lsp.org&#x2
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> I don't often have to write frontend code, but when I do, there is very little in terms of interactivity you cannot do with HTML these days, worst case a little sprinkle of something like HTMX. And for some front-end form field va
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> Windows/386, and later 3.x and 9x, was a virtual machine monitor that could run 16-bit operating systems with 32-bit drivers. Those were not "DOS-based Windows". If your position is Windows/386 et al were OSs which
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
A friend of mine years ago told me, "given enough time, every programming language will evolve into a LISP[0]." I laughed at the thought in the moment and now understand the wisdom shared with me. 0 - https://en.wikiped
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
Regarding generics (a.k.a. "templates"): > However, the original announcement makes the intent of the project clear: "Not yet", not "never". They were always planned to be accepted into Go. This is an excee
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> "May well be added at some point" it said and added they were at some point. That is a very selective quote which does not reflect the context I provided. So I will extract a selective quote which negates the above: We ha
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> It can do that. As the old saying goes; just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it. > I think that the "use Postgres for everything" messaging was a necessity, even if it is overstated. Use
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> Generics were always planned, of course ... This is provably incorrect. The position held for many years by the language authors was[0]: Generics may well be added at some point. We don't feel an urgency for them, although
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
Sometimes to scale is "continue to satisfy SLAs as service usage increases" and other times to scale is "successfully evolve functional capabilities over time." While the GP may have been referencing the former, embracin
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> I didn't mean to imply there was something "less" about the talent creating the DOS-based Windows OS. I think it's a marvel of engineering for economy and constraints. "DOS-based Windows" was not an OS. It
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> Generic methods are a huge win for the language. I've been waiting on these kinds of improvements to the type system ... It's funny that you and many others have found the introduction of "generics" in Go to be high
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
>> formerly known as OS-X > It was never OS-X, it was OS X ... If my worst sin is an introduction of a hyphen, then I can live with that.
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
Speaking of debuggers... I still twitch whenever someone says "use ddd" and they are not referring to Evans' seminal work. :-D
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> One thing that scares me a little is whether there are younger developers, say, 25-40, who can and want to pick up the mantle of Windows internals gurus. A similar "brain drain" has occurred in macOS (formerly known as OS-X)
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> I've worked on expert systems. I also have worked on/with expert systems. > I don't agree that they achieve "simulated intelligence". They're preprogrammed with a set of domain-specific rules that are t
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> The only nondeterminism in LLMs is parallelism-dependency in the way floating point operations are carried out and in the decoding strategy This assertion is "oddly" similar to the GPT answer "neural network inference de
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
See also: Foundations of Large Language Models[0] 0 - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.09223v2
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> Intelligence can result from learned behavior, but not from explicit programming of rules by humans. This is incorrect. Simulated intelligence can and has been encoded explicitly by humans defining rules programmatically in the form of
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle but I don't see why so many people consider LLMs innately non-deterministic ... Because LLMs are artificial neural networks[0] (ANN), which are statistical in nature, and thus intrinsi
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by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
The more semantically rich a programming language, the more it demands mathematical veracity. The more a language is mathematically sound, the more its linguistic constructs converge to enforce same. Programming languages which follow this
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
Software abstractions are a reification of problem domain understanding. They embody a solution within the mathematical constraints of a programming language such that the collaborations, when done properly, appropriately reflect said under
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> So you do or do not believe video evidence of a vehicle leaving a crime scene should be investigated? I have expressed what I believe. The question you now pose is a strawman argument[0] unrelated to the subject of stolen license plate
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
Very cool poem! Here is one I wrote a while back, unrelated to LLMs, yet a poem none the less. The Rhythm of Time The Sun rises, The Sun sets. Have I checked the mail? No, not just yet. The Sun rises, The Sun sets. Ha
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
I probably can't. I concede, you win, and please do not feel obliged to respond. I wish you well in your path in life.
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> Must be a misunderstanding here. No worries, textual communications do not convey the nuances verbal conversation can provide, so misunderstandings are inevitable. > It might be easier if you just stated your actual view instead of
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
>> What I described is a realistic activity criminals do in order to disguise their identity. > I've never read about this happening. A simple web search[0] can elucidate the matter. 0 - https://duckduckgo.com/
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
>> First, I never implied disallowing analysis at a crime scene > You weren't implying that video evidence of a car should be off-limits to the police? No, I did not. A car is not a crime scene. Neither is "video evidence
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> Almost no day-to-day policing is done with warrants! Just because I feel bad for taking advantage of the above statement, here is a snippet from "Warrants in U.S. Law: The Ultimate Guide": Imagine your home is your castle
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> Almost no day-to-day policing is done with warrants! By this logic, there is no need for "day-to-day policing" to have warrants for: - phone taps - SMS messages - GPS history - email - banking information - just
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
>>>> Abuse by police officers and other individuals with access to these systems is the answer to the stupid but common question "why should I worry about surveillance if I have nothing to hide". >>> I never h

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