DarkNova6

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by DarkNova6 12d ago
It's like paying for cable back in the day but you also get ads. The sheer audacity they think they can get away with because they consider themselves having a monopoly.
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by DarkNova6 12d ago
I think LLMs are the single best things that were invented to make mathematics accessible. I loved mathematics when I was young and wanted to be good at it, but I got burnt so many times by teachers who could not explain even if their life
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by DarkNova6 15d ago
If there is no legal guarantee that human creativity can pay off we are starving art and humanity from its inception. If ordinary people cannot participate in the act of creation, you get exactly what hollywood has become. Sorry, but this r
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by DarkNova6 17d ago
Believe it or not but the american system isn’t exact a blueprint for actual democracy. Many democratic systems don‘t make the election of the president a vote.
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by DarkNova6 18d ago
Yeah. Why use a statically typed reliable language with a good ecosystem if I can also vibecode in Python.
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
Project Valhalla is not a JEP, it's a collection of JEPs and this is just the very first one. Flattening has been the goal from the start, but it's simply not something that's delivered in this JEP. But even so, people should
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
The tradeoff being that tearing is what enables flattening. So if you truly want the best performance (cache lines etc.) you must enable it. But whether your data’s integrity can be broken by such must be decided by the class author.
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
Yes, this was the idiom in the 90s, but Escape Analysis has not proven to be powerful enough to optimize away identity. And looking at all the edge-cases and possible data-races via tearing, declaring something as a value must be an explici
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
Good technical overview, and I fully agree with the conclusion's sentiment at the end: ``` Declaring a value class is first and foremost a semantic decision. It tells our fellow programmers that its instances are defined entirely by th
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
Which EU countries do you talk about? Because I've never seen anything like this
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
I was hoping for an alternative to PLSQL or stored procedures. But this isn’t about „Database Programming“, it’s a SQL replacement…
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
It looks like the HN hug of death has found a new victim
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
At this point it is not a question of whether this will happen but only when. Next to digital currencies and the yuan, Trump has successfully killed the Petrodollar. The free influx of money, and particularly investor money that gave the US
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
"Most of us" is a pretty bold claim.
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
This is bullshit. The vast majority of CO2 is created by energy production. The problem is systemic and blaming other people for their lifestyle choices is neither effective nor helpful and just leads to further division. It's exactly
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
I never understood this argument. With Oil & Gas you release green house gases that have been sealed away back into the air. For methane produced by farming all components remain in a cycle. Everything released by animals eventually fin
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
I'd say: A good abstraction is a formal and abstract statement about the nature of the underlying (sub)system. It is self consistent and allows an easier way to reason and interact with greater complexity underneath. And the more you s
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
The problem is primarily social. When code is cheap and entry barriers don't exist, how do you filter what is valuable? For private projects, being able to code things quickly is a godsent. Also for professional environments with clear
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
Having basic defensive programming, some simple classes instead of dicts everywhere and avoiding n+1 is a "different world"?
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
You misunderstand. And that is exactly the problem. We did do that and that's why our queries ended up being several lines long. But if you missed just one model? You openly walk a knife again. It's a mess and it only gets longer
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
I seriously don't get why Django ORM is using the Active Record pattern. This is such a stupid footgun that trivially causes horrible performance and BEGS you to cause n+1 problems. Never in my life did I have a problem with lazy loadi
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
I'm referring to the formal usage of the term "distillation", instead of the informal one that refers to training it on any data as a whole. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/nlp/what-is-llm-distillation&#x2F
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
You mean the asian models which just distilled American ones? I'm happy Mistral is doing their own ground up research. SOTA frontier models are a commodity with little room for second places. Mistral is playing the smart money on verti
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
I don't understand this obsession with clear cut categorization. Systems always have a human component and while we like to collectively deny this fact from a tech-sphere, there are always humans that will make the final call and if an
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
I don't get it. I thought the advantage is that you have a client as a library with integrated auth & other tech stuff handled so you can just focus on using the API? Because otherwise you could just use REST with basic endpoint co
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
This sounds like a more elaborate version of Whataboutism.
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
I'd like to think that it's twice as good as a one-party system.
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
Indeed. The true irony behind the Dunning Kruger Effect is that the pop culture understanding of it is essentially describing itself. Showing overconfidence in areas that you have little clue about.
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
I think it keeps going back to "preserving type invariants". Turning an object into a value can have surprising constraints on the integrity of the type. These include: forced empty constructor (for bulk initialiation in arrays),
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
I left Swift and SwiftUi behind be 5 years ago when I switched jobs. I had fond memories and always eyed going back. What were the emerging problems that you talk about? I am actually curious because I was quite fond of the DevEx

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