GMoromisato

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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
The other unrealistic part is the absence of ads.
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
If you're writing a personal blog (as opposed to a company blog), you should not care what people think. A blog is an expression of your own taste. Write about things that interest you . Write in a style that you like. Add whatever
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
I don't think the Stephen Hawkings example is compelling. No one argues against AI for transcription or to help paralyzed people communicate. Stephen Hawkings still wrote every word of his book. But it does raise the question: what if
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm, trolling, or delusion, so congrats, I guess. SpaceX might fail for any number of reasons in the next ten years, but I would bet a lot of money that it won't be because they got outcompeted by Skyro
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
I agree with you. And sadly, there's nothing we can do about it because it's an arms race. People will try to exploit loopholes to get more benefits and companies will try to prevent exploits--sometimes by making the service worse
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
I know it's just me, but whenever I see "AI was used" it sounds like "a word processor was used" back in the 80s. I remember all those poorly designed but laser-printed papers with clashing typefaces and ugly clip a
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
The problem is that there's no guarantee that extraction errors will always end up as outliers. Instead, outliers are merely the errors that are easiest to find. <Insert bullet-ridden bomber image here>
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
I know I'm a weirdo, but I've been posting under my own name since the 90s. I guess I always figured that nobody gives a shit who I am.
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
If someone were to ask me, which I notice they're not, I'd say uni-context is just another word for "globalization". Specifically, the globalization caused by technological change, including the internet, but also standa
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
Maybe you've never been in a codebase that overloads the comma operator.
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
That's fair, but I was responding to the claim that you don't need to make a trade off. If that were true, then Haskell would be much more popular. Clearly there's a trade off or else everyone would just use Haskell.
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
I agree with you. Though I wonder if the divide is more about the size of the program. I've got a couple of large (>100K LoC) solo projects and I like using C++ because it is much easier to catch bugs at compile time. Static typing
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
Of course you feel this way. You just finished reading SICP or maybe you binged PG essays last weekend. But eventually you'll read Simon Peyton Jones and start screaming about functional programming and algebraic type systems. Then, if
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
Haskell is currently at #18 in LangPop: https://langpop.com/rankings Almost by definition that implies that it makes some trade-offs that turn off lots of programmers. Still more popular than Lisp, though.
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
I agree that the new UX is confusing and ill-designed. A UI is supposed to help the user develop a mental model for what's happening under the covers. But what's happening when you switch from ChatGPT Work to ChatGPT Codex? If I s
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
That's a great essay--thanks. And you have a good point. Maybe it's a weakness in the metaphor if one can see it either way. I fundamentally believe that there is no perfect language, instead one merely chooses a set of trade-offs
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
Maybe machine language is the formless chaos and Lisp is the purest manifestation of order. All other languages are points in between.
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by GMoromisato 3mo ago
Programming is in tension between the Light Side and the Dark Side. The Light Side is about preventing the programmer from making mistakes: Get rid of go-tos! Add static types! Do not allow a bug to be expressible. The Dark Side is about gi
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by GMoromisato 4mo ago
Agreed. In addition, the purpose of games is to entertain players, not to provide jobs for developers.
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by GMoromisato 4mo ago
Agreed! Both sides said that "America sucks right now". I think Trump said "Let's go back to when America was great" whereas liberals said, "America was never great, so we need to keep changing." Worse, it
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by GMoromisato 4mo ago
That's a different argument. You agree that space data centers are physically possible, but you just don't think they will be economical (i.e., cheaper than terrestrial data centers). Is that right? I don't know if they will
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by GMoromisato 4mo ago
I'm not sure I get it. Obviously, computers can work in space--a Starlink satellite is basically a computer with a radio attached. Satellites use radiators for cooling without violating any laws of physics. I assume you think that Spac
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by GMoromisato 4mo ago
They're just quoting it but typo'ed the > I was confused at first too.
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by GMoromisato 4mo ago
And that's my point: Your answers are far more interesting than Ian Bogost's throwaway assertion that America just wasn't ambitious enough and that aircraft engineering peaked with the 747.
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by GMoromisato 4mo ago
Ironically, it's this ritual self-flagellation that helped elect Trump. Normies lost faith in the media partly because they were seen as not really loving America. And if you don't trust the media, then it's a lot easier to b
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by GMoromisato 4mo ago
What I find silly is the certainty that critics have that SpaceX will fail. No one can predict the future, and it's absolutely possible that orbital datacenters will fail (either for technology or business reasons). But: 1. Without a
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by GMoromisato 4mo ago
You should read the book, if you're interested. From the book (p.84): "Time and time again there appears in print the logical but false assumption that Boeing took its losing military C-5 bid and revamped it as the commercial 747.
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by GMoromisato 4mo ago
Just off the top of my head, I can come up with a dozen American accomplishments that would have blown the minds of 747 engineers: The Internet Hubble Space Telescope Google Deep Blue beating Kasparov iPhone Human Genome Project F-22/B
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by GMoromisato 4mo ago
I agree with you, and I would have expected Ian Bogost to take a more holistic view. Talking about why, for example, Boeing never build a larger passenger airplane, or why the Concorde is no longer flying, would actually make for an interes
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by GMoromisato 4mo ago
I'm curious about this--wouldn't one expect more engines to be safer? Unless having more engines increases the chance of certain kinds of accidents? Like maybe the chance of an engine failure damaging the hull goes up with more en

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