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by antonvs 3mo ago
Do you think that matters?
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Your analogy is perfect, because you can self-host your own “Uber”, by owning, renting, or leasing a car and using it to drive yourself around. Uber may have become more expensive, but cars didn’t go away or see less use.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
I don’t get this idea that AI will go away at some point. We’ll still have all the self-hostable models even if there are no newly trained models for a while. There will be companies that make money hosting those and selling tokens at a pro
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by antonvs 3mo ago
"Usual, proper, necessary, or normal" for what purpose? For data centers, none of those adjectives are being exceeded, so it's not excessive. Ireland is not using more power to run its data centers than anywhere else is, for
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Exactly. The people criticizing the rewrite for the most part are just trying to exert power from the wrong end of a parasocial relationship. And then they get upset when no-one takes them seriously.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> You know Github sucks, right? You say that as though it somehow justifies the comment. Github employees are just that: employees, of one of the biggest companies on Earth. Someone who would call them "monkeys" is telling us t
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by antonvs 3mo ago
None of your statements give objective conclusions, unless one accepts as premises the implicit value judgments and other subjective assessments they depend on. It shouldn't surprise you to know that there are people who disagree with
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> The product of software engineering (or computer science) is clarity and understanding. Not programs, by themselves. The industry demonstrates that in practice, typically, it doesn’t agree with this. “Get the program working” is goal 1
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Ok, tell me how you're an "avid digital archaeologist" and you're not aware of what I'm about to tell you. The original Lisp as designed by John McCarthy was interpreted. That became Lisp 1.5, which ran on several m
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Why do you believe that is at all relevant?
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by antonvs 3mo ago
The characterization as “excessive” is subjective. If you disagree, what are your objective criteria for making that claim? You fundamentally can’t give a correct answer to that, because it requires defining a threshold, and that’s subjecti
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Neither of your examples shows “economic value being created”.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Do Ireland's data centers objectively "guzzle" electricity? I don't have any problem with The Register, but reporting laden with value-judging adjectives is not objective.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> depending on where you draw the line between fine intelligence and stochastic parrots. I'm always amused by this argument. "Stochastic parrot" is pretty much what most humans are, most of the time. I suppose you could ad
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by antonvs 3mo ago
When I read this, there was a comment right below yours saying that they bet the military had LLMs in the 1980s. Consider your point proved.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
The nice thing about there only being one capitalist is that it’ll be easy for the rest of us to deal with him.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
No-one is “colonizing space”, you’re just being conned by a man who figured out he can make a lot of money by convincing people that such fantasies could be real. The US spends up to $4 billion a year just to keep a few people alive on the
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by antonvs 3mo ago
I agree, I was referring to powerful type systems.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Having worked professionally with Common Lisp, I can tell you that’s not even remotely true. Besides, “machine code generation” is not a fundamental part of Lisp. Some of the most famous implementations were pure interpreters.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> I could believe that type systems aren't particularly strong as an anti-bug layer. They're absolutely huge for this, but you have to write code to take advantage of the guarantees that the type system can offer. As Yaron Mins
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> But hey, if LLMs are what drove this person from Haskell to Lisp then all the power to them! I didn't see Lisp mentioned in the article. They moved to Python. Which is certainly a choice.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Part of the issue is probably that Haskell build performance is perfectly fine for local development, even on rather large systems. But in commercial production environments, CI pipelines tend to want to build everything from scratch every
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> "At Scarf, we started doing all new API work in Python." Start the countdown timer for how long it takes them to discover that was a mistake. Nothing to do with Haskell, but good grief, LLMs do not in any way, shape or form s
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by antonvs 3mo ago
Oh does that explain why Priceline has started quoting prices including fees and taxes up front?
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by antonvs 3mo ago
The page you need to look at is GDP per capita: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... …which lists India as #148, below countries like Zimbabwe, Haiti, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Palestine.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
She committed the ultimate sin: pointing out what a CEO was actually doing.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> That will cost them more in the long run. Only if customers don’t care about your labor practices. For me this story screams “Don’t Use or Recommend Atlassian - in fact, strongly advise against it.”
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> Atlassian said it planned to appeal the ruling To me this reads as: Atlassian says it doesn’t want customers. Happy to oblige. Our $100 million startup moved off Atlassian recently, and we couldn’t be happier.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
A lot of companies have 1 on 1s weekly.
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by antonvs 3mo ago
> First year CS student ...who somehow hasn't yet learned the importance of citing sources? Any and all criticism is deserved.

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