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by blunte 5y ago
AI may improve in many ways, but it will never reliably be able to infer what the user is wanting... because many users will not even be able to accurately define the problem. It's a catch-22. If you can express accurately your need (
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by blunte 5y ago
The AI coding approach is solving the wrong problem. The problem isn't with the low level detailed work. That problem should be solved by building composable, tested, audited libraries. Legos, if you will. If the problem is trivial
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by blunte 5y ago
I wanted to like PM and became a visionary subscriber years ago. But I left after painfully discovering that their web client (which was the only option at that time) was just not built for busy inboxes. Even today, many of the original p
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by blunte 5y ago
I am not a fan of slowing something down, but in the multi-method dispatch example, unless it was being exercised in a tight loop (which would seem very much like a single thread CPU bound scenario which is already a problem), then it would
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by blunte 5y ago
How? Do you mean how do I know it's slow? Because it takes longer to run. Write a typical computation such as Fibonacci in Java and Erlang/Elixir and compare. Fortunately someone has already done this. Elixir is 3x slower than
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by blunte 5y ago
People go nuts here on HN if they think you said something bad about their baby. I said per-thread, but I meant single-thread... as in CPU bound single process activity. That is undisputedly slow compared to languages like Java, C/C++
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by blunte 5y ago
Does performance matter considering Elixir is already very slow in per-thread performance?
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by blunte 5y ago
If one party edits a legal document before signing it, and then the other party doesn't read it before accepting it, then that is on the receiver. This tactic is used by lawyers on each other all the time. It's not fraud.
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by blunte 5y ago
Who contributes most to politicians - individuals, or corporations and PACs funded by non-listed corps? And actually, who writes a significant part of new bills, some of which become laws? Yes, corps. It's not surprising then that th
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by blunte 5y ago
Interesting that India has several cities which have rain during 40+C temps. Unless it is cooling significantly and raining only at night, that must be like living in a steam sauna.
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by blunte 5y ago
I had no idea that terminals and Rust projects were such highly charged emotional territory, nor that either were danger zones which commonly ate your time, your money, or your attention. Kind of seemed to me like just another project. I gu
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by blunte 5y ago
I didn't downvote you, but it's certainly fine to pass on something you think is a fad. It's another thing to jump directly to the end of the emotion spectrum by saying "hard no". My comment wasn't about skip
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by blunte 5y ago
If you “hard no” so easily, then what else may you be missing out on?
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by blunte 5y ago
What terminal are you using that crashes so often? I’ve used Linux and Mac terminals for ages and cannot remember one terminal crash.
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by blunte 5y ago
Yes, also like Twitter in that the headline/tweet without substance is adequate for most people these days. This is one reason why social media has been such a successful part of political disinformation campaigns.
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by blunte 5y ago
Sure, maybe if it has some pointlessly expensive brand label… but what about a generic looking, obvious low quality item such as in TFA? Is this just some kind of money laundering engagement?
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by blunte 5y ago
Yes, it was normalized. It was a very comprehensive, well thought out study. Of course the researchers could still get the results they wanted by choosing which metrics to include in the comparisons, but the choices attempted to balance i
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by blunte 5y ago
But also, who are the people buying a sloppy looking tshirt with bad lettering for $99?
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by blunte 5y ago
Because there are some big money interests that don't want alcohol regulated (much) or banned. There was an interesting study released in 2010 which attempted to measure the total cost, beyond just health harm, of different drugs. ht
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by blunte 5y ago
The author is a person I would never argue with.
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by blunte 5y ago
Surely he had a say in that decision, assuming that he wasn't behind it himself. So to him and/or his board, it should have been an obvious faux pas; it might as well have been an investment in coal mining stock.
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by blunte 5y ago
But a billionaire presumably wouldn’t trade value of their name/brand just for small gains in a pump and dump. These guys aren’t stupid…
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by blunte 5y ago
His big plunge into Bitcoin was an obvious move of ignorance given the well known energy cost of Bitcoin mining. There are other better cryptocurrencies for facilitating transactions, in terms of speed, fees, energy cost, etc. He should hav
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by blunte 5y ago
Cuban and Musk are not savvy (crypto) investors. Just because they are rich and successful in one domain does not make them experts in others. Perhaps they are only surrounded by Yes Men who don’t attempt to educate them or advise when they
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by blunte 5y ago
> The same thing that happens in any other plane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_structural_fa... The faster you are traveling (which really matters as a factor of the drag you are experiencing), the
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by blunte 5y ago
Especially 100 year + old buildings with original glass.
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by blunte 5y ago
Sound is one thing, but there are other more significant obstacles. The benefits of faster travel really show on longer distances (London to Sydney for example). But over land, there just aren’t many common routes where the several hour sav
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by blunte 5y ago
Yes, Fuck Facebook, and fuck every other company that doesn't provide a net-positive for humanity. They may offer something convenient or useful, but if the mid/long-term cost is higher, then it's not a good thing for us or
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by blunte 5y ago
Does it really still provide great ad revenue? Hasn't that been declining and increasingly restricted over the last several years? Viewers largely don't care what platform your content is on as long as they can know it exists (li
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by blunte 5y ago
Or the appeals are automatic "No, sorry" responses. I would love to see proof of an AI appeal that was successful.

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