bmitc

23 ms·

511.
by bmitc 1y ago
Yes, exactly. Especially when a lot of open source projects seem to be resume padders. They're presented as if they're the most useful library in the world with implied support, and then when your first issue is closed immediately
512.
by bmitc 1y ago
https://happihacking.com/images/thebeambooks.jpg
513.
by bmitc 1y ago
Erlang wasn't open sourced until the late 90s. Erlang was never really marketed. Elixir arose fairly quickly. Erlang and Elixir are nice because concurrency isn't tacked onto the language like those other languages.
514.
by bmitc 1y ago
Yes, that's explained in the book's title.
515.
by bmitc 1y ago
I'm actually not smart. That's part of my point. Which magic AI tool am I supposed to use that operates at a general intelligence level? I use Copilot with the various available models everyday, and it barely "knows" any
516.
by bmitc 1y ago
> AI is already better than most humans In what way? I haven't met an "AI" yet that I felt was even close to my intelligence.
517.
by bmitc 1y ago
I think it's just an intractable problem at this point. There's probably millions of physicists on Earth. Everyone working in a company knows just how hard it is to get even hundreds of people to agree and read and understand the
518.
by bmitc 1y ago
Thanks. I wasn't thinking about that.
519.
by bmitc 1y ago
The unfortunate reality is that humans seem to have this innate desire to get rid of ourselves. I see us trying to automated everything. To what end, I do not know.
520.
by bmitc 1y ago
What makes a genetic bottleneck worse than natural disasters and disease?
521.
by bmitc 1y ago
There is Typed Racket.
522.
by bmitc 1y ago
For (2), this is often misunderstood and mistated. The JVM includes no GUI framework. .NET also includes no GUI framework. .NET happens to have a specific framework for Windows. But just like the JVM, there third-party GUI frameworks such a
523.
by bmitc 1y ago
That's all part of my point, really.
524.
by bmitc 1y ago
All of them except for resource-constrained and real-time embedded systems.
525.
by bmitc 1y ago
.NET is one of the easiest to install and robust cross-platform systems out there. It's actually very impressive. I don't know of a single other platform that nails cross-platform so well. The effort of .NET Framework to .NET
526.
by bmitc 1y ago
That ordering is generally considered a feature to keep dependencies and modules well-organized.
527.
by bmitc 1y ago
I find it interesting how the software industry has done everything it can to ignore F#. This is me just lamenting how I always come back to it as the best general purpose language.
528.
by bmitc 1y ago
> If you're wildly successful at something with significant real world influence, why would you care so strongly about something as relatively inconsequential as a board game or a video game? Deep running narcissism, bordering on so
529.
by bmitc 2y ago
I personally view WebSockets as a nicer TCP that has all the messaging functionality you end up building anyway than as an alternative to HTTP.
530.
by bmitc 2y ago
Elixir came from Ruby developers and thus has similarly verbose syntax and macros. Erlang's syntax came from Prolog, which was used to implement the first compiler and is why Erlang's syntax is more concise.
531.
by bmitc 2y ago
The BEAM's real special sauce is in its preemptive scheduler in that it is impossible for one process to take down the whole system, even if bad processes are eating up the entire CPU. This cannot be done in any other language.
532.
by bmitc 2y ago
And how is that attacking the problems that led here?
533.
by bmitc 2y ago
You're right. This is always something I've pointed out myself. Just got sloppy with language here.
534.
by bmitc 2y ago
You're right. I'm honestly not sure what I thinking.
535.
by bmitc 2y ago
What a sham of a person, companies, and legal and financial system. How does a loser from South Africa, who has been kicked out of nearly every company, obtain this? Perhaps this is what every loser in America dreams about themselves being
536.
by bmitc 2y ago
They meant criminally prosecuted, which he was not.
537.
by bmitc 2y ago
Is he really rich? He started a car company, one that is known to make shit cars. All of their big bets failed. So what was supposed to be "not just a car comoany", which is what all the insane valuations were based on, is now &qu
538.
by bmitc 2y ago
Right. So the point is that it's not a useful and practical result, and the title is indeed false and misleading.
539.
by bmitc 2y ago
Were these Waymo cars driving in Michigan during the winter or in Boston or New York?
540.
by bmitc 2y ago
False. Humans are driving in a much wider range range of weather, road conditions, car conditions, passenger conditions, routes, unknown destinations, etc.

More ›