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by brabel 2mo ago
This is exactly how almost every field evolves. We like to think we are so innovative. We aren’t. When someone finally does something slightly different that’s actually useful everyone comments how that was so obvious all along and they cou
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by brabel 2mo ago
I don’t want to sound harsh but that’s the least convincing list of language misfeatures I’ve ever seen. Almost every point is so minor I am surprised you didn’t mention having to type semicolons and similar incredibly inconsequential thing
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by brabel 2mo ago
At the time Google went with Kotlin, Flutter was still very new and a much bigger step away from Java given Kotlin already back then was seamlessly integrated with Java and compiled to JVM bytecode.
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by brabel 2mo ago
For production you may consider using dart VM also since it benefits from AOT and can actually be faster than a binary after it gets hot, similar to Java.
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by brabel 2mo ago
With full hot reload support I am curious how compile times can be an issue.
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by brabel 2mo ago
I am sure you are right but if you tell the LLM to be careful with those it should easily avoid those mistakes. But yeah first you need to know what to look for.
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by brabel 2mo ago
Yeah I have no idea how someone who has used all these languages can come up with a conclusion like Dart is “uglier”. I really want to know what exactly they think is ugly about it!
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by brabel 2mo ago
> You just needed the know-how to find that information and synthesize the answers yourself. So easy , right?? No one needs a machine that can do that automatically over huge amounts of data and that can clearly communicate results in a
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by brabel 2mo ago
At least you acknowledge you believe in absurdities. My belief is not absurd , it’s what I have seen myself in the last year or so.
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by brabel 2mo ago
By your argument it should have been able to just remember Pandoc existing implementation then? But it didn’t, you think they can only “remember” small code based well enough? I doubt that. Especially since after using LLMs quite a bit I am
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by brabel 2mo ago
Danluu had an article circulating on HN a few days ago that apparently shows that yes, they can. He implemented Zstd and most models did it almost perfectly in most languages. Pandoc was a challenge they still cold not one shot though, whic
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by brabel 2mo ago
I am pretty sure that if they had GPUs capable of doing billions of computations in parallel in the 80’s, Lisp generation would have invented LLMs first.
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by brabel 2mo ago
That quote is referring to Lisp’s foundations being essentially a mathematical model that is equivalent to the lambda calculus, which can be shown to be capable of expressing any computation possible. It’s a parallel to the Turing machine,
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by brabel 2mo ago
It’s so incredible to me that now we have a chat interface we can ask about anything in any language and get really great answers, something literally considered science fiction a few years ago, and people still act like that is no big deal
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by brabel 2mo ago
I used it to explore data since it has built in support for various data formats and easily made visualizations, but I haven’t used it in a few years because I thought it was using too much RAM for what it gave me (around 1GB to start with)
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by brabel 2mo ago
You are the one cherry picking perhaps the first two charts. Look at the various metrics at the end in the Zstd vs Pandoc charts. There is just no clear advantage for Python across those metrics which are the one you really want to know abo
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by brabel 2mo ago
You’re talking about autocomplete! That’s always a poor model doing it because it has to be fast enough. I never use that anymore in any language, it’s only occasionally helpful. I suspect everyone is talking about agent harnesses here , no
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by brabel 2mo ago
I think that just shows LLMs are great at almost any language. As the post says, it can get very poor, as with J and Factor, but anything remotely easy to read for humans seems to be perfectly fine for LLMs. I can say I am still to try a la
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by brabel 2mo ago
They did turn the AI marketing dial way up on the landing page, but you should give the project a chance if you haven't seen it - it's by far the most modern Smalltalk browser and super fun to use. I only stopped using it on my ra
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by brabel 2mo ago
Thanks for the information, I live in Sweden and get calls at least once a week, but it's annoying enough. I visited family in Brazil and was shocked about how people there seem to get unsolicited marketing calls every hour or so!! My
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by brabel 2mo ago
Are you joking? GTK is not about AI either (though yeah they put LLMs in it if you want), it's another Smalltalk environment.
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by brabel 2mo ago
How does this compare to Glamorous Toolkit[1]? [1] https://gtoolkit.com/
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by brabel 2mo ago
The hardest part of learning English is the random way words are pronounced without almost any regard for their spelling.
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by brabel 2mo ago
> How many slow, buggy programs have been written because the assigned programmer did not yet have the expertise needed to do it right? Basically, all of it. By the time a programmer has enough experience to design and implement software
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by brabel 2mo ago
A lot of companies were founded by one or a group of people leaving a company and opening a competitor with the knowledge they gained while working for them. Anthropic, as I understand it, is an example (from OpenAI). Even the company I wor
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by brabel 2mo ago
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by brabel 2mo ago
The counter seems broken. It jumps from 100 to 250 then back down to 120. It did that a few times while I was reading.
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by brabel 2mo ago
No, a company will always build whatever they think will make them more money. If you want an editor without the bullshit try Sublime as it has a history of staying that way, or the good old Vim and emacs.
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by brabel 2mo ago
For a large application the language it is written in has almost no bearing on the perceived speed by users. VSCode is one example.
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by brabel 2mo ago
That’s why nowadays every company will require that they legally own projects you work on during work hours unless explicitly asked. And many ask you to sign non compete clauses so you don’t take all the knowledge you acquired on the job to

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