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by bsaul 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. What’s your take on elixir consuming an outstanding amount of memory per task in OP benchmark ?
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by bsaul 3y ago
same here. I don't understand how this feature hasn't landed in every other compiled languages (i'm looking at you golang)
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by bsaul 3y ago
Not sure if that's still the case, but Graydon Hoare was part of swift team. Swift also slowly introduces support of lifetime analysis with regards to concurrency, but the path they chose is pretty different : they started with an easy
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by bsaul 3y ago
I suspect 1 million concurrent task very likely becomes unmanageable in any real world scenario anyway. 1KB per task giving 1GB of total memory consumption, which means 100KB would be enough to raise memory limits on most systems. There may
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by bsaul 3y ago
Real workflow engines (the ones you find in large companies used to model business processes) handles conditions and branching. But my personnal experience is that linear flows work really well in the context of apps with just those two add
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by bsaul 3y ago
Thanks for the compliment. Since you seem to like it, i’ll emphasis a little as to how i came to realize that : It’s very common that workflows are suited for data manipulation: write the data to disk, when it’s complete send it to the netw
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by bsaul 3y ago
"It's interesting how every build system, frontend framework, programming language implements its own promise pipeline/delayed execution/observables/event propagation." This rings so true to me. I've recen
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by bsaul 3y ago
I’m still not sure if the advices apply to people developing LLM models, or to software developers using LLM in their daily job to produce code.
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by bsaul 3y ago
It’s going to be funny to see if the rest of the world adapts to the stupid amount of ads beeing shown on american TV, now that youtube seems to embrace that road (.) My guess is they won’t, and youtube will collapse. But it may take some t
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by bsaul 3y ago
i read that thread, and TBH it looks like the issue was indeed rejected on pragmatic reasons. Coming from a language that is slowly but surely trending to an "everything and the kitchen sink" PL (aka swift), believe me, i apprecia
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by bsaul 3y ago
care to give more details ? I'm not sure what you're thinking about.
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by bsaul 3y ago
Very relieved that they chose to back off the initial opt-out proposal. It’s always refreshing to see a language listening to its user base. This was the kind of decision that could instantly change the reputation of a PL, for purely politi
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by bsaul 3y ago
i've always wondered : it seems to me that handling hordes of process is today made quite simple thanks to tools like kubernetes, and middlewares like queues or databases of various kinds for process 2 process communication with variou
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by bsaul 3y ago
the most obvious one is the trend of gender swap (man character becomes a woman character , usually with a far more important role, to boost the character a bit) and racial swap (white becomes black) to get a perfect « diversity » in the ca
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by bsaul 3y ago
Basic human rights haven’t been attacked in the US since the anti-terrorist laws voted after 9/11 But somehow i assume this isn’t what you mean… and this is most certainly not what hollywood chose to put in their series for elevating t
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by bsaul 3y ago
Don’t know why you got downvoted. This opinion is very widespread, based on people around me from diverse political opinions, including the « woke and moralistic » part. Hollywood recent trend of displaying moral virtues instead of a good s
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by bsaul 3y ago
I’ve been a user of those kinds of tools for more than 30 years, as an amateur, and of course i’m amazed at the progress made. However, a part of me wonder how much we lost in the process. We’ve automated so much that i wonder if the tools
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by bsaul 3y ago
tokyo has no terrasse to have a coffee when it's sunny, and biking in tokyo looks a bit suicidal as i don't remember seeing a single biking lane in the streets (2018). From a european standpoint it makes it really hard to live.
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by bsaul 3y ago
Curious: why did you move from elixir to go ?
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by bsaul 3y ago
Elixir / erlang is not just « not the #1 ». I don’t think it’s even in the top 99% of the programmer’s population commonly used language. once you’ve removed people using c/c++, java / kotlin, dot net, javascript, ruby php an
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by bsaul 3y ago
langage is taught in schools and by parents. It is 100% controlled by humans. you can't learn it by yourself as a baby.
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by bsaul 3y ago
I’ve always got trouble understanding people saying a PL has « lisp roots » because it has first-class support for functions (aka you can create them on the fly, pass them as values, etc). This is so common today that i don’t find it releva
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by bsaul 3y ago
let's say it was the beginning of an exponentially growing curve. For those that were interested in computers, the writing was on the wall. Science fiction had already written about gigantic networks and virtual worlds for decades, we
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by bsaul 3y ago
Absolutely. I just looked back at netscape wikipedia page, and it was already out in 1995 and distributed freely. Internet explorer was out in 1995 as well. Barely underground stuff. And that's just for the www. People were using BBS,
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by bsaul 3y ago
people talked about it, people knew about it, some non-tech people already were using it. That's what i meant by "popular" (sorry, non-native, so maybe it isn't the correct word). What i mean is that it wasn't some
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by bsaul 3y ago
I passed my high school exam in 1996, in france, and a friend of mine who had internet gave me the topic for the history exam a day before. His parents weren’t comp-science researcher, he just liked tech, and « had internet ». it was alread
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by bsaul 3y ago
in 1995 people understood very well what internet was going to become. The technology just wasn't there yet, but every kid and parents remember very well the sound of that modem and the phone lines beeing busy. That memo would have b
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by bsaul 3y ago
i think you're conflating being self-conscious, and being intelligent. In AGI , A is also very important. A universal oracle stuck in a machine, able to correctly predict anything and answer all questions, but still having no "des
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by bsaul 3y ago
"it just seems to understand" : Does stockfish "understand" chess, or does it just "seem to understand" chess ? For all practical purposes and intent, this doesn't make much difference.
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by bsaul 3y ago
« I don't believe we've seen any evidence of this. » I think chatgpt did show proof of what was considered at least until very recently « intelligence ». aka: understand enough about context and concepts to provide relevant answer

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