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by c_crank 3y ago
In the sense that animals and human beings are big blobs of carbon, yes. Ethanol isn't the primary output of maize.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Not having to deal with the distributed computing problems a blockchain provides. No worrying about any proof of stake slowdowns or overhead. I don't think urbit is all that great, either, but this is coming from someone who decided to
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by c_crank 3y ago
What benefits does running this system on Ethereum provide compared to something like urbit?
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by c_crank 3y ago
Lisp is an imperative language, yet has the same simplicity of code reuse.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The only case where failing to leverage a good framework would be a real problem is in front end development, and that's just because the front end stack is so horribly designed that it often needs a framework just to make the complexi
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by c_crank 3y ago
My experience with having to use Spring Boot everywhere is that the amount of effort involved in debugging Spring Boot problems is hardly worth the benefit of avoiding the minimal glue code to call some database or pass around some object.
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by c_crank 3y ago
It would be more like a machine weighing 1000kg that makes a wooden stick. Us yeomen expect that you can just pick those off the ground.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The best college course coding projects are the solo ones. I consider myself fortunate to have gone to a school where 95% of the code projects were solo (and about half of them were in C, too!).
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by c_crank 3y ago
If LLMs keep improving at the current rate and get to the point where they can reduce hallucinating to a reasonable level, I don't see why they couldn't take on the challenge of abstract system architecture. It's still a prob
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by c_crank 3y ago
Depends on the university. My experience was that you spent more time then not having to swing, often in ways that would be applicable to actual carpeting rather than building wooden Monads nobody wants to use.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I think the simpler solution is to design the code around some kind of pdf generation library that is linked to, instead of making a heavily abstracted mini-framework to squat on the application.
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by c_crank 3y ago
It's good news for maize. That's a very carbon hungry crop.
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by c_crank 3y ago
What you're getting at is the presence and lack of features leads to an idiomatic version of how one should code in a language. Go has very few features, leading to one obvious way to code. Python has some well implemented features and
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by c_crank 3y ago
Being able to tune the JVM properties for GC lets you build a reliable RTOS in Java. Checked exceptions offer stronger guarantees of error handling. Generics (something they did add to Go after years) let you build reusable methods without
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by c_crank 3y ago
For serious work, Java has a bigger list of features, both on the primitive side and the abstract, that let you handle a lot more use cases than Go simply because Go doesn't have the tools for them. So long as you stay away from Spring
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by c_crank 3y ago
A walled garden prevents you from doing a lot of things, not just over architecting. It inhibits the top tier engineers as much as the bottom tier ones.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Is "this" capitalism?
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by c_crank 3y ago
If someone tells me that languages are adopting a functional approach, I would expect to see the tools and methods evolve to allow functional code to be written. What I am seeing is languages adopting specific functional methods that can be
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by c_crank 3y ago
A functional runtime from top to bottom is simple on a FPGA. It's also pretty useless. A circuit with no memory that does the same thing each time. Pretty good for a light switch, but not the kind of things people want computers for.
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by c_crank 3y ago
y = x + 1 is not dealing with state. Supposing there was a desire to have x = x + 1, the simple way of doing this is x = x + 1, and the complicated way is to do world = Increment(x, world).
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by c_crank 3y ago
I don't believe an ORM is a zero cost abstraction either. Or most of OOP. The cost of implementing everything as a function is when one has to contend with the fundamental machine architecture not dealing with everything as a function.
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by c_crank 3y ago
What the author is trying to describe would be much easier and a lot less verbose if he analyzed the situation by class.
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by c_crank 3y ago
>This is based on the assumption that when we have access to super intelligent engineer AI's, we will be able to construct robots that are significantly more capable than robots that are available today and that can, if remote contr
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by c_crank 3y ago
An AI doing valuable things like invention and stock market prediction wouldn't be a target for being shut down, though. Not in the way these comical evil AIs are described.
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by c_crank 3y ago
>But a company run by a superintelligent AI would quickly become so complex that the inner workings of the company would become a black box to the board. The AI is still doing the job in the real world of allocating resources, hiring and
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by c_crank 3y ago
I'm not aware of any serious cult created solely through videos.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I like the movie I, Robot, even if it is a departure from the original Asimov story and has some dumb moments. I, Robot shows a threatening version of the future where a large company has a private army of androids that can shoot people and
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by c_crank 3y ago
The animal like systems might be interesting to observe, but it doesn't sound like they would be useful for doing much work. I am not sure where the reliance on them would come in.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Download blender, and learn how to make more complex polygonal shapes. I haven't reached the stage of making anything like foliage or utilizing curves yet, but just being able to make something like a door or a desk is liberating. Simi
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by c_crank 3y ago
Satoshi Nakamoto is a man who thought that he could upend the entire structure of human governance and economics with his One Neat Trick. Reality is sure to disappoint him and his followers dearly with time. >What evidence is there for t

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