charlieflowers

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by charlieflowers 10mo ago
I fear we (the USA) would rather have a puppet who will meet our oil demands than someone who wants to do what’s right for Venezuela.
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by charlieflowers 10mo ago
"Ohh, time flows _that_ way for you."
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by charlieflowers 11mo ago
Imagine how big of a stink the linter would put up as you worked on your most recent codebase!
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by charlieflowers 11mo ago
Both the article's examples there are bogus -- yet in both cases the underlying points are true. Google generates a lot of revenue per employee not because the employees are good (though many of them are of course), but because they ow
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by charlieflowers 1y ago
I read the whole thing and I didn't see any waffle. Sure, undeniably some excess word count, some emotion in responding to critics. But no waffle. The "is this cloud or not" debate in the piece makes perfect sense. Who cares
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by charlieflowers 1y ago
Yeah, these kinds of "orthogonal" things that you want to set up "on the outside" and then have affect the "inner" code (like allocators, "io" in this case, and maybe also presence/absence of GC,
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by charlieflowers 1y ago
Not working for me fyi -- just spins.
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by charlieflowers 1y ago
Kevin Hart is what's left when you adjust 50 Cent for inflation.
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by charlieflowers 1y ago
I just got back from a family vacation there. I was tired that day, it was hot and crowded, and I started thinking, "I wonder if this will be worth it." I found myself astounded, struck speechless, and moved to tears. I was in awe
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by charlieflowers 1y ago
It seems you agree? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. I had gotten the impression (second-hand) that they were roughly equally matched in this regard.
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by charlieflowers 1y ago
> "while C++ continues to dominate ... performance-critical domains" Why performance-critical domains? Does C++ have a performance edge over Rust?
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by charlieflowers 2y ago
You just created a modern take on LMGTFY
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by charlieflowers 2y ago
Respectfully, I disagree, though maybe we haven’t yet articulated enough details to know exactly where we disagree. I think underlying Kent’s statement is an observation that is undeniably true. The closer a test is to the actual way the so
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by charlieflowers 2y ago
Good stuff!
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by charlieflowers 2y ago
The initial comments here surprise me. I’ve never seen such poor quality comments on such a good article on Hacker News. The article is top notch, highly recommend. It explains from first principles very clearly what the (a?) mechanism is b
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by charlieflowers 2y ago
I've often knocked Russia for continually choosing thugs to run their country (I know its more nuanced than that, but still). And now America is doing essentially the same thing.
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by charlieflowers 2y ago
Hexagonal / ports and adapters / onion / functional core imperative shell all try to do this.
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by charlieflowers 3y ago
Just yesterday I bought some steaks that were $55 with the loyalty card and $130 (no typo) without. I’ve never seen a difference that huge before.
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by charlieflowers 3y ago
I would click +1 million if it existed. Lol you had me reading seriously and taking notes up until the counting part.
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by charlieflowers 3y ago
If members of Congress can make millions trading on info they get from sitting on key committees, then trading based on your first hand experience certainly should be ok.
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by charlieflowers 3y ago
I thought you missed the GP's joke. Then I thought, wait, no, he made an even more subtle joke. :scratches-head:
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by charlieflowers 3y ago
I agree about cramming features across languages. Plus, Software dev is social. I only did this in code for myself. That being said though, it actually fit really well in golang. Allowed functions that used to return ‘null, err’ to return a
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by charlieflowers 3y ago
`Either` works pretty well in Go. I implemented it and it felt reasonably close to Rust/Haskell (without `try!` of course).
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by charlieflowers 3y ago
Yes, of course, and a gun.
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by charlieflowers 3y ago
Or the flip of a coin? I don’t know the answer but it’s an interesting question
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by charlieflowers 3y ago
Actually, if an llm could become good at propaganda, it could quickly come to rule the world. I never considered that angle before, but it’s legitimately scary. UPDATE: Thought of a good clarifying analogy. In one of the sequels to “Enders
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by charlieflowers 3y ago
I wonder if chatgpt will start “closing” questions as “not a good fit for its Q&A format,” or “too opinionated,” or “a duplicate” of something that is acutely unrelated. Actually, this seems to be a case where chatgpt is smarter than th
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by charlieflowers 3y ago
Sounds to me somewhat like realizing you can grok a new large source code base by looking at the series of pull requests that got you there. (Without, of course, the benefit of any comments).
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by charlieflowers 3y ago
I wonder about Helix plugins.
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by charlieflowers 3y ago
How? Are you saying the Firefox and Chrome code bases are largely based on pure functions?

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