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by chubot 7mo ago
A common problem I noticed is that if you took certain courses in computer science, you may have a pre-conceived notion of how to parse programming languages, and the shell language doesn't quite fit that model I have seen this misconc
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by chubot 7mo ago
Yup, job control is a huge mess. I think Bill Joy was able to modify the shell, the syscall interface, and the terminal driver at the same time to implement the hacky mechanism of job control. But a few years later that kind of crosscutti
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by chubot 9mo ago
Yeah, I think that when writing code becomes cheap, then all the COMPLEMENTS become more valuable: - testing - reviewing, and reading/understanding/explaining - operations / SRE
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by chubot 9mo ago
Side note: I used this query to test LLM recall: Do jeff dean and russ cox know each other? Interesting results: 1. Gemini pointed me back at MY OWN comment, above, an hour after I wrote it. So Google is crawling the web FAST. It also p
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by chubot 9mo ago
This is overstating it by a lot. Jeff was the AI lead at the time, and there was a big conflict between management and the ethics team And I actually think Google needs to pay more attention to AI ethics ... but it's a publically trad
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by chubot 9mo ago
Ha, I also recall this fact about the protobuf DB after all these years Another Jeff Dean fact should be "Russ Cox was Jeff Dean's intern" This was either 2006 or 2007, whenever Russ started. I remember when Jeff and Sanjay
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by chubot 9mo ago
Visiting my dad in a hospital now - I can also confirm that low quality software made many things worse In particular communication between doctors and nurses is worse, because it’s all mediated by software
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by chubot 9mo ago
They will push back against obvious stuff like that I gave an example here of using LLMs to explain the National Association of Realtors 2024 settlement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46040967 Buyers agents often say
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by chubot 9mo ago
They don't have "skin in the game" -- humans anticipate long-term consequences, but LLMs have no need or motivation for that They can flip-flop on any given issue, and it's of no consequence This is extremely easy to ver
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by chubot 9mo ago
It’s not crazy at all, but personally I like simple code that flows down the page more, not across
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by chubot 9mo ago
I like this framing! One analogy I'd make is alternating periods of - "grinding through tests", making them green, and - deep design work (ideas often come in the shower, or on a bicycle) If you just grind throu
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by chubot 10mo ago
Yeah that's basically what was discussed here: https://lobste.rs/s/xz6fwz/unix_find_expressions_compiled_by... And then I pointed to this article on databases: https://notes.eatonphil.com/2023
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by chubot 10mo ago
Yeah I've seen that, but it looks like the inference-side only? Maybe that is a hint that he does use off-the-shelf models as a coding aid? There may be no need to train your own, on your own code, but it's fun to think about
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by chubot 10mo ago
Without being glib, I honestly wonder if Fabrice Bellard has started using any LLM coding tools. If he could be even more productive, that would be scary! I doubt he is ideologically opposed to them, given his work on LLM compression [1] H
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by chubot 10mo ago
A better title might have been VACUUM addresses heap bloat; REINDEX addresses index bloat Similar to a recent story Go is portable, until it isn't -- the better title is Go is portable until you pull in C dependencies https:&#x2
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by chubot 10mo ago
There is a bunch of AI slop in there ... It does seem like the author probably knows what he's talking about, since there is seemingly good info in the article [1], but there's still a lot of slop Also, I think the end should be a
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Testing and Benchmarking of AI Compilers(broune.com)
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by chubot 10mo ago
There was also "boringcc" https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/boringcc As a boring platform for the portable parts of boring crypto software, I'd like to see a free C compiler that clearly defines, and permanently
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by chubot 10mo ago
Uh weird that I got downvotes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#His... Android Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, in October 2003 by Andy Rubin and Chris White Google acquired the comp
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by chubot 10mo ago
Android was also an acquistion by Google, run relatively separately, and it grew into something huge
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by chubot 10mo ago
Also, I’m not 100% sure, but maybe Standard ML doesn’t support the open recursion pattern, but say OCaml does (?). So it could be a relevant distinction in that respect
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by chubot 10mo ago
I wasn't really familiar with this term, but as another comment here said, the only language I use that doesn't have such late binding/dynamic dispatch is C i.e. it seems natural in Python and C++ (and Java and Rust …) But I
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by chubot 10mo ago
Somehow this reminded me of a similar rant about devops: It’s the Future - https://blog.paulbiggar.com/its-the-future/ And now I see that's from June 2015 -- it's over 10 years old now! Wow I'm not su
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by chubot 10mo ago
A chef is not a niche profession - everyone knows what a chef does, and has consumed what they make A niche profession is, say, artistic cycling People talk about Bourdain 7 years later for the same reason that they talk about musicians, ac
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by chubot 10mo ago
I read Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal ? in 2018, and just went back and skimmed it https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00631 Here are some of the points Is deep learning approaching a wall? - He doesn't make a c
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by chubot 11mo ago
People don't care if they're colluded against for tens of thousands of dollars? 6% of an American house is a lot of money Because it's often spread over many years of a mortgage, I can see why SOME people might not. It is n
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by chubot 11mo ago
I have definitely experienced the sycophancy ... and LLMs have sometimes repeating talking points from real estate agents, like "you the buyer doesn't pay for an agent; the seller pays". I correct it, and it says "sorry
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by chubot 11mo ago
Anthropic wasn't affected by this breach, so I don't see the difference. Rather, Anthropic systems were used to attack other companies Anthropic is the one publishing the blog post, not a company that's affected by the breac
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by chubot 11mo ago
I think that’s very common in cybersecurity e.g. John MacAfee used computer viruses in the 80’s as marketing, which is how he made a fortune They were real, like this is, but it is also marketing
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by chubot 11mo ago
It's not an apples-to-apples comparison, because EC2 and Google Cloud have ephemeral disk - persistent disk is an add-on, which is implemented with a complex and frequently changing distributed storage system On the other hand, a Hetzn

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