compiler-guy

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Measuring nothing (with great accuracy) (2014)(seths.blog)
2 points by compiler-guy 5d ago|0 comments
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by compiler-guy 5d ago
The linux kernel didn't even gain SMP until 1996. Solaris was running circles around it both before and after that point. Solaris was vastly more mature and stable. Of course, after that, Solaris just kept running in very expensive cir
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by compiler-guy 6d ago
There are two commenting critics. So "multiple" is true, I suppose, but only quite weakly so. And there are more than 4x that many upvotes on the top-level comment. So I don't think it is as simple as "everyone is saying
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by compiler-guy 6d ago
You are arguing a point I didn’t make.
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by compiler-guy 6d ago
I certainly don't think anything like this actually happened. And the linked article doesn't really do so either. I do think it can be a useful illustration of what problem each technology solves. In another thread you talk about
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by compiler-guy 6d ago
This is obviously not an attempt at anything remotely resembling documentary history. It’s more of a just so story explaining what problem each step solved. Unless of course one thinks that smooth gray stones from a riverbed two miles away
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by compiler-guy 6d ago
If everyone needs to give them roughly the same set of instructions to get good results, then those instructions should be built in. Good defaults are expected in pretty much every other tool. And “You just have to set it up carefully and p
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by compiler-guy 6d ago
A sibling comment talks about needing a lot of setup and context for agents to produce good code. That’s both true and bizarre. If the compiler that I write produces lousy code, I get bugs that I fix until it doesn’t. And that is the most a
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by compiler-guy 7d ago
Not sure when it started, but the second chance pool has moderators putting stories that didn’t get much attention when they were submitted directly on the front page. There may be some survivor bias here, but second-chance stories seem ver
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by compiler-guy 9d ago
"Most groups look more homogeneous from the outside than the inside." But that doesn't mean that they really are all that different in the end. It reminds me a of joke as told by Emo Philips that I think is quite apropos: ==-
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by compiler-guy 9d ago
It's a sales website with a not-terrible hook. Also AI generated diagrams with strange labelling doesn't persuade me much.
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by compiler-guy 10d ago
This true, but you can write the two separately if you want. The disadvantages of writing them together are listed in the various parent posts. But some code authors really like the convenience of having the two in the same file.
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by compiler-guy 11d ago
It’s easy to write instructions that have the agent check once every fifteen minutes, or even once an hour, in perpetuity, which never sleeps. And people do write such instructions. A human can’t do that by hand for very long. The problem i
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by compiler-guy 11d ago
That is the debate. And it is hotly contested. The legal framework around all this is way too immature to make a definitive statement one way or the other. Anyone who says otherwise is speculating. The only way to clarity will be legislatio
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by compiler-guy 11d ago
Not to mention that it solves none of the rate issues. If the scrapers are hitting your site 10,000 times a day, adding markdown isn’t going to change that at all.
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by compiler-guy 11d ago
I suspect most people would be ok with this if they could only do it at the rate and frequency you yourself can do it. The problem is largely one of scale.
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by compiler-guy 11d ago
Many people believe the golden era ended in 1993 or early 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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by compiler-guy 12d ago
It would look a lot less like astroturf if the submitter let the discussion evolve instead of answering every criticism within seconds of it being posted.
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by compiler-guy 12d ago
As I write this, the submitter has six comments out of twelve, most somewhat defensive. And all of them in less than thirty minutes. This seems very much like a marketing play, where the submitter is pretty determined to steer the narrative
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by compiler-guy 13d ago
I’m sure the league has considered less drastic actions, and in reality a group of administrators dealing with an ongoing problem know way more about possible solutions that are available and can possibly work than random HN commenters.
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by compiler-guy 13d ago
Trust me, I will never forget 8" floppies. But in the context of drive lettering, although CP/M supported 8" floppies, MS-DOS never did. MS-DOS adopted the naming scheme, but not the boot style.
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by compiler-guy 13d ago
Even further back into time, before 3.5" disks, both A: and B: were 5.25" disks. And, although my memory is hazy, 3.5's were commonly slotted into B: at first, because no one had 3.5" boot disks until the drives became s
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by compiler-guy 14d ago
Many people don’t care about resale or pass-along value in the things that they own or gift. And even if one does, then you just consider the diminished value as another cost of having the personalized item. For many people, especially gift
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by compiler-guy 15d ago
People who own the click farms who get paid to run the ads when they are clicked on. This type of fraud is almost as old as web ads themselves.
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by compiler-guy 16d ago
This puzzled me and I looked it up, and yes, sinks without overflow meet code [1] (but not tubs). So your situation was apparently legal. But the sibling comment to this one, where a sink had an overflow, but it was not connected, did not m
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by compiler-guy 16d ago
I once saw Casablanca with a friend who hadn’t seen it, and she said, “Wow. This movie jam packed with cliches. It’s off putting. Wait. This is the source of all the cliches isn’t it?” Which it is. One of the most quotable movies of all tim
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by compiler-guy 16d ago
In the US, any tub made past about 1900 or so has an overflow drain that prevents overfilling. The adoption of such drains not quite contemporaneous with the adoption of indoor plumbing, but very soon after. It's the metal plate usuall
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by compiler-guy 17d ago
There is also the issue that the next person stepping into their shoes to clean up the mess is being recruited exactly during this time. And if your company gets a reputation for not paying out prenegotiated severances or nitpicking over th
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by compiler-guy 17d ago
Tim Cook: [Jobs’] advice to me was ‘Never ask what I would do, just do the right thing,’ He had watched Disney go through this paralysis of sitting around and talking about what Walt [Disney] would do. And he did not want that for Apple. h
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by compiler-guy 17d ago
There is a lot of software support needed to make this work great. So first generation of all that for sure.

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