discardable_dan

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by discardable_dan 2y ago
And like everything else in Rust, it will forever live in the "unstable" pile of features that are required to use the language without standing on your head (looking at you, pattern matching through boxes).
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by discardable_dan 2y ago
I did my dissertation work on software contracts. They are generally useless: programmers won't write them, or will write them incorrectly. Moreover, the runtime enforcement dominates all but the most-expensive functions, and contracts
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by discardable_dan 2y ago
Unfortunately, this entire field has been superseded by LLMs. They are so much more-effective that it's absurd.
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by discardable_dan 3y ago
For what it's worth, the remake is faithful and careful. The menu even allows you to restore the original music (though I think the updates are awesome).
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by discardable_dan 3y ago
Many people are saying they did very well, but if I were trying to sell a service I'd tell people that same thing. "Sure, you did a lot of these perfectly, want to do more games that will feel satisfying" seems like a great o
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by discardable_dan 3y ago
The writing between the lines is that McDonald's is preparing to do away with human order-takers altogether, replacing that role with a food runner that can occasionally take an order but mostly just takes food to people's seats.
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by discardable_dan 3y ago
Lake Cow, and not River Horse?
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by discardable_dan 3y ago
Chez Scheme would disagree.
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by discardable_dan 3y ago
You reinvented the zine. I love it!
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by discardable_dan 3y ago
PL Theory makes you start looking at everything like a PL problem. APIs become little languages, and rich APIs become larger ones. Parsing becomes trivial, lexing even moreso, and everything sort of devolves into thinking about interpreter
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
It seems even worse than that: the fevered dream of of a single person, leaving behind incomprehensible 5mil+ program shaped around custom coding practices that others wouldn't understand and would struggle to modernize. (For reference
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
The focus on superoptimization is laughable, and puts me off on even considering the other opinions presented here. Superoptimization is such a joke in so many cases that it's basically undeployable: if it takes a days of a srever&#x27
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
You have access to a hundred A100s, at a price point of ~8500 each, for $850k. If only you could have half, and spend the other half on labor.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
When an incurrence of debt occurs, we say that someone incurs it. Similarly, English demands that for a recurrence relation (the source of recursion schemes and basis of the term "recursion"), we recur. "Recurse" is a ba
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
I think in those cases, you'll also find that those programmers use recursion, and write programs that recur -- not ones that recurse.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
This is brilliant, except that one recurs -- just as one incurs debt. Recursing is a thing one does to a throne in Nethack, not something done with code.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Do people still regularly follow blogs? I haven't had a good app for this in nearly a decade, and it seems like anything that may be of interest will invariably show up on an aggregated news feed elsewhere.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
The only way profile building will survive is personalized recommendations from friends. Suggestions from people I know and trust would recover a lot of the current trust erosion: "your friends X and Y both have eaten here a few times&
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
When Musk inevitably makes insane changes to Twitter, Parag gets to point at them and say "those are the thing I wouldn't do as quickly as he wanted."
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
I love the "can I call" texts he sends. It's neat to see boomers all act the same about texting.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
About as much as anyone else at SpaceX: none at all.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
I agree. An intern experience entirely remote sounds like doing grunt work with extra steps.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Is the plan actually VR, or to use it as a stepping stone to AR?
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Most things most people search on the internet go through Google, who gets to show them ads. They do the same on YouTube. You're joking if you think Google is in any trouble.
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
The problem is nobody wants to use a device whose main login is a real-name social media account to view porn. Meta needs to completely split its Facebook /Insta logins from Meta accounts, moving them to something more akin to Apple lo
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Aren't Apple and Microsoft making AR/VR stuff, too?
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Full disclosure, I say this having spent days playing my Steam Deck now. It's a hardware channel to deliver you an ad platform selling you video games. Steam has better vertical integration (they are selling the games they are advertis
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Have you not been following the Steam Deck?
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by discardable_dan 4y ago
Couldn't someone with sufficient technical knowledge just write an AST dumper for GCC and release it as a patch? Isn't that the point of Free Software?

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