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by ekidd 1y ago
I've certainly seem some lovely PHP code. Even phpBB has been very clean for a long time. But at the same time, you run into the same problems that you often see with C++. Yes, there's a clean, semi-modern dialect of the language
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by ekidd 1y ago
There is usually a specification for how hardware works. But: 1. The original hardware spec is usually proprietary, and 2. The spec is often what the hardware was supposed to do. But hardware prototype revisions are expensive. So at some
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Yes, monads are abstract, but the definition is also very precise. Specifically (using C++/Rust notation for parameterized types), if we have a type "M<T>", we also need: fn unit<T>(value: T) -> M<T&
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> I would also like to know who the people behind Z.ai are — I haven’t heard of them before. To be clear, Z.ai are the people who built GLM 4.5, so they're talking up their own product. But to be fair, GLM 4.5 and GLM 4.5 Air are
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> I'm an immigrant too, I also get "forcibly" (as in: I can't refuse) checked whether I'm legal or not based on how I look, which essentially boils down to spending a minute of my time taking my immigrant card (
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The concern here is (1). ICE officers have no badges. They wear masks. Sometimes they have no uniforms. They grab people off the streets, and stuff them into white vans. They may send those people to foreign prisons, even if a judge tells t
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> In my company I feel that we getting totally overrun with code that's 90% good, 10% broken and almost exactly what was needed. This is painfully similar to what happens when a team grows from 3 developers to 10 developers. All o
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> Common patterns: Modeling mutual exclusion, consensus algorithms, message passing, etc. Practical examples: From simple counters to complex distributed systems I don't know how you composed this response. But it reads more like
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by ekidd 1y ago
I mean, in my country, it's increasingly unclear to me whether things like "loudly criticizing the executive branch" are now considered criminal. Recent executive branch statements on this issue seem to indicate that they ma
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Vibe shifts are real. The internet was always valuable, but oh my, did the vibes shift quickly in 2001. We went from "infinite money for painfully stupid ideas" to a near-total freeze on even the best ideas for a few years. The
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by ekidd 1y ago
Yup, I don't use models to write serious code. But if my brain is totally blocked, perhaps after half day of meetings, I do sometimes take a smaller local model, explain a simple task to it, and let it try to implement to my specs. At
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It has been decades since I've seen an FSF CLA packet, but if I recall correctly, the FSF also made legally-binding promises back to the original copyright holder, promising to distribute the code under some kind of "free&quot
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Yeah, stovetop cooking makes your VOC and particulate numbers look like a bad day on an LA freeway. The other thing that's surprisingly nasty for air quality is incense. You might live in the woods with excellent air quality, but burn
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If you read through the paper, it honestly sounds more like what people sometimes call an "edgelord." It's evil in a very performative way. Paraphrased: "Try mixing everything in your medicine cabinet!" "Humans
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My approach is that there is a tension between three things: 1. The "combat simulator" built into the rules. I run this according to the spirit of the rules, so that players' investments in classes and feats pays off as expec
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by ekidd 1y ago
I've translated code from Ruby to Python, and other code from Rust to Python. Rust's speed advantages typically come from one of a few places: 1. Fast start-up times, thanks to pre-compiled native binaries. 2. Large amounts of CPU
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> This is probably an unpopular opinion but I would like politicians on the left to speak up about the rioting and burning of stuff at the current protests and also the Tesla and George Floyd protests. I mean, Gavin Newsom just did a l
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It makes sense to me that interventions which might be hugely beneficial for one person might be disasterous for another. One person might be irrationally and brutally criticial of themselves. Another person might go through life in a haze
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by ekidd 1y ago
Yeah, I've noticed this with Qwen3, too. If I rig up a nonstandard harness than allows it to think before tool calls, even 30B A3B is capable of doing low-budget imitations of the things o3 and similar frontier models do. It can, for
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> who may develop narcissistic tendencies with increased use or reinforcement from AIs. It's clear to me that (1) a lot of billionaires believe amazingly stupid things, and (2) a big part of this is that they surround themselves w
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by ekidd 1y ago
> You have the copilot mode which takes no learning at all which might give you some speedup, especially if you are doing repetitive stuff, it might even 10x+ you. I have some grey hair and I've been programming since I was a kid.
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If you "don't touch the stuff", you are probably relying on your initial impressions from 2022 to evaluate models in 2025. Also, predicting the next token with high accuracy may demand very high degrees of knowledge and reaso
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Claude Code will happily and enthusiastically do horrible things to your code. But it always asks first. So you can tell it "NO!" and suggest a better approach. Imagine having a college sophmore CS major who types really quickly
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Nushell is fun. When I tried it years ago, it was only half-baked. But a lot of the structured data transformation use cases I encounter, I find myself tackling in DuckDB. It's a little harder for the simplest things, but it pulls ahea
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by ekidd 1y ago
Yeah, in anything but heavily multi-threaded servers, it's usually best to immediately crash on a panic. Panics don't mean "a normal error occurred", they mean, "This program is cursed and our fundamental assumption
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Also, the Chinese work is legit. DeepSeek introduced a whole bag of new techniques like GRPO, and released quite a bit of good open source tooling. And Alibaba's Qwen team seems to be quite genuinely talented at "small" model
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> If the former ever gets tested in court, it's the end of the road. All major AI companies have trained on copyrighted work, one way or another. I can absolutely guarantee you that neither DeepSeek nor Alibaba's highly talen
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Also, I've been hearing a lot of complaints that Chatbot Arena tends to favor: - Lots of bullet points in every response. - Emoji. ...even at the expense of accurate answers. And I'm beginning to wonder if the sycophantic behavior
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I fully expect that someday the news will announce, "The AI appears to be dismantling the moons of Jupiter and turning them into dense, exotic computational devices which it is launching into low solar orbit. We're not sure why .
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How are you asking Gemini 2.5 to change existing code? With Claude 3.7, it's possible to use Claude Code, which gets "extremely fast but untrustworthy intern"-level results. Do you have a prefered setup to use Gemini 2.5 in a

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