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by fire_lake 2y ago
Yes it’s much worse. With Wikipedia we all see the same output and can review it together.
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Windows Mobile 6.5 style revival here we come!
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Presumably this is intended to lead into an argument that because we disagree on exactly where the limit should be we shouldn’t have a limit at all. We could make the same case against drunk driving, speed limits, age of consent laws, maxim
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by fire_lake 2y ago
If we’re assuming an IDE that can arbitrarily change text layout and rendering I don’t see why it matters where the comment goes
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Annoyingly it pushes the type definitions away from the function body when you have a particularly long doc. It’s a cute trick but docs above would have been better.
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Traditional languages will not remove the features that make them poor for configuration. I can’t imagine Python dropping the ability to query the current date, for example.
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Efficiency is not resilient. Supply chains were efficient before Covid and look what happened. Efficiency is a non-goal for government. I’m surprised that DOGE engineers (who presumably have deployed a load balancer or two) don’t understand
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Since you are not terribly overweight you could reach a healthy weight with relatively minor lifestyle and diet adjustments. Isn’t this preferable to the side effects (some probably unknown) involved in these drugs? Genuine question.
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Jane Street leadership have said that programming languages matter. I think they just really believe in FP.
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by fire_lake 2y ago
It’s true - people were saying that Poetry solves these problems for ages. Maybe uv does? I’ll wait and see.
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by fire_lake 2y ago
How can they compete with well capitalized start ups?
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by fire_lake 2y ago
It’s about guarantees vs eternal vigilance.
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Starlark does not expose sources of randomness like date.now()
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Big song and dance to call the OpenAI rest endpoint.
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Apple must know how many people jumped from mini to pro (smallest to smallest) and I bet it’s tiny.
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by fire_lake 2y ago
What percentage of JS programmers actually work on this stuff I wonder?
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Fascinating. I think Meta is a big winner from this - they still control the content and now mining it for value has been proven even cheaper by DeepSeek.
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Whitespace works better in the context of statically typed functional programming, I’ll give you that!
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Immutability Changes Everything (2016) [pdf](cidrdb.org)
118 points by fire_lake 2y ago|42 comments
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by fire_lake 2y ago
It’s quicker to move code around with whitespace because you can just tab it in and out, move lines etc. The best solution is to ban tabs entirely from the syntax - only allow spaces in multiples of 2.
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by fire_lake 2y ago
JavaScript (and variants) is
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Expect the unexpected, basically. Not a useful article.
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by fire_lake 2y ago
In other languages we can do a poor man’s IO with a function like: () => console.log(“abc”) Is this really so different from IO everywhere in Haskell?
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by fire_lake 2y ago
> Which items you have seen previously is something the feed reader keeps track of. Is there a particular field that can be used as an identifier?
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by fire_lake 2y ago
(5) does not follow. We could use a strongly typed monolith with a purely functional core
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Seems like this works best for small pure functions in a strongly typed language. Is pure core / imperative shell more LLM friendly?
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Question about the RSS spec: When pulling RSS, how do you know how often to poll? How do you know which items have been seen previously?
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by fire_lake 2y ago
People forget that for a long time ASML was government backed
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by fire_lake 2y ago
Even better would be if you could specify the dependencies inside of the script. Edit: might be possible now? https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/one-shot-python-tools/
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by fire_lake 2y ago
I think we are agreeing :)

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