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by gizmo 2y ago
Did you notice how nobody in this thread has argued that rust should optimize for binary size or that rust is somehow wrong for having made the trade-offs that it did? People who have only worked with languages that produce large executable
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by gizmo 2y ago
$ rustc --version && rustc hello.rs && ls -alh hello rustc 1.84.1 e71f9a9a9 2025-01-27 -rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 9.1M hello So 9.1 MB on my machine. And as I pointed out in a comment below, your release binary of 440k is still
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by gizmo 2y ago
My point was that many programmers have no conception of much functionality you can fit in a program of a few megabytes. Here is a pastebin[1] of a Python program that creates a "Hello world" x64 elf binary. How large do you think
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by gizmo 2y ago
Tech stack and product quality are highly correlated in the real world.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Microsoft rewrote Minecraft in C++, so maybe not the best example?
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by gizmo 2y ago
"Use whatever technologies you know well and enjoy using" != "Use the tech stack that produces the highest quality product".
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by gizmo 2y ago
Yes, there is a generation of programmers that doesn't believe something like File Pilot is even possible.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Most regular people buy a new phone when their old one has "gotten slow". And why do phones get slow? "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away." In tech circles regular people are believed to be stupid and blind. They are nei
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by gizmo 2y ago
This argument always feels like a motte and bailey to me. Users don't literally care what what tech is used to build a product. Of course not, why would they? But that's not how the argument is used in practice. In practice this a
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by gizmo 2y ago
There are exceptions to every rule but most of the time you're way better of when you use simple and reliable technology. If you need to copy something between servers you probably don't need anything more complicated than rsync.
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by gizmo 2y ago
C++ was also very popular and fashionable at some point. It also promised better type safety and better memory management than C. Now, 20 years later, it's easy see that C++ didn't deliver on all of its promises about better abstr
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by gizmo 2y ago
When a model is trained you end up with nothing more than a bunch of weights. These weights are used to predict the next token in a sequence. LLM models do not have an external memory. LLMs only retain enough knowledge to make it into the n
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by gizmo 2y ago
Technological change is like a force of nature. It's not polite. It doesn't care about your or your neighbor's preferences. It doesn't present itself as a gift. It doesn't even matter whether AI is harmful or benefi
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by gizmo 2y ago
You, individually, can make whichever choices you think are best for you. But change is forced on societies. No country can afford to ignore AI. Countries must adapt or get ran over. This is not a moral justification. I don't believe a
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by gizmo 2y ago
New York at one point had 150,000 horses, each producing 15 to 30 pounds of manure daily. On top of that they produced 40,000 gallons of horse urine. Imagine the stench. https://danszczesny.substack.com/p/the-great-hors
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by gizmo 2y ago
If you fight the system you're not going to have a good time. For incremental improvements (faster grep, mixed-language syntax highlighting) you get the benefits for free. You don't have to change anything about the way you work.
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by gizmo 2y ago
1. I broadly agree with your points, especially with your points on the regulatory burden. I also agree that it's much harder to win a fractured EU market than a single market. Here we can point to US startups that struggle to win indi
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by gizmo 2y ago
1. There is no shortage of startup capital in Europe. European VC funding is almost half of US venture funding. Startup funding in Europe just doesn't produce big winners. 2. There are moderately profitable companies in Europe, and m
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by gizmo 2y ago
It's a good thing that EU leadership is finally waking up to the urgency of renewed competitiveness, but the greatest problems are not addressed or even mentioned: 1. Europe's most ambitious entrepreneurs leave for silicon valley
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by gizmo 2y ago
Not really because you have to use the same algorithms during subsequent lookups. Imagine you add a bunch of items with insert algorithm A, then you cross some threshold and you insert some more items with Algorithm B. Then you delete (tomb
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by gizmo 2y ago
Flatpak is winning on Linux because when every app has its own dependency chain of packages it becomes totally impossible to run older versions of an app or to run multiple versions side-by-side. Proper sandboxing is way too hard when files
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by gizmo 2y ago
Based on the encyclopedic knowledge LLMs have of written works I assume all parties did the same. But I think there is a broader point to make here. Youtube was initially a ghost town (it started as a dating site) and it only got traction o
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by gizmo 2y ago
I agree with your criticisms of the justice system except that your proposed solutions haven't worked anywhere. Yes the plea practice is abusive and coercive. It has to be because otherwise suspects would exercise their right to a tria
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by gizmo 2y ago
> For example, prohibit plea bargaining so that all convictions require a trial and it's forbidden to impose any penalty for demanding one. Many in jail awaiting trial are very guilty and the outcome of the legal proceeding is effec
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by gizmo 2y ago
I don't think those types of hypotheticals are taken very seriously in court rooms. One, they are effectively unfalsifiable, because it's a about harm that could have happened but didn't. Two, they can be applied universally.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Very off-topic but it's this: https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral... GP misremembered what the 500 casualties number refers to (see article).
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by gizmo 2y ago
Scenario 1: an ambitious guy in his early twenties fails and writes anonymously about how it feels to see your company collapse and your investors shun you. He felt alone and ashamed and he had to pick himself up. Scenario 2: a guy who alre
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by gizmo 2y ago
Fast following is still super hard. No AI startup in Europe can match DeepSeek for instance, and not for lack of trying.
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by gizmo 2y ago
> Google's algorithms and page crawlers were not that revolutionary or different from anything the other search engines were doing; Google was revolutionary when it launched. It was clean, super fast, and had way superior search res
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by gizmo 2y ago
Dropbear is the solution for this.

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