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by habitue 5y ago
Eh, I mean we've been building computer chips for approximately the same amount of time as computer software, and it's pretty clear chip engineering is more like civil engineering than software engineering. I would guess many of t
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by habitue 5y ago
For rust in particular, there is just such an intermediate representation called MIR that has desugared AST, control flow graph, type inference and lifetime information baked into it so it can be reused to speed up incremental builds. But t
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by habitue 5y ago
> that makes the compiler much faster because tokenization/lexing is moved to the "save" phase which happens infrequently at human scale For dynamic languages like Ruby or Python, storing a pre-parsed representation makes
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by habitue 5y ago
There's important value in both points of view. So Thiel's point is that competitive businesses, at best, lead to thin margins. Startups should avoid competition, go into a new space, build a moat and enjoy fat margins. But there&
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by habitue 5y ago
Will Crichton just open sourced flowistry for Rust: https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry It's a vscode plugin that analyzes the data flow graph, and lets you do things like highlight statements that depend on
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by habitue 5y ago
I am really looking for a "code review is a waste of time, let's skip it" article. Seems like there's a market need that isn't being fulfilled.
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by habitue 5y ago
> In fact, the very fact that they went to the SEC to tell them what they were up to and check if it was legal is a bit of a red flag. You might come to this conclusion if you think of laws as creating a fine boundary between legal and i
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by habitue 5y ago
They're guaranteeing it in the same way that when you buy a corporate bond with a 4% yield, you're guaranteed to get the money[0]. A bond is still a security. [0] Right? Counterparty risk!
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by habitue 5y ago
Other commenters have mentioned that these particular points have been refuted elsewhere, so I won't rehash that. But I do think it's interesting that the author frames the "orthodox" position as the one taking AI alignm
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by habitue 5y ago
Really fascinating counter-argument to this view is here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien... The basic idea is that, the smarter you are and the faster you can think, the more informat
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by habitue 5y ago
I think there are also opportunities to have a case dismissed before going into the costly parts of a trial like discovery. The judge can dismiss it just based on the merits of the suit, where they just assume all the alleged facts will tur
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by habitue 5y ago
> the price we pay to afford the top-notch. So, usually when people say this about sturgeon's law type stuff, it's because we genuinely don't know how to determine what's crap and what's not overall. For example,
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by habitue 5y ago
I would expect .NET to have excellent .xlsx capabilities? Most libraries have an easy way to write those from tabular data.
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by habitue 5y ago
Objectively, CSV is terrible for humans despite being a plaintext format. No one reads CSVs: they're incomprehensible since the columns are not aligned with the headings. (You might be drawing an analogy with JSON, which is often human
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by habitue 5y ago
It's probably not news to anyone who works with data that CSVs are inferior to other file formats like parquet. I think the valuable insight here is that there needs to be a meme / movement that CSV is bad or deprecated. That&#x27
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by habitue 5y ago
Right, but is parkour a well-understood problem with formulas and solutions? I think there's also a tendency to go "You just need linear regression" a lot when actually, well, there is a reason people are excited about new AI
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by habitue 5y ago
Well, like the real reason is that the web is a threat to the app store. So, likely we'd just see some new excuse (if they even bother)
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by habitue 5y ago
A scam can't be defined by the mere legal definition of fraud. A true scam is all about the feeling of people on the internet. Somehow people always forget that.
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by habitue 5y ago
This was a long thread but it was very entertaining. Read like an episode of Silicon Valley.
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by habitue 5y ago
This isn't the highest form of wealth, since health + $1B is clearly more wealthy than just a garden variety healthy person. (I take your point about not taking good health for granted)
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by habitue 5y ago
This is a worthless nitpick but redstone in Minecraft was added explicitly so people could do crazy things like build calculators etc. It's still cool, but not exactly unexpected
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by habitue 5y ago
I think the big divide here is between tech companies and non tech companies. Tech companies can look at the agile manifesto and use it as a heuristic guide, because engineers are already kind of on the same page about it. You don't ne
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by habitue 5y ago
I am really confused by HN's response to copilot. It seems like before the twitter thread on it went viral, the only people who cared about programmers copying (verbatim!) short snippets of code like this would be lawyers and executive
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What do shells do and do we need them?(blog.abor.dev)
2 points by habitue 5y ago|0 comments
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Routes to Discovering Rust(blog.abor.dev)
2 points by habitue 5y ago|0 comments
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by habitue 5y ago
(author here) I probably should have mentioned it more prominently in the post, but Martin's first language isn't English (he's Czech). So not out of the loop, but the exact connotation of the phrase is something I personall
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by habitue 5y ago
(author of post here) I didn't get the impression from speaking with Martin that he was trying to gatekeep. He's spent a lot of time on github and in discord helping people learn Seed and MoonZoon. In the context of hiring, I thin
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by habitue 5y ago
Wow, didn't realize this was started in 2013
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by habitue 5y ago
It seems like WebGPU is the next thing: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/Implementation-Status
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Rust on the Frontend and Backend(blog.abor.dev)
2 points by habitue 5y ago|0 comments

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