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by hinkley 8mo ago
The scary knife robot is way, way more intimidating in person.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I think there’s too many expectations around what logging is for and getting everyone on the same page is difficult. Meanwhile stats have fewer expectations, and moving signal out of the logs into stats is a much much smaller battle to win.
453.
by hinkley 8mo ago
So you’re not getting alerts at 2 am from hallucinations?
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I think the context that some other responders are missing is that in some functional languages, like Elixir, streams and iterators are used idiomatically to do staged transforms of data without necessitating accumulation at each step. They
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I did a microbenchmark recently and found that on node 24, awaiting a sync function is about 90 times slower than just calling it. If the function is trivial, which can often be the case. If you go back a few versions, that number goes up t
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by hinkley 8mo ago
This time is different. That’s why we are even discussing it. The problem is that this time is 20% different, not the 80% people are implying it is. So the same things that killed it last time will kill it again, unless that 20% has gotte
457.
by hinkley 8mo ago
I first encountered this thirty four years ago and I still hate it. Almost as much as I hate when people ask me to explain it. Look man, I didn’t invent this stupid shit, and I’m not telling you it’s brilliant, so don’t kill the messenger.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Tha was my assumption as well. I caught iOS trying to autocorrect something I wrote twice yesterday, and somehow before I hit submit it managed it a third time, and I had to edit it after, where it tried three more times to change it back.
459.
by hinkley 8mo ago
How do you make an LLM that’s was trained on average Internet code not end up as a midwit? Mediocrity in, mediocrity out.
460.
by hinkley 8mo ago
One of those spherical ice cube makers but made of cast iron, a little like those little waffle makers.
461.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Does that mean we should be designing HBM into consumer devices?
462.
by hinkley 8mo ago
I used to know people who lived near Micron factories and it was just boom and bust over there for decades. Hire a bunch of people, then big layoff.
463.
by hinkley 8mo ago
I helped someone turn that on because we still didn’t have full furniture sets in our houses and new memory was going to have to wait a couple paychecks. Several times I set about trying to turn it on and found out a whole chip was fried an
464.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Heating the middle has to be a pain. And cutting it…
465.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Generational GC assumes that short lived objects tend to come in groups, which is probably the best you can do in an OO language with shared everything.
466.
by hinkley 8mo ago
See also arena allocation, for realtime systems. But those systems typically require that any task have a reasonably tight upper bound on memory usage.
467.
by hinkley 8mo ago
At the time that article was published in SIGPLAN, the dominant language was Java, which is officially statically, strongly typed. Although really it isn’t because the JVM is strongly typed but evaluates some things at load or first invocat
468.
by hinkley 8mo ago
That’s the OO way. Of which C++ is an instance.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
As I just mentioned in another reply, the problem they were trying to solve was hierarchies where it makes sense for a group of types to be constructed by the combination of two or three narrowly scoped interfaces. For instance, if you trea
470.
by hinkley 8mo ago
The problem they were trying to solve was multiple inheritance, and by nominal type not by code reuse. So interfaces, basically. So these guys essentially assigned a hashcode to every function of every interface and then you would do dispat
471.
by hinkley 8mo ago
I wonder if I still have the link. One of the papers I had bookmarked when toying with my own language design was someone that had worked out how to make interfaces as fast or faster than vtables by using perfect hashing and using the vtabl
472.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Every Albert, Alfred, or Alphonso who goes by “Al” getting confused with bots right now…
473.
by hinkley 8mo ago
I use “-“ because I thought the amount of parentheticals I was using was a bit unhinged. In these times of TLDR, I sometimes move the aside to the bottom as an afterthought instead of leaving it inline. I dunno this en versus em dash stuff,
474.
by hinkley 8mo ago
I reliably pickup times are amplified by the number of stops that are made. The stop and go time is fixed. The amount of time it takes 2 people to exit a bus versus four is lot linear. It depends on how full the bus is. But it definitely do
475.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Waiting for the umpteenth bus stop when I used to commute by them, I kept thinking how much earlier I would get to work if we had bus lines that stopped every other bus stop with strategically placed transfer stations, where you could switc
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by hinkley 8mo ago
The number of people I know who honor TODOs is pretty slim, but I find it does in fact help if you get people to stick their initials next to it. Over enough refactors a TODO can lose its meaning and author. TODO (DKH) - This should handle
477.
by hinkley 8mo ago
Sounds like Tapestry. Had a friend who loved it but he stopped talking about it after the 4th major architecture shift.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
The American flag hung on a wall they didn't even bother to paint is a good sign it's not a serious long-term effort. Steve Jobs would have fired someone over that obvious broken window situation, and he'd have been (mostly)
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by hinkley 8mo ago
It also turns out that for insurance purposes you are allowed to use infill to get the corner of a property that's below the high water mark above it. At least in some states. Some of the calculus is not about if it will flood it'
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by hinkley 8mo ago
PSA: If your buddy starts running from a brown bear, stand very, very still. They like to chase things and they're way faster than you are.

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