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by hintymad 8mo ago
> The value of human thinking is going down The value of human repeating other human's know-how through hard work and thinking is going down. Unfortunately (or fortunately?), many types of programming is one human repeating other hu
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by hintymad 8mo ago
> Which is to say that the pleasure I get from programming is mostly about > learning the underlying truths about computation and applying what I’ve > learned. Always improving the craft. This, to me, is the practice of > pro
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by hintymad 8mo ago
I don't know. I lost all my trust to the democrats when the Biden government used a bulldozer to tear open the barbwire to allow people to enter our border freely, and his spokesperson told us the border was fine. At that moment, the d
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by hintymad 8mo ago
> RustFS and SeaweedFS are the fastest in the object storage field. I'm not sure if SeaweedFS is comparable. It's based on Facebook's Haystack design, which is used to address a very specific use case: minimizing the IOs,
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by hintymad 8mo ago
This level if geekiness is amazing. I hope more, a lot more, Americans can get into STEMS with this level of passion. It's sad that in the past few decades more and more people seemed to forget that STEM is a pillar of the modern civil
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by hintymad 8mo ago
Maybe a better question is: Is natural language to code what high-level programming is to hand-written assembly? Brooks claims the "essential complexity" lies in the specification: if a spec is precise enough to be executable, it’
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by hintymad 8mo ago
Which university offers compiler for freshmen? Can you provide a link to the course?
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by hintymad 8mo ago
One thing that I realized was that a lot of our so-called "craft" is converged "know-how". Take the recent news that Anthropic used Claude Code to write a C compiler for example, writing compiler is hard (and fun) for us
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by hintymad 9mo ago
Yeah, human brain is amazing. After I reading many AI replies, this kind style just stands out, even though I can't precisely describe it.
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by hintymad 9mo ago
> He told me that he had worked to develop a tool that would replace effectively all of the middle management function that he was responsible for: gathering information from folks below him, distilling it down and reporting that to peop
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by hintymad 9mo ago
People may have forgotten what happened back in early 2000s. Outsourcing was all the rage, and people in the US were really concerned. And then it came the explosive growth of internet, of mobile, of cloud, of social network, and etc. And t
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by hintymad 9mo ago
My bad. I meant Guangdong Province
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by hintymad 9mo ago
I think they should (in practice there could be something in the middle). Yes, they may have more bickering with the US, but that's just part of the messy diplomatic process. At the end of the day, we want to see strong allies that sha
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by hintymad 9mo ago
In a way, isn't it what the Americans and even the current administration want? We want a strong Europe who is keen on preserving and developing the glorious modern civilization that it created. We want a strong Europe who can build an
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by hintymad 9mo ago
> The biggest surprise to me with all this low-quality contribution spam is how little shame people apparently have My guess is that those people have different incentives. They need to build a portfolio of open-source contributions, so
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by hintymad 9mo ago
Yeah, I forgot voter ID. All democratic countries mandate voter ID except the US and another couple(?). Yeah, as if only the US has the "voter access" problem
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by hintymad 9mo ago
What I failed to understand is why only in the US the voting procedure is so controversial. Want paper vote? That's racism. Want counting in a day? That's xenophobia. Want to limit certain time window for counting? That's def
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by hintymad 9mo ago
Case in point, it's news that Canada leaned toward partnering with China when having dispute with the US, but it would be a joke 20 years ago. It's a humiliation that the US brought upon itself: you can't produce things that
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by hintymad 9mo ago
This too. Many people argue that if we weaken the dollar enough, the manufacturing will come back.
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by hintymad 9mo ago
In particular, the pentagon has so many suppliers in China. Oh, the KPIs (key pharmaceutical ingredients) are produced by China too. We even had shortage of saline solution when China was having a supply crunch. So when a conflict, let alon
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by hintymad 9mo ago
> Why is manufacturing so special? As opposed to something like software? I assume that dollar will be strong if people want to buy stuff from the US, which requires using the US currency. Software indeed is a strong sector. I'm jus
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by hintymad 9mo ago
Honest question: isn't it just a matter of time before US dollar loses its dominance, given that US has been losing its manufacturing business? I mean, can people really keep investing in the US market if they need less and less stuff
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by hintymad 9mo ago
Dashboard is just an example. The gist is how much of know-how that we use in our work can be replaced by AI transforming other people's existing work. I think it hinges on how many new problems or new business demands will show up. If
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by hintymad 9mo ago
It looks there's a difference this time: copying the details of other people's work has become exceedingly easy and reliable, at least for commonly tried use cases. Say I want to vibe code a dashboard, and AI codes it out. It work
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by hintymad 9mo ago
You're right. I updated it to "in a single sector". The context is about the future demand of software engineers, hence I was wondering if it would be possible that we wouldn't have enough demand for such profession, des
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by hintymad 9mo ago
This wave of AI innovation reveals that a lot of activity in coding turns out to be of accidental complexity instead of essential. Or put it another way, a lot of tasks in coding is conceptual to human, but procedural to AI. Conceptual task
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by hintymad 9mo ago
Jevon's Paradox does not last forever in a single sector, right? Take manufacturing business for example. We can make more and more stuff with increasingly lower price, yet we ended up outsourcing our manufacturing and the entire secto
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by hintymad 9mo ago
> The total surface area of "stuff that needs building" keeps expanding. I certainly hope so, but it depends on whether we will have more demand for such problems. AI can code out a complex project by itself because we humans d
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by hintymad 10mo ago
AI coding tools are effective for many because, unfortunately, our work has become increasingly repetitive. When someone marvels at how a brief prompt can produce functioning code, it simply means the AI has delivered a more imaginative or
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by hintymad 10mo ago
> Parsing a known HTML structure, transforming a table, running a financial simulation. Transforming an arbitrary table is still hard, especially a table on a webpage or in a document. Sometimes I even struggle to find the right library.

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