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by igouy 10mo ago
What if we try to measure rather than guess :-) https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 10mo ago
> Assuming that the IO is a necessary part of the benchmark … So make it significant, move giga like benchmarks game reverse-complement & fasta & … https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/
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by igouy 10mo ago
command line arguments would be unknown at compile time.
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by igouy 10mo ago
What if instead we measured with … BenchExec "uses the cgroups feature of the Linux kernel to correctly handle groups of processes and uses Linux user namespaces to create a container that restricts interference of [each program] with
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by igouy 10mo ago
Let's compare some independent measurements with in-process measurements of tiny tiny nbody programs: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... How significant are the differences for such ti
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by igouy 10mo ago
How much difference would it make for these tiny programs? https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 10mo ago
Even in verbose Java it's barely 20 lines. Makes the benchmarks game 100 lines seem like major apps. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.deb
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by igouy 10mo ago
iirc Last time I looked at this: public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException { Scanner s = new Scanner(new File("rounds.txt")); long rounds = s.nextLong(); s.close();
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by igouy 10mo ago
The previous HN comments are interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44612313
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by igouy 10mo ago
I would guess that the vast majority are not writing code for a project like Postgres or Linux. > (most/all?) junior & mid and many senior dev positions
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by igouy 10mo ago
> things need to work well on the devices people actually have Until 2025, WhatsApp was even on KaiOS
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by igouy 10mo ago
Things are a little confusing when we can both use the Smalltalk IDE with or without running our stuff. Code exploration tools are available before "running and inspecting" our stuff. We read the protocols and code without "r
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by igouy 10mo ago
> Reminds me of this There seemed to be a reasonable similarity at-first-glance, but the Art & Fear ceramics teacher / photography professor parable was intended to make a different point. This point — “to require perfection is
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by igouy 10mo ago
> static/explicit typing, which replaces the need for many of Smalltalk's features For example? Which Smalltalk features do compile-time type declarations replace?
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by igouy 10mo ago
> new ideas Don't add them to current development; add them to future development.
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by igouy 10mo ago
Goldilocks — not actionable.
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by igouy 10mo ago
The writers took the photo story and changed the words into a pottery story, to add some variety. The photo story isn't the whole story. Did the students know that the professor would also choose which were the best photos ? The &quo
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by igouy 10mo ago
What seems to be claimed is more like: If you make one single pot and you make 100 pots, at-least one of the 100 pots will be "better" than the single pot. (The 100th pot might be really bad.)
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by igouy 10mo ago
Supposedly — “Yes, the ‘ceramics story’ in ‘Art & Fear’ is indeed true, allowing for some literary license in the retelling. Its real-world origin was as a gambit employed by photographer Jerry Uelsmann to motivate his Beginning Photogr
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by igouy 10mo ago
@thehuntingphotographer > "… I’ll often shoot 1,000+ shots a day. Of course only a fraction of those shots are good but the act of repetition leads to perfection." Where's the evidence of improvement ? Maybe it's jus
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by igouy 10mo ago
> … these students were busy taking photos, experimenting with composition and lighting, testing out various methods in the darkroom, and learning from their mistakes. Why? Supposedly they would be graded A for exposing 100 frames of the
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by igouy 10mo ago
Even in film photography it can be cheap to create alternatives and choose between them. Other things aren't like that. Does the blogger mean something different than "Plan to throw one away - you will anyway. "
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by igouy 10mo ago
"We can use one, you, we and they to refer to ‘people in general’." https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/...
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by igouy 10mo ago
The author recognizes that they need to clarify what they don't mean -- "Moving fast does not mean …" but seemingly fails to say what they do mean.
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by igouy 10mo ago
Wrong criteria. Evaluate the number of successful outcomes! (Including the cancelled interventions when the surgeon recognized that surgery was not required.)
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by igouy 10mo ago
C# AOT "compiles fast enough" compared to Go or are you looking at C# JIT ? https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 10mo ago
That's purely speculation.
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by igouy 10mo ago
fwiw As someone without Ruby programming skills, my experience was that it does unpredictable "magic" things, which I did not find helpful when writing mundane code. fwiw
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by igouy 10mo ago
Choose any benchmark and line-by-line transliterate the programs to really make that point: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 11mo ago
> (to me) seems antithetical to the message passing and late-binding paradigms (To me) seems like build & deploy as dev process and message-passing & late-binding as implementation technique. Separate concerns, I probably misunde

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