jakobnissen

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by jakobnissen 1mo ago
I don’t think that’s right. The US government cares a lot about what the public thinks about them. They propagandize actively on social media, the president puts his personal name onceverything, they are extremely persistent in their messag
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by jakobnissen 1mo ago
No I don’t know how he gets that info. Most contributions to the language these days are AI assisted, but that’s a completely different matter. IMO if you can afford AI assistance, it would be irresponsible to not use it, given how good AIs
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by jakobnissen 1mo ago
You can not be serious in suggesting these aren’t straight up Python correctness bugs. Exactly the same kind that Yuri brought up as damning evidence of Julia unseriousness, but for Python with easily 25x the user base.
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by jakobnissen 2mo ago
Completely true, but Mojo approaches the problem from a different angle. Where Julia aims to blend fast and slow code seamlessly, Mojo's solution is to have a set of opt-in semantics that ensure fast code.
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by jakobnissen 2mo ago
No, this is not splitting hairs. This is the author using the straight up wrong terminology. Regex can’t match HTML, and aren’t NP-complete. The fact that the author believes that “regex obviously means PCRE” is objectively wrong and mislea
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by jakobnissen 2mo ago
This article misleads you by conflating regular expressions with specific implementations like PCRE, which also does non-regex string matches. Annoyingly, the article does a good job of explaining what a regex is and what the limitations of
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by jakobnissen 2mo ago
Yes but the question is why Ruff has not released v1 yet. They’re clearly used in production and the entire purpose of v0.x is to signal a project is early in development and is expected to have coarse edges.
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by jakobnissen 3mo ago
But being non-inclusive by speaking to a particular cultural reference frame is not the same as being racist.
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by jakobnissen 4mo ago
But that’s exactly what the inflation measures of the BLS is - someone doing the math on what all these things cost.
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by jakobnissen 4mo ago
Why is the government measured inflation not the same as real inflation?
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by jakobnissen 4mo ago
Their outages are probably not due to their code though. It’s probably their infrastructure that can’t keep up. So seeing failures of infrastructure doesn’t really tell you anything about how good or bad Anthropic makes use of their models.
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by jakobnissen 4mo ago
This sounds horrifying. It’s one of those stories that makes me think in just how many ways our bodies or minds can break or malfunction in terrifying ways. Any one of us could, right now, carry a lethal tumor that hasn’t been discovered. B
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by jakobnissen 5mo ago
But surely, whether or not the Internet mob moves on has no bearing on what actual lessons to learn from this saga. Will the vibe rewrite turn out to be a disaster or are LLMs already capable of writing human level code at this scale? That
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by jakobnissen 5mo ago
I would guess that the continued success of Rust have shown that we don’t have to live with the user-hostility of C in order to write system programs. Therefore, people are understandably growing less and less patient with C and its unendin
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by jakobnissen 5mo ago
The boring answer is that I don’t use huge dependencies that takes minutes to compile, and I don’t lean on the LSP - I tend to put more effort in reading the code. In my experience you really gotta work with the tools the language gives you
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by jakobnissen 5mo ago
You work for sandwiches and coffee, and not for a decent salary?
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by jakobnissen 5mo ago
When people treat you badly, you confront them. If they won't change behaviour and you don't have any recourse, you avoid them. You *don't* compromise your own morals, and you *absolutely* don't advocate cheating in gene
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by jakobnissen 6mo ago
Yeah I’ve seen this too. It’s difficult for me to tell if the complaints are due to a legitimate undisclosed nerf of Claude, or whether it’s just the initial awe of Opus 4.6 fading and people increasingly noticing its mistakes.
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by jakobnissen 7mo ago
I have used Julia for my main language for years. Yes, it really does solve the two language problem. It really is as fast as C and as expressive as Python. It then gives you a bunch of new problems. First and foremost that you now work in
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by jakobnissen 7mo ago
China is not - Chinas coal consumption is stagnating with about zero growth from 2024 to 2025. China is far more serious than the EU about the green transition. Despite being poorer than the poorest EU country they are dominating renewable
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by jakobnissen 7mo ago
Juniors are not as capable of delegating to AI as seniors are. Delegation to AI requires code review, catching the AI when it doesn’t follow good engineering practices, and catching the AI in semantic mistakes due to the AIs lack of broader
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by jakobnissen 7mo ago
Would they really be intercepted though? IIUC, no country on Earth has an appreciable number of antiballistic missiles, and the success rate isn’t great.
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by jakobnissen 8mo ago
Nope. Funnily enough no one can agree on why - if you ask five people, you get six answers. My own take is that Julia didn’t since the two language problem as much as was defeated by it. Julia didn’t attract the high-level Python data scien
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by jakobnissen 8mo ago
But I can move freely to Germany and get employed there as an EU citizen. Or, my competitors in the job market do, leaving more jobs for men And taxes pain in Germany also goes to the common EU budget. So the success of a German company als
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by jakobnissen 8mo ago
That is because The Atlantic is not a monolithic hive mind, but employs journalists of different persuasions, who each cover their story from their own world view. So what you’re seeing is not The Atlantic being hypocritical, or flip floppy
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by jakobnissen 8mo ago
It's more like automated, industrial stuff is cheap, while land and human labor is expensive (and thank God for that!) Some old stuff is now cheap: Grain, oils, clothes, steel, heating, electricity and books, for example.
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by jakobnissen 8mo ago
If you use Claude Code, it will take you half a day to learn to use Codex, and like 30 minutes to start being productive in it. The switching cost is almost zero. Just go test out GPT 5.3, there is no reason not to
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by jakobnissen 8mo ago
For the people comparing the dependence on US tech to US dependence on ASML: It’s not the same. US software providers can shut down their software services in an instant, paralyzing European societies. If the US government forces them to, M
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by jakobnissen 8mo ago
No way that created the modern Islamic Iran. Carter supporter the shah. To the extend USA decided the outcome, it was by supporting the shah for too long, and for the US role in the 1953 coup. But IMO the USa played third fiddle in that sto
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by jakobnissen 8mo ago
The fact that Julia “highly optimized” is 30x faster than the normal Julia implementation, yet still fails to reach for some pretty obvious optimizations, and uses a joke package called “SuperDataStructures” tells me that maybe this benchma

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