jstimpfle

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by jstimpfle 7d ago
I don't even have to search. Given the frequency of you repeating the same old tired stories, one is bound to stumble over your comments every other day.
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by jstimpfle 7d ago
There is plenty history of you repeating the same strawmans literally thousands of times. I've just never seen _anyone_ on HN (or elsewhere for that matter) make such claims?
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by jstimpfle 7d ago
You repeating this weird strawman take a million times doesn't make it true. Why don't you finally just put out some genuinely interesting projects demonstrating how everybody was doing it wrong, so people can make up their own mi
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by jstimpfle 13d ago
For the most part, software does not exist in a vacuum. If there is a serious bug, or much improved feature, in a library you depend on, what do you do? Most likely you'll try to upgrade the library. Same deal for the compiler, it&#x27
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by jstimpfle 19d ago
I believe there are many top level chess masters that consider chess an art. Same for programmers, to many of the best, it is an art form or at least a craft that they take very seriously. And many would disagree that programming is solved.
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by jstimpfle 20d ago
Good to point out the difference between taxes and other tariffs, but I have a hard time understanding why you have to call what I said "wrong"? What you went to explain in detail is exactly what I alluded to, that also matches th
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by jstimpfle 22d ago
The prices of so many things have gone down with times due to increased efficiencies. Why not electricity? If solar PV is cheaper than fossils, I would, naive as I am, expect prices to go down. (I acknowledge fossils have been going up for
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by jstimpfle 22d ago
FTR and for the inevitable downvoters, I am not a fan of fossil energy. I am merely a fan of well presented arguments, and downvotes aren't that.
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by jstimpfle 22d ago
What I am saying is that those spot prices may not represent all of the reneweables' marginal costs. Question is, will the end consumer prices ever go down, and by how much?
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by jstimpfle 22d ago
I was under the impression that the taxes are going into infrastructure and grants for renewable energies, meaning those energy prices are maybe way higher than advertised. Funny thing is we are constantly being told how cheap reneweables a
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by jstimpfle 22d ago
Why I said not only... but also.
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by jstimpfle 22d ago
This is interesting, but now explain why Germany has both the highest electricity prices in Europe as well as a relatively high CO2 footprint from electricity? Germany is buying not only nuclear but also coal energy from neighbouring countr
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by jstimpfle 1mo ago
Not following Omarchy, not even sure what it is trying to be compared to existing distros (other than an incredibly hyped up product). Not hating on DHH. But hasn't he become famous for developing a web framework (20 years ago), rather
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by jstimpfle 1mo ago
I actually explained well enough why this requires to a large degree a competent developer to judge.
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by jstimpfle 1mo ago
Good, you achieved a 10% speedup for a particular workload that some users said they care about. But how do you find out that was really the feature that should have been built next? How do you prevent adding badly factored code? How to mak
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by jstimpfle 1mo ago
How do you measure them if you don't understand what you're doing? A shitty benchmark or small test suite is not how solid software gets made.
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by jstimpfle 1mo ago
What are you talking about?
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by jstimpfle 1mo ago
How do you judge "better" if you don't understand the LLM output?
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by jstimpfle 1mo ago
Yes -- I can see good use for runtimes. For example, compiler can autogenerate good runtime error messages. Thinking about it, debuggers make use of reflection. Debuginfo formats have some kind of reflection built in.
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by jstimpfle 1mo ago
Reflection is a joke. De/serializing arbitrary C++ structs is ill-defined. When you need serialization, even lots of it (e.g. silly JSON), I think you're better off writing your own framework where you can be clear about data form
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by jstimpfle 1mo ago
I challenge you to find one random person making that claim and to present it with a straight face. What kind of ghosts are you fighting?
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by jstimpfle 1mo ago
Who uses Ada95 or whatever? You are fighting strawmans, nobody has made the claims you imply. My personal opinion is just that low-level access is essential to make interesting and performant programs. Object-type fluff doesn't help wi
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by jstimpfle 1mo ago
Casting integers to pointers is implementation-defined as far as I know. Even if weren't, I'm not convinced that you have to interpret C's address space as flat just because it is finite or because pointers are representable
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by jstimpfle 2mo ago
Mind you, the "you can use this other way as you see fit" idea often isn't practical (like combining GC'ed and non-GC'ed parts). You generally want a whole codebase to be structured according to shared idioms. Other
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by jstimpfle 2mo ago
It isn't actually that flat in the spec, though modern machines' address spaces are. So in a sense it is merely an accident of a specific implementation that you can smash stacks.
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by jstimpfle 2mo ago
But I assume that both on compiler and on machine, the evaluation is still conforming to the semantics of the C abstract machine?
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by jstimpfle 2mo ago
So do you want to "rewrite" some C code in C++ to think you made a point? I think you should do C# or Java. What about you do xxHash? Should be quite basic, not a lot of complicated structures. https://github.com/C
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by jstimpfle 2mo ago
You are again misreading even the most clearly put statement. Compared to e.g. Javascript, C is "closer" to the hardware, gives you "more control" of it. It would be completely ridiculous to deny this fact. And if you mo
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by jstimpfle 2mo ago
Many other languages only have one compiler available to start with. Each additional compiler supported by a project means variance in functionality and thus additional work for the project. That work could make the codebase more robust. Or
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by jstimpfle 2mo ago
_You_ do that. All the time. And then you fight these strawmans.

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