lolinder

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by lolinder 2y ago
> My real job is a professor and researcher in the area of operating systems. > As a result of my occupation, I think I know a bit about where operating are going in the next decade or so. The gap between industry and academia must h
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by lolinder 2y ago
Please do elaborate—what is the "this" that is not new? People cherry picking words out of which to construct strawmen to attack instead of actually engaging with the ideas actually put forward?
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by lolinder 2y ago
How is anything you just wrote a counterargument to the idea that higher education is about signaling more than about learning? Signaling that you came from a wealthy family is still signaling. And household income itself may very well be c
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by lolinder 2y ago
I'm speaking more generally about all comparisons between countries. The US is constantly compared to the Nordic countries and people constantly wonder why they're so much better on axes like healthcare and education. Very little
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by lolinder 2y ago
I didn't respond to that because OP's line of argument was just: * Misconstrue what I said to be supportive of ideas of racial purity. * Pretend that I didn't already build in culture into my original argument ("the rang
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Genetic profiles? Advocating for racial purity on HN, that's a new one. Wow. You know full well that's not what I said. Deliberately misconstruing someone's words to make them sound crazy is unfortunately common enough o
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by lolinder 2y ago
If it doesn't drop below 88% then it's still higher than Finland and doesn't change my point at all.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Everybody speaks the same language and has the same cultural norms, which are the foundations for any high-trust society. This is rarely talked about but is so important, and any comparisons between countries that fail to take this int
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by lolinder 2y ago
You're correct, but op is also right to point out that the headline is misleading by grouping whale song and language together—it implies that this is something unique to human language, whereas the actual category to which these now b
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by lolinder 2y ago
Yes. And the problem here isn't that companies get away with doing things like this, the problem is that individuals don't. Attempting to lock information behind a nightmarish legal system is the problem. I'm pretty much at t
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by lolinder 2y ago
I don't even know what windsurf.org site you're referring to—for me windsurf.org redirects to goaccess.org, which is a sports organization. The link you're looking for is https://codeium.com/windsurf
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by lolinder 2y ago
That doesn't really answer my question about autocomplete. I don't actually find these editors useful, they try to do too much too fast. Cursor wasn't much better than Aider, which wasn't great. Where I do find value is
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by lolinder 2y ago
How's their autocomplete? I'm honestly not interested in tighter integration of chatbots. What blew me away about Cursor was how much better it was at autocomplete. I honestly probably would have tried it sooner if people emphasiz
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by lolinder 2y ago
I tried it last month on a medium size personal project and was blown away by the autocomplete. I'd previously staunchly refused to try it on the grounds that I'm too productive in IntelliJ, but at this point I'm most likely
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by lolinder 2y ago
They'd better get on the IntelliJ integration fast— if I'm going to switch editors in order to use an LLM coding assistant, I may as well just switch to Cursor, which has a strong head start on them on the assistant and also has
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by lolinder 2y ago
I appreciated the question, because the video is 3hr30min long, and karpathy's answer here was helpful to know that it's not directed at me.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Neither Rust is memory safe due to stackoverflow on recursion or in the call chain being possible. Does a stack overflow trigger a crash, or does it cause undefined behavior and/or remote code execution? You'd have a point if
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by lolinder 2y ago
> When you have only one `foo` that is mutated throughout the code you are forced to organize the processes in your code (validation, business logic) based on the current state of that variable. If your variables have values which are lo
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by lolinder 2y ago
It's probably a Zig antipattern, but it's a very common Rust pattern. Shadowing in Rust allows immutability to be ergonomic, and lack of shadowing discourages immutability. Zig isn't Rust, so it makes sense that patterns in R
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by lolinder 2y ago
Exactly. Shadowing is a super important complement to Rust's immutability. Without it immutability would be less useful and therefore less used.
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by lolinder 2y ago
It's not just the naming things, it's also what you do after you've named them—if you can't shadow a name then you are stuck both coming up with new names and sifting through all the existing names in your autocomplete t
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by lolinder 2y ago
You're saying ergonomics aren't a good explanation? The entire point of a programming language over writing machine code boils down to ergonomics! You've got to do better than "it's just ergonomics" when your a
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Often, the bug is caused by an accidental use of := instead of =. This is a distinctly Go problem, not a problem with shadowing as a concept. In Rust you'd have to accidentally add a whole `let` keyword, which is a lot harder to d
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Replacing the value of one variable constantly throughout the code could lead to unpredictable bugs. Having variables with scopes that last longer than they're actually used and with names that are overly long and verbose leads to
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by lolinder 2y ago
I like Cursor, but I find the chat to be less useful than the super advanced auto complete. The chat interface is... fine. Certainly better integrated into the editor than GitHub Copilot's, but I've never really seen the need to u
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by lolinder 2y ago
> legislation is kind of the point of a government in the first place I would personally consider legislation to be but one means to an end, with the point of a (democratic) government actually being to ensure stability and prosperity fo
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by lolinder 2y ago
Why does the company that's asking change the analysis here? Shouldn't they know better than anyone the limitations of their product? Are you implying that Anthropic specifically pushes for their models to be used inappropriately
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by lolinder 2y ago
You're wrapping all the AI companies up in a single box, but: * Most of the AI you get shoved down your throat is by the providers of services you use, not the AI companies. * Among the AI companies, Anthropic in particular has had a v
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by lolinder 2y ago
> This legal victory is a testament to the determination of a small Costa Rican entrepreneur who stood his ground against a global corporation, proving that even the smallest of players can triumph in the face of seemingly insurmountable
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by lolinder 2y ago
> I guarantee you there is no shadow council trying to figure out how to hire "busywork" worker bees. I didn't say that. I said that this style of interview was designed to hire pluggable cogs. As others have noted, that w

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