materiallie

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by materiallie 4mo ago
Why did you reference "since 2009" like it was an eternity ago, when it's actually the most recent business cycle?
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by materiallie 5mo ago
I know it's a common pop science factoid, but there's actually no evidence that language difficulty has much to do with becoming a lingua franca. Russian is commonly viewed as a difficult language, but it become a regional lingua
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by materiallie 5mo ago
I thought the show was horrible. It was moralistic, quite on the nose, and the dialogue was pretty corny. There were a lot of obvious appeals to your average NYT and Atlantic type viewer, which is surely the main factor behind its critical
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by materiallie 1y ago
Zig certainly has a lot of interesting features and good ideas, but I honestly don't see the point of starting a major project with it. With alternatives like Rust and Swift, memory safety is simply table stakes these days. Yes, I know
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by materiallie 1y ago
This is a very friendly and cordial response. Given that the parent comment was implying that the creators of Zed don't actually know how to build software. Based on their credentials building Rails crud apps, I suppose.
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by materiallie 1y ago
Put another way: errors tend to either be handled "close by" or "far away", but rarely "in the middle". So Java's checked exceptions force you to write verbose and pointless code in all the wrong places (t
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by materiallie 1y ago
It feels like there's a lot of shifting goalposts. A year ago, the hype was that knowledge work would cease to exist by 2027. Now we are trying to hype up enhanced email autocomplete and data analysis as revolutionary? I agree that tho
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by materiallie 1y ago
I think benchmark targeting is going to be a serious problem going forward. The recent Nate Silver podcast on poker performance is interesting. Basically, the LLM models still suck at playing poker. Poker tests intelligence. So what gives?
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by materiallie 1y ago
This is my experience, too. As a concrete example, I'll need to write a mapper function to convert between a protobuf type and Go type. The types are mirror reflections of each other, and I feed the complete APIs of both in my prompt.