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by mbac32768 9mo ago
This is almost the origin story for the EDM producer deadmau5's name.
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by mbac32768 9mo ago
It's only fair you ask an LLM to review it for you.
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by mbac32768 9mo ago
Yann joins Ilya, Karpathy, Sutton + Carmack when he says LLMs are a dead end, though. Karpathy is probably the most careful not to write off LLMs entirely but he seems pretty skeptical.
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by mbac32768 10mo ago
Once you accept Curry-Howard, untyped FP languages are hard to take seriously as a foundation for reliability. Curry-Howard changes the entire game. FP and strong types were clearly meant for each other. Untyped FP languages can be producti
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by mbac32768 10mo ago
To paraphrase Bjarne Stroustrup, there are two kinds of programming languages. There are abominations and then there are the ones nobody uses.
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by mbac32768 10mo ago
I'm impressed Torvalds managed to not know what he was referring to (the Twitter firings). The missing context whenever this comes up is the fact that it was a surprise one off. If developers have no idea they're going to be grade
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
Last April I asked Claude Sonnet 3.7 to solve AoC 2024 day 3 in x86-64 assembler and it one-shotted solutions for part 1 and 2(!) It's true this was 4 months after AoC 2024 was out, so it may have been trained on the answer, but I th
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
Yes. Anyone who thinks you can ship a datacenter to space and save has never managed a datacenter.
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
> I wonder how long the open-source ecosystem will be able to resist this wave. The burden of reviewing AI-generated PRs is already not sustainable for maintainers, and the number of real open-source contributors is decreasing. I think t
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
ironically, that link 404s...
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
if he's not going to maintain it anymore can't he at least open source it?
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
Could you name two of these that are important to you?
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
The Java stop-the-world garbage collector circa the late 90s/early 2000s traumatized so many people on automated garbage collection.
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
> Similarly, when performance matters reference counting is essentially deterministic much easier to understand and model. Is it? What happens if you remove that one last reference to a long chain of objects? You might unexpectedly be do
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
I'm sorry but this sounds hollow. Creators are specifically choosing to upload their content to YouTube. They have elected "big corpos" to handle payment for them. You are not standing up for them by pirating their stuff from
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
It is oddly funny that people in my town are ferociously protesting the police force's adoption of Flock surveillance cameras when everyone already carries total surveillance devices (smartphones) on their person at all times.
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
Sure. The larger point was about Windows. You would or would not agree that people doing PL research on SunOS workstations (or whatever UNIX) would also not give a shit about Windows?
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
Forgive me for implying the Linux lifestyle and UNIX lifestyle were anything close to the same thing. I will turn in my Plan 9 install media and my copy of The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Operating System at the nearest DEC serv
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
The bug that was fixed in upstream manifested differently than what he was experiencing so the journey was to validate it for his case. OTOH I'm a bit surprised he didn't pull back earlier and suggest to his user to update to the
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
The remarkable thing about Murthy is it was bipartisan, with the 3 dissenters being conservative.
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
I'll give you my top 3. F# is worse because the type inferencing isn't as good. You need to type annotate in more places. It's a drag, because it feels like a missed opportunity to let the machine do work for you. Additionall
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
The Windows support is bad because OCaml is a PL designed by people who are deep in Linux life. Windows is not something that keeps them up at night. (Which isn't to say they didn't try, just, you know, not as much as it takes) On
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
I find F# nowhere near as good as OCaml and think this comparison is ugly, but if I was forced to use a .NET platform I would almost certainly use F#
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by mbac32768 11mo ago
A lot of these are learning curve issues, but once you scale them you still permanently suffer with a very deficient, fragmented ecosystem. Until you have built up your own curated set of dependencies for your business stack, anyway. > *
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by mbac32768 1y ago
> that when Python devs finally get a taste of npm/cargo/bundler in their ecosystem, they freaking love it. Because yes, npm has its issues but lock files and consistent installs are amazing I think it's more like Rust dev
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by mbac32768 1y ago
Thanks for weighing in gothbro.
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by mbac32768 1y ago
I don't mean to imply that it's easy to change or that whatever someone might be dealing with is not unbearable agony, just that it's not a first principle truth that has more value than other framings. In the pits of depress
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by mbac32768 1y ago
IMO the pro move is not to get the hospital to accept what an insurance company would pay, but get them to accept slightly more than what a debt collector would pay.
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by mbac32768 1y ago
That implies there's some deep truth about reality in that statement rather than what it is, a completely arbitrary framing. An equally arbitrary frame is "the world and life are wonderful". The reason you may believe one ins
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by mbac32768 1y ago
> In this setup, UML is essentially a userspace process that cleverly employs concepts like files and sockets to launch a new Linux kernel instance capable of running its own processes. The exact mapping of these processes to the host —

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