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by mhh__ 2y ago
Subtle takeaway from that article is that he's stil alive and publishing stuff!
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by mhh__ 2y ago
> Cameras You might be interested to know that the video feed (the marketing one at least, not the one for engineers) for the recent boom supersonic flight was just a phone and a starlink in one of the planes following. Things can be don
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by mhh__ 2y ago
You must be able to do something, though. And if not, get more data.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
I had a daydream about programming with an LLM as something more like driving a car than typing, e.g. constant steering, changing gears and so on
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by mhh__ 2y ago
True although the don't know aspect is where LLMs will be magic. I envy today's youth for having them (and I'm not that old at all) I remember fumbling around for ages when I first started coding trying to work out how to sav
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Two things that come to mind although I have no idea what I think about this overall: 1. Presumably there's a bias in who gets which cases 2. She might be incompetent but not a murderer?
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by mhh__ 2y ago
I like the tooling but this doesn't change that the language has a major case of OOP-brain
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by mhh__ 2y ago
The wider problem is that to do a thing you have to start thinking about the design of IDoAThing and a implementation ThingDoer before you've even worked out exactly what to do yet.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
F# is indeed pretty good. C# should be but they're allergic to making things beautiful.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
It's either over, or giving a lot of idiots false confidence — I meet people somewhat regularly who believe they don't really need to know what they're doing any more. This is probably an arbitrage.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
I don't know ocaml particularly well but my understanding is that only with buck2 (of those mentioned) do you have a build system with the semantics to actually compile ocaml properly. In particular I was under the impression one neede
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by mhh__ 2y ago
He's buried near where I grew up. Must pay him a visit at some point.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
It's better than Claude because it's doing a different task, and I don't think it's better than o1 let alone o1-pro. The new Gemini model that competes like for like is also probably better too but I haven't used it
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by mhh__ 2y ago
I have. They're better than nothing but not by much.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Two requests: 1) A UI that _cleanly_ shows me things assigned to me and opened by me 2) Filter PRs by directory. Phabricator did both of these quite well.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
In Britain at least I find that Bluesky is mainly populated by the kind of people who really want you to know that they don't like football
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by mhh__ 2y ago
My first introduction to this stuff was also the little man computer. I won't say when as it might make some readers feel old, but very fond memories of playing around with it. Similarly fond memories of the teacher letting me just do
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by mhh__ 2y ago
In the west I guess there's some truth to that but I think phones have been emancipatory in the poorer parts of the world.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
A big trend in science now, at least for those less fortunate researchers, is basically only being allowed to do research that you already know the outcome of.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
If I want to ship this to colleagues (some of whom probably won't know what a venv is but do have to write python every now and again) I only have to worry about a single binary. Getting consistent python environments on peoples machin
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by mhh__ 2y ago
There is nothing to debunk, my original comment was correct. It's useful to have tooling that doesn't rely on carting around a bunch of python stuff.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
That's a lot of words compared to "Download binary from server. Run it"
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Indeed. Anything else is just asking for trouble. CI must only be an application of tools available to developers locally. This, other than for practical reasons, is a tax on complexity.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
A small boon to it not being in python — it's now decoupled from your python toolchain.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
I might be just being a bitter sceptic (although I'm probably not bitter because I'm very excited by their results), but some of the spending stats feel slightly too good to be true to me. But I can't really claim to have an
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by mhh__ 2y ago
I think the new builds also highlight the problem in that we're mostly obsessed with building these weird not-quite-a-town clumps of houses rather than actually growing patterns that we know work. That and people have no taste. I like
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Judicial review at the moment is just completely insane. If you want to do anything it takes the best part of a decade of planning and environmental review, in large part because there are a small army of charitable organisations (often w
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Yes, so destroy the current system, then we can do all that. All we basically need is a system that can properly facilitate "Yes, but" rather than "No" and has a mechanism for bartering. Also I don't think you'
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Biden literally closed out his term speaking about the "tech-industrial complex"... The "Trump is for you, Kamala is for They/Them" ad was extremely effective if I'm remembering the polling data correctly. >
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by mhh__ 2y ago
The good news is that a relatively small amount of aggressive planning reform (namely, firing everyone involved and never calling it "planning" ever again) will fix most of the (fixable...) worst aspects of modern Britain. We bann

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