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by mhh__ 3y ago
The scaling aspect is indeed impressive but I have not seen anyone (exactly zero) that I want to follow on threads. I want smart people and weird but interesting schizos, not my "friends" from Instagram and Facebook. I mostly like
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by mhh__ 3y ago
Shared libraries are a scam
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by mhh__ 3y ago
I think the point isn't really about the value of type safety but rather the value-add of bothering with the whole of typescript (as in the type safety they provide rather than an abstract ideal) versus some other solution. It's
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by mhh__ 3y ago
Quieter and more dominated by relatively green programmers. I can't get good entropy about tech anymore from Reddit (e.g. I often look on hackernews or Twitter to find out how the sausage is actually made when it comes to bits of tech
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by mhh__ 3y ago
Derivatives are priced under those assumptions because the aim is to calculate exposure/risk (where simple / assume you're wrong is desirable), the pricing is sort of an afterthought most of the time.
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by mhh__ 3y ago
The data is reasonably easily acquired, for a price...
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by mhh__ 3y ago
In the very early days of llama2 at least it refused to write poetry on the basis that it was improper to do so
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by mhh__ 3y ago
Wrt winning: Open is the least worst way of doing things. With the xz kerfuffle people say "aha! So much for your security now!" when the alternative is someone tampering with code on an unsecured ftp serve i.e. it's the devi
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by mhh__ 3y ago
In 2012 yes, but these days having grammars that lots of tools can parse and output easily is a boon for tooling.
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by mhh__ 3y ago
Perhaps, but keep in mind that you could make a crappy RISC-V chip (if you were an academic department) in a day just by bolting a new decoder onto some other RISC-y chip whereas the mill is "truly alien" (although alien in a way
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by mhh__ 3y ago
There is a social cost to land sitting unused (especially in cities). Henry George presumably said it better than me
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by mhh__ 3y ago
Even now some CGI still looks very poor despite big spending (e.g. most marvel movies)
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by mhh__ 3y ago
I can't tell if they're extremely bad at executing or whether they've hit a wall on something and the design doesn't actually work. I think if they'd had started now (/ more recently) and been much more open so
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by mhh__ 3y ago
On the flip side C projects often end up with things like linked lists and pointers to [it depends] because that lack of abstraction, while obvious, encourages the programmer to take shortcuts (otherwise no time for actual logic)
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by mhh__ 3y ago
No software -> hardware is massively hobbled. Evidence: AMD. Ecosystem -> Software. At the moment especially people are looking for arbitrages everywhere i.e. inference costs / being able to inference at all (llama.cpp) Academics
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by mhh__ 3y ago
With an LLM in there (if that even) one wonders if each software version deployed to a driveless / level [can't remember] car should literally have to pass a driving test. I say this because in line with what you say about teenage
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by mhh__ 3y ago
Another point about C# - I have never, ever, seen anyone call any C# code beautiful.
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by mhh__ 3y ago
I want to like C# but the spectre of java in there is really obvious to me at least. It feels like a language made by someone who wants to sell developer tooling
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by mhh__ 3y ago
nvidia's software is their moat
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by mhh__ 3y ago
It's a Brian Clough joke
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by mhh__ 3y ago
It's hard to imagine von Neumann not being great today (I think some stories are probably made up, but he was obviously in the top 1 minds of his era), but it is probably true that the "easy" stuff has been mined - where I wo
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by mhh__ 3y ago
Is there a somewhat "production"-ready ecosystem for linear algebra in javascript? Upon googling I often find some ~decade old port of one of the old familiars to javascript (e.g. via emscripten), wondering if I'm missing som
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by mhh__ 3y ago
How is kicad getting along with RF work in 2024, would you say? I did some prototyping but never got the stage if actually fumbling around with PCBs a few years ago, things seemed to progressing quite well.
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by mhh__ 3y ago
The way (say) the kernel uses branches is not very similar to the way GitHub does it where you actually push a branch and then let the machine do the merge It's the same ingredients but it's very hamfisted. Squashing is like train
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by mhh__ 3y ago
Something I've been wondering about: is it possible to use something like mutation testing / a reduction tool to heuristically "prove" that the binary can be attributes to real lines of code in the input. Solves a differ
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by mhh__ 3y ago
FWIW "Monorepo requires people to work on it" is organisationally a bit of a cop out because everything requires this kind of work, its just a difference between each team dedicating some time to it in there little bubble (in wh
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by mhh__ 3y ago
All of the fastest moving, easiest to contribute to, projects I've seen use monorepos or at least understand the basic principle that things that are released together and ship together (and probably depend on eachother) should be deve
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by mhh__ 3y ago
Github and gitlab are both deeply, fundamentally, flawed because the unit of contribution is the branch rather than the commit. Other than the UI not being very good, the code review experience is fundamentally hampered unless you enable sq
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by mhh__ 3y ago
> Supply https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...
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by mhh__ 3y ago
I haven't read the article yet but I think sometimes its good to be loud and good to get caught because you're saying "we can get you" to the people the public don't know exist yet.

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