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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Yeah, definitely. Think of it as what the post calls a "system" package manager. The difference between nix and the SPMs mentioned by the post is that in the former case, control over dependencies lies with you, not with the packa
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Surprised not to see nix mentioned in connection with this topic! If you use nix (especially nix flakes), this consideration falls out naturally from the nixpkgs repository reference (SHA, branch, etc) you choose to track. Nixpkgs has vario
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Maybe look up civil disobedience?
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Absolutely lovely design, thanks for the share and the inspiration
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
It's not pleasant to read this. The claim here is profound: comprehension of the codebase at the function level is no longer necessary It's not profound. It's not profound when I read the exact same awed blog post ab
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Who needs to expend effort when you're really just kind of owning yourself
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
I'm done buying Macs until they prove they can ship an OS
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Nope
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Don't sell yourself short, I'm sure you could alienate a dog.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
The syntax is ridiculously simple, and I can't in good conscience allow OCaml to be called clunky in a thread about a language that solved error handling with record-like interfaces and multiple return types.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
I was ripping through an OCaml project of mine over the weekend with Gemini 3 Flash. Could have fooled me there's a training data shortage!
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Have yet to find a better choice than OCaml: - Strongly typed, including GADTs and various flavors of polymorphism, but not as inscrutable as Haskell - (Mostly) pure functions, but multiple imperative/OO escape hatches - The base langu
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
> When Microslop bans "Microslop" I don't need to try You might consider completely reversing this position for the rest of your life.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Hah, my prediction that this was going to be about Bloom filters was a bad one. Nice article!
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
There's inability, and there's not trying.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
You don't have to tell me - even Bill S: "and what's he then that says I play the villain?" Unfortunately, the collective quality of our storytelling is waning. Most people watch the least common denominator. So now the
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Our vocabulary is so stunted. Has no one else noticed that we increasingly talk about the world like it's fiction playing out in front of us?
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
I do not care how good your point is, even satirical, noble-minded slop is a waste of our collective time and energy.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
> Reality check: ChatGPT is still right behind Claude on the app store charts and has a first-mover advantage on AI. "This is less newsworthy than you think". Real sizzling copy, Axios. And exactly what good is a first-mover ad
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
It's not going to tell us much because we don't know the standard of code quality that respondents hold themselves to.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Almost certainly not :|
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Looks moderately interesting, but I refuse to upvote vibe-written submissions. Of course documents like this have their uses, but: - They cannot easily be attributed to a human author, and therefore debates and discussions on the substance
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
LOL. Are you mistaking writing critique for some childish form of disagreement on the issues?
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
just look at you!
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Man. I know you just made this for your own convenience, and all the big LLMs can one-shot this, but if you found a way to improve on the bog-standard LLM "webpage" design (inject some real human taste, experience and design sensi
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Is this a blog post or someone's notes for a blog post?
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
This is entirely nonsense. - When has any AI company shipped "safeguards" that aren't trivially bypassed by mid bloggers? Just one example would be fine. - The conventional wisdom is that OAI's R&D (including safety)
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
> supply chain risk is not a negotiating tool. it's spite after talks have ended. No. It's unlawful abuse of power. > the miltary prefers boundaries to be technical, not contractual That's nice for the military. Meanwhi
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Who's distracting who? How many people do you think noticed that letter C without your help? I wonder how much esteem you hold for Sig. da Vinci if you equate his work with HN comments.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Looks to me like you have decided that you are being paid to shut up and take the word of the most thoroughly dishonest and corrupt US government we've yet seen. Why on God's slowly-browning green earth do you trust that Altman go

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