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by norir 3y ago
I want to love GED but I feel it's a book with a lot of great ideas that needed a much stronger editor.
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by norir 3y ago
I once worked somewhere that used rails in lieu of foreign keys. The result was a brittle nightly delete_orphaned records script as well as obscure user visible bugs. My team started adding foreign keys to our records and unsurprisingly cau
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by norir 3y ago
They are intentionally planting a false seed when they really intend to go in another direction. It reminds me of Agamemnon in book 2 of the Illiad: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/iliad/section2/ . What I find
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by norir 3y ago
Then why not make the death penalty an option for the condemned? They could choose between life in prison or an execution in a form of their choosing if they wish to be put out of their misery.
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by norir 3y ago
It would be nice to have fewer assumptions about others made on HN.
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by norir 3y ago
Headline: Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct?
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by norir 3y ago
The problem with any tree-sitter based tool is that there will typically be edge cases where the tree-sitter parser is wrong. Probably not a big deal most of the time, but it makes me wary of using it for security.
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by norir 3y ago
I actually think changing the default here may have been sensible. The problem is removing the old functionality entirely. This looks like a change to benefit new users (which is good) that had the hopefully unintended consequence of burnin
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by norir 3y ago
A function call has runtime overhead that a macro may not. There are also things that can be difficult to express as a function in the language type system but that are straightforward to implement as a macro. Lisp isn't the only langu
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by norir 3y ago
I feel like implicit in this framing is the idea that one's sense of value is linked to where one measures up in some arbitrary task. Should I feel worse about myself if I'm only in the 95th percentile for some activity I enjoy ra
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by norir 3y ago
The problem of preventing leaks of forbidden knowledge seems impossible without excluding the forbidden knowledge from the training data. I fail to see how that would be possible without crippling the desirable use cases. Companies need to
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by norir 3y ago
This announcement makes we wonder if we are approaching a plateau in these systems. They are essentially claiming close to parity with gpt-4, not a spectacular new breakthrough. If I had something significantly better in the works, I'd
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by norir 3y ago
Nice quick and dirty hack, but the latency isn't great and it will hammer the file system in large projects calculating time stamps. It's especially bad on windows although polling on mac has also historically been rather expensiv
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by norir 3y ago
Reading this article, I kept think about James Micken's 2018 usenix security talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k . He warns quite effectively against widely deploying technology that we don't understan
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by norir 3y ago
8. What does blazingly-fast build times mean quantitatively? How does it scale with project size?
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by norir 3y ago
> Dear God it's a 3300 line file. Any way but one long 3300 line file is a significant improvement. I happily hack every day on a project that is self contained in a single 12K line (and growing) file. For me, splitting into multipl
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by norir 3y ago
The problem is that our culture provides us with few models of how to effectively agree to disagree. Indeed we often elevate the most stubbornly obstinate in their views with unfortunate trickle down effects on all of our discourse. It&#x27
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by norir 3y ago
It is wild that PKD and UKLG both went to Berkeley HS at the same time (though UKLG has said that neither she nor any of her friends had any memory of him).
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by norir 3y ago
> You can’t really move away from bash, unless there would be alternative as widely available on different Unix systems as bash is. Lua can be built from source in a few seconds on just about any system and can be used pretty easily as a
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by norir 3y ago
> These people are at the top of the AI industry, they’d make bank in a ton of jobs if they left tomorrow. I know a signatory of the letter and I can assure you that they were nowhere near the top of the AI industry six months ago.
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by norir 3y ago
There is nothing unusual or contradictory about smart people doing stupid things.
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by norir 3y ago
Ultimately I believe electronic records are a huge factor contributing to the assembly line like experience of modern health care. I pray that I don't die in a hospital.
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by norir 3y ago
Mishima was quite physically beautiful so this claim feels rather convenient for him.
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by norir 3y ago
> It's an extremely IP sensitive industry I know this will not resonate with some, but on some level I do not really subscribe to the idea of intellectual property. My personal belief is that the brain is more like a radio receiver.
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by norir 3y ago
I will never defend terrorism but this line of reasoning converges with that of terrorists very quickly.
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by norir 3y ago
These heuristics feel to me like a corollary to a simpler, more general rule: avoid redundant work.
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by norir 3y ago
> I cant think of a single real use case for variadic generics. Even if you could think of one, I personally think the rust community does a poor job of weighing the tradeoff between supporting a niche feature and adding complexity to th
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by norir 3y ago
Exactly. So start there and build up.
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by norir 3y ago
> It’s also possible to write a terminal in a terminal, like tmux, but I’d save this for my second attempt. It’s very helpful to have a place to dump logging info that’s not also the screen we’re writing to. I don't fully understand
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by norir 3y ago
> Hare instead aims to distill the as-of-this-decade state of the art in proven systems programming language design idioms to produce what we believe is the most robust language design right now. This quote could really use a secondary b

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