patrick451

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by patrick451 2y ago
Muratori's main talking point seems to be that modern software is slow. I think he is 100% correct on this. It's absolutely insane how long it takes jira to show me a ticket or slack to switch chat rooms and that vscode can't
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by patrick451 2y ago
The rust doesn't write itself.
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by patrick451 2y ago
The time for measured approaches is long gone. Any administration of the last 50 years could have done that. But they didn't. It's time to slash and burn.
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by patrick451 2y ago
I hope nobody ever uses inko for flight control software. Oh, your plane crashed because some hip language won't allow catching a panic? Don't worry, the developers are fixing it for the next release. Sorry, but limping along is b
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by patrick451 2y ago
It's a strange assertion to claim that people who care about formatting care about the craft more. IMO, it's the opposite: people who care about formatting prefer to talk and think about the periphery of programming not the actual
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by patrick451 2y ago
The always on jit was a big mistep (IMO, the opt-in torchscript model is much better). I tried a julia a few times and it was just too slow to be usable for anything remotely exploratory. Every year or so, I'd read "TTFP has been
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by patrick451 2y ago
There are two conflicting rules of thumb floating around here 1. If hasn't changed in a long time and no business requirement on the horizon will force it to change, don't refactor. 2. Code is read more than written, so optimize f
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by patrick451 2y ago
Nonsense. If I need to keep using === because the type might actually be something different at runtime, it doesn't have static types.
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by patrick451 2y ago
When the government actually cares, they're able to track these things down. But they don't except in high profile cases.
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by patrick451 2y ago
If I'm told to still use === in typescript, it's not actually a statically typed language.
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by patrick451 2y ago
We counteract this but not letting bureaucrats make rules in the first place. Overturning Chevron was a step in this direction, but we need to go much, much further.
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by patrick451 2y ago
It's good to see this "adjustment" scam is getting more mainstream coverage. I remember reading about this over a decade ago. The more I looked under the covers of climate science, the more evident it became that it's no
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by patrick451 2y ago
Um these have always happened and will always happen.
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by patrick451 2y ago
I agree. It's really nice how few dependencies get pulled into a typical c++ project. When I started playing with rust, I was shocked at at how many dependencies got pulled in to just build hello world. I'm just not interested in
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by patrick451 2y ago
It's unreal anybody can think VScode is good software. It's the only electron app I use the only place where typing lags.
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by patrick451 2y ago
Because to publish in a real journal, you typically need both novelty and for your work to be "interesting". The job of the abstract and introduction of a paper (where the word "novel" normally lives) is to sell the revi
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by patrick451 2y ago
This shift from hands on research to project management is pretty similar in industry from what I have seen. All of our principal applied scientists basically do the same thing. They don't really spend any time actually getting their h
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by patrick451 2y ago
Ros2's colcon will build the packages in your workspace individually, in topological order of the dependency DAG. This is a completely insane way to structure a c++ build because it destroys the innate parallelism of the compilation pr
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by patrick451 2y ago
One of my pet peeves with the algorithm/science ecosystem surrounding ros is that almost all of these algorithms are not usable without ROS. Deep down inside some planning algorithm, you find ros data structures, ros publishers etc. Th
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by patrick451 2y ago
We use ros1 today. We have a very slow moving effort to migrate things to ros2 that I'm not really involved with. A previous job used ros2. IMO, it's worse in most ways compared to ros1. The launch system of ros2 alone is enough r
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by patrick451 2y ago
That's really interesting. I've thought about trying to replace ROS with GRPC before too. I could never find a report of anybody actually doing that in the robotics space. Can you share more? How did it go? What pitfalls did you r
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by patrick451 2y ago
These kinds of ideas just sound to me like "Suppose you had to use broken technology X. How do you make work?"
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by patrick451 2y ago
The incident with the lawyers just highlighted the fundamental problem with LLMs and AI in general. They can't be trusted for anything serious. Worse, they give the apppearence of being correct, which leads humans "checkers"
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by patrick451 2y ago
There's just as much probability that you miss out on a big swing up as there is that you miss a big a drop.
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by patrick451 2y ago
No. There is really nothing useful in there. It's mostly just all receipts for online orders that I have never needed. I view old emails as all of the browser tabs I have open right now: I feel attached to them and avoid closing them.
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by patrick451 2y ago
I quoted the wrong part. I intended to respond to this claim "Essays are only ever used in an academic context. No-one outside of academia writes an essay. This use-case has been replaced by Powerpoint presentations."
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by patrick451 2y ago
This doesn't make sense to me. Any time you want a reduced order model, you will get error. For example: - Say I have data which is perfectly sinusoidal, with an dc bias. I can fit a line a to this data, which will approximate the bia
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by patrick451 2y ago
>Essays are obviously not the only method of "demonstrating and improving the student's writing and thinking". This is patently false, with many counter examples to count. Editorials, blogs, substacks entries, long posts o
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by patrick451 2y ago
If you have a parametrized functions that imperfectly models a real phenomenon, of course there are errors. Why assume they are random? A better assumption is that your model is just poor. Assuming deterministic modeling errors are due to r
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by patrick451 2y ago
Every time I read about Hetzner on HN, they are shutting down somebody's account on a whim. Why on earth do people keep choosing them?

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