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by philosophty 1y ago
Whatever design decisions they consider to be weird. Because it probably just means they don't know what the trade offs and goals were.
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by philosophty 1y ago
Sure, there are valid criticisms of anything but without understanding they're unlikely to be useful or correct.
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by philosophty 1y ago
These guys have each forgotten 10x than you know about programming. https://swtch.com/~rsc/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gri
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by philosophty 1y ago
Why people with vastly more skill and experience programming and writing programming languages made the decisions they did.
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by philosophty 1y ago
Isn't it funny how anything you don't understand very well can seem weird?
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by philosophty 1y ago
That's not a source at all, just a claim someone made to support their argument. And it's an easily disproved lie. All of these schools have quotas and admission targets and effectively raise/lower the bar to hit their target
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by philosophty 1y ago
Maybe you're thinking of community colleges where this can be the case? All private and public top schools set admission targets and hit them every year using modeling and adjusting various levers. There are a tiny number of seats at e
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by philosophty 1y ago
This narrative describes public companies focused on growth and brand instead of schools focused on offering the best education possible in their country. They have lost their way. They have been corrupted by bribes heaped upon them by rich
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by philosophty 1y ago
There are a limited number of seats at the best universities. These top universities already have enough money to operate for a century as non-profits. They're selling 15-20% of the seats to international rich people. The appropriate n
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by philosophty 1y ago
Given how easy it is for rich people to buy grades for their children in most countries, we might see an improvement.
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by philosophty 1y ago
"It does what took him 6 months in seconds." It generated unusuable garbage code in seconds, which is nothing like what he wrote by hand in six months. "Size is not a very useful metric." Size is a very useful metric
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by philosophty 1y ago
"Despite the generated code working, it was basically unmaintainable and 3x larger than the original C." Which makes C2Rust seem pretty useless? "I’ve recently reached a big milestone: the code base is now 100% (unsafe) Ru
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by philosophty 1y ago
Two rich kids who have mostly paid-to-win their way into the game are predictably fighting using money because that's all they bring to the table.
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by philosophty 1y ago
What happens to the prevailing wage when you add large numbers of workers to the supply side? Wages are suppressed. Exactly as intended by the major companies abusing the system for their benefit.
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by philosophty 1y ago
"Terrestrial datacenters have parts fail and get replaced all the time." This premise is basically false. Most datacenter hardware, once it has completed testing and burn in, will last for years in constant use. There are defini
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by philosophty 1y ago
It seems like a headless Nintendo Switch 2 that was -$100 might sell a lot of units.
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by philosophty 1y ago
There's a much bigger cohort of aging programmers than there was even 10 years ago, so a lot more of them are the best programmers available.
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by philosophty 1y ago
I'd recommend understanding the point before missing it so entirely and repeatedly. You claimed that "concern about AI is much higher than 5%" which has nothing to do with the point about AI skepticism I'm talking about.
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by philosophty 1y ago
AI, like every technology, has downsides. The AI skeptics are pretending AI has little to no upsides.
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by philosophty 1y ago
Fear of AI is universal but skepticism is not. It's a (primarily) far left meme that AI is just hype and should be compared to scams like cryptocurrencies.
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by philosophty 1y ago
The elephant in the room here is that, like so many issues, AI has become political for some people. In this case your "AI skeptic friends" are your "defund the police" and "abolish ICE" friends. For 95% of peo
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by philosophty 1y ago
Seems like culpability should come down to whether or not the Telsa driver could have prevented the accident. Although there's a good argument to be made that Tesla's entire system has fundamental design flaws which they have negl
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by philosophty 1y ago
You said nothing that indicates you were referring to other expert language designers. This entire thread is full if amateurs making ignorant comments. So what expert criticisms are you referring to? You accused me of "gaslighting&quot
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by philosophty 1y ago
"To be fair there are lots of pilots who have flown multiple aircraft at an expert level that complain about the Airbus A380 - in the same ways - as well! They might not be expert airplane designers, but they have a breadth of experien
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by philosophty 1y ago
This is a common theme with criticisms of Go. Relative amateurs assuming that the people who work on Go know less about programming languages than themselves, when in almost all cases they know infinitely more. The amateur naively assumes
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by philosophty 1y ago
It is false and you're proving it. Smarter means smarter. Smarter does not mean "better at writing and shipping infrastructure code." Some of the smartest people I know are also infra engineers and none of them are AI skeptic
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by philosophty 1y ago
"they’re smarter than me" feels like false humility and an attempt to make the medicine go down better. 1. Thomas is obviously very smart. 2. To be what we think of as "smart" is to be in touch with reality, which includ
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by philosophty 1y ago
How are these not "open" if they're GitHub projects and entirely open source and open to outside contribution? The organizations that create "standards" are much less open than this, requiring in person lobbying, s
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by philosophty 1y ago
I haven't paid close attention. Why can't people make money with MCP-based APIs? Why can't providers require API keys / payment to call their functions?
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by philosophty 1y ago
I don't want to single anyone out but if you think this is "expert" level experience you don't have the relevant experience yourself. I actually don't want to be overly critical but I do find the arrogance of these

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