pphysch

4 ms·

61.
by pphysch 2mo ago
This proposal is literally about making it easier for ordinary code to be written without defining new generic types or iterators.
62.
by pphysch 2mo ago
At this point, the "damage" has been done and even skeptics of generics/iterators should applaud this proposal since it means burying some of that added complexity behind straightforward stdlib interfaces. Unless they are jus
63.
by pphysch 2mo ago
Exactly. If you ask anyone on the street, "is it easier for a fast food worker or a business-owning millionaire to make their next million dollars?", common sense will prevail. Money begets money (and power). It doesn't requi
64.
by pphysch 2mo ago
I got a cold email recently and was happy to engage, but I warned them upfront that LLMs change the game, and asked for more info about their background (to authenticate them as a human). They replied with another unnecessarily long email t
65.
by pphysch 2mo ago
> For us, that means interactive work, automatic work, and production work would share one well-crafted underlying system instead of living in separate tools. Unless this is only for the narrow band of purely local work, I would be surpr
66.
by pphysch 2mo ago
People clown on Alex Karp for his unedited maniacal "crashouts", but this is a real public crashout that made it past a team of publicists.
67.
by pphysch 2mo ago
It's standard regulatory capture. You don't say "let's ban my competitor". You say "let's create laws that make it uneconomical for my competitor to access the market".
68.
by pphysch 2mo ago
Personally I don't trust the (real, actual) barbarian horde when it tries the ole switcheroo and projects barbarism, without evidence, onto its victims. "The baby I just sniped in the head was a confirmed Hamazbollah IRGC terroris
69.
by pphysch 2mo ago
Completely different geopolitical scenario. If USA exterminated Germans/Japanese then their Soviet/Communist neighbors would fill in the power/population gap. It's also worth mentioning that the Germans and Japanese them
70.
by pphysch 3mo ago
Iran will never surrender because US/Israel proved themselves unequivocally to be brutal savages that will torture, rape and kill you if you surrender. There is literally no point in surrendering to a barbarian horde.
71.
by pphysch 3mo ago
I did not first bring up fairness in this thread.
72.
by pphysch 3mo ago
And what does Iran get in return for America butchering 160 innocent kids, or assassinating their leader? Or does "fairness" only flow in one direction?
73.
by pphysch 3mo ago
pgdump / pgrestore, using native binary format
74.
by pphysch 3mo ago
Meta commentary: this is clearly a vibe-coded frontend to a low quality "dataset" with substantial omissions. The real value and work would be someone actually compiling and creating a high-quality castle dataset, in which case an
75.
by pphysch 3mo ago
Do you think the average vibe coder or AI-smitten suit cares about slim code? A lot of folks still think "LOC = good" in 2026. It will be a hard sell for the practical engineer. Even if they understand "slim code = fewer toke
76.
by pphysch 3mo ago
> Any agent, any model, any scaffold: the bill is essentially O(reads) Therefore token sellers have incentive to produce verbose, unreadable code
77.
by pphysch 3mo ago
How are roving mobs of luddites going to burn down your datacenter in deepest Antarctica?
78.
by pphysch 3mo ago
Well, at least the organizers that care. There's definitely a class of grifter organizers that view events as an opportunity to profit from high entry fees and low production quality / relying on volunteers.
79.
by pphysch 3mo ago
Datacenters in Antarctica or deep ocean also fulfill that.
80.
by pphysch 3mo ago
This is the kind of thing that is totally technically plausible, and useful to intelligence groups but not the general public, and therefore I would assume it is 100% in production in international intelligence agencies. But nothing we can
81.
by pphysch 3mo ago
I'm not saying "only use Postgres", but you need to explain why core graph data needs your listed features.
82.
by pphysch 3mo ago
They should rebrand it as "Praise the Sun" mode. We are sorry, GOES-19 is temporarily unavailable during a planned solar worship break of indefinite length.
83.
by pphysch 3mo ago
Nice basic advice but ironic coming from him
84.
by pphysch 3mo ago
This AGI silliness is predicated on a flawed "Platonic" view of epistemology. The notion that there is some well-defined "idea space" and therefore superintelligence can explore that space faster than any human. In fact,
85.
by pphysch 3mo ago
This is an interesting perspective on the concept of "atomization of the individual", which the interview interestingly does not refer to. Both atomization and the "uni-context" arise from the destruction of an individua
86.
by pphysch 3mo ago
Graph query languages like Cypher are great, but I am wholly unconvinced by the concept of a dedicated, general-purpose "graph database". IMO, you're better off just using Postgres/etc, modeling your graph data there,
87.
by pphysch 3mo ago
Yeah and if this were taken seriously, you would have Mechanical Turk style services where poors are paid pennies to hand-write submitted/generated slop, defeating the purpose.
88.
by pphysch 3mo ago
I feel like you're splitting hairs. Geohot is/was selling shovels during a gold rush, full stop. Maybe he had a recent change of heart, but his public actions (including Elon stuff) clearly put him in the "monetize hype&quot
89.
by pphysch 3mo ago
Geohot is one of the (attempted) merchants, but maybe that is not going so well and he is changing his tune.
90.
by pphysch 3mo ago
> Despite this price hike (and the handheld's aged internals), both models of the Steam Deck sold out in North America shortly after the increase was announced back in May. The 1 TB model, which is going for £779 where I'm base

More ›