runeks

9 ms·

121.
by runeks 2y ago
I welcome companies in my area having to compete with US companies. The more competition the better for me and my fellow consumers.
122.
by runeks 2y ago
As a EU citizen I really wish we weren't stupid enough to impose counter tariffs. Just because the Trump administration is punishing (ultimately) its citizens for buying non-US goods doesn't mean I want the EU to punish me as well
123.
by runeks 2y ago
> People in advanced economies stand to inherit around $6trn this year—about 10% of gdp, up from around 5% on average in a selection of rich countries during the middle of the 20th century. As a share of output, annual inheritance flows
124.
by runeks 2y ago
The income of a business comes, ultimately, from a consumer. So this essentially amounts to a tax on consumption (which I think is fine, to be clear).
125.
by runeks 2y ago
Is the new Mac Studio the only product this chip will go into?
126.
My Technological Regrets(jezenthomas.com)
2 points by runeks 2y ago|0 comments
127.
by runeks 2y ago
> Can anybody explain to me again why systemd is so bad ? See the slides of the linked talk, starting at page 7: https://cfp.cccv.de/media/38c3-community-stages/submissions/...
128.
by runeks 2y ago
I'm no insurance expert, but I know that insurance usually doesn't cover what's called force majeure — ie. "great forces" such as natural disasters. That's because insurance doesn't work if all insurees
129.
by runeks 2y ago
Seems like the title of this post ought to be "nobody cares about the things I care about"
130.
MAGA types have a point on debanking(economist.com)
5 points by runeks 2y ago|3 comments
131.
British trader found guilty of £1B fraud(bbc.com)
6 points by runeks 2y ago|2 comments
132.
by runeks 2y ago
Whenever you see something like apply foo bar (lol wat) in Haskell, and it confuses you, simply mentally replace it with apply(foo, bar, lol(wat)) To translate into a more popular syntax (e.g. JavaScript).
133.
by runeks 2y ago
Agreed. The main draw of OCaml is that it isn't pure like Haskell. Haskell's purity is really what makes it weird (and great).
134.
by runeks 2y ago
Let's take that further: you wouldn't want to use your code above either, because it would be impossible to tell why the parser failed. Which is going to be really frustrating once it fails. And if it doesn't fail the first
135.
by runeks 2y ago
> Maybe because I haven’t used languages like these in the past [...] Yes, that definitely the case. If you know what each function above does, including the function composition dot (.), then this is like reading English — assuming you
136.
by runeks 2y ago
This year I will run my AoC solutions on my toaster and write them in ALGOL 58 using only my feet.
137.
by runeks 2y ago
If LLMs are really as good at writing code as some people say, they should write a script that fetches each challenge, as soon as it's released, and feeds it to an LLM, to produce a solution. Then run this code and submit the answer it
138.
by runeks 2y ago
I didn't even know we were looking for that gene
139.
by runeks 2y ago
Isn't the point of ChatGPT to mimic sentences written by humans?
140.
by runeks 2y ago
Nit: a DB query can never be made type safe (avoiding runtime failure) because its correctness depends on the state of an external service, which may change at any point in time.
141.
by runeks 2y ago
> This is validated at compile time against a database, which is good, but of course there is no guarantee that the production database will have the same types. Easiest mistake to make is to design a query against your local Postgres v1
142.
by runeks 2y ago
I wish laptop webcams were designed like this: when I want to turn off my webcam I slide, with my finger, a piece of plastic that physically covers the webcam. This simultaneously turns off the LED, which is always on unless the camera is c
143.
by runeks 2y ago
Also: Google Project Zero. Doing Apple's work for free.
144.
by runeks 2y ago
> I agree, this is a problem, but there should be a trivial solution: Users of the browser should pay a small amount of "money" for the product they use all day every day. If getting people to pay for stuff they use were trivia
145.
by runeks 2y ago
> [...] its not complying with arbitrary eco-guidelines [...] Anyone know what these are?
146.
by runeks 2y ago
> I would question the ethics of engineers whom employ a strategy of preferring politics over delivering solutions. This too harsh. There's nothing unethical about delivering what your manager tells you instead of what you believe t
147.
by runeks 2y ago
Agreed. And preferably a fourth, fifth and sixth as well.
148.
by runeks 2y ago
I tried this a couple of years ago and had to ditch the TV because of too much input lag. You mention input lag only once where you say: > Although this post is mostly focused on productivity, most if not all 8K TVs can be run in 4K at 1
149.
by runeks 2y ago
> With a sufficiently advanced type system, you could lay out high level building blocks, such as function definitions, and let the LLM go wild, and then if things compile there's a high chance it's correct. Or maybe even a for
150.
by runeks 2y ago
Thank you, but I was looking for real world examples solved by row types as OP implied there were plenty of.

More ›