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by skydhash 5mo ago
> So? IIRC, first compiler was FORTRAN, invented in 1958. OpenAI Codex, first coding LLM, came out August 2021. So we are like in a year 1963. For this comparison, we have ten more years to produce (using a coding LLM) a compiler and ope
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by skydhash 5mo ago
It seems that everyone is forgetting the web inspector as a tool for designing web pages. You can tweak properties and styles in a live environment, and then transfer your preferences to the css files.
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by skydhash 5mo ago
It’s really weird how you shift the goalposts and your own definitions. No one is saying that a compiler can’t have bugs. What we have been saying is that if we take the compiler has a blackbox, we’re reasonably certain given we know the in
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by skydhash 5mo ago
> Not sure where you see the bad faith argument You proof for your argument that a compiler is undeterministic is to change the whole compiler to another version and saying it won’t produce the same output as the old one. > But people
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by skydhash 5mo ago
> Compilation is not deterministic, see JITs and GCs. What is deterministic is the resulting program output, but not its performance. Does JIT compiles some other program code instead of the one being run? Does it produce bytecodes for a
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by skydhash 5mo ago
> LLMs can be deterministic as well - same prompt on the same model produces the same input > compilers can be quite undeterministic - you get a new version of compiler, or change compiler options (turn on optimizations) That’s a whol
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by skydhash 5mo ago
> Treat my claims as hypotheses, not decisions. Before agreeing with a proposed change, state the strongest case against it. [...]Say hard things plainly, then soften if needed — not the other way around. For drafting, brainstorming, or
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by skydhash 5mo ago
I'm always amazed by those comments. Why couldn't you buy a book on SQL[0], and spend a week on it? Or just go over to YouTube for a refresher? [0]: Like https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/sql-queries-f
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by skydhash 5mo ago
My pet peeve is when a developer picks up a library for just a few lines of code, and it turns that this library picks up another one that's not even relevant to its core domain. Whenever you get to the leaves of the dependency tree, i
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by skydhash 5mo ago
Security doesn't exist in absolute. It's about relative effort. Exploiting Debian's package management requires quite a bit of effort, NPM, while being funded by Microsoft, only need to have a token stolen. And postinstall sc
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by skydhash 5mo ago
> Part of the point the article makes is that most other popular languages have a comprehensive standard library. Both the Browser and Node.js standard library are fairly extensive. I don't think there's much you can do with ot
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by skydhash 5mo ago
> find ways to let the agent make the boring decisions, like how to loop over some array, or how to adapt the output of one call into the input of another. Those kind of advice ultimately don't matter. If you're familiar with a
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by skydhash 5mo ago
It’s not. You “only” have to learn about computer architecture and computation theory. Meaning a lot of maths /s
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by skydhash 5mo ago
The thing is that C is formal by itself. Opcodes, Assembly, C, Python, Common Lisp,… are all equivalent to each other, meanings there’s no statement and no algorithm that you can’t map to each other. That’s what it means to be Turing Comple
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by skydhash 5mo ago
Loading a program in memory is much more complicated than raw disk transfer speed.
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by skydhash 5mo ago
More code to load from disk to memory, and while it may be fast, it’s not instantaneous.
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Something something about not understanding the problem when your salary depends on it…
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by skydhash 5mo ago
Fraud are always about the convenience of the perpetrator.
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by skydhash 5mo ago
It's a statistical model for words and sentences, not knowledge. What does the LLM knows about having a pebble in your shoes, or drinking a nice cup of coffee?
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by skydhash 5mo ago
If there's one thing I learned from engineering and confirmed by my years in software development. It's easy to make something that work, but it's way harder to put guaranties on it. That's why copy-paste from Stack Over
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by skydhash 5mo ago
> How do I uppercase this string? What's the best way to tackle this problem? Is there a standard way to do this thing? I strongly believe that it's better to just take a couple week of slow times and read a good book about the
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by skydhash 5mo ago
Are you the one coding a fix if there's a bug in production? If not, then you do not have the process nailed down.
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by skydhash 5mo ago
Aren’t both wayland and X11 protocols? Sure there are toolkits, but they’re not hard requirements (based on the little I know).
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by skydhash 5mo ago
I have Gonic (a subsonic server) on my home server and my client is a perl script. It basically allows me to search for an album, present a prompt for me to select the best match, and then builds up a playlist for the tracks to pass to MPV.
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by skydhash 5mo ago
> 1. An equivalent of kernel level anti-cheats. Ultimately, you can’t trust the user computer unless you go for the secure boot things backed by a hardware key. I’m sure there are multiple ways to bypass anti-cheats on Windows. > 2. I
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That basically means resetting the annoyance back to win7 level. And yeah, it’s a great OS if you can do that. Just like linux is great if your hardware is supported or macOS was great before catalina.
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by skydhash 5mo ago
> 90% of the power of Excel was that it was functionally a database that a normal person could actually use. I think we'll see something similar with coding agents. If you look closely, people we already creating databases and doing
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by skydhash 6mo ago
Normies can do their own repairs when they want and how they want. But I was just pointing out a difference in behavior, not the true way of doing.
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Not really the same. Emacs focus a lot on compatibility and common modules (even if there may be some different takes on those common things). So you got big systems like helm, consul, ivy, company,… and the. everyone building on top. Anoth
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by skydhash 6mo ago
Own domains is the real deal. My preffered model is tarball releases with checksums, or better yet, with signatures (like remind[0] or msmtp[1]). Such pages are trivial to host properly and loads quickly. [0]: https://dianne.skol

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