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by sph 3mo ago
It was not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48959936
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by sph 3mo ago
I used to read Coding Horror, I have been a programmer for longer than I had high speed Internet, yet somehow I never felt the urge to create a StackOverflow account. I have literally never browsed the site, always landed from Google and le
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by sph 3mo ago
No mention of AI and LLM in the front page. Life is good.
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by sph 3mo ago
I keep forgetting that there is a requirement to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in US schools [1], which is just mind-boggling to me, and it's never something they proudly advertise through their propaganda arm of Hollywood. In hundre
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by sph 3mo ago
Glaring ‘omissions’ are also breasts and penis emojis. Maybe even one representing sexual intercourse. You’ll find they are quite central to human culture.
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by sph 3mo ago
Having a separate namespace for functions is silly in that it only saves you from a small set of variable shadowing problems. It’s a hack, not a serious solution.
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by sph 3mo ago
I dislike Common Lisp, and I fear it keeps ruining the reputation of Lisp itself with its archaic and obtuse systems designed by a committee of dinosaurs. This opinion will attract the ire of many a greybeard. I stand by it. If you want a S
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by sph 3mo ago
Fascism was strongly influenced by Futurism and its optimism for a machine-powered future where technology will bring forth utopia and order. It’s no wonder than Thiel & co. are rediscovering Futurism, and blind faith in the machine is
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by sph 3mo ago
You wouldn't crash the stock market by preferring Chinese models.
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by sph 3mo ago
I posted this a few days ago that didn't get much traction before it got heavily downranked; this place is very pro-AI, and the vast majority just don't care: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48857085 I am mor
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by sph 3mo ago
How does it work if people flock to open models but they're too expensive to train? What is the financial incentive to do so? I seem to understand open models are mostly coming from China, and the benefit of training and releasing them
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by sph 3mo ago
Like any other instance of this tired cliché, people can develop taste.
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by sph 3mo ago
I/O bound means waiting on I/O, which isn’t necessarily because it is slow, but because it is simply waiting on data to arrive, like a web service most of its idle time. If your client is dozens of milliseconds away, a GC pause is
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by sph 3mo ago
Dude you have been salivating at the thought of seeing developers fired, now film studios, for months now. Give it a rest, this is unhealthy.
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by sph 3mo ago
Any day now LLMs will develop taste
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by sph 3mo ago
> Maybe systems that are severely I/O bound but is barely a thing these days. Any kind of web service is barely a thing today? Which is what 99% of HN posters are working on, hence my comment. > High-performance throughput-optimi
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by sph 3mo ago
> What's the silver bullet for both prouctivity and not getting your brain atrophied? I haven’t stopped using my brain. There’s the secret.
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by sph 3mo ago
I don’t think there’s too many of us on the ‘GC did nothing wrong’ hill. Reading the average HN opinion, it seems everybody is writing high-performance latency-sensitive systems that would implode if a response would take 1 ms longer than n
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by sph 3mo ago
Most AI-generated sites have coopted the Inter font, and usually they go for a dark colour scheme, the rounded tiles, a container representing a macOS-styled terminal with code, and, the thing that annoys me the most, divs that fade is as y
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by sph 3mo ago
I burnt out seriously in 2021, recovered in a fragile state in 2023 when AI started to become a thing tech was getting obsessed with. I'm so way past burn out now, I'm not a software engineer any more. No idea what I'll do ne
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by sph 3mo ago
Every day time I check out Tsoding he’s either using C or Jai. He played with C3 but didn’t stick with it. I wonder if he ever tried Odin, might be down his alley.
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by sph 3mo ago
I have no experience with ARM, but after decades of x86, low-level programming or OS development with RISC-V is such a breath of fresh air. Writing a simulator from scratch for the base ISA is like two days of work tops. I am using RISC-V a
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by sph 3mo ago
As long as you pay no attention to the man laughing all the way to the bank, Jensen Huang.
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by sph 3mo ago
Is there an outpouring of hardware offer for CHERI? I'm a random nobody, but I'm sitting on this design for a message-passing platform that can only truly perform in a world where processes live in a single address space, which re
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by sph 3mo ago
Does this speed of development only apply to the early stages, or will it slow down as the codebase grows? I have yet to see these 100x improvements (and the claims themselves keep getting bigger) on anything more than prototype scale, rath
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by sph 3mo ago
There is no Moore’s law for AI that shows that the previous rate of improvement will likely apply to the future. It’s all wishful thinking.
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by sph 3mo ago
> I've said for a long time that composability in software is a bit like playing Tetris: the lines have to clear. Great metaphor. When I hear people claim 20x productivity with AI assistance, I imagine a Tetris game where pieces fal
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by sph 3mo ago
My bet is that either you’re using a Mickey Mouse distro, or you tweaked your themes/thrashed your config and now you have all those issues that I haven’t seen in a decade since installing custom GTK themes.
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by sph 3mo ago
Mr. Beast
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by sph 3mo ago
> The terminals get a red background tint when they are running, and turn green when they are finished a task, amber if they need a response You can probably reach higher productivity by having the computer reward you with a banana after

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