taeric

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by taeric 11mo ago
I'd go further. Some of the world's best tooling is only usable by the world's best users. Examples abound on this. The best drivers are in vehicles that I would almost certainly crash. Our best pilots are in planes that
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by taeric 11mo ago
Totally fair. I had meant that to be only concerning complicated assembly. Either some of the more obscure instructions or SIMD, in general. I think my more general idea, that I was vaguely grasping towards, is that the style of programmi
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by taeric 11mo ago
I think this is talking past my question? I don't necessarily think "low level" has to be "writing assembly." I do think it means, "knows the full layout of the data in memory." Something a surprising n
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by taeric 11mo ago
I knew what you meant. My point was more that most people are writing software at the level of "if (overlaps(a, b)) doSomething()" Yes, there will be plenty of math and intrinsics in the "overlaps" after you get throug
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by taeric 11mo ago
More generally, the key here is that the more magic you want in the execution of your code, the more declarative you want the code to be. And SQL is pretty much the poster child declarative language out there. Term rewriting languages prob
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by taeric 11mo ago
My understanding was that the difficulty with the intrinsics was more in how restrictive they are in what data they take in. That is, if you are trying to be very controlling of the SIMD instructions getting used, you have backed yourself
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by taeric 11mo ago
I'm curious on the uptake of SIMD and other assembly level usage through high level code? I'd assume most is done either by people writing very low level code that directly manages the data, or by using very high level libraries
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by taeric 11mo ago
Right, I just meant more that you plot more than just the equality to get some visualizations. Is also a common way to visualize game theory stuff, I thought. You want to know where the expected equilibrium is, but you also want to see, e
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by taeric 11mo ago
Isn't this essentially how many fractals are colored?
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by taeric 11mo ago
I just don't know that I see it running any better for the vast majority of processes that I could imagine running on it. Was literally just transcoding some video, playing a podcast, and browsing the web. Would this be any better? I
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by taeric 11mo ago
I guess I don't know that I understand why you would dream of this, though? Just go out and program on some simpler systems? Retro computing makes the rounds a lot and is perfectly doable.
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by taeric 11mo ago
I confess that picking yaml doesn't feel safe to me. As much as it annoys people, fenced formats are the way, here. And if you aren't careful, you are going to recreate XML. Probably poorly.
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by taeric 11mo ago
I'm used to people arguing for simpler setups because the belief is that they could make them more performant. This was specifically the push for RISC back in the day, no? To that end, I was assuming the idea would be that we think we
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by taeric 11mo ago
But why do we think that? The complexity would almost certainly still exist. Would just now be up a layer. With no guarantees that you could hit the same performance characteristics that we are able to hit today. Put another way, if that
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by taeric 11mo ago
I will forever think of Bloom filters as "bouncer filters." Could go with concierge filter. Basically, it is the equivalent of every movie where the detective is asking the front desk various attributes of who they are looking f
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by taeric 11mo ago
Right, but that was kind of my question? What is better about not having a lot of these things? That is, phrasing it as a dream makes it sound like you imagine it would be better somehow. What would be better?
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by taeric 11mo ago
I'm curious how this dream is superior to where we are? Yes, things are more complex. But it isn't like this complexity didn't buy us anything. Quite the contrary.
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by taeric 11mo ago
This falls into the "people aren't rational/logical" trap. You really have to define what you would mean for it to be rational. And then you have to establish what the baseline ideas are from which you plan on establis
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by taeric 11mo ago
Kudos on not just taking a combative stance on the code! This was a very fun read that I'm fairly convinced I will have to come back to.
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by taeric 11mo ago
Gave me a smile to see the shout out to LISP in there. Reading this take on it, it feels like a JIT compiler could also accomplish a fair bit of this? I'm also reminded of the way a lot of older programs would generate tables during b
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by taeric 1y ago
It is always funny to see that we try and force formulas to the early elementary shape that people learn. Despite the fact that chemistry, biology, physics, etc. all have advanced shapes for equations that do not have the same concerns. Si
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by taeric 1y ago
I'm assuming it is similar to the "runners high" people get at the end of a long run? You will feel very energized in ways that don't make sense. And if you don't force yourself to just lay down and pass out, you
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by taeric 1y ago
I confess that is a little surprising to me. Such that I can agree it would be a worthwhile endeavor to get them better equipment. I would still call people using bigger stuff to be doing manual labor. For the same reason that using a law
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by taeric 1y ago
I'm now remembering the differences between "games" and "numbers" in Surreal numbers. :D
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by taeric 1y ago
That isn't a free pass. You have no data showing how many people did go to competitors over this. You are asserting it is zero, but why do you think that? Going on the talks here, you can find plenty of folks that opted not to go wi
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by taeric 1y ago
Managing environments with `python -m venv` and all of the easy ways that goes wrong is exactly what I don't want to deal with. Is almost enough to make me never want to use python.
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by taeric 1y ago
Fair. I don't even know how long that takes for my projects. I presume I've been fortunate that that is not one of my long poles, as it were. Hopeful that a lot of this will be even more resolved next time I'm looking to ma
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by taeric 1y ago
I think the basic trencher would almost certainly still count as manual labor? Nobody is expecting that they are out there digging with bare hands.
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by taeric 1y ago
As someone that is fine on poetry for a few things, is there a good pitch deck on why I should change over?
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by taeric 1y ago
I still feel bitten by diving into poetry when starting some projects. Has the ecosystem fully moved on to uv, now? Do they have good influence on what python's main ecosystem is moving to?

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