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by usernametaken29 4mo ago
But effectively they’re deferring harness engineering onto another developer?? I don’t understand how this is different than any other library, ever
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by usernametaken29 4mo ago
> This isn't for the person using Git. This is for someone trying to build a tool that wants to use parts of Git, which is different. I’m going out on a limb here but I’ll say that you are over engineering for the wrong problems. I’
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by usernametaken29 4mo ago
This reminds me of OpenAI which allows you to overcommit on prepaid tokens and then tries to force you into paying overpaid charges. Only they really can’t. You can’t make someone pay for a service they didn’t agree to with billing that doe
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by usernametaken29 4mo ago
I’m all for memory safety and such but honestly what’s the use case for this? Showing off agentic development? In 10+ years git has never failed on a memory overflow or else. Sometimes software is “good as is” and I’m pretty confident git c
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by usernametaken29 4mo ago
My first thought as well, docker desktop overhead is pretty bad, would be awesome to see this land natively in DD. By my estimate this could happen, seeing as Docker has historically tried to improve performance but quickly had to accept pl
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
It’s not the only language but it’s notorious for having the worst equality operator to the point where you are not even supposed to use == because it’s that awful
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
“false” === true because it’s not an empty string. It’s the same now that it used to be 10 years ago. The PHP equality operator is a meme, not even a joke
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
In a nutshell this is what statistical learning theory says. For any dataset there is an optimum given a prediction task. It follows from entropy. As the commenter pointed out “evolution has this backed in”. There once was a research direct
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
> Human brains do this by deep double descent-style overparameterization, and adopting a scaling strategy of extremely high-learning-rate training of extremely overparameterized models on small diverse highly-filtered datasets. That’s an
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
I for one am not protesting because I know that this is bullshit marketing nonsense. Look at reliability metrics of OpenAI, they’re terrible. Everyone knew a long way ahead that it’s a scam, now they’re cranking up pricing and trying to rug
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
Your assumption that minds come in all shapes and sizes is wrong. Read up on embodied cognition. If anything at all, AI are true aliens, unlike known minds.
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
Indeed, wrong word
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
Code isn’t just execution, code is also abstraction. You need to be able to understand requirement => unit of work. Unless you’re an uber geek this mostly isn’t the case and reading and retaining any amount of assembly will be practicall
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
The problem with Rust is that, AI aside, the learning curve is steep. Even senior engineers need to wrap their head around Rust for several weeks. You can pick up Go or Java in an afternoon. It’s fast, it mostly makes sense. Unless you do v
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
It’s funny because I consider myself a Python veteran - about a decade or so of Python, and I had exactly the same thought. 99% of my code now is Java. It’s much less pleasant but the “enterprise nobs” just work. Static types, fast with Gra
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
Overall I also thought the post is mostly confusing?
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
One thing the author does not think about is end of life depreciation. When you retire and drain your investment funds they very quickly will disappear and stop producing value, especially at any sustained rate. A house has none of these is
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
The thing about linear algebra that strikes me as funny is that I faintly remember every instructor I ever have met says it is easy. Just learn the matrix cookbook and you’ll be good. At last, when you actually implement it, the ideas are s
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
It was said in different ways in this thread but mostly a language that needs a triple equality operator because they fucked up their normal equality operator to a point where it’s so unintuitive that people flat out recommend not using it
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
I switched to OpenRouter and OpenCode a while ago. It is much cheaper, much much cheaper, and A LOT more reliable. Particulary Gemini was a piece of trash when it came to uptime
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
Maybe tune down the marketing a bit. It’s not an agentic database. It’s postgres… which is fine but really no need to hype it up
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
Not to dunk on you but maybe write up your format in a human comprehensible way? A blog post? This tells me, well, nothing really
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
I didn’t know caffeinate exists. It’s insane this is a use case that needs a fix but sometimes you just want something to keep running and on Mac that’s fucking difficult
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
I don’t think so. The point is that really nothing can be understood. This has been known since ancient times. But in practical terms it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter that you truly understand e.g explosions if your goal is to blow stuf
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
Unlike a dependency a function is an immutable artefact. You write it once, done, you get a checksum that matches that exactly. You can even guarantee it’s the function because of it… so not really at all like leftpad or npm, where commit h
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
I think the biggest adoption stopper would be that building a dependency chain (like say a JSON parser) could already be quite many functions. As the end user you don’t care about the architecture of JSON, you just want to consume it and ge
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
The person I was discussing this with was indeed working on lambda calculus and provability of side effects. At least in theory it is possible to account for all classes of side effects and remove any risk. Also, what other people have said
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
I didn’t knew Railway so with this misleading headline I thought a Google Cloud data centre was being built in the way of a railroad. That’d been a funny story to read..
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
I remember having this discussion a long time ago that instead of dependencies we should build a function and type hub that lets you pick tested function and type definitions. Each individual artefact is tiny so forking it is really simple.
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by usernametaken29 5mo ago
The author should read up on embodied cognition. Their arguments have been discussed at length. It’s all old stuff really. Good stuff too. I don’t see how the article succinctly describes this or contributes otherwise

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