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by watt 2y ago
Have they got rid of $ sigils everywhere? Are they planning to?
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by watt 2y ago
There is a rule that if somebody poses this hypothetical with the word "just" in it, they have signed themselves up to go and implement it. So, congratulations, take it and run with it.
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by watt 2y ago
you think Tesla customer support wouldn't be able to solve it, and instead let the driver state "For my own safety, and that of other drivers, I have stopped driving the vehicle." ?
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by watt 2y ago
don't stress about it so much: look how many variations of plugs and sockets are for this one quite simple thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets
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by watt 2y ago
Sounds like a dogma that got us (as industry) into this mess.
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by watt 2y ago
why wouldn't you prefer _something_ over _nothing_. I assume AI steps in for issues that people haven't been able to begin to solve in decades.
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by watt 2y ago
Thank you for your insight. Hard to believe nobody else thought of it before.
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by watt 2y ago
it's a "language" model (LLM), not a "math" model. when it is generating your answer, predicting and outputing a word after word it is _not_ multiplying your numbers internally.
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by watt 2y ago
In "Rocket Jump: Quake and the Golden Age of First-Person Shooters" id guys figure out that their product is the cutting-edge graphics, and being first, and are able to pull that off for a while. Their games were not great, but th
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by watt 2y ago
In terms of numbers, there have been a lot of trillionaires in Zimbabwe when their currency ran away with hyperinflation. Inflation has been happening with USD as well. So, we will see trillionaires eventually - just question of time. Now,
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by watt 2y ago
it only works for US Dollar because USA can pay back its debts by printing more money. other economies actually have to work for it.
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by watt 2y ago
Prison sentence in Russia is like a death sentence. See Navalny, see Sergei Magnitsky. I would be surprised if Arseny Turbin makes it out alive. If not mistreatment, then hepatitis, tuberculosis, etc are there to get him.
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by watt 2y ago
I don't understand why the author chooses to bring up the mantra “make it work, make it right, make it fast“ in a negative light, perhaps he misunderstands where the "make it fast" comes in? to clarify: "make it right&q
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by watt 2y ago
What is the Deno solution though? (I assume it's not sharing modules written in C++?)
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by watt 2y ago
Did you read it? The author did not actually resolve the issue, only figured out that it should build with older Node version.
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by watt 2y ago
Decimate used to mean 10% less (1 out of ten gone), nowadays folks mean 90% or about so less (9 out of ten gone).
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by watt 2y ago
Why not pop in to a shop, get another pair of pants?
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by watt 2y ago
isn't it too early to try to draw a bottom line for this type of research? from my perspective this is fascinating area of physics that we need to know more about and will improve our understanding of fundamental physics.
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by watt 2y ago
A kangaroo court decision if there ever was one. Doesn't courts realize that by coming up with nonsense like this they destroy their credibility? You can't take a court or the judge that came up with this sentence with a straight
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by watt 2y ago
That explains quite a lot about dentistry in USSR
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by watt 2y ago
And? Fiskars frying pans are pretty good!
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by watt 2y ago
"complex made hard" would be great. it seems you have missed the point of the talk: complex is always easy, complex is always where the gravitation pulls you towards.
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by watt 2y ago
apparently folks are making tools to do this: https://martinfowler.com/articles/legacy-modernization-gen-a...
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by watt 2y ago
We hit memory leaks. Containers keeling over getting OOM killed.
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by watt 2y ago
And would you care to document for posterity when was that last time? I think the change in YouTube comments happened some 7-8 years ago, so 2017 or so.
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by watt 2y ago
io_uring also caused a ton of problems for our containers in Kubernetes when Node 20 had enabled it by default. They scrambled and turned it off by default in https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/686da19abb
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by watt 2y ago
well why does Num then come before a ? If a :: Num would mean a is a value of type Num, why does this "satisfies" constraint does not follow the pattern?
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by watt 2y ago
The article lost me at following sentence: > A double arrow => describes constraints on the type variables used, and always come first: add1 :: Num a => a -> a describes a function which takes any type a which satisfies Num a, a
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by watt 2y ago
once there are more productive alternatives that require less specialized "skill", your condescending "skill issue" becomes a devex issue, and basically a productivity gap which will doom your language or tool.
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by watt 2y ago
Enshittification does not apply to platforms only. It applies to products, services, companies alike. Even beloved foods and snacks. Quality nosedives, people abandon the product, MBAs act all surprised "how? why would consumer turn th

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