wolvesechoes

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by wolvesechoes 10d ago
First, I like reading your comments, as they are pretty illuminating, also in the way they expose how superstitious programmers can be. Second, I wonder where, roughly, would you put a transition from small programs where low-level langs ar
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by wolvesechoes 12d ago
But this is not a good analogy. Rust is being talked about explicitly as "better C++", with a huge and vocal group of online people going around and saying that the world will end if we don't rewrite everything in Rust, or th
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by wolvesechoes 12d ago
> All I ever wanted from Julia was great a development experience, but it appears to have never quite gotten there. I feel you. After AOT support (it is improving; slowly, but still) my biggest gripe with Julia is tooling/dev experi
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by wolvesechoes 21d ago
> They weren’t trying to solve aging or bring everyone to the highest standard of living The latter is a matter of policy and AI is not needed for that. I hate this framing. Nickname checks out.
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by wolvesechoes 26d ago
> do some real research It is funny that only real research on productivity gains from AI shows at best very minimal gains, but AI bros will always tell you "no no no, you have used wrong model, try a different one, there are more
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by wolvesechoes 27d ago
OOP, like most stuff discussed in dev-related web, exists so that permaonline people can have another reason to create their own tribes and fight each other.
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by wolvesechoes 27d ago
> For my doorbell I wanted something that lets me play a custom bell sound But... why?
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
The difference is that capitalism is a human creation, whereas mitogenesis is not. And this kind of naturalization is one of the reason we end up in the current situation, where it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
> Ricardo, Mill, and Smith all saw this dynamic, but "capitalists" like Andreessen have shown zero interest in combatting it for the health of the capitalist system as a whole. They just tried to cope by denying the essence of
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
Where this demand for the "end game" comes from? Why do you people assign some long-term vision to a bunch of sociopaths with money and influence that came from being born in a proper family and having lot of luck, whilst ditching
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
I doubt it. Software is, well, software. Most people have their aesthetic preferences in regard to clothing or furniture, and aesthetics of these are obvious to anyone. Code that runs on a device and implements some functionality is not lik
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
Free market was a tool, yet for you it is a venerated idol.
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
I guess US and European societies.
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
But Meta can share with NSA what kind of porn are you into or that you've said few bad words about US president, whilst CCP doesn't care, so who is a real adversary?! By the way I am an INDIVIDUAL, my personal FREEDOM and FEELINGS
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
> What's short-sighted and naive is believing that globalism can be reversed, that economic efficiency can be overcome by political will, and that knowledge can be contained to one country Peak ideology. > Economic nationalism an
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
With digital nomads is like with standard, recreational tourism. It is always promised by local decision-makers it will bring multiple benefits to locals, including economic boost, but it always a pact with a Devil where few reap rewards wh
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
> How readable and accessible is this book? As with most works of cultural theory you need to read it few times, and also check other works of his. Otherwise you may end up reducing concepts from this book to social media or AI slop. Mor
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
Well, maybe they lie, who knows. But "hearing people talking" is rather poor counterevidence.
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
My god, do people really lost the ability to read such short article? No, built-in Android and Chrome are not blowing these numbers.
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
AI Overviews are not accounted for in that number.
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
Read the article? "These 1 billion users may also be encountering Gemini in all those places, but that’s not the MAU metric. Pichai is talking only about people who are opening the Gemini app or visiting the Gemini web interface to ent
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
Somewhat tangential, but when Google doesn't participate in frontier churn, earns money and make heavy investment in infrastructure that they rent to those participating in the churn, while still they are "losing the AI race"
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
The same inflation caused to a large extent by constant increase in revenue to satisfy your insatiable shareholders?
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
> If there's one place that's "worked-owned" it's a startup. Sweetie, it is called cooperative , not startup.
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
> Why would a developer use Windows in 2026? To have somewhat working desktop OS with access to one of the most powerful dev environments in a form of Visual Studio?
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
To a casual reader of this thread - look at comments, this is what ideology is.
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
> You could ask a human to "do something with 1M dollars" and get garbage too At least the human's brain requires about 20 Watts to operate. Cheap garbage is better than garbage requiring whole power plants nad billions of
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
> Democracy is an engineering exercise, just like any other system. God, tech people should have stayed in basements.
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
Who? But in all seriousness - you can even bring up Pope himself. Don't care. Show me data, show me the leaps our software made with all this 100x productivity boost. Show me a myriad of better LLVM projects, new usable kernels, and so
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
Uncle Bob was a dev celeb before there were dev celebs.

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