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by yosefk 6d ago
...because your work projects are bigger, there's only so big a black box can get before you lose all comprehension of it, and splitting it to smaller black boxes the shapes of which you keep refining is programming, and the part of it
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by yosefk 8d ago
No, the argument is that it's less appealing to leadership even when it's the better outcome, but not vice versa - it might or might not be better for reasons unrelated to said appeal ("standardizing on something across the c
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by yosefk 8d ago
TFA author - I very much agree, don't do this for free
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by yosefk 8d ago
Ah, I call this the defense-dominant workplace. Not a fun situation to be in!
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by yosefk 8d ago
Well, they are 2 different failure modes. You have people dumping their work on someone all too willing (I even know productive people who just like helping way more than doing their own work and then complain that they have no time for sai
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by yosefk 8d ago
What are you disagreeing with in TFA though? I agree with your points, I just think there are counterpoints and this needs to be decided on a case by case basis
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by yosefk 8d ago
Right, but that's more a lack of reward than outright punishment. If you work with these people on something that "crosses boundaries" and that something succeeds, you can credit them and in the hope to help their career. I a
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Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires(danluu.com)
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by yosefk 2mo ago
Uber reported that their Go code has quantitatively more concurrency bugs than code in other languages, and while to me it seems obvious from looking at Go's concurrency model, this is backed by actual data. Is there any quantitative d
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by yosefk 2mo ago
Bush knew what he was doing - Hamas has the influence it has because the US wants it to have it. When Trump decided he wants them to release Israeli hostages he forced them to do it rather quickly, all things considered, showing who really
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by yosefk 2mo ago
Currently these models have a limited context window, so the value of a session is not that high, at any rate at some point the model will have forgotten things. If in the future the model will truly learn / "change" as a res
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by yosefk 2mo ago
I'm able to see how it's safer than Rust but what I like is that it works with existing C++ code; I don't think the extra safety relative to Rust is worth the performance penalty (not to mention needing to recompile every dep
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by yosefk 2mo ago
I think Fil-C is awesome and I very much like the style in which you present your work as well. (Hope I'm not being too emotional here!) FWIW, I can see where TFA is coming from and I had the urge to write something "in defense of
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by yosefk 2mo ago
Too cheap, charge 3x more at least
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by yosefk 4mo ago
Certainly puts "good" into perspective
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by yosefk 4mo ago
The Ukraine of China is more like it
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by yosefk 4mo ago
Flush denormals to zero. Even their inventor had trouble writing correct code in their presence - see the Appendix to that "what every programmer should know..." paper
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by yosefk 5mo ago
Indeed you're supposed to, but that way if someone calls exit(0), it looks like the program worked fine, when in fact they committed some debug code and made the program no longer run to completion. "Yay, done" was put in for
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by yosefk 6mo ago
While we're at it, when did central banks start to buy lots of gold and under which POTUS? Could it have something to do with the freezing of hundreds of billions of some sovereign assets?
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by yosefk 6mo ago
What produces this Iranian "mercy" at a time when Iran is extensively bombed, if not a combination of defensive and offensive capabilities providing escalation dominance?
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by yosefk 7mo ago
The optimal age to have children is way before you need to rely on frozen eggs (one reason among many being that this process doesn't always work)
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by yosefk 7mo ago
Coding is a solved problem. Problems with the code - these are far from solved, in fact they're multiplying, but coding is definitely solved
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by yosefk 8mo ago
Seems like a case of snobbery on behalf of these people. These are nice images but not "high art" which I guess prompts some people to scoff at them
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by yosefk 8mo ago
"Ironically, among the four stages, the compiler (translation to assembly) is the most approachable one for an AI to build. It is mostly about pattern matching and rule application: take C constructs and map them to assembly patterns.
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by yosefk 8mo ago
Thank you very much for your work. I think people envious of someone's compensation don't deserve a response
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by yosefk 8mo ago
"Also, it [Claude Code] flickers" - it does, doesn't it? Why?.. Did it vibe code itself so badly that this is hopeless to fix?..
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by yosefk 8mo ago
The list of the oil producers listed and omitted on a given forum in these contexts is always interesting. On HN it is often SA or Russia, and almost never Qatar or Iran.
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by yosefk 8mo ago
How dare you question the rigor of the venerable LLM peer review process! These are some of the most esteemed LLMs we are talking about here.
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by yosefk 9mo ago
std::move is definitely for there for optimizing application code and is often used there. another silly thing you often see is people allocating something with a big sizeof on the stack and then std::moving it to the heap, as if it saves t
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by yosefk 9mo ago
TFA explains how std::move is tricky to use and this is not a feature reserved for library writers

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