zackmorris

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by zackmorris 7mo ago
It only took a quarter century, but I'm glad that somebody is finally adding a little multicore competition since Moore's law began failing in the mid-2000s. I looked around a bit, and the going rate appears to be about $10,000 pe
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by zackmorris 7mo ago
A -> (expletive) -> B I think we're all in denial about how bad software engineering has gotten. When I look at what's required to publish a web page today vs in 1996, I'm appalled. When someone asks me how to get start
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by zackmorris 7mo ago
Thanks so much for that! I've been struggling to curve fit an aerodynamics equation relating Mach number to rocket nozzle exit/entrance area ratio for quite some time. It's a 5th or 6th degree polynomial whose inverse doesn&#
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by zackmorris 7mo ago
Yours is maybe the first good post on managing a team of AIs that I've read. There is no spoon. I've been shifting from being the know-it-all coder who fixes all of the problems to a middle manager of AIs over the past few months.
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by zackmorris 7mo ago
The endgame will be workers competing with networks of AIs that can solve business problems at all levels. I'm curious how the system will maneuver itself to deprive workers of pay so that they can stay competitive with the ever-decrea
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by zackmorris 7mo ago
*Project Hail Mary
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by zackmorris 7mo ago
Just about every project I've ever worked on eventually needed everything. So the way we write software piecemeal today is fundamentally broken. Rather than starting with frameworks and adding individual packages, we should be starting
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by zackmorris 7mo ago
I wish the project said how many CPUs could be run simultaneously on one GPU. It might be worth having a CPU that's 100 times slower (25 MHz) if 1000 of them could be run simultaneously to potentially reach a 10 times speedup for embar
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by zackmorris 7mo ago
Amazing paper. The simulated annealing portion reminds me of genetic algorithms (GAs). A good intro to that are the Genetic Programming series of books by John Koza, I read III in the early 2000s: https://www.amazon.com/Gene
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by zackmorris 8mo ago
I think of it more as that AI will destroy the profit motive in all things, not just art. What we used to think of as talent/skill/experience will no longer be scarce, because anyone will be able to make anything with a prompt. Th
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by zackmorris 8mo ago
Since no comment here has expressed my experience of watching tech devolve since I started programming in the late 1980s, I thought I'd leave one. I've been vibe coding for a few months now and have gone through the grieving proce
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by zackmorris 8mo ago
This is adorable. But also like reading my own memoirs of struggling to survive hustle culture in the service economy, where the cost of making rent eventually consumes all available effort. Like Parkinson's Law for entrepreneurship. S
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by zackmorris 8mo ago
A long time ago on HN, I said that I didn't like complex numbers, and people jumped all over my case. Today I don't think that there's anything wrong with them, I just get a code smell from them because I don't know if t
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by zackmorris 8mo ago
That's a fair question. For me, it's about removing the steep learning curves and gatekeeping from computer science and tech. Because the realities of being a developer have all but consumed my career with busywork. For example, w
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by zackmorris 8mo ago
You're absolutely right. Apologies if I came off as critical, which wasn't my intent. I was trying to make a connection with random sampling as a way to maybe reduce the inherent uncertainty in how well AI solves problems, but the
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by zackmorris 8mo ago
We can borrow some math from Nyquist and Shannon to understand how much information can be transmitted over a noisy channel and potentially overcome the magic ruler uncertainty from the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by zackmorris 8mo ago
I believe that "functional core / imperative shell" (FCIS) is the future of programming: https://medium.com/ssense-tech/a-look-at-the-functional-core... The idea being that business logic gets written in
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by zackmorris 8mo ago
Or maybe a conscious decision, as neoconservative Robert Kagan writes: "President Trump has managed in just one year to destroy the American order that was and has weakened America's ability to protect its interests in the world
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by zackmorris 8mo ago
Fair enough. I meant social network websites and social media apps like Facebook and TikTok that could have been made in a weekend using HyperCard, FileMaker, Microsoft Access, etc, if we had real reactive backends similar to Firebase, Airt
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by zackmorris 8mo ago
Just wanted to +1 this as a deep thinker who disagrees with the blog post's conclusion. I remember back on the years and decades I wasted dealing with the conceptual flaws inherent to nearly all software, and it breaks my heart. 90-99%
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by zackmorris 9mo ago
Seconded. Another way of saying this is that avoiding politics benefits the status quo. Since the status quo is inherently conservative, that has a stifling effect on innovation - which is inherently liberal. Which is ironic for a site dedi
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by zackmorris 9mo ago
With nobody at Apple handling the engineering problem of implementing user requests, we're stuck with what we got. So I highly recommend App Tamer by St. Clair Software (no affiliation), which lets you set how much CPU percentage each
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by zackmorris 9mo ago
Funny, I'm the opposite. Since information wants to be free, and storage/compute get more affordable every year, then really everything ever posted on the web should be mirrored somewhere, like Neocities. I grew up in the 80s when
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by zackmorris 9mo ago
Came here to say this. Journalism is increasingly seen as part of the commons (public good), like utilities. Under free market forces, it turns into propaganda for capitalists (moneyed interests - not workers), the same way that private uti
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by zackmorris 9mo ago
I've been following a story where Elon Musk's xAI is building an 88 acre solar farm next to its Colossus data center near Memphis TN after public outrage due to running 35 methane gas turbines without a permit, which increased NOx
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by zackmorris 9mo ago
Oops just saw this! I never heard, last time I saw it, it was sitting busted up against a wall with blankets thrown over it. The warehouse usually ate breakages because that was cheaper than insurance overhead in the long run.
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by zackmorris 10mo ago
I'll never forget the feeling of the whoosh when I was working as a furniture mover in the early 2000s and felt the implosion when a cardboard box collapsed and dumped a large CRT TV face-down on the driveway, blowing our hair back. Wh
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by zackmorris 10mo ago
The solution to authoritarian problems is to organize. In this case, we're overdue for a service that we all pay into, like a collective credit card, that only continues making payments to companies like Amazon if all of the members ar
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by zackmorris 10mo ago
This is very hacker-like thinking, using tech's biases against it! I can't help but feel like we're all doing it wrong against scraping. Cloudflare is not the answer, in fact, I think that they lost their geek cred when they
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by zackmorris 10mo ago
Piggybacking also to say that I hope you succeed, as your work aligns closely with the type of runtime that I had hoped to write someday when I first used MATLAB in the early 2000s (now mostly GNU Octave for small hobby projects). The loop

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