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by zephen 6mo ago
Whether you consider it magic is up to you, but, unlike a destructor in RAII, there is nothing automatic going on. If you don't explicitly invoke a destructor, you won't get a destructor. The fact that you can explicitly invoke t
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by zephen 6mo ago
Nah. It's sort of, but not quite, like "El jefe" "L rut piss"
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by zephen 6mo ago
The book is good. As you say, the author, Fred Brooks, is not at all arrogant. Martin Fowler, the author of the blog, may be a bit different than that.
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by zephen 6mo ago
There is always a chance that the LLM will hallucinate something wrong. It's all probabilities, quite possibly the closest thing to quantum mechanics in action that we have at the macro level. The act of receiving information from
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by zephen 6mo ago
I find this extremely surprising. When you think of everything it takes for an AI to use what the article calls a "vision agent" then it seems as if using a purpose-made API ought to be MANY orders of magnitude faster.
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by zephen 6mo ago
That's fine, but you know you have to concatenate them and sell them as one unit, right?
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by zephen 6mo ago
So, the craftsperson looks at actual artifacts, but the engineer reads specs and drawings. > but those are often just spells the software magician invokes after reading the ... documentation. Oh, but the craftsperson does read shit aft
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by zephen 6mo ago
I like the idea of being able to merge a PR that is a partial solution, while keeping the issue open to reflect that it is only partially done. It kinda makes sense to do this in a single action. Also: > If [a person is not suitable to
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by zephen 6mo ago
> I've never seen a legitimate business not give refunds for technical errors of their own fault. Granted, it was very much weasel words. Nonetheless, I read it as they were issuing a refund ("Let me look up your account inform
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by zephen 6mo ago
> averaging their announced results. Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/937/
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by zephen 6mo ago
> In any well run organization you have multiple layers of controls. Everything depends on size. A business with 8 employees might need 3 of them to be (literal) keyholders, and might be situated such that any of the keyholders has it
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by zephen 6mo ago
I thought it was a cross between a camera and a bomber.
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by zephen 6mo ago
This stupidity might go a long way towards explaining the relentless push towards apps.
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by zephen 6mo ago
Agreed. And his point about randomly moving buttons to see if people like it better? No fucking thanks. The last thing I need is an app made of quicksand.
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by zephen 6mo ago
> A more nuanced take is that Lua has many happy fast paths, whereas Python has some unfortunate semantic baggage that complicates those. This is a good way to describe it. Most of the semantic baggage doesn't make some speed impro
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by zephen 6mo ago
> I think you’re describing deficiencies in the Python impl not anything about the language To some extent, sure. And, looking at your implementation of your language, something like the optimizations on passing small numbers of paramet
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by zephen 6mo ago
You obviously realize that different languages have different syntactic requirements, yet you are willing to cut one language a break when its minimal syntactical elements aren't objects, and refuse to cut other languages a break becau
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by zephen 6mo ago
I suppose it depends on where you are looking for dynamicity. In some ways, lua is much more laissez faire of course. But in Python, everything is an object, which is why, as I said, it spends much of its time looking things up. And thi
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by zephen 6mo ago
> it’s quite impressive how much faster PUC Lua is than QuickJS and Python Python's execution time is mostly spent looking up stuff. I don't think lua is quite as dynamic.
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by zephen 6mo ago
> This is a really bad idea for reasons already mentioned in other comments. Agreed, although that doesn't mean it won't be successful. > Personally, I travel a lot and there's zero chance I would ever take someone&#x27
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by zephen 6mo ago
And the effect is often multiplicative. Impersonal corporation which has been improving their capability to make you give up in disgust for decades jumping on the AI bandwagon? Check. Voice recognition system that doesn't? Check. Dun
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by zephen 6mo ago
Although humorous, this also leads to a provocatively interesting line of thought which is completely tangential to the engineering discussion. Blogging accidents, usually involving tik-tok videos, selfie sticks, and rugged terrain or wild
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by zephen 6mo ago
> But being a professional means you do the thing even when the stakes are low. Being a professional means that you adjust what things you do according to the stakes. For example, in software dev, you usually have tests for the code. Do
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by zephen 6mo ago
Claude gave him the courage to do the migration. And, recent research suggests that anthropomorphization may actually be positively correlated with intelligence.
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by zephen 6mo ago
The amount of ad populum around this issue certainly reaches ad absurdum levels.
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by zephen 6mo ago
It's not that simple. Any less money or worse lawyers, and youtube would have been sued into oblivion. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/mar/14/copyright... > Uber is regulated because
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by zephen 6mo ago
Especially if he was going to stay relatively small. I thought Youtube was going to be sued into oblivion. I thought Uber was going to be regulated into oblivion. etc. Money obviously can overcome existing laws, but if you're not prepa
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by zephen 6mo ago
Upvoted back to not-greyed-out. You must have struck a nerve.
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by zephen 6mo ago
> It's decidable whether two NAND circuits implement the same function Well, sure. At least, until you have a loop that starts clocking for you, and now you've got the halting problem.
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by zephen 6mo ago
> The way I read it, this is an unwinnable situation. We must supply this link, in order to comply with Google's rules. If you see this link, it's too late. That's an obtuse reading. I am looking at the email. The email

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