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> If tpu's actually breakout as a viable alternative over the next few years Why haven't they broken out yet, I wonder, if they're more efficient for inference and LLM costs are no…

I assumed that too and wrote him off. I’ve since changed my opinion, especially in light of this blog post: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/01/18/how-...

"Tons of power generation?" Perhaps we will go in that direction (as OpenAI projects), but it assumes the juice will be worth the squeeze, i.e., that scaling laws requiring much mo…

An engine performs a simple mechanical operation. Chess is a closed domain. An AI that could fully automate the job of these new hires, rather than doing RAG over a knowledge base …

I would argue an "AI doomer" is a negatively charged type of evangelist. What the doomer and the positive evangelist have in common is a massive overestimation of (current-gen) AI'…

“More specifically, from JetBrains, the makers of the world-famous IntelliJ IDEA IDE, whose primary claim to fame is its lovely orange, green, purple and black 'Darcula' theme” Thi…

Cf. the "Minus World" in Super Mario Bros. for the NES. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minus_World

> Ever seen an engineer do a loop and make n+1 REST calls for resources? It happens more often then you think because they don't want to have to create a backend ticket to add rela…

> we accidentally created an infinite event loop between two Lambdas. Racked up a several-hundred-thousand dollar bill in a couple of hours May I ask how you dealt with this? Were …

> If using the language's standard libraries is "absolutely doing it wrong" You are being deliberately obtuse. Other comments in this thread offer correct examples of using PDO to …

I'm shocked no one else gave this answer earlier in the thread. If you're using PDO directly in 2021, you're absolutely doing it wrong. You don't need to use all of Laravel, or eve…

I would put Laravel/PHP against anything else out there right now. Based on my (albeit limited) experiences with Node.js and Java/SpringBoot, I would choose Laravel for the vast ma…

> TypeScript support for Vue was not ideal I was surprised to hear this. Is this still true for Vue 3?

Yeah, the $ sigil for variables is a historical curiosity, but I don’t think it’s going anywhere. It would be an unacceptable BC break for codebases that have implicitly relied on …

PHP’s type system has improved (and continues to improve) by leaps and bounds. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24607891 Also the Laravel framework for PHP…

> Should it be expected that all programmers use these text editors and have access to these tools? If they don't have access, then the tools ought to be standardized to the point …

Don't forget, much of that effort has now trickled down into the PHP language itself. We've long had scalar types for function parameters and return values, but with 7.4 and 8.0 we…

> Types are meant to document code. Without the annotations, you can't look at code and know what is going on With the rise of VSCode IntelliSense/JetBrains code inspection, do you…