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The author says it's "100% accurate and free of hallucinations" but I am sceptical. Although I don't know much about chip production, when I ask LLMs about advanced topics like mem…

How does static allocation avoid wasting memory? Static memory allocation requires hardcoding an upper limit of size of everything. For example, if you limit each string to be at m…

Unfortunately web API doesn't yet allow drawing multi-line text in canvas. To draw multi-line text in canvas you need a layouting library

Many problems in article are specific to old versions of iOS which is only in old versions of iPhone. Most old iPhone users are not potential paying customers. iOS need to be suppo…

I head that Jane Street use OCaml and said similar thing. Although there are few OCaml developers they are overall better so hiring is easier

Key sentence Because you weren’t suffering from too much work, you were suffering from too little truly important work.

Not being able to store mutable ref in other type reduces expressiveness. The doc already mentions it cannot allow Iterator that doesn't consume container https://github.com/rue-la…

Modern large productivity software (including IDE) are often "fragile". Sometimes some configuration is wrong and it behave wrongly but you don't know which configuration. Sometime…

There is nuance distinction between "fundamentally work faster" and "being pushed to work faster". The first is what to optimize. The second "being pushed to work faster" often pro…

This reminds of me Makimoto’s Wave: https://semiengineering.com/knowledge_centers/standards-laws... There is a constant cycle between domain-specific hardware-hardcoded-algorithm d…

I put some article content to Pangram. Pangram says it's AI https://www.pangram.com/history/282d7e59-ab4b-417c-9862-10d6... The author's writing style is really similar to AI. AI a…

The overuse of emoji make me suspect it's AI. I plugged first paragraph into pangram and result is 100% AI. https://www.pangram.com/history/30310094-f54b-4e74-8d68-e4c9...

It's probably KPI-driven. Devs are punished by any visible error. So dev hides errors.

It's also possible that OpenAI use many human-generated similar-to-ARC data to train (semi-cheating). OpenAI has enough incentive to fake high score. Without fully disclosing train…

Once a metric becomes optimization target, it ceases to become good metric.

React server component is frontend's attempt of "eating" backend. On the contrary, HTMX is the attempt of backend "eating" frontend. HTMX preserves the boundary between client and …

Any attempt that blurs boundary between client and server is unsafe.

Egison is a pattern-matching-oriented language https://www.egison.org/

All mistakes can be blamed to "carelessness". This doesn't change the fact that some designs are more error-prone and more unsafe.

The biggest value of Rust is to avoid heisenbug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug Memory safety and thread safety are causes of heisenbugs. However there are other causes. Ru…

Maybe the AI feeling is illusion because you already know it's AI-generated, just confirmation bias. Like wine tastes better after knowing it's expensive. In real world AI-generate…

A nitpick about website: the top progress bar is kind of distracting (high-constrast color with animation). It's also unnecessary because there is already scrollbar on the right si…

The "diskless" is actually replacing disk with S3