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I think performance generally trades along a different axis: open-world vs closed-world assumptions. There are many cases where closed-world assumptions may confer performance bene…

> This is about guiding principles, about personal liberty, and about freedom from tyranny. The point he’s trying to make, as I understand it, is that states adapt. They don’t just…

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No disagreement in principle; in practice taking that approach in Zig is safer than in Rust, because in Rust it’s “all or nothing.”

I agree that it’s not inherent to emitting machine code but I do think it reflects a different set of priorities. In extremely high performance code you use different data structur…

It’s probably too little too late in the age of Claude… C# grew all those features over time. It had to leave syntax to support old patterns to preserve backwards compatibility. Th…

No, I’m not. I’m explicitly differentiating between those two perspectives and which corporations care about. “Blame” doesn’t exist in most corporate vocabularies.

It’s possible. Effects allow more aspects of computation to be represented/generalized, but as the author has noted concrete implementations have already been tried in some cases. …

Because it’s their job to fix it. If they don’t, the axe falls again. Humans often think in terms of deontological ethics. Corporations operate in terms of consequentialist ethics,…

I feel the author’s pain. LLMs take over right as we’re finally figuring out the unifying models and algorithms for programming languages. Some time back I went on a tour of the fo…

I buy that markets are like a traveling salesman problem. “Impossible” in the general case, but good enough could algorithms exist. Where’s the economist formulation of that algori…

Rules are only “good” or “bad” in the context of the alternatives. What’s the alternative?

Way above my pay grade. I’m not an expert in game theory, economics, warfare, or nuclear proliferation. :)

Game theory here is applied to two fundamental market theorems. It’s a way to analyze the validity of those assumptions, rather than to build a new model. Empirical evidence to the…

Are securities regulations so lax that pump ‘n dump schemes on a global scale get IPO’d? Are conmen so sophisticated that their plans take decades to mature and require sending roc…

If this happened it would make Elon emperor of the known universe. Can’t imagine the level of influence this would buy. It also seems impossible. What are people seeing that I don’…

Same, I care little about NSFW. We used to all live in caves together where kids saw adults having sex, in conflict, and cleaning game. But I also grew with a different internet th…

Not to mention if “borders” is part of the continuity definition the US is younger than my parents.

That’s not the premise people are building on though. Any particular model almost doesn’t matter at this point. Harnesses are built around them. OpenAI and Anthropic are basically …

My version of this is the “N+1” principle. Build for one more foreseeable use case than you currently have. The domain model will click in when you need to generalize a solution, a…

In the case of concrete there’s also a time component. Once you mix the cement and aggregate you have a few hours before it begins to set. The cement itself is already typically tr…

Anecdotally, my take on this is that biggest value lever is strategy and alignment, not implementation. The typical company is dozens of little vectors pointed in different directi…

Imagine you initialized 10,000 NPM repos identically simultaneously. Then had 100 different teams each take of 100 those repos for 10 different projects, and let each repo run for …

So, depending on someone else’s shared library, rather than my own shared library, is the difference between a microservice and not a microservice?

FWIW, (I have one Clojure project I inherited at work that my team maintains) I love this direction.