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One thing worth noting is that syntactic density doesn't necessarily mean cheaper because because symbols don't chunk/tokenize as well as plain English What I see from results like…

The problem here is that "mechanical empathy" is for most neurotypical humans at odds with fun. It's hard to say that static typing is "fun" but at this point the benefits are so a…

This is the double edged sword of particularly extensible customizable languages is that they invariably won't produce a robust ecosystem of packages that can compose with each oth…

Personally I think expressivity and type system power are what make a language "fun". If languages were video games, the Lisp family and Lean4 feel much more like an open-world gam…

I'd argue Rust is one of the most "unfun" languages in terms of syntax but it's offset by the crates ecosystem and cargo toolchain being easily the most pleasant within systems pro…

Why does anyone owe you a job if someone elsewhere can do it as good or better and more economically. What entitles you to work simply because you are based in the West? Sounds lik…

This looks solid, great to have a site like this focused specifically on psychedelic vertical

It's getting hard to find any study posted without a kneejerk "correlation does not equal causation" take as if that's not something researchers have to control for in order to eve…

I think offshoring to the Phillipines is extremely net-positive from a purely utilitarian sense I know a lot of Filipinos and essentially 100% of them in white-collar work are usin…

This is already common for both HIPAA and financial data, it usually comes down to the offshoring site meeting compliance guidelines and functioning like a "clean room" with data l…

Yeah it's incredibly vague and one of the only specific examples it gives is this thread, which already was locked and delisted and the OP banned? https://discourse.nixos.org/t/obj…

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I mean this is one case where the "law" is arguably true The Nix drama from the start has been profoundly untethered from actual development or improvement of the project rather th…

The most obvious cause was forcing BDFL and creator Eelco to step down https://lwn.net/Articles/970824/ The moderation team posted an open letter demanding he step down, among othe…

Compared to the last Deepseek V4 Flash version I've had tons of issues with it getting in infinite loops and talking to itself without executing tool calls, wasting tons of tokens …

Running a chip fab would actually make a pretty good Factorio-style automation game with perhaps puzzle elements inside the lithography device and in the tape out portion

Unrelated to Pi (which is great) can we please stop using LoTR names for companies. The Peter Thiel glazing/cargo culting is pretty cringe at this point

I don't think the no-code comparison is valid, it's always been fundamentally flawed since its many leaky abstractions sitting on top of systems programming code LLMs can't replace…

I believe in Rust there would be almost no performance hit due to the compiler using monomorphizing everything via the "zero-cost abstraction" we love to brag about

Life sciences will get way more interesting once Demis Hassabis completes his simulated cell and we have more genomic foundation models

> What stayed with me is that this is probably the only country in the western world that faced its own history properly, admitted the worst things it did, and built a lot of its i…

A lot of the aesthetic and the "9" in a circle seems inspired by Death in June, who have similar Nazi-adjacent imagery, sans-serif text over reappropriate historical photos and use…

I think Hermes is a kitchen sink of antipatterns and bloat, which is true of the vast majority of these "Claws"

Gary is no Paul Graham, technically speaking

And what aspect of that is novel exactly?