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You’re not a novice, there are a lot of us who know exactly what we are doing and see this as a huge downside. We are just being told to go faster, faster, faster lest we miss out …

Both ahead of time compilers and JIT compilers often perform autovectorization of tight loops. The problem is that lots of hot loops are not necessarily simple loops, and in partic…

A year and a half later? Does that really count?

I feel like this can be explained in part by “I like using it for myself, but I hate when others use it.” When you use ChatGPT for yourself, you may have a sense that what you see …

“Think of the children!” When AI produces those meaningful advances in those fields, great, we can start having meaningful discussions about them. The greatest medical advancement …

I have no advice to offer, I only wish you good luck. I am still lucky enough to be employed, but when this whole parade ends, I have no idea what comes next - my only skill is pro…

Have you considered just… writing code? Like we used to in the good old days? If the tool drives you to that point of frustration, maybe it’s time to give the tool a break.

> when the author is an AI and the consumer is a compiler, and no human needs to read the output at all. This seems like a big bet on the assumption that fully autonomous codegen w…

That seems correct, but it also doesn’t account for managed languages with runtimes like JavaScript or Java or .NET, which probably have a lot of interesting runtime info they coul…

Sure, but this is based on a fundamental trust in governments ability to spend money effectively. The ineffective spending has been in the news way more than the effective spending…

In C#, you would normally implement rules like this with a custom Roslyn Analyzer or with https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/main/src/RoslynAnalyze... . It’s fair to say C# proj…

I didn’t know this, but there are also security downsides to being ahead of chrome — namely, all chrome releases take dependencies on “known good” v8 release versions which have at…

If people aren't getting their work done, then they should be having discussions with their manager that eventually lead to pip or firing if not resolved. If they are getting their…

And also, a decent chunk of alcohol consumption must be solo? I'd bet alcohol is broadly more social, but I would also wonder if that would change if more public gathering places s…

There is a ton of tools and custom logic used by/with/for the GN ecosystem in chromium that I imagine would be difficult to port. This tool is substantially less complex than Bazel…

A handful of other areas are configured using Starlark in chromium. This particular use is in a very different capacity than Bazel - the Bazel equivalent in chromium is GN, and I h…

Saying that Microsoft is "Rewriting Windows in rust" suggests you might not be as informed as you think... Very specific components with history of performance or security issues a…

In case you don't see my comment on the parent, it's an Azure VM thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42788912 Look up the difference between Dv5 and Ddv5 VMS, for instance,…

This isn't a github runner issue, it's an Azure VM issue. They use Azure VM SKUs with temp disks, and windows VMs on those SKUs by default spin up with C on a remote-backed, persis…

Surely there is a middle ground for contributions which you don't really care to retain ownership of? I don't sign CLAs for projects I want to form a long term contributor relation…

Someone already said The Rest is History, but one of the presenters of that podcast Tom Holland (not the actor) has also written extensively about the history of the catholic churc…

Which take millions of dollars and huge teams to make. These take one bored person, a sentence, and a few minutes to go from idea to posting on social media. That difference is the…

Is there a way to get phones to you or information about how to do this myself? I am sure I could find similar programs if I looked but it sounds interesting.

I don't think it's true that C# isn't taken seriously at Microsoft - some of the frameworks on top of C# come and go, but I worked on JS on WinRT briefly and can say it was never, …

Lots of positive comments here that are mostly correct, but I will say that if you're working with more junior or just less technically passionate people, Starlark is a lot for the…