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Yep. In my experience, LLMs easily go in circles with even simple assembly, creating fixes that result in 2x slower code and then fixing those with even slower code. They are prett…

Sometimes I worry about the incentives for innovation in the US. Step 1, find something to innovate on, sell the promise of it to investors. Step 2, build a prototype or worst case…

Also xmonad with haskell - http://xmonad.org/

This comment reminds me of a book by Italo Calvino. Probably my favorite of his. It's a collection of stories told by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan about cities in his domain. Somewhat…

For me, it really comes down to energy. It takes me lots of energy to ignore something. Like someone walking behind my computer monitor. Like someone having a loud unrelated conver…

I'm both a vim and emacs user. I love vim for all the reasons everyone always mentions, but emacs comes out ahead consistently basically because emacs-lisp is so much more usable t…

I'm coming from music as a profession to programming as a profession. In music you can craft repetitive exercises to improve small aspects of your skillset, but in computer science…

I agree. Once you understand typechecker error messages a little bit, refactoring becomes very simple (and fun!). 1. change a core type or function 2. fix all the type errors 3. ya…

Maybe this is something that is visible on a large scale but appears more or less random when zoomed in to a particular couple.

I agree with you, but this statement has no ethical weight. We still get to choose whether to do something, and if something, what.

This reminds me of one of Russell's essays, "In Praise of Idleness". Despite the fact that collectively, we would be extremely comfortable working very little if we all worked the …

Mandlebrot flythrough is my personal favorite: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=329492

I cannot see a downside to improved networking infrastructure...and an eager market for advances.

Need to send the contents of the file to that command. Otherwise it effectively empties the file. (typo?) :%!sudo tee %

How To Learn Haskell: http://acm.wustl.edu/functional/haskell.php

Gotta love the random "and so we have computer viruses" paragraph toward the end.