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Is there any source available for this?

Rich Hickey calls these protocols. In Haskell or Rust you get them via traits.

Many believe that F# is better for functional code and C# is better for imperative code. Hence F# immutable core and C# immutable shell. But I think this is a myth. F# the language…

With various new models hitting human-level performance on certain tasks, are the days of protecting a website with CAPTCHAs numbered? What will this new world look like?

I'm not convinced Tor could scale to a significant percentage of internet traffic using it.

Yes, it can be. 1. Loading data 2. Running algorithms that benefit from shared memory 3. Serving the model (if it's not being output to some portable format) There are also general…

Those are real issues though.

Anyone else read the headline and go straight through to the comments? I think that HN, which has added deliberate friction elsewhere on the site, should consider hiding the commen…

It's a bit like how Rust limits dangerous operations to unsafe blocks

> Second, this is still fine. Don't make changes outside of the IAC control. And if you do make them, retro-fix the IAC files until there is no diff with the actual state. This doe…

With Terraform you can statically analyze the infrastructure definition with some guarantees of determinism etc. Arbitrary execution is allowed, as you say, but only in well-contai…

Exactly. If you want portability across clouds, Terraform ain't it. The only way I know of to achieve that right now (for any reasonably complex architecture) is: - Minimal amount …

Adding a "real" programming language makes certain things easier, such as abstraction, but IMO they are too powerful for the task at hand. Do we really want an infrastructure descr…

I would love LLMs to write documentation for me, even though I don't trust them with the code.

Stacking shelves in a supermarket is a perfect example. 1000s of products means that a bit of experience is required to know where everything goes in order to quickly stack. With a…

A job or a house: choose one

Using this to push Brainfuck at work

Function coloring is orthogonal to the underlying mechanism. You can think of the Java / Go approach as adding the bind points automatically.

If the prices have significantly risen since you purchased (as they have for most buyers) then moving even to the same quality of house makes you a net buyer because you need to ta…

I wonder if wages have risen in response to this? You cannot operate a business that doesn't pay staff enough to live for very long.

I can see LLMs as a novel front-end for a traditional search engine.

It's really easy to get an LLM to hallucinate by asking an open ended question - the type typically answered by a Google search or checking Wikiedpia. However, this is not the best…

Free speech does not allow the right to do harm. We can debate where exactly that line is, but in my book protesting right outside of a clinic is harassment.