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Comment #49248077
meta playing spoiler, yeah. fun stuff!
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Comment #49239134
models are stuck in time. eventually the world moves forward and it is trained on too much obsolete data. training cannot end for LLMs intrinsically. it's not some fixed cost. it's…
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Comment #49238720
Snowflake is a really amazing product. It's been a delight using it the last few years.
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Comment #49226552
they write code faster too, which means things compound faster. i write pretty good code when i need or want to, yeah. sadly LLM code gives me a headache so the current psychosis s…
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Comment #49222570
errors compound
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Comment #49218597
the thing being disbanded is less than a year old
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Comment #49217476
potemkin industry. jeez.
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Comment #49202631
i type code by hand so emacs is also left :)
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Comment #49200248
"making tradeoffs" is an excuse for management to cut corners to get their feature faster at the cost of future developer pain and suffering you know how japanese oni would roll hu…
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Comment #49199186
any 9s left?
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Comment #49191668
okay so silicon valley won't happen all the way
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Comment #49175447
haskell :)
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Comment #49164527
is he okay? or is this unironic psychosis?
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Comment #49162383
the author forgot you could also do a secret third thing: learn!
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Comment #49151187
ah so they distilled fable and sol, eh?
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Comment #49149941
right but type classes are basically vtables aka dictionary passing but the compiler figures out which dictionary to summon for you but the key is they build seamlessly on top of r…
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Comment #49145636
You just do dictionary passing.
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Comment #49144169
ML's parametric polymorphism
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Comment #49140930
and they're still worse than the 1970s state of the art lol
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Comment #49137463
I guess the real thing here is society takes parents away from their children because those parents need to be used for value
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Comment #49131308
it's sleep training it is insane and unnatural but it is also common fundamentally capitalist concept contact napping to beyond 1yo is deeply natural and special
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Comment #49131302
uh oh
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Comment #49128719
> "Everything is a trade-off" assumes you're on the Pareto frontier. 100%. it pisses me off so much that i have to hear this idea thrown around constantly.
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Comment #49119118
sports gambling? yeah it is
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Comment #49116339
3x? a year of work in 4 months? it's almost August - companies should have two years of progress since Jan 1 2026.