DarkNova6

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by DarkNova6 19d ago
Project Valhalla is not a JEP, it's a collection of JEPs and this is just the very first one. Flattening has been the goal from the start, but it's simply not something that's delivered in this JEP. But even so, people should
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by DarkNova6 21d ago
The tradeoff being that tearing is what enables flattening. So if you truly want the best performance (cache lines etc.) you must enable it. But whether your data’s integrity can be broken by such must be decided by the class author.
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by DarkNova6 21d ago
Yes, this was the idiom in the 90s, but Escape Analysis has not proven to be powerful enough to optimize away identity. And looking at all the edge-cases and possible data-races via tearing, declaring something as a value must be an explici
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by DarkNova6 22d ago
Good technical overview, and I fully agree with the conclusion's sentiment at the end: ``` Declaring a value class is first and foremost a semantic decision. It tells our fellow programmers that its instances are defined entirely by th
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by DarkNova6 23d ago
Which EU countries do you talk about? Because I've never seen anything like this
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
I was hoping for an alternative to PLSQL or stored procedures. But this isn’t about „Database Programming“, it’s a SQL replacement…
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
It looks like the HN hug of death has found a new victim
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
At this point it is not a question of whether this will happen but only when. Next to digital currencies and the yuan, Trump has successfully killed the Petrodollar. The free influx of money, and particularly investor money that gave the US
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
"Most of us" is a pretty bold claim.
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
This is bullshit. The vast majority of CO2 is created by energy production. The problem is systemic and blaming other people for their lifestyle choices is neither effective nor helpful and just leads to further division. It's exactly
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
I never understood this argument. With Oil & Gas you release green house gases that have been sealed away back into the air. For methane produced by farming all components remain in a cycle. Everything released by animals eventually fin
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
I'd say: A good abstraction is a formal and abstract statement about the nature of the underlying (sub)system. It is self consistent and allows an easier way to reason and interact with greater complexity underneath. And the more you s
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
The problem is primarily social. When code is cheap and entry barriers don't exist, how do you filter what is valuable? For private projects, being able to code things quickly is a godsent. Also for professional environments with clear
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
Having basic defensive programming, some simple classes instead of dicts everywhere and avoiding n+1 is a "different world"?
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
You misunderstand. And that is exactly the problem. We did do that and that's why our queries ended up being several lines long. But if you missed just one model? You openly walk a knife again. It's a mess and it only gets longer
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
I seriously don't get why Django ORM is using the Active Record pattern. This is such a stupid footgun that trivially causes horrible performance and BEGS you to cause n+1 problems. Never in my life did I have a problem with lazy loadi
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
I'm referring to the formal usage of the term "distillation", instead of the informal one that refers to training it on any data as a whole. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/nlp/what-is-llm-distillation&#x2F
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
You mean the asian models which just distilled American ones? I'm happy Mistral is doing their own ground up research. SOTA frontier models are a commodity with little room for second places. Mistral is playing the smart money on verti
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
I don't understand this obsession with clear cut categorization. Systems always have a human component and while we like to collectively deny this fact from a tech-sphere, there are always humans that will make the final call and if an
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
I don't get it. I thought the advantage is that you have a client as a library with integrated auth & other tech stuff handled so you can just focus on using the API? Because otherwise you could just use REST with basic endpoint co
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
This sounds like a more elaborate version of Whataboutism.
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
I'd like to think that it's twice as good as a one-party system.
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
Indeed. The true irony behind the Dunning Kruger Effect is that the pop culture understanding of it is essentially describing itself. Showing overconfidence in areas that you have little clue about.
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
I think it keeps going back to "preserving type invariants". Turning an object into a value can have surprising constraints on the integrity of the type. These include: forced empty constructor (for bulk initialiation in arrays),
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by DarkNova6 1mo ago
I left Swift and SwiftUi behind be 5 years ago when I switched jobs. I had fond memories and always eyed going back. What were the emerging problems that you talk about? I am actually curious because I was quite fond of the DevEx
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
Right? It strikes me that the vast majority of people complaining genuinely don't understand the difference between law and code, content and art or can think of anything beyond what they are facing in day to day work realities.
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
This being downvoted speaks saddens my heart... and proves the exact intent of the message.
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
Thanks, now I don't need to even read the article!
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
You are not wrong, but here's the catch: "Even I - with all my years of experience and knowledge - fell into the trap of hallucinations. I summarised reports using AI tools and worked from those summaries, trusting they were accur
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by DarkNova6 2mo ago
I'd argue that if a satire or parody is strong enough having a small watermark will not detract from its statement.

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