amval

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by amval 2mo ago
I am myself an immigrant to this country, one that has had itequally easy, if not more. Lately, or perhaps for the last couple of years, I've struggled with negative feelings about the country. I do not like the direction things are mo
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by amval 3mo ago
I think the article is pretty fair at presenting GingerBill's legitimate grievances, Wikipedia shortcomings, acknowledging that GingerBill can be constructive and, at the same time, recognizing that the current interactions are coloure
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by amval 3mo ago
What a fantastic article. I could not care less about the actual topic, but in these times of literacy scarcity, it is refreshing to see someone actually being able to read through sub-text and present their views in a well-reasoned manner.
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by amval 1y ago
I don't think I understand your point, beyond downplaying the severity of current events.
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by amval 1y ago
You don't think that the fact that Ellison is a staunch defender of regimes that disregard the international order in favour of military might is relevant to the fact that is also advocating for building a surveillance state? In case y
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by amval 1y ago
Well, yes, it would be better if he didn't amplify propaganda for the country that is committing a genocide and would raise awareness for the victims. Is this not self-evident?
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by amval 1y ago
> I was active in the Python community in the 200x timeframe, and I daresay the common consensus is that language didn't matter and a sufficiently smart compiler/JIT/whatever would eventually make dynamic scripting languag
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by amval 1y ago
Even funnier: https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/main/docs/WhySwiftF... > Julia: Julia is another great language with an open and active community. They are currently investing in machine l
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by amval 1y ago
The second part of the sentence is very important ;) "... but would struggle with different looking syntax"
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by amval 1y ago
It marketed itself explicitly as a "Python superset", which could allow Python programmers to avoid learning a second language and write performant code. I'd argue that I am not sure what kind of Python programmer is capable
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by amval 1y ago
For a language that announced itself (and raised a lot of money on the premise of) claiming to be "a Python superset", this does not sound like a huge achievement. In all fairness, their website now reads: "Mojo is a pythonic
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by amval 1y ago
Ah, yes. The dubious and evil Perro Sánchez.
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by amval 1y ago
Apparently this spans more countries? Very strange. Possibly a cyberattack or sabotage? Growing up in Spain I've never experienced anything like this (not there at the moment, but friends have told me over WhatsApp).
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by amval 2y ago
Big companies tend to develop cult dynamics. This is not an exaggeration, but a consequence of how humans tend to operate in large amounts. And I'd wager that in the case of Silicon Valley tech companies, this is also something that th
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by amval 2y ago
That's mostly because Julia questions get answered on its Discourse or Slack. The sharp decline is due to an automatic cross-post bot that stopped working. No one bothered fixing it, in great part due to Discourse being the main place
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by amval 2y ago
I think it ultimately is a sign of the need for better languages. Of course, there are always engineering compromises. But I think a better world is possible, in which we don't have massive software projects written in JavaScript or Py
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by amval 2y ago
What do you mean, exactly?
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by amval 2y ago
Might depend on where you are in Spain. Having lived in both, I'd take Spain over Germany any day of the week.
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by amval 2y ago
It kind of reads like satire, to be honest.
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by amval 3y ago
Absolutely agree. We changed on my team to primarily use Macbooks. Originally just to make easier testing on Safari. Later, just because the hardware is pretty nice. It has been a pretty frustrating experience at times. Most of the time is
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by amval 3y ago
I thought he maybe meant that, but since LLMs were explicitly mentioned I wasn't sure if image generation was part of this rant. I don't know, I don't really object to the arguments themselves, just how poorly written this pi
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by amval 3y ago
I fully agree with the sentiment, but I am bit... confused? with the section that raises possible concerns about the negatives of LLMs. In particular the "women" mention, without any ellaboration. Am I missing something? It feels
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by amval 3y ago
Why do you say that, for those not familiar with it? EDIT: And the article seems unaccesible to me right now.
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by amval 3y ago
To sell supplements, as evidenced by the ridiculously expensive olive oil that he sells on his website and the new line-up of upcoming supplements. There is no way for regular people to "follow his protocol". But you can have shot
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by amval 3y ago
I encourage everyone to ignore Bryan Johnson, whose not-so-secret goal is to sell supplements to gullible people and has nothing to do with actual science.
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by amval 3y ago
No, that wouldn't make any sense. I would count them as anarchists.
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by amval 3y ago
There are plenty of things I dislike that are not fascism: soup as a main course, jogging, different flavours of authoritarian regimes. Where I live no one pretends "libertarianism" is a real ideology. This has some upsides. For e
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by amval 3y ago
How many calories do you eat per day? And how many meals?
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by amval 3y ago
My problem is not with Julia, my problem is with the Python ecosystem and its dependency management. Not sure how you can read what I wrote and reach that conclusion.
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by amval 3y ago
I run in production several Julia projects and I honestly can't say I know what you are referring to. I do use some libraries through PyCall. This is a relatively frequent source of trouble, with libraries breaking because of 3rd party

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