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by asa400 21d ago
Awesome, thank you for the detail.
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by asa400 21d ago
I have literally seen this firsthand enough to consider it repeatable. I am not making up characters for effect. I have seen and worked with people who didn’t want to write tests because they thought it made them appear weak. I have seen pe
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by asa400 21d ago
Completely agree, having worked with engineers and scientists for a large part of my career. Programming is still in this goofy phase as a profession/industry where lots of practitioners interpret suffering and complexity and difficult
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by asa400 21d ago
Is Datafusion related to Polars at all? I ask because you mentioned Rust integration.
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by asa400 29d ago
Valid point, I will grant that. It's also entirely possible that accidents due to less grippy tires are not evenly distributed (for example, due to climate or geography) and that slightly worse traction is less of a problem for most of
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by asa400 29d ago
> You have started out with the assumption that these higher efficiency tires are worse gripping. Generally speaking, with tires you are trading off wear, grip, efficiency, and cost, among other things (like off-road durability which is
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by asa400 29d ago
It absolutely has good aspects, no doubt, but nothing about this is unquestionable. It’s significantly grayer due to all kinds of second order effects, even if you really believe in the problem and want to solve it. Depends on how many more
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by asa400 29d ago
Toyota is infamous for offering special, nerfed versions of well-known tires on their new vehicles. You buy a Tacoma, you don’t get the Wildpeak AT4W, which is a very good all terrain tire. Instead, you get the Wildpeak AT4WA, which is a ne
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by asa400 1mo ago
Apologies in advance this turned in to a bit of a rant of violent agreement. For most places k8s is a complete boat anchor. Ends up being a huge complication and sap on product momentum. Can’t tell you how many outages I’ve seen from k8s mi
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by asa400 1mo ago
Homelab tinkerers are essentially a non-market. They barely want to pay for the cheapest commodity hardware. Tens of individuals would buy Oxide racks or theoretical microcomputers with their own money.
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by asa400 1mo ago
I'm fluent in Rust and I find it quite enjoyable to read and write, more so than almost any other language I know. But, that's a subjective opinion, I wouldn't expect others to feel the same. Rust probably has more to learn a
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by asa400 1mo ago
Unfortunate how many languages with interesting stories were either glossed over or omitted entirely. Clojure was an outright revolution against Java’s boring clumsiness, and many businesses are quietly making money with it today. Hickey ev
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by asa400 2mo ago
Funny, this almost reads like a description of how Elm works.
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by asa400 2mo ago
How much load? How many concurrent connections? What machine? Don’t get me wrong, benchmarks like these are useful to help ballpark performance floors, but really only relevant for a given load scenario. They don’t mean a lot without contex
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by asa400 2mo ago
Erlang also has this capability built in. You can do all kinds of weird stuff with it, it’s great.
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by asa400 2mo ago
It's nonsense. The people who made Elixir understand Erlang and the BEAM as well as anyone on earth. Elixir and Erlang have different syntax but aren't even that semantically different. Contrast this with say, Java and Clojure. Cl
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by asa400 2mo ago
Looks great! There are some style quirks with cutoff elements in Firefox 152.0.6: https://imgur.com/a/OtnESi7
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by asa400 2mo ago
Any examples? I haven't seen this personally.
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by asa400 2mo ago
Not sure I understand the point you're trying to make. Can you rephrase?
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by asa400 2mo ago
Yeah the parse rules for strict tables are annoying but it doesn't change the underlying semantics: sqlite> create table test ( id integer primary key, created_at text default current_timestamp, flag integer not null
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by asa400 2mo ago
> From my vantage point, when something does a great job at solving a problem better than everything else nobody spends their days trying to read about it, everyone quietly starts using it. Funny you should say this. 4 of the last 5 comp
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by asa400 2mo ago
I've been using Rust in anger since ~2018 and I guess I've had completely different experience, especially compared to what I was mostly doing before, which was Scala. Scala (the v2 series, I haven't used v3 at all) was, to a
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by asa400 2mo ago
I've read some of your other comments in this thread and I completely agree. It's dismaying how many devs seem unable to distinguish poor project leadership/communication from being a bold truth-teller "telling it like i
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by asa400 2mo ago
> So pointing out that the zig code was full of bugs because the author was doing weird stuff and ignoring advice, couldn't hire/retain any good Zig devs because he mismanaged people and is the kind of guy to do a full rewrite
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by asa400 2mo ago
Are the banks and trading firms that use e.g. Clojure/Elixir/Erlang/Python "comparative novices" or "less modern", whatever that means? These are some of the most sophisticated shops I've ever seen, d
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by asa400 4mo ago
Ecto Changesets[0] are runtime constructs, yes. They're similar to libaries like Pydantic, if you're familiar with Python. [0] - https://ecto.hexdocs.pm/Ecto.Changeset.html
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by asa400 4mo ago
They absolutely are. Maybe not if the only thing you’re benchmarking is something completely CPU bound like signal processing/math, but they’re definitely competitive for tons of real use cases.
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by asa400 4mo ago
Is it fair to think of this as the ability for type information to be propagated in both directions, e.g. both up and down the callstack? So callees down the callstack may receive any type information the caller might have, while callers up
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by asa400 4mo ago
This framing is misleading. I'm not sure what AI has to do with any of the examples you cited. All of the examples you cited are moves - and in some cases, not even moves, as Shopify is not ditching Ruby - to more performant runtimes a
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by asa400 4mo ago
Yeah, there’s just so much you can do (or not do, depending on how you look at it) when you have a well-integrated ~50hp electric motor and decent sized battery.

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