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by ghc 7d ago
I got one of those about 6 months ago. It’s great. No complaints whatsoever.
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by ghc 2mo ago
I've been using Haskell for 20 years. I've been running a company built on Haskell for 10. I have a very large legacy Haskell codebase. I've invested in several companies built on Haskell. Your anecdote is about your own lack
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by ghc 2mo ago
I was puzzled by this article at first, but when you put it that way it makes more sense. The author also had a presentation awhile back about why Haskell is a terrible language for startups to adopt. I imagine that in the current venture e
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by ghc 2mo ago
It's people over 65. Cell phone ownership is pretty much universal, but only 78% of people 65+ own a smartphone. I don't think that's really surprising at all. I wouldn't expect an 80 year old to adopt a smartphone when
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Prism: An Impure Functional Language with Typed Effects(stephendiehl.com)
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by ghc 3mo ago
Tragic. Most of the crew onboard were almost certainly aerospace engineers tasked with collecting sensor data.
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by ghc 4mo ago
Perhaps unsurprisingly, in New England jam seems more popular than jelly. The FDA regulates the labels...jelly is made from fruit juice, while jam is made from fruit chunks. The only jelly I routinely see is concord grape jelly. Jams are us
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by ghc 5mo ago
> Reviewing code is important, but it's only 50% of the learning process, at best I don't know about everyone else, but the code I reviewed as a Junior was high quality code I was expected to learn from. That's entirely
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by ghc 5mo ago
BitTorrent also enabled search engines to be built easily, which created discoverability. Unfortunately it's a much harder problem for git repos, especially when competing with GitHub search.
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by ghc 5mo ago
Oh, that's pretty cool! Now I can't decide whether that approach or one based on AT is better...
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by ghc 5mo ago
Is there really nothing like BitTorrent for git, or have we just not heard about it because of GitHub's network effects? It feels like this problem was solved long ago for binaries.
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by ghc 5mo ago
Things Fall Apart Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony
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by ghc 5mo ago
Except ASML licensed the technology from the US Government, after the government labs built the first EUV fab in 2001. Not to take anything away from ASML...all the US companies that also licensed the tech failed to commercialize it, but th
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by ghc 5mo ago
Optics and photoresist materials too. The partnership developed the first EUV lithography in 2001: https://www.llnl.gov/article/27641/euvl-partnership-makes-it...
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by ghc 5mo ago
Let's not forget the really big gamble (inventing EUV) was made in the 1990s by US national labs: Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Lawrence Berkeley.
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by ghc 5mo ago
I mean, your brain has an order of magnitude more neurons than there are people on the planet. I think humans are just incapable of wrapping our heads around the sheer number of tiny things that fit in small macroscopic spaces.
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by ghc 5mo ago
Why would a machine need to make anything? Is a robot arm not a machine? How about a trash compactor? Are the 6 types of simple machines not machines?
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by ghc 5mo ago
> the relational model can subsume "graph" queries, but for all the reasons Codd laid out back in the 60s... network (aka connected graph) databases cannot do the latter. Except network databases have little in common with grap
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by ghc 5mo ago
Oh you're right! I was looking at the last documentation update timestamp, but the original release was 2006. That makes a lot more sense than Itanium support in 2021.
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by ghc 5mo ago
how does this compare to gpt-oss-120b? It seems weird to leave it out.
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by ghc 5mo ago
> Oracle® Database Platform Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2) for Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-Bit) Well, I guess that at least confirms Oracle on Itanium (!?) still supported RAW 5 years ago. I'm guessing everyone's on ASM by now th
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by ghc 5mo ago
It seems like Claude has taken Github's place in terms of developer reaction to it being unavailable. It's like everyone forgot how they did things 18 months ago.
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by ghc 5mo ago
I'm so old I remember working on databases that were designed to use RAW, not files. I'm betting some databases still do, but probably only for mainframe systems nowadays.
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by ghc 5mo ago
It took me way too long to get that.
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by ghc 5mo ago
Here's my take on what he was getting at: Build vs. buy is an eternal question in enterprises. I remember many in-house data teams trying to build tools for "digital transformation" and cloud migration about 10 years ago. The
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by ghc 5mo ago
Oh, that actually tracks. I should have checked his bio.
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by ghc 5mo ago
So you're basically telling me to get off HN (and the internet), where lazy writing co-authored by LLMs is increasingly becoming the norm. Great.
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by ghc 5mo ago
The writing style seems a little unnatural, but the odd grammatical error convinced me that it wasn't the result of someone asking an LLM to review the libraries and write the reviews in the voice of an intellectual who went to Harvard
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by ghc 6mo ago
As straw men go, this is an attractive one, but... When I was fresh out of undergrad, joining a new lab, I followed a similar arc. I made mistakes, I took the wrong lessons from grad student code that came before mine, I used the wrong plot
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by ghc 6mo ago
The Apollo program cost about as much as 22 Gerald Ford class nuclear carriers. Amortized over the whole program, each launch cost the same as building 2 Gerald Ford class nuclear carriers, or $26 billion USD.

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