leecommamichael

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by leecommamichael 9d ago
I was surprised that the author didn’t translate the piped representation of the first program to a procedural program with explicit calls to subprocedures. It’s bigger, but it’s dead-simple and easy to slip instructions in the middle of.
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by leecommamichael 15d ago
I'm having a very hard time finding mention of token-generation speed.
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by leecommamichael 20d ago
Everything's a drum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2T7oLbmvx4
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by leecommamichael 24d ago
> and the average hides who it worked for. **** off. Can't even get through the ****ing subtitle any longer these days.
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by leecommamichael 24d ago
> One of the memes on Twitter is that “programming is solved now.” I’m not sure to what degree it is, but one thing is pretty clear: the act of familiarizing yourself with a language no longer matters and some of the friction that matter
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by leecommamichael 24d ago
How could there even be an xkcd which is so applicable? Wow.
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by leecommamichael 25d ago
In addition to this, I think one gets even more from reading after having tried to write. There's a unique feedback loop that starts happening once you start creating.
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by leecommamichael 25d ago
> This also lead to more arguments with the wife (which leads to a decrease in other things... ;) I love the subtlety of the dual-use closing-parenthesis here.
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by leecommamichael 26d ago
It's interesting how this plays out with C/C++. There's not really a package manager, and so the host system has to have vetted packages. It moves the burden on to the system maintainer.
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by leecommamichael 27d ago
Ultimately I think devs need to think about their dependencies and decide which ones get pinned and a serious review before pulling. If the thing has got binaries, it gets a serious review. If it does anything with cryptography, it gets a s
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by leecommamichael 27d ago
Thanks for the thorough reply. I personally haven't experienced brittleness/unfriendliness, but I have only written around 10k lines of Go. Not exactly a power user, but I like to think I understand it. > If you’ve added the pa
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by leecommamichael 27d ago
Here's a suggestion, do you think it could be this simple? If you write a package-manager, don't execute any of the downloaded code in an automated fashion. No hooks, no build-time metaprograms. If your language _needs_ metaprogra
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by leecommamichael 27d ago
Has Go not had the most secure ecosystem? What is your critique of their approach? Is it not the case that `go get` is the only one which doesn't even provide a way for the person downloading to run the downloaded code until it is actu
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by leecommamichael 27d ago
NPM came along in 2010, Javascript was huge before that. It was only when people wanted a common approach to shipping both in browser and "native" that this glitch happened. I believe a standard library and "batteries" w
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by leecommamichael 27d ago
The Odin programming language does this! It has also decided not to provide a package manager.
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by leecommamichael 29d ago
"HP" "obscure" Cool nonetheless.
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by leecommamichael 1mo ago
... and then there's me. I know it's capable, but I have not yet found a good heuristic to decide when to write or generate code. A good heuristic would comfort me. It would assure me that I'm not missing chances to improve t
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by leecommamichael 1mo ago
I wish LLMs were more boring.
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by leecommamichael 1mo ago
> In this case, the cost is dynamic dispatch and pointer-chasing. To sharpen your statement, the cost is missing the CPU caches, which is often caused by failing to pool allocations and reading indirectly. > But the argument is you&#x
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by leecommamichael 1mo ago
> you'll wish you had a conceptual entity that encapsulated the operations on the type of workflows so you just had to implement them in one place. Why have you drawn the conclusion that the author is against this? A function with a
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by leecommamichael 1mo ago
> I have to think about everything, everywhere, all the time. I think this is familiarity speaking, which is what you're expressing earlier in the comment anyway. The reality is that we have to think of everything when telling a mac
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by leecommamichael 2mo ago
I wonder how long it takes to build, and how quickly it builds executables, compared to the new stuff.
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by leecommamichael 2mo ago
I don't feel that the way you are paraphrasing me represents what I am trying to say at all, and I feel misunderstood. I do think the phrase "appeal to civility" was fine, but the negation of that phrase doesn't exactly
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by leecommamichael 2mo ago
There has got to be a way to be strong against a cause without being strong against the people who represent it. I believe this devolves to violence otherwise.
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by leecommamichael 2mo ago
I appreciate the response, and I can relate. Perhaps I'm too sensitive to some rumblings I'm perceiving in the US at the moment. I don't know. I genuinely do not know.
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by leecommamichael 2mo ago
When you say "listen before rejecting," what would you have me do differently? To call what I'm saying "rejection" seems a bridge too far from what I am intending to say, also. I am making an appeal to civility and
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by leecommamichael 2mo ago
After reading some other comments on what I wrote, I guess I'm just surprised if/that he doesn't know this will offend people, and I see a simple way to make his point without doing so.
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by leecommamichael 2mo ago
When you put it that way, I have no issue agreeing wholeheartedly. He’s making an example of incel culture as it appears to him to apply to software culture. After I describe it that way, I think he didn’t have to stoke the religious right
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by leecommamichael 2mo ago
> “I almost fell into this trap (...) I was raised by conservative Christian parents and thereby had so, so much to learn, and unlearn, in order to date comfortable and confidently. Is this engagement bait? Is this a cultural critique? W
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by leecommamichael 2mo ago
The OP is not citing their claims, but their commentary. Do you understand why I find that to be different than citing their findings? We're not talking percentages here.

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