martinhath

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by martinhath 1mo ago
> Jevons paradox occurs when a more efficient use of a resource leads to an increase in its use I think these are the same, because efficiency is value over cost. In the original formulation of the paradox, a more efficient steam engine
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Reverse Jevons Paradox(mht.wtf)
62 points by martinhath 2mo ago|58 comments
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Four months of Ruby Central moving Ruby backward(andre.arko.net)
15 points by martinhath 7mo ago|5 comments
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Trillion Dollar Elephants(dbushell.com)
4 points by martinhath 1y ago|0 comments
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Building a Better Web Takes a Village(blog.kagi.com)
4 points by martinhath 1y ago|0 comments
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Navigate Gates(mht.wtf)
9 points by martinhath 1y ago|0 comments
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The Rise of Fluid Teams(blog.pwkf.org)
2 points by martinhath 1y ago|0 comments
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AIcohol(mht.wtf)
7 points by martinhath 1y ago|0 comments
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Armin Ronacher – Claude Code Fixes Two MiniJinja Issues [video](youtube.com)
1 points by martinhath 1y ago|1 comments
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by martinhath 2y ago
This is from C.A.R Hoare's "Prospects for a better programming language" (1972) [0]: > It is on production runs that the security is most required, since it is the results of production runs that will actually be trusted a
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Comments are gray and it's weird(mht.wtf)
4 points by martinhath 2y ago|4 comments
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Simplicity as a Value(mht.wtf)
2 points by martinhath 3y ago|0 comments
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Finitecurve.com: TSP art on a CPU budget(vidarholen.net)
1 points by martinhath 3y ago|0 comments
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Eisenhower Vectors(thesquareplanet.com)
3 points by martinhath 3y ago|0 comments
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Searching High and Flow(mht.wtf)
1 points by martinhath 3y ago|0 comments
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by martinhath 3y ago
How would errdefer work in the general union setting? Having errors as a first class construct in the language allows things like errdefer to be very simple and easy to use. It looks needlessly specialised at first, but I think it’s actuall
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by martinhath 3y ago
I’m pretty sure it’s intentionally a dark pattern.
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by martinhath 3y ago
Not just in theory, they can, and do, fail in practice.
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Expanding TeX's \Newif (2021)(mht.wtf)
45 points by martinhath 3y ago|5 comments
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by martinhath 4y ago
> Clean code / readable code / whatever you want to call it is often at odds with performance. I disagree; or rather, I'd put it the other way around by saying that often you can get both clean code (by some metric) and re
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by martinhath 4y ago
> At some point in my programmer career I figured out that optimizing for human comprehension, a.k.a. "clean code", is a valid goal. Nobody is arguing against comprehensible code. Caseys video is not about clean code in general
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by martinhath 4y ago
OnShape is pretty nice, but their language, FeatureScript, is a disaster.
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by martinhath 4y ago
> Who is the author arguing against? This is addressed in the third paragraph: > The problem with this saying is that many people wrongly interpret it as “early optimization is the root of all evil.” In fact, writing fast software fro
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by martinhath 4y ago
I sat down and read the original paper a few years back with the same intent as the author here, and afterwards I listed a couple of quotes that I found interesting [0]. It didn't really get any traction [1], but maybe someone here wil
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Languages, Performance, and Intent(mht.wtf)
6 points by martinhath 4y ago|0 comments
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Efficient simulation through linear algebra(mht.wtf)
138 points by martinhath 4y ago|6 comments
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by martinhath 4y ago
> This is perhaps too big a burden on a user. Some might say they rather not have the compositionality unless it's guaranteed to be correct. I think this is it. Or rather, I think to some people, myself included, compositionality sh
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by martinhath 4y ago
That's not what this is, and if you'd bothered to look for more than a second, you'd seen that too. All the claims listed are very concrete claims that are possible to falsify, unlike "Thing good!", and the research
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Building Zig structs at compile time(mht.wtf)
4 points by martinhath 4y ago|0 comments
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by martinhath 4y ago
The very first line in the post is "Imagine ...". Was it not clear that what followed what hypothetical, or was the post edited after you commented?

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