nosman

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by nosman 14d ago
That and when people use "exponential" to mean big.
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by nosman 5mo ago
The code itself might suck but the data on how the companies themselves track issues, work on the issues, handle PRs, etc would be extremely valuable no? Training the AI on what successfully completing a task means would make a lot of sense
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by nosman 6mo ago
The bad guys are using Tolkien references. The good guys are probably using Hitchhiker's Guide references...
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by nosman 7mo ago
What do you mean by public services? All kinds of companies lose millions of dollars of revenue per day if not hour if their sites are not stable.... apple, amazon, google, Shopify, uber, etc etc. Those companies have decided the extra comp
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by nosman 8mo ago
I don't know why people automatically jump to Apple's defense on this.... They absolutely did spend a lot of money and hired people to try this. They 100% do NOT have the open and bottom-up culture needed to pull off large scale A
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by nosman 8mo ago
This is true, but a team using rust will probably care more about resource use in general. I do agree it's kind of a misleading headline, the real update is their use of Flatbuffers.
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by nosman 8mo ago
I hope that this is the start of developers being conscious of using resources efficiently again, especially in the browser. The more rust gets written, the better AI will be able to write it for people... I like to be optimistic.
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by nosman 10mo ago
I think those are two separate concerns. Writing code and running a tech business are two different things. I personally love Ocaml and think it's an excellent language and very underrated. However, I (probably) wouldn't want a pr
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by nosman 10mo ago
how does this work if i import two different gems that both monkeypatch the same classes? Even if you can see the source, it still seems difficult to understand where the monkeypatch came from if you have transitive dependencies and whatn
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by nosman 3y ago
Did you read the article? The point is that they're adopting memory management features inspired by rust to give programmers more fine-grained control.