ossopite

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by ossopite 15d ago
I'm curious how google think about the damage this does to the perception of the quality of their AI tools. Every second google search I do reinforces the association "google AI is crap" because you can't help but see it
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by ossopite 2mo ago
I've seen this expressed similarly as the 'configuration complexity clock': https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-comple... I like your spiral metaphor though, since you learn some t
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by ossopite 4mo ago
As I recall, C# supports this in a completely sensible way by distinguishing a[i,j] and a[i][j]. If I understand right, in C, a[i][j] means what C# would spell a[i,j], which does seem rather surprising and inconsistent
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by ossopite 4mo ago
The docs/summaries part I can get behind if reviewed and improved by a human, but at least when working in pre-existing codebases, I tend to steer models away from writing comments, because I find that almost all comments they write ar
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by ossopite 4mo ago
The idea that we could create a world where 'a big part of the future of hobbies and entertainment' is people listening to meaningless words made up by machines that help them feel good about themselves sounds horrifying. How coul
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by ossopite 5mo ago
Right. Besides getting this incantation right, as gp did only after editing their comment, you also have to cast to create values of NewType. But generally you want to avoid casting in typescript if you care about type safety, so now everyb
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by ossopite 5mo ago
In a way I agree with you, and I'm not sure that what popular languages embrace or make it easy to follow this philosophy. My sense is that Erlang is still the leader. But I did want to add something the article also touches on: types
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by ossopite 5mo ago
I'm not convinced it really works well in typescript. the lack of nominal types requires you to remember some pretty hacky incantations if you want something like a newtype wrapping a primitive type my experience is that ocaml is more
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by ossopite 6mo ago
Did you write it or did an LLM? I find some irony in seeing the telltale tropes of conventional LLM writing there
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by ossopite 1y ago
I think the send/recv with a timeout example is very interesting, because in a language where futures start running immediately without being polled, I think the situation is likely to be the opposite way around. send with a timeout is
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by ossopite 1y ago
Single core performance isn't just clock frequency. It must be multiplied by average IPC, but really it's more difficult since you have to account for factors like new SIMD instructions. Effective IPC improvements are where a sign
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by ossopite 1y ago
Ok, that's true, but my claim is that recursive descent parsing does not have to use the visitor pattern and indeed using recursive descent parsing is not the same as using the visitor pattern (you can do the former without the latter
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by ossopite 1y ago
I think I'm missing something here. if you have a grammar rule R with children A and B, and a function in your recursive descent parser that corresponds to R, why can R not call the parser functions for A and B, which return AST nodes
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by ossopite 1y ago
I see that you've found an example of how recursive descent parsing actually can be implemented with the visitor pattern, which I've never come across before, and I didn't read it carefully enough to understand the motivation
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by ossopite 1y ago
What? The visitor pattern is a technique for dynamic dispatch on two values (typically one represents 'which variant of data are we working with' and the other 'which operation are we performing'). You would not generall
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by ossopite 1y ago
I would add Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky to these suggestions
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by ossopite 1y ago
From the headline I can't decide if it was a study in astronomy or gastronomy
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by ossopite 1y ago
It seems like it originated in the Isabelle proof assistant ML dialect in the mid 90s https://web.archive.org/web/20190217164203/https://blogs.msd...
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by ossopite 1y ago
I'm not sure if t-strings help here? unless I misread the PEP, it seems like they still eagerly evaluate the interpolations. There is an observation that you can use `lambda` inside to delay evaluation of an interpolation, but I think
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by ossopite 1y ago
I hadn't heard of this property before, thanks for introducing me to it! V gubhtug vg fbhaqrq fhecevfvat sbe n glcr r gb orunir guvf jnl jura V jebgr zl pbzzrag, ohg abj V ernyvfr gung vg zvtug or pbzzba va nal vzcyrzragngvba bs rdhnyf
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by ossopite 1y ago
Gung'f snve. Gura V guvax, abg pbafvqrevat nal cnegvphyne cebtenzzvat ynathntr, gur nafjre qrcraqf ba ubj Frg qrgrezvarf rdhnyvgl bs ryrzragf. Vs vg hfrf fbzr vzcyrzragngvba bs rdhnyvgl/pbzcnevfba sbe glcr r gung pna fnl gung fbzr
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by ossopite 1y ago
ROT13 Fb V guvax gur nafjre eribyirf nebhaq gur pbzcbfvgvba ynj. Va bgure jbeqf, vf sznc (sznc frg s) t rdhny gb sznc frg (t . s) sbe nal s naq t? V guvax guvf ubyqf bayl vs s naq t ner cher (be znlor whfg vs t vf cher?). fb znlor vs lbh vt
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by ossopite 1y ago
I suppose by enumerations you mean sum types. I would argue that these are pretty fundamental? you have product types (structs/records/tuples) - a value is made up of x and y - and sum types - a value can be either X or Y. I think
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by ossopite 1y ago
I'm curious what you have in mind when it comes to ways in which OCaml is insistent on being functional while F# isn't. After all, OCaml has mutable data structures, mutable record fields, for loops and so on. Is it just that more
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by ossopite 1y ago
I think you really are describing ocaml, which is a great language, although its ecosystem isn't the best. It probably inspired most of the features you mentioned in rust. It also supports OOP (hence the O) but it's easy to avoid.
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by ossopite 2y ago
Without offering any opinion on its merits, if you think justifying this controversial claim is off topic, then so is the claim and you shouldn't have written it.
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by ossopite 2y ago
> The only real advantage that a proportional font has is that you can squeeze more text into a particular space and as a result you can read faster I would disagree with that - I find it easier, more comfortable rather than just faster
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by ossopite 2y ago
I think you wrote compare forward as a long version of cf., but I believe cf. is actually short for the latin confer
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by ossopite 2y ago
Ha, I have tried long and short. Somehow when the nail is longer it feels like there is more soreness, maybe more tension created between the nail and whatever is up with the skin underneath, I don't know
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by ossopite 2y ago
I did actually try that, and it felt like it helped for a brief while, but not for long

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