rfleury

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by rfleury 8mo ago
Give the ideology a rest. Nothing will change.
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by rfleury 8mo ago
Nothing has changed about the project’s design, intentions, or goals in the 5 years since the acquisition. This is just ideological.
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by rfleury 8mo ago
It was acquired before I even joined the company.
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by rfleury 8mo ago
The repository was first open sourced 2 years after the acquisition. Nothing has changed about the project’s goals. We are working on the Linux port now. It’s currently our top priority.
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by rfleury 11mo ago
Those interested can go look at all of the actual code I’ve written using these techniques, and decide for themselves whether or not it’s practical only for “simple sub tasks or basic CLI tools”: https://github.com/EpicGames
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by rfleury 2y ago
Are you out of your mind? LLMs will require much more debugging, not less. Separately, I have no idea which “senior developers” you know, but with or without LLMs, debugging is an immensely important part of development across the industry.
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by rfleury 3y ago
There are certainly issues (it’s in alpha after all—this was meant to be more of a soft launch, but it then kind of blew up), but I don’t think anything you listed would qualify as “jank”, and rather your unfamiliarity with the system or no
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by rfleury 4y ago
> Clearly they have nothing to offer you: you already know everything anyway. I definitely don't know everything, and I am always learning from real professionals with real experience. But it's certainly true that you don&#x2
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by rfleury 4y ago
A fair point on the title! I think you can see it from both perspectives. When I chose the title, I was thinking of "untangling" in this sense: In the traditional C program that overuses malloc/free, you end up in a forest of
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by rfleury 4y ago
> A general implication that he came up with this stuff himself, which he didn't. How in the world did you get this from the article? Of course I didn't invent it, nor did I ever claim (or imply) that.
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by rfleury 4y ago
Yes, although there are debugging techniques you can use to mitigate the issue. For instance, in debug builds, upon popping off an arena, zero all popped pages, and mark them as no-access.
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by rfleury 4y ago
You are exactly the kind of person the intro was intended to filter out. Congratulations on your tantrum. > But not our Great Prophet Author. He knows the world is a Simple Place where Government Bad and Garbage Collection Bad and Univer
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by rfleury 4y ago
Whether or not you call what I'm doing self-hosting or not is not really the issue. I am not really interested in fighting over that term - you may be right that I misused it. If so, I apologize for the confusion. Instead, I am interes