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by sousousou 2mo ago
Yep. In my experience, LLMs easily go in circles with even simple assembly, creating fixes that result in 2x slower code and then fixing those with even slower code. They are pretty great as a reference or finding needle in the haystack bug
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by sousousou 7mo ago
Sometimes I worry about the incentives for innovation in the US. Step 1, find something to innovate on, sell the promise of it to investors. Step 2, build a prototype or worst case, build it for real and start generating income from your tr
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by sousousou 10y ago
Also xmonad with haskell - http://xmonad.org/
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by sousousou 11y ago
This comment reminds me of a book by Italo Calvino. Probably my favorite of his. It's a collection of stories told by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan about cities in his domain. Somewhat fantastical, but strikes deep to the heart to transito
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by sousousou 12y ago
For me, it really comes down to energy. It takes me lots of energy to ignore something. Like someone walking behind my computer monitor. Like someone having a loud unrelated conversation next to me. Like being conscious of my appearance and
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by sousousou 12y ago
I'm both a vim and emacs user. I love vim for all the reasons everyone always mentions, but emacs comes out ahead consistently basically because emacs-lisp is so much more usable to me than vimscript. I find it much easier to create or
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by sousousou 12y ago
I'm coming from music as a profession to programming as a profession. In music you can craft repetitive exercises to improve small aspects of your skillset, but in computer science you can't do that exactly (or sanely). However, I
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Vamonos: Dynamic algorithm visualization in the browser(rosulek.github.io)
37 points by sousousou 12y ago|2 comments
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by sousousou 12y ago
I agree. Once you understand typechecker error messages a little bit, refactoring becomes very simple (and fun!). 1. change a core type or function 2. fix all the type errors 3. yay This is wonderful. I think the tradeoff is that you start
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Vim-indent-mode for emacs(github.com)
1 points by sousousou 13y ago|0 comments
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Max Flow in a Graph – Interactive Visualization(rosulek.github.io)
2 points by sousousou 13y ago|0 comments
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by sousousou 13y ago
Maybe this is something that is visible on a large scale but appears more or less random when zoomed in to a particular couple.
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Vamonos: Interactive Algorithm Visualizations(rosulek.github.io)
1 points by sousousou 13y ago|0 comments
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Vamonos: browswer-based visualization of advanced algorithms(rosulek.github.io)
2 points by sousousou 13y ago|0 comments
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by sousousou 13y ago
I agree with you, but this statement has no ethical weight. We still get to choose whether to do something, and if something, what.
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by sousousou 13y ago
This reminds me of one of Russell's essays, "In Praise of Idleness". Despite the fact that collectively, we would be extremely comfortable working very little if we all worked the same amount, in reality some of us work extre
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by sousousou 13y ago
Mandlebrot flythrough is my personal favorite: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=329492
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by sousousou 13y ago
I cannot see a downside to improved networking infrastructure...and an eager market for advances.
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by sousousou 14y ago
Need to send the contents of the file to that command. Otherwise it effectively empties the file. (typo?) :%!sudo tee %
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One Half A Manifesto(edge.org)
1 points by sousousou 14y ago|0 comments
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by sousousou 14y ago
How To Learn Haskell: http://acm.wustl.edu/functional/haskell.php
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by sousousou 15y ago
Gotta love the random "and so we have computer viruses" paragraph toward the end.
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by sousousou 15y ago
Fantastic!