sweeneyrod

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by sweeneyrod 4y ago
Actually it's very controversial if we should spend marginal resources on deworming. It may have very large economic benefits, but the evidence isn't clear ( https://unherd.com/2020/08/what-worms-can-teach
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by sweeneyrod 4y ago
I agree that dune is worse in many important ways than the build systems of languages like Rust and Go (where they were developed at the same time as the language, rather than 20 years later). But dune config files aren't lisp. They&#x
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
It's fine to trade when you know something that the general public doesn't. Indeed that's really the only time you should trade: you presumably want to make a profit, and society wants relevant information to be incorporated
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
I believe Ruby and OCaml have both anonymous positional arguments and keyword arguments with punning (i.e. `f ~arg` expands to `f ~arg:arg` in OCaml).
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
You can get those cool features in languages such as OCaml/F#/Scala/Haskell, and then you don't have to worry about managing memory because you have a GC.
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
It is quite possible that an Erlang dev billing 3x more than a PHP dev will be more than 3x as productive.
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
There is an interesting take on command-line code review from Jane Street here https://blog.janestreet.com/putting-the-i-back-in-ide-toward...
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
Unit tests and "type systems" have very little in common with Kubernetes and GraphQL.
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
It's interesting that they have a much higher valuation (and from some cursory research, moderately more users) than Depop, despite (AFAIK) being completely obscure in the US/UK.
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
There are various universities that teach Haskell or similar languages in first year.
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
Yes, I think everyone would agree that OCaml has gone from competing with the predominant high-level language of 1996 (C) to the predominant languages of today (definitely not C). Another factor is that creating a language (Rust, Go etc.) f
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
Would you consider using a non-GC language that isn't Rust outside the various domains where C/C++ is the only realistic (non-Rust) choice?
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
I think you are definitely pointing at something that has been a weakness of OCaml for a long time (but as you say is happily changing). But I wouldn't characterise it as elitism; IME the OCaml community is very friendly. Instead, I th
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
I don't think memory safety bugs are the most widespread kind at all, unless you add the qualification "in languages with manual memory management".
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
As well as the Amodei siblings in charge, various other ex-OpenAI people are involved (Chris Olah, Amanda Askell, Jack Clark).
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Anthropic raises $124M to build more reliable, general AI systems(anthropic.com)
5 points by sweeneyrod 5y ago|1 comments
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
I am pretty sure anyone for whom the notation in `\forall n \in \mathbb{N}` presents a barrier to learning meaningful amounts of type theory will have greater problems from lack of mathematical background.
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
I think many mercurial users would disagree with you about git.
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
"But the argument thrives because there's a kernel of truth to it, in that if you wanted to pick a programming language based purely on expressive shininess, you'd write in OCaml." Eh, I think OCaml is actually the least
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
Also, if no multicore blocks you from using OCaml, you also have to stay away from Python/Ruby/JavaScript which also lack it.
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
What is a program where `--help` is dangerous?
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
If you care about having nice self-contained commits, what is your process for sending rough work-in-progress to colleagues, or to continuous integration?
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
"it's hard to make a cogent argument that Paul Pelosi, who is by all measures a private citizen, should be restricted from trading specific stocks" No it's not. If you grant that Nancy Pelosi should be treated similarly
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
In which country?
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
"analyst" covers all entry-level roles. The analysts with total compensation close to the base salary of 50k (e.g. developers) won't work crazy hours. The bankers who do have crazy hours also get bonuses with order of magnitu
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by sweeneyrod 5y ago
You absolutely can find a 1-bed in super-central London for well under £2000/month, e.g. it took 2 minutes searching to find this one https://ww2.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/57988484/?search_id... But f
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
I don't know about OVH but Hetzner beats DO at the lower end: for $5/month you get 2 CPUs vs 1, 2 GB RAM vs 1, 40 GB disk vs 25 and 20 TB traffic vs 1. They have an even lower-end package for 2.96 Euro/month as well.
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
C++ is about 17 languages
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
"Obviously a huge part of an index is maintaining desired weightings" Actually it's not. Suppose I have an index that should contain AAPL and TSLA weighted by market cap, with total value $100,000. Say they both have 1000 sha
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by sweeneyrod 6y ago
The question shouldn't be "why does web development require the use of garbage collection" but "why would you not use a language with a GC when you have the opportunity". Before Rust (and after the 90s or whenever

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