What I didn’t like about this series of books was choosing “garbage collection” as umbrella term for both tracing GC and reference counting, without verifying if programming community would agree with that, which turned…
Because the most important parts of the expertise are coming from their internal "world model" and are inseparable from it. An average unaware person believes that anything can be put in words and once the words are…
macOS and Windows both used to allow running arbitrary binaries from a web page. Linux GUI users get away purely because it’s unpopular target for as scammers, once naive grandmas and 12-year olds start using it, I’m…
A simple answer is that they see neither. What they think they see is actually a short snapshot of North Korean life with a red circle, a red arrow and a red caption text that says "North Korean propaganda here!!! -->",…
This is indeed interesting because rotating 2D screen is not necessarily the same type of brain processing as experiencing things fly around you. Even VR is not necessarily the same, because knowing you're safe may be…
Normally I cringe at doomsday preppers but given how many dictators out there love the idea to cut their country off Internet whenever anything starts going not in their favor, I imagine a lot of people may find this…
I can speak for myself: when I ask if the shiny side reflects the heat better, I don't mean to also ask if the difference is significant. It's really just curiosity, whether my school physics intuition holds up or lies…
Imagine being a person like me who has always been expressing himself like that. Using em dash, too. LLMs didn’t randomly invent their own unique style, they learned it from books. This is just how people write when…
Agree, to me this "research" is like proving grocery stores are vulnerable to theft by sending students to shoplift. If review process guaranteed that vulnerabilities can't pass, wouldn't that mean that the current…
Having created 100 of nano-sized projects does not add up to having developed and maintained one large code base. Coding agents are eating up programming from the lowest end, starting from pressing button on the…
I feel like many people in the comments aren't aware that Karpathy is an ML scientist for whom programming is a complementary skill, not a profession. The only reason he came up with "vibe coding" is because maximum…
A great opportunity to bring up that a robot that operates 100% locally and is located within Bluetooth range has never needed a cloud account, has never had to become unavailable whenever AWS goes down, and certainly…
I am really surprised how well AI excuse works, most journalists just take CEO words as is, and make no effort to assess: is that even credible? Obviously layoffs correlate with AI age, but it's most definitely not AI…
Endless volume escalation is known as Lombard Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_effect At parties it is mainly due to room's echo. The best and cheapest is open-air, where voices fly into the sky and never…
Sometimes I think the way CRDT research formulates the problem, itself obstructs evolution of local-first. That obsession with Google Docs-like collaborative real-time text editing, a pretty marginal use case, derails…
Locals have always been allowed to quit the new job on day 1, and it has never been a crisis for employers. A company that is confident it is offering worthy salary and career should have no extra reason to worry a…
This list of specific examples exists in your head solely because of backing by the media.
First of all, misleading title? It says that tech debt must be treated as regular business tasks when needed, not denies its existence. > Throughout my career, I’ve been an engineer complaining about tech debt, a…
More like, wear a full body raccoon suit.
Apps are sandboxed and don’t have full disk access unless you want them to. Article’s claim that websites have same capabilities largely defeats its own argument that websites have less capacity to collect tracking…
The other side of the coin is that website forces you to trust your data to the website and almost always locks you in with them (the regulation to provide "export" of data worth nothing if competitors are not required…
I think coding assistants aren't great at UI/UX yet because they can't see, their understanding of left/right/lighter/darker is guessed from textual descriptions that accompanied CSS tutorials but they are never…
An easy answer for what's missing is that the industry isn't run by people who read "No Silver Bullet". - Articles about tricky nature of tech debt aren't written by people who call the shots on whether the team can…
It would be great if every complex or volatile third-party library came with its own mock and an abstract interface to which they both conform. Including pieces of language’s standard library itself. It makes so much…
Remember how the central idea of Orwell's 1984 was that TVs in everyone's home were also watching all time and someone behind that device actually understanding what they see? That last part was considered dystopian:…
What I didn’t like about this series of books was choosing “garbage collection” as umbrella term for both tracing GC and reference counting, without verifying if programming community would agree with that, which turned…
Because the most important parts of the expertise are coming from their internal "world model" and are inseparable from it. An average unaware person believes that anything can be put in words and once the words are…
macOS and Windows both used to allow running arbitrary binaries from a web page. Linux GUI users get away purely because it’s unpopular target for as scammers, once naive grandmas and 12-year olds start using it, I’m…
A simple answer is that they see neither. What they think they see is actually a short snapshot of North Korean life with a red circle, a red arrow and a red caption text that says "North Korean propaganda here!!! -->",…
This is indeed interesting because rotating 2D screen is not necessarily the same type of brain processing as experiencing things fly around you. Even VR is not necessarily the same, because knowing you're safe may be…
Normally I cringe at doomsday preppers but given how many dictators out there love the idea to cut their country off Internet whenever anything starts going not in their favor, I imagine a lot of people may find this…
I can speak for myself: when I ask if the shiny side reflects the heat better, I don't mean to also ask if the difference is significant. It's really just curiosity, whether my school physics intuition holds up or lies…
Imagine being a person like me who has always been expressing himself like that. Using em dash, too. LLMs didn’t randomly invent their own unique style, they learned it from books. This is just how people write when…
Agree, to me this "research" is like proving grocery stores are vulnerable to theft by sending students to shoplift. If review process guaranteed that vulnerabilities can't pass, wouldn't that mean that the current…
Having created 100 of nano-sized projects does not add up to having developed and maintained one large code base. Coding agents are eating up programming from the lowest end, starting from pressing button on the…
I feel like many people in the comments aren't aware that Karpathy is an ML scientist for whom programming is a complementary skill, not a profession. The only reason he came up with "vibe coding" is because maximum…
A great opportunity to bring up that a robot that operates 100% locally and is located within Bluetooth range has never needed a cloud account, has never had to become unavailable whenever AWS goes down, and certainly…
I am really surprised how well AI excuse works, most journalists just take CEO words as is, and make no effort to assess: is that even credible? Obviously layoffs correlate with AI age, but it's most definitely not AI…
Endless volume escalation is known as Lombard Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_effect At parties it is mainly due to room's echo. The best and cheapest is open-air, where voices fly into the sky and never…
Sometimes I think the way CRDT research formulates the problem, itself obstructs evolution of local-first. That obsession with Google Docs-like collaborative real-time text editing, a pretty marginal use case, derails…
Locals have always been allowed to quit the new job on day 1, and it has never been a crisis for employers. A company that is confident it is offering worthy salary and career should have no extra reason to worry a…
This list of specific examples exists in your head solely because of backing by the media.
First of all, misleading title? It says that tech debt must be treated as regular business tasks when needed, not denies its existence. > Throughout my career, I’ve been an engineer complaining about tech debt, a…
More like, wear a full body raccoon suit.
Apps are sandboxed and don’t have full disk access unless you want them to. Article’s claim that websites have same capabilities largely defeats its own argument that websites have less capacity to collect tracking…
The other side of the coin is that website forces you to trust your data to the website and almost always locks you in with them (the regulation to provide "export" of data worth nothing if competitors are not required…
I think coding assistants aren't great at UI/UX yet because they can't see, their understanding of left/right/lighter/darker is guessed from textual descriptions that accompanied CSS tutorials but they are never…
An easy answer for what's missing is that the industry isn't run by people who read "No Silver Bullet". - Articles about tricky nature of tech debt aren't written by people who call the shots on whether the team can…
It would be great if every complex or volatile third-party library came with its own mock and an abstract interface to which they both conform. Including pieces of language’s standard library itself. It makes so much…
Remember how the central idea of Orwell's 1984 was that TVs in everyone's home were also watching all time and someone behind that device actually understanding what they see? That last part was considered dystopian:…