Mt McKinley was named after him while he was alive, before he was even president, and the mountain had already been named Denali for centuries by the natives before William Dickey had even conceived of climbing it. The…
Yeah, the problem with "not fighting it" is that you'll naturally do what feels the best in the moment, and having fun will always feel the best in the moment over doing something boring. The fall only comes later when…
pretty sure Krugman himself said his prediction was intentionally pessimistic to counter the hyper-optimism of his peers. and in fairness, he wrote that at the height of the dot-com bubble. actually, thinking about it…
Ah, but you see, it was a general purpose programming language. A general purpose, functional, optionally-typed programming language, with its own optimizing compiler and build system. In fairness, it wasn't originally…
Yup, and every time it breaks, you've got to pester someone whose job probably isn't maintaining that thing actively. I worked at a startup with massive NIH syndrome, once. We even used our own in-house programming…
Must we always see this restated every time? It's getting a bit stale always seeing these kinds of comments on articles about LLM.
The incessant need to constantly leave "the code doesn't work like <bad implementation>, it works like <good implementation>" frustrates me to no end. No amount of directions against it in project MEMORY, CLAUDE.md, or…
I too have settled into a kind of dual Claude/GPT model setup. I will often use one to review the other's work, or critique the other's plan in some way. Sometimes I'll have Claude implement a feature one way, then have…
most large companies, maybe, but small-to-medium-sized businesses can and will tell you to take a hike. there are no consumer protections in the US regarding returns beyond the goodwill of the company
Exactly. You as the programmer know that the loop counter won't overflow, and in general, essentially nobody would actually write it that way. But if you don't assume it can't happen, the possibility for signed overflow…
I see what you're going for, but I don't see how your example is UB. If `p` is a pointer, and, after your `if (p)` check, `p` is dereferenced unconditionally, then yes, your check for `p == NULL` could be removed, and…
Exactly. I see this common idea trotted out that "where there's a will, there's a way" -- if the government bans something, the ban will never be effective, because people still want that thing, and so a ban will just…
No, you don't understand. We're... - mining the 95th percentile, leveraging the Pareto Principle - optimizing and ubiquitizing under-optimized paradigms - pioneering agentic solutions to aggressively expand product…
Yeah, actually I completely agree with you. This discussion has gotten way out of hand.
I don't think that altruism is specific to Christianity. I clarified that in a sibling comment (which you seemed to indicate you had read?), and that what I meant was Christianity specifically requires that good deeds…
If you were interested in demonstrating my lack of education, I'm not sure you have done so. But I'm happy to conclude this exchange with your feeling satisfied on that point. I don't imagine you're interested in an…
Why not eliminate tax entirely, then? Is that a conclusion you'd support?
> The us govt wastes by some estimates 30% of its budget. Trillions annually. Have to start with the waste and fraud. Empty daycares are not a good use of hard-earned tax dollars and have a massively pernicious effect…
26% AI generated? What does that even mean? How is Pangram arriving at that figure?
> Nobody wants to give away a slice of their net worth to pay for bullshit wars and ballrooms. The vast majority of people in America are already doing this, because their wealth is entirely derived from their income.…
Sure, I never claimed that Christians invented charity. They're certainly not even the only religion that advocates universal charity. To be clear, what I see as distinctly Christian is the idea that charity must be…
> Everyone's job is to please their manager. Indeed. I've spent my professional career seeking out positions at companies of increasing prestige and technical renown, each with a higher reputation for professionalism…
The vast majority of people tuning into those kinds of slop streams are not really active listeners. It's more akin to turning on the radio while you work/clean/perform some other task that doesn't require strict focus…
Not only have you misinterpreted my comment to attack claims I never made, you've also used this misinterpretation as license to insult me. Lovely.
I don't think you can really escape this anywhere online. Hacker News has the same problem, really.
Mt McKinley was named after him while he was alive, before he was even president, and the mountain had already been named Denali for centuries by the natives before William Dickey had even conceived of climbing it. The…
Yeah, the problem with "not fighting it" is that you'll naturally do what feels the best in the moment, and having fun will always feel the best in the moment over doing something boring. The fall only comes later when…
pretty sure Krugman himself said his prediction was intentionally pessimistic to counter the hyper-optimism of his peers. and in fairness, he wrote that at the height of the dot-com bubble. actually, thinking about it…
Ah, but you see, it was a general purpose programming language. A general purpose, functional, optionally-typed programming language, with its own optimizing compiler and build system. In fairness, it wasn't originally…
Yup, and every time it breaks, you've got to pester someone whose job probably isn't maintaining that thing actively. I worked at a startup with massive NIH syndrome, once. We even used our own in-house programming…
Must we always see this restated every time? It's getting a bit stale always seeing these kinds of comments on articles about LLM.
The incessant need to constantly leave "the code doesn't work like <bad implementation>, it works like <good implementation>" frustrates me to no end. No amount of directions against it in project MEMORY, CLAUDE.md, or…
I too have settled into a kind of dual Claude/GPT model setup. I will often use one to review the other's work, or critique the other's plan in some way. Sometimes I'll have Claude implement a feature one way, then have…
most large companies, maybe, but small-to-medium-sized businesses can and will tell you to take a hike. there are no consumer protections in the US regarding returns beyond the goodwill of the company
Exactly. You as the programmer know that the loop counter won't overflow, and in general, essentially nobody would actually write it that way. But if you don't assume it can't happen, the possibility for signed overflow…
I see what you're going for, but I don't see how your example is UB. If `p` is a pointer, and, after your `if (p)` check, `p` is dereferenced unconditionally, then yes, your check for `p == NULL` could be removed, and…
Exactly. I see this common idea trotted out that "where there's a will, there's a way" -- if the government bans something, the ban will never be effective, because people still want that thing, and so a ban will just…
No, you don't understand. We're... - mining the 95th percentile, leveraging the Pareto Principle - optimizing and ubiquitizing under-optimized paradigms - pioneering agentic solutions to aggressively expand product…
Yeah, actually I completely agree with you. This discussion has gotten way out of hand.
I don't think that altruism is specific to Christianity. I clarified that in a sibling comment (which you seemed to indicate you had read?), and that what I meant was Christianity specifically requires that good deeds…
If you were interested in demonstrating my lack of education, I'm not sure you have done so. But I'm happy to conclude this exchange with your feeling satisfied on that point. I don't imagine you're interested in an…
Why not eliminate tax entirely, then? Is that a conclusion you'd support?
> The us govt wastes by some estimates 30% of its budget. Trillions annually. Have to start with the waste and fraud. Empty daycares are not a good use of hard-earned tax dollars and have a massively pernicious effect…
26% AI generated? What does that even mean? How is Pangram arriving at that figure?
> Nobody wants to give away a slice of their net worth to pay for bullshit wars and ballrooms. The vast majority of people in America are already doing this, because their wealth is entirely derived from their income.…
Sure, I never claimed that Christians invented charity. They're certainly not even the only religion that advocates universal charity. To be clear, what I see as distinctly Christian is the idea that charity must be…
> Everyone's job is to please their manager. Indeed. I've spent my professional career seeking out positions at companies of increasing prestige and technical renown, each with a higher reputation for professionalism…
The vast majority of people tuning into those kinds of slop streams are not really active listeners. It's more akin to turning on the radio while you work/clean/perform some other task that doesn't require strict focus…
Not only have you misinterpreted my comment to attack claims I never made, you've also used this misinterpretation as license to insult me. Lovely.
I don't think you can really escape this anywhere online. Hacker News has the same problem, really.