harpiaharpyja

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It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive.

vor 29 Tagendiscuss

I find the "EMBEDDED MALWARE DESTROYED MONTHS OF WORK" issue opened on the jqwik repo to be baffling. Do they not use source control? And if not, what are they doing on GitHub

harpiaharpyja

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Compare is broken, always produces "not found"

harpiaharpyja

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

As a customer of DropBox since ~2011 I would say they've been an outstanding success.

Maybe it's time we redefine what success means.

harpiaharpyja

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

I don't think it's clearly established that 10,000 Shahed drones would actually be a threat to an aircraft carrier though.

Remember that 10k drones can't just be conjured into the air all at once or act with perfect coordination. There are operational limitations that prevent effectiveness from scaling up past a certain point.

harpiaharpyja

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

...did you read TFA?

harpiaharpyja

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Equally dogmatic take. A lot of scarcity is artificial.

harpiaharpyja

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

I'm only partway through, but I believe one of the foundational blocks is that computation is fundamentally an interpretation of physical events, not something that can just exist by itself.

harpiaharpyja

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

It's funny how often my brain gets redirected to German Shepard Dogs when reading conversations about AI. And I still can't remember what the other meaning of GSD is supposed to be without an Internet search.

harpiaharpyja

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

I would love to see a model of Mythras/Runequest

harpiaharpyja

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Do these companies that are buying up all the supply actually need all that RAM right now? Or are they buying it all up in anticipation of future need? If the latter, honestly this might be a case where some kind of regulation really ought to step in.

harpiaharpyja

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

I think a lot of people (especially those who are only peripherally involved in development, like management) don't really consider performance regressions at all when thinking about how to get software to go faster.

Meanwhile my experience has been that whenever there has been a performance issue severe enough to actually matter, it's often been the result of some kind of performance bug, not so much language, runtime, or even algorithm choices for that matter.

Hence whenever the topic of how to improve performance comes up, I always, always insist that we profile first.

harpiaharpyja

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

  The old dragon Kalessin looked at him from one long, awful, golden eye. 
  There were ages beyond ages in the depths of that eye; the morning of the world was deep in it. 
  Though Arren did not look into it, he knew that it looked upon him with profound and mild hilarity."

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I recently had a high-level meeting with Kalessin, a legacy leader in the space. (dragon emoji)

Looking into that golden eye was a masterclass in long-term vision. We’re talking ages of experience and "day one" mentality combined.

Even without direct eye contact, the synergy was real. There’s something to be said for leadership that approaches challenges with profound, mild hilarity.

Key takeaways: 1. Experience matters. 2. Perspective is everything. 3. Don't forget to find the joy in the grind.

#Leadership #Visionary #Legacy #GrowthMindset #Networking

harpiaharpyja

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

When documentation is lacking, if the 3rd party library is source-available then reading the source code is my next step. This almost never fails me. Source code is usually understandable, generally speaking many brilliant people have put in decades of effort to make source code and the tools we use that way. I've long considered that the ability to understand source code by sitting down and reading as the most important asset a developer could have. Given that, I wonder how the latest trend seemingly against understanding source code will turn out. Maybe it will turn out to be less important, who knows. But it is really weird to live through.

harpiaharpyja

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

The article was essentially, "you should hate Anthropic" followed by a poorly explained timeline and some insubstantial arguments.

If there was a point there the article did not make it easy to find.

harpiaharpyja

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

I knew it couldn't be coincidence that a green cabbage looks exactly like a giant brussel sprout.

harpiaharpyja

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

Thank you for articulating that.

harpiaharpyja

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

I mean, you're asking for a fundamentally different directing for the language with different tradeoffs? Why are you commenting on an article about Rust? Not everyone wants the same tradeoffs that you do.

harpiaharpyja

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

Look, included in the concepts the article discusses are features that people have been wanting for a very long time.

Like, the ability to have multiple mut references to a struct as long as you access disjoint fields? That's amazing!!! A redo of Pin that actually composes with the rest of the language? That's pretty awesome too.

I think you're getting tied up because the the author is describing these features in a very formal way. But someone has to think about these things, especially if they are going to implement them.

Ultimately, these are features that will make Rust's safety features (which really, are Rust's reason for existing) more ergonomic and easier to use. That's the opposite of what you fear.

harpiaharpyja

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

TFA makes a strong argument that that isn't the case.

I would say it's even the thesis of the article. Joann Fabrics was a healthy company with customer demand and zero debt and was basically assassinated by a leveraged buyout.

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