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> stuck to why he thought it was bad for Bun to do this

Quite the opposite. "When Jarred announced the Rust rewrite, we were ecstatic."

> It’s definitionally an ad hominem against Jared.

Who Jarred is, as a CEO, definitely has an impact on how the company develops software - how Zig is used. And the argument is that Zig is used badly in Bun. Without that context, I, as a reader, would have to actually read through a lot of code to be convinced of that point.
ackfoobar
·4 माह पहले·discuss
Coming from Scala to Kotlin, this is what I thought as well. Seeing `it` felt very wrong, then I got used to it.
ackfoobar
·4 माह पहले·discuss
As noted in the article:

> This feature does have some limitations, for instance when we have multiple nested function calls, but in those cases an explicit lambda expression is always still possible.

I've also complained about that a while ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35707689

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The solution is to delimit the level of expression the underscore (or dollar sign suggested in the article) belongs to. In Kotlin they use braces and `it`.

    { add(it, 3) } // Kotiln
    add(_, 3) // Scala
Then modifying the "hole in the expression" is easy. Suppose we want to subtract the first argument by 2 before passing that to `add`:

    { add(subtract(it, 2), 3) } // Kotlin
    // add(subtract(_, 2), 3) // no, this means adding 3 to the function `add(subtract(_, 2)`
    x => { add(subtract(x, 2), 3) } // Scala
ackfoobar
·4 माह पहले·discuss
> explicitly written to do this

In that case I want the signature of "this function pre-computes, then returns another function" and "this function takes two arguments" to be different, to show intent.

> achieved through compiler optimisation

Haskell is different in that its evaluation ordering allows this. But in strict evaluation languages, this is much harder, or even forbidden by language semantics.

Here's what Yaron Minsky (an OCaml guy) has to say:

> starting from scratch, I’d avoid partial application as the default way of building multi-argument functions.

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/reason-general-function-syntax-d...
ackfoobar
·4 माह पहले·discuss
The premise of this joke is dead since 2020, when ZGC was production ready.
ackfoobar
·4 माह पहले·discuss
> ditch ORMs ... make good use of SQL

I think Java (or other JVM languages) are then best positioned, because of jooq. Still the best SQL generation library I've used.
ackfoobar
·4 माह पहले·discuss
https://github.com/peterklijn/hammerspoon-shiftit

I use ShiftIt (a lovely project, but dead) reimplemented in Hammerspoon. It is very comprehensive.
ackfoobar
·5 माह पहले·discuss
I guess the answer has to depend on demographics. But if we are spitballing, it probably wouldn't be all bad for every country to have a Lee Kuan Yew.
ackfoobar
·5 माह पहले·discuss
I'd gladly pay for Premium (I'm already paying for YT Music, the price difference is minimal) if they allow turning off shorts. But they won't. They see time spent in app goes up when they hypnotize the users. They're too Goodhart'ed to realize that quite a lot of users don't enjoy being hypnotized.
ackfoobar
·7 माह पहले·discuss
https://www.tiktok.com/@chloedav1s_ is the first account mentioned in the article. (Unless TikTok's UI is horrendously bad and I misunderstood) They are literally still images.
ackfoobar
·7 माह पहले·discuss
Your scenario is sth like: guy sees bad AI, good AI, and genuine content in his feed. Bad AI gives him confidence in his ability to detect slop, but he thinks the good AI is genuine content. Here the higher the quality of the slop, the harder it is to detect.

In this case some slop is hacked and exposed. I check them out to see if they're good yet. The quality of the slop is unrelated to whether they'd get hacked.
ackfoobar
·7 माह पहले·discuss
I checked out one of the accounts mentioned, mostly to check if I can discern fake accounts. The content is just still pictures. I'd dismiss those whether or not they're AI. Well, I'm not on TikTok anyway.

This reminds me of some youtube videos when I was researching some stuff to buy. Those videos are just still images plus text-to-speech narration, usually with an annoying background music.
ackfoobar
·8 माह पहले·discuss
Just for the record, another one of his PRs was torn to shreds.

> some core developers (who are compiler developers by trade) are actually experimenting with and using these same tools too, but haven't suddenly turned into 13kLoC PR-opening AI superheroes.

>> Here's my question: why did the files that you submitted name Mark Shinwell as the author?

> Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it.

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369
ackfoobar
·9 माह पहले·discuss
I guess it's really hard to write a sequel to Tron Legacy. Quorra came to life, then what? They're supposed to change the world. How? With a Q&A site? (Sorry I can't help myself with this dumb joke.)
ackfoobar
·10 माह पहले·discuss
> Most home cooks (I would bet millions) are not worrying about "the cutting experience"

Indeed, and they won't buy the knife at this price anyway. My point is that not being dishwasher-safe does not matter for ~everyone. If they care, they won't do it; if they don't, they won't buy it.
ackfoobar
·10 माह पहले·discuss
I don't think anyone who cares about the cutting experience would put a knife into a dishwasher.
ackfoobar
·10 माह पहले·discuss
Asked for numbers, got a link. Let's see.

They can manufacture 80 GWh a year. To get through dunkelflaute with moderate renewable percentage we need tens of TWh. Not to belittle Tesla, but that's 3 orders of magnitude difference.

Are you changing your mind or can you give me numbers to change mine?
ackfoobar
·10 माह पहले·discuss
My question is a few math operations away from "how much batteries capacity can we deploy to support how much % of renewables in the short-medium term, while still having a stable grid". My "100%" phrasing was sloppy, no need to index too much on it.

Since you're in the industry, maybe you can answer this question and change my mind.
ackfoobar
·10 माह पहले·discuss
Have you done the math of how insufficient battery tech is, if we are to go 100% renewable? I'm so tired of renewable proponents just use the thought terminating cliche "BATTERIES!" when intermittency is brought up.
ackfoobar
·10 माह पहले·discuss
> Junie, which also benefits greatly from integration into the IDE.

That is very plausible, I really want it to be true as a fan of IntelliJ and Kotlin. I used Cursor at work and tried out Junie on a hobby project. Maybe it's the different niche, maybe I'm more used to Cursor for chat bot workflows, but I got a personal Cursor license after trying out Junie.