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codingwagie
·10 माह पहले·discuss
Love the comments:

"7/27/78 FIXED BUG WHERE FOR VARIABLE AT BYTE FF MATCHED RETURN SEARCHING FOR GOSUB ENTRY ON STACK IN FNDFOR CALL BY CHANGING STA FORPNT TO STA FORPNT+1. THIS IS A SERIOUS BUG IN ALL VERSIONS."

Not far off from a comment I might make these days

https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/blob/main/m6502.asm...
codingwagie
·11 माह पहले·discuss
Right but you cant expect perfect implementation, as the complexity of the business needs grows, so does the accidental complexity.
codingwagie
·11 माह पहले·discuss
I think this works in simple domains. After working in big tech for a while, I am still shocked by the required complexity. Even the simplest business problem may take a year to solve, and constantly break due to the astounding number of edge cases and scale.

Anyone proclaiming simplicity just hasnt worked at scale. Even rewrites that have a decade old code base to be inspired from, often fail due to the sheer amount of things to consider.

A classic, Chesterton's Fence:

"There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”"
codingwagie
·11 माह पहले·discuss
ive wasted so much time fiddling with notion documents
codingwagie
·11 माह पहले·discuss
JetBrains product quality has really gone downhill.
codingwagie
·12 माह पहले·discuss
theres alot of wealthy people in NYC and its only increasing. in neighborhoods like west village or soho, the majority of people are not working corporate jobs. they are paying 7.5-20k a month in rent out of their pockets.
codingwagie
·12 माह पहले·discuss
I think coding manually is like doing wood work manually, its going away. I am planning my exit, expecting it to take a few years for me to fully leave the field. But I want out, and this is coming from someone with a ton of FAANG experience.
codingwagie
·12 माह पहले·discuss
It took me a long time to learn this
codingwagie
·12 माह पहले·discuss
AI is way underhyped, its just going to take society a long time to integrate this tectonic shift into our existing ways of working
codingwagie
·12 माह पहले·discuss
hahaha
codingwagie
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
the founder went to harvard, is basically the answer
codingwagie
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
Financial engineering is why people are poor. They are literally competing for goods and services with investment firms.
codingwagie
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
I've commonly seen grants like this diluted to almost zero. I would think carefully and strategically about how you can get some sort of value for the equity you vested. Its probably harder than you think to get decent liquidity on it.
codingwagie
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
there are deep reasons for why society is not like this anymore
codingwagie
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
This works for UX. I give it vague requirements, and it implements something i didnt ask for, but is better than i would have thought of
codingwagie
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
Yeah but theres also sorts of political implications for admitting that
codingwagie
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
The value of these researchers to meta is surely more than a few billion. Love seeing free markets benefit the world
codingwagie
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
OpenAI SDK is much simpler to use and understand than langchain etc. I havent deployed really complicated agents, but I have a number of simple use cases that work just fine
codingwagie
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
I love to hate on google, but yeah their models are really good. The larger context window is huge
codingwagie
·पिछला वर्ष·discuss
this only works for very early stage