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static_void
·11 mesi fa·discuss
But at least there are jobs in tech!

Oh wait.
static_void
·12 mesi fa·discuss
I'm so relieved this is a parody and critique.

I only clicked through out of morbid curiosity: the software architecture version of watching a train wreck.
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
Lol. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44091037
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
A card game in Ruby on Rails, with an emphasis on deep reaction trees, and where the resolution order of action trees depends on whether actions resolve before or after their triggers.

Its real purpose is twofold: I enjoy data modeling, and doing just enough Rails work to regain fluency after a gap.

https://github.com/alexnyeoverride/causality-rails/
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
I'm glad we can agree. I also like communicating with people using a shared understanding of the words being used, i.e. their definitions.
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
Just in case you're talking about descriptivism vs. prescriptivism.

I'm a descriptivist. I don't believe language should have arbitrary rules, like which kinds of words you're allowed to end a sentence with.

However, to be an honest descriptivist, you must acknowledge that words are used in certain ways more frequently than others. Definitions attempt to capture the canonical usage of a word.

Therefore, if you want to communicate clearly, you should use words the way they are commonly understood to be used.
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
We should not bend over backwards to use language the way ignorant people do.
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
And yet the low quality of the front page is an indictment of the site as a whole.

It's just that some internet extremophiles have managed to eke out a pleasant existence.
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
LLMs are terrible at writing hip-hop because they can only move forward.

Hip-hop is just natural language with extra constraints like rhythm and rhyme. It requires the ability to edit.

Similarly, types and PL syntax have more constraints than English.

Until transformers can move backward and change what they've already autocompleted, the problem you've identified will continue.
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
Tests are one of the areas where it performs least well. I can ask an LLM to summarize the functionality of code and be happy with the answer, but the tests it writes are the most facile unit tests, just the null hypothesis tests and the like. "Here's a test that the constructor works." Cool.
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
In Rust, the `todo!()` macro will fill in type holes without needing to be finished.

Surely you can't be against putting a TODO in an unfinished part of the code?
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
I once went into a LessWrong IRC server.

I posted a question where I referred to something by the wrong name.

Someone said I was confused / wrong, so I corrected myself and restated my question.

For some 10 minutes they just kept dogpiling on the use of the wrong term.

Never a bunch a stupider people have I met than LessWrong people.
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
Dynamic languages are definitely easier to use for highly dynamic problems.

They are not necessarily easier to use for statically-knowable problems.

Static languages get benefits in correctness and speed.

Key word is dynamic.
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
Indeed, reasoning in the small and reasoning in the large are different skills. Architecture abstracts over code.
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
PDX Rust, yes.
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
Shawn from PDX, I'm also from Portland. I'm also unemployed. Let's be friends. Come to the next Rust meetup and hang out.
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
... or say they don't know.
static_void
·anno scorso·discuss
I would unironically say this is the how of how adderall works for me.

I am distracted from work by anxiety. With medication, I'm not distracted.