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Comment · 9 days ago
So that there will be no obvious deficiencies...
Comment · 1 month ago
Mine doesn't. It mostly adds and keeps referencing previous decisions. Correctly, referring to them as being overridden. Even tweaking the original text or occasionally deleting a part. But text would look differently had it been written from scratch.

Unless a LLM works truly as a compiler, there will be a drift between the code and the spec.

Comment · 2 months ago
The app's memory usage is an aggregation of the alloc/free events. I think the original point was that all of the metrics, traces and logs are conceptually the same but for efficiency, we store less data in each place, not the full history. Personally, for the systems I work on, having an easy way to turn logs into metrics and vice versa, without deciding up front, would be a slight benefit.
Comment · 2 months ago
> An extended stdlib which ships versioned libraries which use semver rather than being perma-stable.

You mean like Guava or Apache Commons for Java or Boost for C++?

Comment · 2 months ago
Here, a single database, 300 transactions/s, between 10 - 20 TB dataset size. HA managed by VIP (keepalived).
Comment · 2 months ago
Because there are diminishing returns somewhere for sure. Will the developer be more effective when he gets $2,000 more in tokens? I can't max the $100 subscription. The same for any other employee-related expense. It's a no-brainer to give the developer a solid laptop. But if you'd pay extra $2,000/month in computer and office supplies costs, will it save the employee a few hours? I don't think so. Their salary doesn't matter that much.
Comment · 4 months ago
Too little thermal gradient.

What you could do is to use a heat pump to spend a little electricity and turn the waste heat to hot water usable for heating (winter).

Comment · 5 months ago
> When every subsystem and data format is carrying around its own Turing complete bytecode and JIT

LLMs enter the chat

Comment · 5 months ago
> Can you tell me what is the budget necessary to supply AI tools capable of substantial research assistance to all academic staff at a university?

I think the GP meant that *if the tools provide substantial benefit* to staff, their costs can be compared to salaries and other large expenses of the university. The $100/month subscription costs less than your office space.

Comment · 6 months ago
Why is vendoring frowned upon, really? I mean, the tooling could still know how to fetch newer version and prepare a changeset to review and commit automatically, so updating doesn't have to be any harder. In the end, your code and the libraries get combined together and executed by a computer. So why have two separate version control systems?

Vendoring doesn't entirely solve the problem with hidden malicious code as described in the article, but it gives your static analyzers (and agents) full context out of the box. Also better audit trail when diagnosing the issue.

Comment · 7 months ago
Why would it decimate the Windows market? From my experience, there's a strong correlation between iPhone and Mac usage.

Looking at the stats, the Win:Mac ratio is 4:1 but Android:iPhone only 2:1 so it might hurt Windows. But if iPhone users are more likely to use Mac or don't use computers much already, then expanding iPhone capabilities would cannibalize Apple business.

Comment · 8 months ago
The assumption is that a "waymo bus" would be hailed by an app and the service would plan routes on demand. In such case, bus stops would be needed only in busy areas or in places where it would be dangerous to stop.

This is based on the observation that people, including police, tolerate taxi drivers stopping at places where it's technically illegal.

Comment · 8 months ago
Taxis/Ubers/... can and do stop in the middle of a street. Why would that be different for a bus picking up a single person?

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