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Comment · 7 days ago
>but then it took like a decade of little growth before the true benefits showed up

That's the core issue apollo is talking about. Investors have been told, "Buckle up, we're getting rich in 2027." Not "Hey, after 20 years, this will probably be pretty nice, maybe." This is how bubbles pop. Everyone starts to realize they were oversold and they rush to get their money out at the top. LLMs won't go away, but the financial collapse will be devastating.

Comment · 13 days ago
I don't think you need those switch defaults with the sealed types. I didn't check with a compiler, but I think those are unnecessary.
Comment · 14 days ago
>And in the end, the real issue at the root is that internet traffic, especially egress traffic, still is absurdly expensive, and the behavior of people like Sam Altman that sent RAM, SSD and even HDD prices through the roof is making the situation even worse.

The core problem is that dependencies don't really scale. Find a security issue in one dependency? It has to be updated. All the projects which depended on it need to be updated. Turtles all the way down. AI worsened this further by accelerating the churn with vulnerability scanning. Naturally, they focus on the core projects like apache-commons which fans out to basically everything in the Java universe. Which means maven central becomes overloaded and now needs to make emergency changes to stay solvent.

Comment · 16 days ago
I wish someone had taught MutableList extends List, and the parent collections were immutable in the API.
Comment · 16 days ago
Comment · 16 days ago
Nothing has changed about modern Intel CPUs requiring binary blobs. Libreboot is no longer blobless. Canoeboot is blobless. Libreboot is like decaf. It's not caffeine free, it's decreased caffeine.
Comment · 17 days ago
May I see it?
Comment · 22 days ago
>none of the drudgery that goes along with it

The durdgery is what pushes languages forward to be more powerful and expressive. Thousands of programmers all facing the same drudgework, they came up with new languages. They weren't content to just accept Java, they made Clojure, and Scala, and lots of other languages. That in turn pushed Java to keep up or be left behind. Take away the drudgery and guess what? All that goes away. Just let claude crank out 30K LoC a day, who cares now?

I still remember back to when I was first learning to write code. I dreamed of code that wrote code for me. But it wasn't because I didn't want to code. It was because I wanted to code in something more elegant. Claude is for someone who says "I don't want to code, I just want to get paid" and it really shows. Slop is slop, even before Claude came along. The programmers who just want to get paid always produced slop. They just have a machine doing it for them now. Who needs them anymore really?

Comment · 23 days ago
>Cancelling visas or deporting them will not get American workers their jobs back.

Source? If the job legitimately needs to be done, and the foreign option is eliminated, the domestic option is what's left.

Comment · 27 days ago
Comment · 27 days ago
>You fall for this stuff?

This stuff? A spanish speaking critic of AI safety says, "Hey guys, it's really not so dangerous." What did you mean by "this stuff" precisely? Is it like "you people" perhaps?

Comment · 27 days ago
Comment · 27 days ago
>Flock isn't so bad! Look how much privacy you've already lost...

How reassuring.

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