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Comment · 1 year ago
I don't see how that's any better for a haskell shop. i got some empathy but you chose a rough life.
Comment · 1 year ago
> You can well imagine how important predicting tides would have been for D-day landing.

Is this intended to communicate positivity or negativity?

Predicting tides was known to the ancients; it would be lovely to explore the hubris of the modern narrative.

Edit: fundamentally, if hacker news has taught me anything, it's that "downvote = makes me feel bad and doesn't want to answer questions". The entire concept of democratic news aggregation was a lie.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yea, anything can be a kind of something else. :clown:

Bruh. Do you need to be paid to interact in good faith or were you raised to be social

Comment · 1 year ago
How are you living such that you're regularly pitting humans against computers

Not only is this unbelievable, it's reprehensible

Comment · 1 year ago
Frankly I have no clue what value the term "average" has after trying to follow this conversation.
Comment · 1 year ago
I agree; but what are we supposed to do? Insight has always been paired with the empathy of not having it but

I refuse to touch the IQ bait

Comment · 1 year ago
I mean yea, i just view rust as the quality-oriented spear of western development.

Rust is absolutely an improvement over C in every way.

Comment · 1 year ago
Ah, understandable.

> what is a dumb thing?

Emphasizing quantum key control. In the situations where it's really relevant you don't need buy-in from investors, the value is evident.

Sayonara!

Comment · 1 year ago
Because the author is far more interesting than the brand? I'm not sure what would justify branding your personal observations outside of bandwagoning onto hopeful investors.
Comment · 1 year ago
This seems like a really dumb thing to emphasize for marketing ends outside of actual competency. But what else is new!
Comment · 1 year ago
This just seems to illustrate the complexity of compiler authorship. I am very sure c compilers are wble to address this issue any better in the general case.
Comment · 1 year ago
I would agree if I didn't associate nvidia with incomprehensibly bad support for drivers. Idk, maybe this is a linux-only thing, but it's hard to imagine a vendor with a worse reputation for delivering functional software. Only perhaps microsoft itself has tried to be even more anti-consumer in their approach to support.

Cuda is ok, but it's the sheer mass of people targeting the platform that makes it more interesting than eg opencl. It hasn't don't anything clearly better aside from aggressively trying to court developer interest. It will pass and we will have stronger runtimes for it.

What really sets nvidia apart is its ability to market to people. Truly phenomenal performance.

Comment · 1 year ago
I certainly think the humor in parrot/rakudo (and why they come up today still) is how little of their own self image the proponents could perceive. The absolute irony of thinking that perl's strength was due to familiarity with text-manipulation rather than the cultural mass....

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