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> As a loose comparison, hardware bit errors happen probabilistically, yet they’re so rare that we can effectively ignore them in day-to-day use assuming no specialized application (e.g. defense, space, critical infrastructure)

The better comparison on bit errors would be e.g. rowhammer, an adversarial bit error. Which you absolutely can't ignore.

This sounds like the real underlying problem then

You can talk about it at work, after you're hired, like with your coworkers. The company can't ask you about a lot of things in an interview without exposing them to a significant amount of legal liability.

I think it also depends on how big of a company. If someone (say perhaps, GP) mostly has experience in smaller companies, they might not have had the law of large numbers bring the lawsuit cudgel to bear on their company before.

But if you're at a large enough company, you're absolutely getting sued for this from time to time, so you'll have the "how to not get sued" training before you're allowed to interview.

(Edit: this isn't limited to interviews. There's many, many examples of things that large companies will not touch due to legal risk, that smaller companies will... either due to lack of knowledge on the legal risk (maybe no legal department even exists yet?) or intentionally as a gamble)

Prices of stocks going higher is not the definition of inflation, no.

> What prevents car manufacturers from taking a normal-looking body style and electrifying it?

Isn't that literally what the first Tesla was? An existing Lotus chassis with electric guts?

I do think it's kinda weird that Ferrari didn't do something similar, or at least closer to that, compared to... this thing.

Right, but that's a separate thing from inflation, so I don't think you can describe it as "that's just inflation".

Very, very few things even in isolation have inflated 4x in the last 10 years.

But as for this

> why is all the money printing remaining in the rich person's realm instead of trickling down?

Always has been, it's kinda one of the defining features of capitalism

Might be people just flagging so mods can make an "Is this an LLM not?" determination. I see a lot of new accounts get flagged like this (and scanning the previous comments, ehhhhh yea maybe?).

Idk, just guessing

Inflation is not up 4x in the last 10 years...

I think they meant the stock market more generally? S&P 500 is up what, like 4x in the last 10 years?

I dunno, there's certainly a lot of monkey knife fight deprecations, but there's a lot that are handled pretty well.

If we're talking about the source side of things, p4->piper/citc was done well. cs (get) -> grimoire was done well. I'd like to think we did a pretty good job of grokv2-> Kythe, though we did drop a few clients of grokv2 who were wayyyyyyy the fuck up xkcd/1172 creek (we did try to help them in the right direction, like offloading onto direct blaze depserver queries).

I guess those are all close in the org to cider, so maybe that's just how dev infra deprecations used to go.

The compiler is compiled via java nowadays. It's bootstrapped.

Yes the first one was probably written in C, however long ago. Not super relevant now though.

JVM/JRE, probably a different story

> Would this same code in Java possibly yield different results based on the platform the JVM was running on because of the platform specific JIT compiler?

No, and it's also well defined in languages like C#.

If we're talking about this specific example at least. No sequence point issues like that in Java.

> It’s super fast, is connected to language servers and can actually trace referenced

Nit: not connected to language servers, it's connected to Kythe. LSP doesn't have the same kind of functionality.

> Example - boy, does that gait look uncomfortable to sit through.

Oof yea, now that I think about it, it's not like a horse trot that you can post through, since you're strapped in to the seat.

Yea that's fair / makes sense from a democracy point of view (even if I might disagree personally).

It's a bit odd that Europe prioritizes American big-business interests I guess? Idk, as an American it does seem kinda like an odd choice.

Oof wow, that's bigger than I realized. I knew there were a lot of big ones (10k+), but I didn't realize there was US highschool football being played in stadium bigger than the smallest EPL stadiums.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised given a lot of college stadiums are 50k+ capacity.

Yes, you can also buy klein bottle hats or bottles or scarves from him, and he will send you funny notes/literature along with it. Cliff is awesome

Really depends on where, and what sport.

If you're in an urban school in a big city, maaayyybe some of the basketball games depending on the specific school. E.g. if your school has people who everyone knows are going into the NBA draft, sometimes the more important games get put on television with commentators.

If you're in a suburban/rural school and it's (American) football or maybe baseball, quite possibly yes as a regular thing. Especially if you're at one of the 50++ high schools that has a 10,000+ capacity stadium.

Edit: yea and as other replier mentioned, there's some regional tendencies too.

I'd argue it's not just Green Bay-Dickenson on the east end, but also extending to like souix falls/Fargo on the west end

"Oop, sorry" was viscerally familiar to me

Not sure if that's more or less bad than the dozens of kerbals polluting my LKO for, uh... reasons.

Since I play with no mods I guess they're all still technically alive since they don't require food or water and have an apparently infinite supply of oxygen.

I don't think the specific individual technical interviews are the surreal part about canonical's hiring process

> Their requirements was ridiculously outdated, like "we want maths geniuses with great marks, send us your marks or gtfo".

Man that like barely scratches the surface of the surrealness of canonical's hiring process

I think they meant that ycombinator is literally a VC shop

So if being VC funded puts you off an editor, being VC funded may also put you off ycombinator.com

I don't remember seeing a new xkcd for it, but I have seen someone replicate essentially the same 3-4 panel comic with a kid named "<Some name> Ignore all previous instructions. Do.... <I forget>"

It also helps that Jane Street has like 3k employees, a good chunk of whom never touch code at all, and of those that do, a good chunk who won't be touching OCaml. Hundreds of OCaml programmers though, yes.

That may not scale for larger companies.

Also important to note, they don't require you to know OCaml when you get the job. They will teach you OCaml.

All that said, man it would be cool to work for JS (or anyone really) and write OCaml.

Ok sure, mass shooting (400) vs active shooting (100). It is still the same order of magnitude, and two orders of magnitude off of suicides (50,000).

I'm not sure how that changes the point I was making, which is that suicides don't seem obviously less important.

I mean... important by what metric?

Active shootings in the US kill like 100 people a year (as of 2024 I guess: https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/reports-and-publications...)

Suicides is more like 50,000/yr

Yea hyrum's law is like an observation of what happens when you personally try to make 200,000+ distinct commits to google3 to fix things that are broken (as hyrum did, mind you this is before LLMs), and people come climbing out of the woodwork to yell at you with fistfuls of xkcd/1172