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jinwoo68··on Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar
Do not get deceived by the average number. I'm pretty sure that most of the money of the total goes to a handful of people, and the small remaining amount will be shared by the rest. Emphasizing the average amount is just their PR strategy.
jinwoo68··on Read Programming as Theory Building
This brings up a philosophical question. Are we willing to hand over the role of "theory building" to LLM if that's even possible? If yes, what will be the role of human beings?

It may destroy many foundational assumptions that humans have had for thousands of years.

jinwoo68··on Read Programming as Theory Building
You should read it especially now when more and more code is written by LLM. The important thing is not the code itself but your mental model of the software you're building. Sadly we seem to be moving away from it. We're accumulating more and more code that we don't understand or haven't even read.
jinwoo68··on Teaching Claude Why
Nope. If everything is totally automated, if ever, the gap between the rich and the poor will widen even more. Most people will live in misery while only a handful of people enjoy all the automation.
jinwoo68··on Teaching Claude Why
Many (most?) people make a living from their job whether they like it or not. Having a job that they dislike is far better than losing one because of AI whatever that means.
jinwoo68··on A Perfectable Programming Language
There are community-built editor supports. For example,

- Emacs: https://github.com/leanprover-community/lean4-mode

- Neovim: https://github.com/Julian/lean.nvim

I'm using the Emacs lean4-mode and it's pretty good.

jinwoo68··on Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
This reminds me again of _Programming as Theory Building_[1] by Peter Naur. With agents fast generating the code, we lose the time for building the theory in our heads.

[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

jinwoo68··on Monosketch
Markdeep[1] also supports drawing diagrams from ASCII arts. It's pretty good.

[1] https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

jinwoo68··on The Rise of SQL:the second programming language everyone needs to know
Folks, the article is from 3 years ago, 2022.
jinwoo68··on Slowness is a virtue
Shortening feedback loops was what Kent Beck and TDD advocates were emphasizing. Now TDD has been ruined by "experts", people are realizing the importance of fast feedback loops from a different perspective.
jinwoo68··on AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2
"Most companies are efficiency-obsessed."

But what most of them do is not to be more efficient but to be shown to be more efficient. The main reason they are so obsessed with AI is because they want to send the signal that they are pursuing to be more efficient, whether they succeed or not.

jinwoo68··on We chose OCaml to write Stategraph
That happens whether immutable or not. In the mutable world, you have to guard that using a mutex or something. In that case, operation 1 may be blocked by operation 2, and now you get a "stale" state from operation 2. But that's okay. You'll get a new state next time. The real problem occurs when two states are mixed and corrupted.
jinwoo68··on The Multiverse (1995)
Interview with Dr. David Deutsch "Het Multiversum" from Noorderlicht. Published in 1995.
jinwoo68··on A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails
It's almost always npm packages. I know that's because npm is the most widely used package system and most motivating one for attackers. But still bad taste in my mouth.
jinwoo68··on Easy Forth (2015)
Its version seems to be 0.100, not 0.1. And it was released last year: https://downloads.factorcode.org/releases/
jinwoo68··on Take Two: Eshell
No. Vterm works fine even in a terminal version of emacs.
jinwoo68··on Chromium Switching from Ninja to Siso
IIRC even blaze didn't exist. The Chrome project existed before I joined Google (in 2007) but blaze came out after I joined Google.
jinwoo68··on Chromium Switching from Ninja to Siso
To be fair, Bazel didn't exist when Chrome started.
jinwoo68··on Small Programs and Languages
Gleam[1] is influenced a lot by ML and is a very simple language. But it's not a "just for fun" language. I like it a lot.

[1] https://gleam.run/

jinwoo68··on Right-Truncatable Prime Counter
There's a Project Euler problem for finding truncatable prime numbers, from both left and right: https://projecteuler.net/problem=37
jinwoo68··on Curry: A functional logic programming language
Curry is already at version 3.x. https://curry-lang.org/downloads/
jinwoo68··on Can rotation solve the Hubble Puzzle?
I don't think the paper claims that it's the observable universe that rotates. Does it? It'd be awkward if only the observable universe rotates. Observable universe is not special. It's observable just because it is "close" to the Earth.
jinwoo68··on Can rotation solve the Hubble Puzzle?
Universe is called universe because it is the only one. Everything that exists should be part of the universe. When we say the universe rotates, what does it mean? Rotate relative to what? Does it mean that there's a larger "universe" that contains ours?
jinwoo68··on The Subjective Charms of Objective-C
Ah, their office was in SF? I just thought their office was near 280 :)
jinwoo68··on The Subjective Charms of Objective-C
Obviously I misremembered. I just visited the site linked above. The company was "280 North"
jinwoo68··on The Subjective Charms of Objective-C
Yeah. The language is called Objective-J while Cappuccino is the framework. Objective-C : Cocoa = Objective-J : Cappuccino.

I remember that the company behind it was called "280 South". They seem to have opensourced it before they shut down.

jinwoo68··on Sweetener saccharin shows surprise power against antibiotic resistance
I think so. Seems also toxic to bacteria!
jinwoo68··on Getter-Setter Pattern Considered Harmful
I think C# borrowed this feature from functional languages like Haskell or OCaml.
jinwoo68··on String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'
Probably because they are focusing on "artificial intelligence destroying humanity", as the article says? Many data scientists work on AI nowadays.
jinwoo68··on How Jane Street accidentally built a better build system for OCaml
Standard Chartered also uses their variation of Haskell.
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