patrickmay

> Can we design a language so expressive that library writers can easily write the most appropriate object system, or most appropriate type system, to fit their application?

Why yes, it can and has been done: https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/ECOOP.pdf

Are you familiar with https://paulgraham.com/avg.html?

You're right! Oh, wait....

It's a real problem. I saw people boomerang back to Google after 18 months at one or even two levels higher, much faster than they could have been promoted internally.

Meditate for 30 minutes every morning. If you don't have time, meditate for 60 minutes.

The benefits of static typing with regard to reliability are unclear, at best:

https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/

Time for a remake of "The Gods Must Be Crazy" with octopi.

A footnote with the prompt used would be even more polite. Then I can just read that and skip the generated text.

I worked at Amazon and we were taught exactly the opposite. Say what you want about the company, but the writing culture there is superb. I wish other large firms valued clarity and precision as much.

"No weasel words!"

The plate can still be easily read by a human, just not one of the Flock cameras.

I asked to have LaTeX installed at one site, several years ago. The first Google results were eye-opening.

Serious question: How do they bully online reviewers?

LLMs aren't world models, they are language models. It will be interesting to see which of the LLM implementation techniques will be useful in building world models, but that's not what we have now.

They're a model of language, not of the world.

If I'm remembering the full quote correctly, it's "Ugly bags of mostly water."

In those cases, you should be asked for estimates to eliminate the unknowns.

The one I heard was estimate, double it, and move to the next higher unit. 2 days? Nope, that's 4 weeks.

This is a fantastic description of why Technical Program Managers (TPMs) can be force multipliers. Imagine involving someone who understands both the needs of Product and Engineering and whose job it is to allow both of them to focus on where they add the most value. We do exist!

Have you tried bringing the LLM into the shower with you?

Most turkeys of my acquaintance would not fit into a toaster oven without some percussive assistance.

So much for the platitude that violence never solves anything.

If each person can eat half a pizza, you've reinvented the Amazon approach: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoPizzaTeam.html

This is the key point. No site is sending material to the UK unsolicited. People in the UK are initiating the download of information they find of interest. If the UK government has a problem with that, it's on them to block the downloads on their side. UK laws have no power outside the UK.

I think a U.S. rugby league has potential.

The article said that a close relationship is one where the other person can influence your views. I didn't dig into the details to see how that was measured.

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom". -- Viktor Frankl (maybe)

Great idea. I had a chemistry lab in college where I was given a vial of a white powder on the first day of class and the course was complete when I identified what it was.

A similar course in CS would give each student a legacy codebase with a few dozen bugs and performance / scaling problems. When the code passes all unit and integration tests, the course is complete.

This is the right framing. No site, including 4chan, is forcing their content on innocent Brits. The only way people in the UK see 4chan is by proactively establishing a connection to the site and requesting the download of data. Those users, not 4chan, are the active agents. If the UK government wants to control what its subjects request online, they should pass laws regulating that behavior.

Olin also wrote the greatest acknowledgment section ever: https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html

Exactly. Emacs Lisp is an existence proof that this can be done well.