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s_Hoggon Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop

The first thing that comes to mind with no restarts or recompiling is the mangled variables you get in Jupiter if you're mucking around trying to get a prototype going and forget which cells have been run. I can definitely see agents having a problem with that. I would just try to make compilation fast if possible

s_Hoggon Lean now ships with verified kernels

As someone who doesn't quite get all this, isn't the proposal here just checkers all the way down?

s_Hoggon Build your own decision model

Yeah is this webpage that spells out how to do it worth $7.5b

s_Hoggon Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed

No-one ever got fired for using Jev

s_Hoggon Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

What happens if you make a wanking motion

s_Hoggon GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

As long as you don't look at it or breathe too hard near it at any time

Source: me

s_Hoggon GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

Yeah I went through hell migrating everything from ADO to GH Actions a year or so ago and even after all this I'm not even slightly close to wanting to go back

s_Hoggon Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

Four is right out

s_Hoggon Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

I don't know why, but when I saw the source of this particular headline it reminded me of the album title 26 Mixes for Cash

s_Hoggon The history of Indian science fiction

And yet people do haha

I was just bringing up something I thought was tangentially related without expressing an opinion on it

s_Hoggon The history of Indian science fiction

Probably worth drawing this thread's attention to the debate over whether ancient Hindu texts mention nuclear weapons and atomic war. Up to the beholder whether that makes those texts sci-fi or not, I guess.

s_Hoggon Writing code is easy, reading it isn't

You need to be twice as smart to debug code as you need to be to write it. So if you write the smartest code you can, then you by definition are too dumb to debug it

Just write simple code

s_Hoggon Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)

Holy shit you don't get anything for _free_ as a result of adopting Kubernetes dude. The cost is in fact quite high in many cases - you adopt Kubernetes and all of the associated idiosyncrasies, which can be a lot more than what you left behind.

s_Hoggon Idiocracy

Or why Hacker News comments on this one are quiet as the graveyard...

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Is that good

s_Hoggon I sped up serde_json strings by 20%

Very strong jart feel about this person's blog, that was a nice read

> We would need to reinvent the wheel, but this is quite neat if you think about it.

Is this real or ironic though? I read it and started laughing at the writer but the rest of the page seems quite heavy on self-deprecation

s_Hoggon Researchers develop the fastest possible flow algorithm

From that page:

> Available computational power may catch up to the crossover point, so that a previously impractical algorithm becomes practical.

Are there examples of Galactic Algorithms that now aren't Galactic Algorithms?

edit: turns out some matmul algorithms are?

s_Hoggon LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs

To carry on, this is because they're both very interested in "knowledge in depth", rather than because of what they actually work on day-to-day. They've both made careers out of knowing what's going on with the thing they're building down to the most basic level possible.

s_Hoggon LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs

I'd pay good money to watch jart in conversation with Carmack

s_Hoggon XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams

Saying "Eastern Europe" as opposed to "Moscow" is a little coy, isn't it? They're in the same time zone and one seems likelier than the other, to put it one way.

Edit: speaking of, these guys might also have some time pressure at the moment with regards to hacking stuff lol. Kind of fits the bill with what we know about the hack

s_Hoggon FOSDEM 2024 Live Streams

kind of miss n-gate coverage of FOSDEM to be honest, it was great for putting stuff in (sarcastic) perspective. More conferences should have a treatment like that.

Does anyone know what happened to them?

s_Hoggon The art of high performance computing

I was working in a company that had been spun out of a university until recently and it was shocking how hopeless the researchers were. I've always been critical of how poor the job security in academia is but you'd think it's still too much given how slapdash some of the crap you see is. We basically had to reinvent their product from the ground up, awful.

s_Hoggon Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

https://docs.plane.so/self-hosting

Gives a 404. I hope they see this message, it was the only thing I wanted to read really.

s_Hoggon Brain waves usually found in sleep can protect against epileptic activity

I'm one of the lucky ones, as I grew out of my teenage years my brain changed and seizures stopped. You never stop looking over your should or thinking about it though, not at all.

One theory a doctor posed to me for why this could be happening (he'd seen it before), was simply down to neural pathways getting more set as you get older - the analogy he used was that a seizure is sort of like your brain short circuiting, so if it's less plastic that may make you less prone.

It's just ridiculous how adaptable the human brain is, I love reading about this stuff.

s_Hoggon Ask HN: Is there a news source you read everyday? If so, what is it?

Hacker News, no joke

s_Hoggon Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter

Congratulations, this is great. Have you thought about spending some time writing down what you had to learn and how you went about figuring out what to learn in order to do this? I think it'd be even more interesting than the language itself.

s_Hoggon Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter

All lists are passed by value and X isn't the return value, would be my guess

s_Hoggon Converting Full Terraform Programs to Pulumi

Yeah we have a 10Mb state file and it already takes 30-45 min to deploy. The main way it happens is if someone cancels a CI/CD job because they're realised something is wrong and don't want to wait that long to try again. That's not an issue if there isn't a state file, but yeah I can see how there would be a tradeoff possibly associated.

s_Hoggon Converting Full Terraform Programs to Pulumi

Do these guys need a state file like terraform does? It's great that you can use a normal programming language, but that's nowhere near as big a pain point as state files getting out of sync. Not even close.

s_Hoggon Show HN: StratusGFX, my open-source real-time 3D rendering engine

Congratulations, can you tell us about what it took to get through all this work by yourself?