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There was even a hl mod with an esports league.

I'm not seeing strong claims here on improved token efficiency for general use cases, but it's absolutely not my area of expertise.

Completely understandable why this would be valuable research though. Will be interesting to see how it evolves.

Sorry are we referring to the efficiency of generating programs (i.e. optimizing LLM software development) or the efficiency of the output (i.e. optimizing software through the generation of assembly)?

That would be less efficient

Hmm but as I understand it, dementia begins in your 30s. It's just that we don't see the signs of it until much later. So if it is protective, waiting doesn't seem wise (on the dementia side of it).

Well surely evangelization doesn't absolve a technical leader for choosing to rely on a BDFL project that's pre 1.0.

People are welcome to their opinions, but I don't see a rug pull, I see a grad student who created a project that people enjoyed and a few companies offered to fund. Evan clearly wanted to maintain control over direction and stepping away from open source is completely acceptable and not uncommon for the very reasons on display here. People have completely unreasonable expectations from maintainers of free software.

I've spent most of the last two or so years working solo (engineering wise) professionally. I'd say the biggest con is that it's lonely. I've gone weeks without talking to people at work. I think that would drive most people crazy :).

I'd say responsibility is the same for me as I've only worked at small companies as a generalist. But yeah I suspect if you come from big tech land, being the everything person might be super tough to get used to.

Were people forced to use elm prior to a 1.0 release or something? Is Evan being accused of baiting people with a lovely experience and then bailing? I'm not really familiar, so maybe the ball was dropped in some kind of contract I'm not aware of.

If not, the expectations you and many have here seem pretty unreasonable. There's room for projects like Elm. Not every PL has to meet the demands of every single non paying user of the community.

I think because it's so nice, that's why people are disappointed in it's stagnation. But the stagnation is partly why it's so nice!

You could say the same about guns.

How is he brilliant?

It's not cute, it's a sensible way to build greater understanding by learning from mistakes. The thing is, it has to be engrained in the culture and that also means it may need to take priority over other work. Responsibility doesn't need to mean you have to write the code, just see it through.

250k skus seems pretty arbitrary. What's the significance of this number? A bodega goes a long way for most people's daily needs.

Comparing models via benchmarks or feeling. Question remains.

If people were expressing their experiences working with two prolific software consultants across their various industries would you make the same claim? That's not to anthropomorphize the models, but to just put into perspective that the environment and circumstance is a major factor in output.

How is attempting to benchmark llms like religion?

I feel like good grades and a good university are still indicators of someone being or is capable of becoming a good programmer.

Really depends on the program. In my undergrad program there were some very smart CS students who got great grades that really struggled with the programming. Smart and capable people can be bad at programming and lack many qualities that make for a good hire.

The loss of trust would be the depressing part (to me). That said the amount of cheating I witnessed in undergrad was also depressing.

Must have been super weird working with such low absolute prices. If the food cost for your sando is 5c, your first step is a 20% margin. I imagine that had a decent influence on the dishes themselves.

2cm is extremely short. Outside of sport I'd imagine that is very uncommon as it would require a tremendous amount of time and water.

Forgetting that part where the lawn was born in Europe.

You don't need to cure everyone to improve the homelessness situation.

He was also a wealthy kid with connections. People place far too much weight on execution. Most of it is being in the right place at the right time and having existing connections.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creat...

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-i...

Not what I'd call great execution anyways.

Good luck finding a landlord that would agree to your terms.

I do wish this was an option for some data, but emergency care would be an absolute shit show. People can't even remember passwords let alone keep track of keys and devices.

My wife recently gave birth. When we arrived at the hospital her contractions were close enough together for her to be admitted. They proceeded to give my wife a 10 page or so consent form to sign. I can't imagine anyone reading that. I also can't imagine them not admitting someone over it.

I think that makes sense. I suspect you probably wouldn't call a bacon butty/bap/roll a burger either. Same for pani ca meusa, torta, and cemita.

Basically the Aussies picked up burger as from American influence, changed the meaning, then decided that the yanks defined it wrong. Meanwhile all the other bun based sandwiches get to keep the meaning. That said... the international chains haven't helped the matter.

No whiff of elitism. No status-signaling or having to appeal to the taste of King Louis the 14th.

Royalty played a role in many Asian food cultures. Sinseollo, biryani, cho muang, birds nest soup. There's plenty of examples of royal influence on cuisine. Wealth, and lack of it, drove a lot of culinary traditions. It's a universal thing.

Well you Aussies also put hot dogs and sprinkles on white bread. So is fairy bread a sandwich and (American) hot dogs a burger and a sausage sizzle a sandwich?

Maybe in some cases. There's a pretty clear distinction in quality from some "gruyere" made in say Wisconsin and a AOP gruyere like 1655. Meanwhile there's a stupid amount of good alpine cheese in the US that aren't named gruyere, like alpha tolman that are happy just saying it's gruyere like.

Well to start chicken and rice are the name of ingredients. Carbonara is a unique name given to a particular set of ingredients and a method of preparation.

I suspect if people just said pasta with pork egg and cheese no one is going to make a big deal out of authenticity.

In other words, this is about words more than anything. They do matter, in the sense that most people would be upset to order a pizza and get a sandwich or order a sandwich and get a taco.

You don't need to leave italian (American) food to see the same phenomenon the author describes. Pizza is also endlessly re-interpreted and adapted. There's value in protecting and exploring. So while I share some of the author's opinions, I think the whole locking recipes into imaginary vaults thing is a bit overblown.