newobj

They're still a thing

if you get into a config system that's complicated enough, and has modularization or inheritance, you'll know that the semantics of "remove this" "add that", override this, default to this, this stuff is hard to express in most config languages, or worse, you start enforcing application level semantics. when you have turing complete language you just ... do those things. we reduced the configuration data of a tool suite once by 90%+ by moving from json to python. there was a tremendous amount of duplication and overlap, with tons of TINY exceptions and variations. it was so hard to see those differences, brittle to maintain, things would get stale, ... moving to python you basically had the "base" thing expressed in one file, and a bunch of tiny delta files encoding the exact deviations. All those deviations were of the forms I described above. Adding a thing to a list. Removing a thign from a list. Overriding a whole list. Do a thing if not already done. And so on. It's also then easy to build all kinds of diagnostics, validators, etc, right into the same framework, without having to munge the data into some other form first.

God bless you

Interesting variation on the "I cut you choose" game mechanic!

that may have been true in product orgs but the infra and dev infra orgs were pretty strong imho.

Google is historically terrible as a product company (and has succeeded in spite of that) As their technical innovations become less of a moat (we're already there) they won't be able to win on engineering alone (they are no longer winning on engineering alone)

Having "accidentally" purchased one, I can tell you that doing anything 8GB or RAM on a mac laptop is impossible. I have no idea what people are doing with this laptop. Macs are absolute dogs at 8GB.

It's also a useful signal for AI value. Looks like it's a max value add of $18,000 per engineer per year.

Sorcery TCG

I literally can’t tell if this comment is a joke or not.

ok sure good luck. more like conbase anyway

all those words and not one concrete claim made. in other words, FUD. the whole point of the article.

The engineer who only does high level system design and never codes has existed for decades and is often the most useless and derided engineer in the org.

I stand corrected!

SDL3

Claude didn't "think" anything

S-tier schizoposting

nevermind i see the ssgi/traa code. looks great!

path tracer?

how many mg of oil can accumulate on a die due to handling?

cries in west coaster

Why is this flagged?

Surprised they didn't write 2ÖÖ2, knowing the Times' predilections

Thank you, but, now I have 10 further “explain it to me” questions. (I never did analysis so this stuff is entirely over my head. I had one semester of algebraic structures. It was the hardest class I ever had in my life.)

PLEASE explain "So you can extend x/x holomorphically to full C" to someone with only a BSc in math/cs; something about this thread is giving me an existential crisis right now.

Speed of code-writing was never the issue at Amazon or AWS. It was always wrong-headed strategic directions, out to lunch PMs, dogshit testing environment, stakeholder soup, high turnover, bureaucracy, a pantheon of legacy systems, insane operational burdens, garbage tooling, and last but not last -- designing for inter-system failure modes, which let's be real, AI has no chance of having context for -- and so on...

Imagine if the #1 problem of your woodworking shop is staff injuries, and the solution that management foists on you is higher RPM lathes.

I’m confused. Doesn’t n need to be astronomically large for log^2/3(x) to outperform log(x) by even like 10x?

that's awesome. it was a deeply mysterious game to me as a kid. the first mysterious game i ever encountered really. hell of a vibe.

if they're so bad they're good ... they're actually just good. probably because they capture something increasingly rare: the human and personal touch of an artist who's not straight jacketed by "safe mode" marketing, editorial norms, analytics, blah blah blah

I know they're not serious because they didn't recommend methylcobalamin.

Kinda funny how in all this chatter no one is talking about MTHFR etc.