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And yet people do haha

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

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.

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

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.

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

Is that good

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

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?

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

Hacker News, no joke

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Would it seriously have gone to anywhere else? Not saying there aren't other big economies (such as Nigeria), but is there any real reason this isn't a no brainer?

Karpathy really seems to have discovered there are a lot of hours in the day now he doesn't work for Tesla

Played this at my wedding, wonderful song that manages to be sentimental but not cheesy

I like the point he makes. It's worth expanding on a little; why don't more people do what he's suggesting and spend most of their time trying to just do stuff they think will be good I stead of optimising for something else? At a basic level, it can be pretty scary, particularly if you're in the situation he describes where you don't quite trust yourself yet.

We have a big problem with that where I'm from. We get a lot of brain drain going over to California (ok fine, everyone does), not necessarily because of the opportunities that are undeniably present there but because early-career tech people here are inherently less willing to accept the proposition that it's possible to make the work cool where you are; not everyone will work for Google Brain once in the valley, anyway.

I struggled greatly with this and had a big misadventure going to the US myself but the perspective it gave me on the need to lean in(wards) was worth it. Hope it is for someone else too.

Anyone know what the catch is here? Very exciting if real, but sometimes these things don't scale/aren't commercial/something else I'm ill-equipped to perceive.

Not trying to knock this by any means, I hope it works wonderfully!

Not as far as the data scientist in question is concerned, anyway.

I'm reminded of that joke:

Business logic (n): your stuff, which is shit, as opposed to my code, which is beautiful

I say this as a machine learning engineer

Another classic of the genre I've seen is excessive memoization, done using precisely these sorts of decorators. By the time it has to be debugged in production, the culprit has left the building. It can even obscure the source of other bugs on top of the ones it introduces.

Long story short, if you want to have a cache, have a cache. If you want to make something parallel, make it parallel. This stuff just gets in the way. The only real exceptions I make for decorators by and large are for pydantic things and similar. It's very noticeable that if you're doing stuff in pytorch lightning you don't tend to fiddle with decorators much at all but in tensorflow it's common. Cute code isn't good code, end of story

I have a financial advisor who does all this for me so as it happens I have 100% clarity regarding what my retirement funds are invested in. Asking a financial services provider to prove they've got the assets they say they have is absolutely table stakes and even required by law in a lot of cases. But not for crypto scams, of course.

Funniest reveal definitely that it's fully backed and no-one can understand why tether fought tooth and nail to hide it