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That was the first such car. Even though the automatic transmission was invented a long time ago, new cars are still made with manual ones

GameBoy Workboy 1 month ago

I had never heard of the Playdate but it looks like a very interesting device... and... I want it? Would you suggest getting one?

I am a Logseq user and I was under the impression that development had stalled or better, stabilized (frankly, most software does NOT need a constant stream of updates). Based on this post, it looks like they're back - and they've chugged some vibe juice.

Code is not spec. There is an implementation spectrum.

On one end, you have code that can perform only the behaviour explicitly declared in the spec, but has to be thrown away and rewritten for any new or updated spec.

On the other end, you have code that implements or anticipates a wide range of future possible specs including the given one.

The AI can operate on any point on this spectrum, but it's not very good at choosing. The more complex the software, the more such choices need to be made.

When the number of bad choices reaches a certain critical mass, even a skilled engineer becomes powerless to undo all the bad choices, and even a powerful model becomes unable to reduce it back to a coherent spec.

Sounds like a good system. To use the analogy from ths other comment, this would be like running an image through JPEG compression twice.

The issue happens then if you're updating the individual research files on a regular basis. (Or making a long series of commits on a starting code base.) Every edit has a chance of doing a drive-by cleanup on nearby lines. Over a long enough timeline, it'll ablate your logic into something featureless, like if you compress an image too many times.

Partway through, I recognized the function calling syntax as similar to Nix which I just started learning.

Turns out the implementation of the article is in Haskell, another declarative language.

At work. we use Power Query with it's M language - a declarative language with lazy evaluation.

Is there something about declarative languages that makes them especially suitable for data work?

Have you tried the Explore feed? Mine has Music, Movies & TV, Hype, Live, Gaming, News, Sports, Learning, Fashion & Beauty, Podcasts and Playables. Most of those have some sort of subcategories too. It appears to be regionally determined - I don't see any influence from my data here

4B If Statements 3 years ago

I wonder what will happen if the author of isOdd optimizes their code by using the isEven package