almostgotcaught

This dude stays commenting on things he doesn't actually understand anything about. I have run into him multiple times in threads on what I do (compilers) and he's clueless but insistent.

Never gonna happen - the fundamental premise of the language is duck typing.

the answer is staring you in the face and you still can't see it. let me give you a hint: it's also the reason arizone ice tea is still $.99

> Nobody's talking about porting billions of lines of code, for all we know it's just for personal projects, or a learning experience.

am i the only person in the room that can read tone? please tell me what is the force of this statement in what i've responded:

> If you want static compilation, use a language and libraries built with that assumption as a ground rule.

is this an imperative only for hobbyists? not sure.

> This kind of replies is like killing an idea before it's even started, smells like the sunk cost fallacy.

there is no idea - that's exactly my whole point. tear it down and build it again is not an idea.

all of this is well and good if you completely forget that there are billions of lines of Python in prod right now. so your grand epiphany is basically on the level of "let's rewrite it in Rust". i'll let you hold your breath until that rewrite is done (and in the meantime i'll explore workarounds).

In-n-out fries are 2.45 (and a burger is 4$).

not only is this a completely different use case, it's not even true:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60840320/docker-50-perfo...

works for me just fine on 26; i get

```

live_raytracer-bffaca82311af1dd.js:1484 Uncaught Error: Using exceptions for control flow, don't mind me. This isn't actually an error! at imports.wbg.__wbg_wbindgenthrow_451ec1a8469d7eb6 (

```

but everything else is fine

this is like asking which restaurants have mom's cooking - none but there are plenty that are close enough and don't require you to travel all the way back to wherever your moms lives.

strictly speaking bytecode isn't IR because typically it's not further transformed - IRs are designed to be further transformed. as with all things these aren't hard and fast rules (plenty of compilers run transformations on bytecode, and there are plenty of interpreters for some IRs).

> Metaprogramming isn't exactly new

My guy what exactly do you think comptime is? More to the point: what exactly do you think metaprogramming is...?

> other than very robust metaprogramming

lol then i guess zig's comptime isn't a "whiz-bang-pow killer feature" either

Lol is this meant to be an ironic comment?

i'm sure mark zuckerberg is as well <shrug>

He's not a core maintainer and hasn't been for years - pytorch's contributors are completely public

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/graphs/contributors

lol @ quoting soumith - the guy's sole job responsibility is tweeting.

none of this is correct (except the part where FB doesn't use apple in prod).

EDIT: for the downvoters - i'll repeat, this is not a correct assessment of the relationship between Apple and PyTorch. but you can keep downvoting if you want <shrug>

> He has a PhD in /physics/ from Caltech, and that was before he became an extremely successful investor.

so i guess you didn't read anything i wrote on that matter. ok.

we did not have a G3 (we definitely could not afford that). IIRC we had a 6400 or something of that vintage.

> much less a hard drive

This isn't true - my shining moment as a 10 year old kid (~1998) was when the HD on our Macintosh went out and we went down to compusa and I picked a random IDE drive instead of the Mac branded drives (because it was much cheaper) and it just worked after reinstalling macos.

Yup the venn diagram of people who buy an electric bike (ie don't want to work hard to push pedals) and people who want an exercise bike (where the only thing going on is pedal pushing, no moving) has exactly one person in the center piece: op.

> True honesty = no conflict of interest

Lol bro you're making up the definitions the definition just to suit your weird perspective.

Lol that he has a PhD? So either you think

1. The fact that he cheated his way into Stanford is completely irrelevant when considering whether he cheated his way into Caltech

or

2. No dummies graduate PhD programs, even T10 PhD programs, just like no dummies are admitted to T10 BS programs

or both.

I hope you understand that one or both of these perspectives is either the height of naivety or more of that backbending work I was talking about before.

> I view his controversy as being most likely a calculated marketing maneuver to improve or maximize the signal to noise in his deal flow. It's hard for me as an outsider to say whether that's working for him or not

why is it that tech bros will bend over backwards to find "good-faith" interpretations of the most obviously stupid shit. like bro have you literally never heard the phrase "confirmation bias"? you know it's possible he could just be a lucky idiot right?

> In an interview with the Caltech Heritage Project, Maguire reported that he earned a 1.8 GPA in high school and failed his Algebra 2 course, and that his admission to Stanford University depended on letters of recommendation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Maguire

Do people have literally any idea what they're saying when they write these quippy responses?

> conflict of interest not proof of honesty

What exactly do you think disclosing a conflict of interest is if not honesty...............

> secretly shorting the stock instead of having reasons to think it's empty hype

that's literally the exact opposite of what i'm saying - literally read my responce to comments up chain.

Someone else already said: yes all companies go to zero on a timeline that includes the heat death of the universe. Your claim is about as clever as that.

I have no idea what you're saying - I said I don't talk my book - that means I'm not out here pontificating like Jim Cramer and half of hn.

> Actually, anyone with a brain can see that it's a huge and massively inflated bubble, but can also see that it's a fools game to try to time it without professional insight into the market.

"The bubble is both obvious and also completely unpredictable".

Makes sense.

> It's the most plausible, fact-based guess, beating other competing theories.

"My wildly conjectural and self-serving theory is not only correct, it is the most correct".

Lol perfectly represents the arrogance of hn.