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If you write Java just like you would write Go - meaning, no reflection shenanigans, use Jigsaw to cut out unneeded JVM stuff, or use GraalVM and compile natively (which you will be able to, because you did not use any of JVM reflection magic), Java will absolutely be competitive.

Try building a structure around the fusion source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere

It will work - you can see it well with a Chain of Thought (CoT) model: it will keep asking itself: "am I hallucinating? let's double check" and then will self-reject thoughts if it can't find a proper grounding. In fact, this is the best part of CoT model, that you can see where it goes off rails and can add a message to fix it in the prompt.

For example, there is this common challenge, "count how many r letters in strawberry", and you can see the issue is not counting, but that model does not know if "rr" should be treated as single "r" because it is not sure if you are counting r "letters" or r "sounds" and when you sound out the word, there is a single "r" sound where it is spelled with double "r". so if you tell the model, double "r" stands for 2 letters, it will get it right.

Watch Viktor talk about Austerlitz station he used as inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjNT9qGjh4

Have they got rid of $ sigils everywhere? Are they planning to?

There is a rule that if somebody poses this hypothetical with the word "just" in it, they have signed themselves up to go and implement it.

So, congratulations, take it and run with it.

you think Tesla customer support wouldn't be able to solve it, and instead let the driver state "For my own safety, and that of other drivers, I have stopped driving the vehicle." ?

don't stress about it so much: look how many variations of plugs and sockets are for this one quite simple thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets

Sounds like a dogma that got us (as industry) into this mess.

why wouldn't you prefer _something_ over _nothing_. I assume AI steps in for issues that people haven't been able to begin to solve in decades.

Thank you for your insight. Hard to believe nobody else thought of it before.

it's a "language" model (LLM), not a "math" model. when it is generating your answer, predicting and outputing a word after word it is _not_ multiplying your numbers internally.

In "Rocket Jump: Quake and the Golden Age of First-Person Shooters" id guys figure out that their product is the cutting-edge graphics, and being first, and are able to pull that off for a while. Their games were not great, but the product was idTech engines. With Rage however (id Tech 5) the streak ran cold.

In terms of numbers, there have been a lot of trillionaires in Zimbabwe when their currency ran away with hyperinflation. Inflation has been happening with USD as well. So, we will see trillionaires eventually - just question of time.

Now, recalculate the dollar amount into electricity kWh that this money can buy. Talk about energy budget that this person possesses/can direct and manage as result. How many billions of kWh are they worth?

it only works for US Dollar because USA can pay back its debts by printing more money. other economies actually have to work for it.

Prison sentence in Russia is like a death sentence. See Navalny, see Sergei Magnitsky. I would be surprised if Arseny Turbin makes it out alive. If not mistreatment, then hepatitis, tuberculosis, etc are there to get him.

I don't understand why the author chooses to bring up the mantra “make it work, make it right, make it fast“ in a negative light, perhaps he misunderstands where the "make it fast" comes in?

to clarify: "make it right" is the second step, and until you make things work correctly ("right"), that's where the work stops, you have to make the system work soundly. the "make it fast", as in, optimize, comes in only after you have got it right, that all correctness and soundness issues are resolved perfectly. then you can start optimizing it (making it run fast).

it has nothing to do with delivery speed. it has nothing to do with working quickly. it's about optimizing only as a last step.

perhaps the author is lamenting the fact that it is possible for something to sort of "work", but to be so far from being "right" that you can't go back and make it right retroactively, that it has to be "right" from the inception, even before it starts barely working?

What is the Deno solution though? (I assume it's not sharing modules written in C++?)

Did you read it? The author did not actually resolve the issue, only figured out that it should build with older Node version.

Decimate used to mean 10% less (1 out of ten gone), nowadays folks mean 90% or about so less (9 out of ten gone).

Why not pop in to a shop, get another pair of pants?

isn't it too early to try to draw a bottom line for this type of research?

from my perspective this is fascinating area of physics that we need to know more about and will improve our understanding of fundamental physics.

A kangaroo court decision if there ever was one. Doesn't courts realize that by coming up with nonsense like this they destroy their credibility? You can't take a court or the judge that came up with this sentence with a straight face.

That explains quite a lot about dentistry in USSR

And? Fiskars frying pans are pretty good!

"complex made hard" would be great. it seems you have missed the point of the talk: complex is always easy, complex is always where the gravitation pulls you towards.

apparently folks are making tools to do this: https://martinfowler.com/articles/legacy-modernization-gen-a...

We hit memory leaks. Containers keeling over getting OOM killed.

And would you care to document for posterity when was that last time? I think the change in YouTube comments happened some 7-8 years ago, so 2017 or so.

io_uring also caused a ton of problems for our containers in Kubernetes when Node 20 had enabled it by default. They scrambled and turned it off by default in https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/686da19abb