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The first thing that comes to mind with no restarts or recompiling is the mangled variables you get in Jupiter if you're mucking around trying to get a prototype going and forget which cells have been run. I can definitely see agents having a problem with that. I would just try to make compilation fast if possible
Re:Lean Now Ships with Verified Kernels on Saturday October 17, 2026 @11:20PM (#50137621)
As someone who doesn't quite get all this, isn't the proposal here just checkers all the way down?
Re:Build your own decision model on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:19AM (#50040791)
Yeah is this webpage that spells out how to do it worth $7.5b
Re:Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:51AM (#49990468)
No-one ever got fired for using Jev
What happens if you make a wanking motion
Re:GitHub Actions Is Down on Thursday August 06, 2026 @11:21PM (#49205580)
As long as you don't look at it or breathe too hard near it at any time

Source: me

Re:GitHub Actions Is Down on Thursday August 06, 2026 @11:15PM (#49205545)
Yeah I went through hell migrating everything from ADO to GH Actions a year or so ago and even after all this I'm not even slightly close to wanting to go back
Re:Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @06:41PM (#49190050)
Four is right out
I don't know why, but when I saw the source of this particular headline it reminded me of the album title 26 Mixes for Cash
Re:The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @06:06AM (#46044686)
And yet people do haha

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

Re:The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @12:50AM (#46042719)
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.
Re:Writing Code Is Easy. Reading It Isn't on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:21PM (#45173441)
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

Re:Modern CI Is Too Complex and Misdirected on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @07:13AM (#44960777)
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.
Re:Idiocracy on Saturday May 24, 2025 @05:27AM (#44079894)
Or why Hacker News comments on this one are quiet as the graveyard...
Re:4chan Is Back Up on Friday April 25, 2025 @06:38PM (#43799141)
Is that good
Re: on Saturday August 24, 2024 @08:17AM (#41337652)
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?

Re:LLaMA Now Goes Faster on CPUs on Monday April 01, 2024 @06:27PM (#39900141)
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.
Re:LLaMA Now Goes Faster on CPUs on Monday April 01, 2024 @09:02AM (#39893712)
I'd pay good money to watch jart in conversation with Carmack
Re:XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams on Sunday March 31, 2024 @09:03PM (#39889845)
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

Re:FOSDEM 2024 Live Streams on Saturday February 03, 2024 @06:53AM (#39239487)
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?

Re:The art of high performance computing on Saturday December 30, 2023 @07:07PM (#38820532)
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
It's New Zealand
Re:Ongoing compilation table of LK-99 reproduction claims on Monday August 07, 2023 @06:40AM (#37032687)
Yeah the rock floats above you!
Re:Converting Full Terraform Programs to Pulumi on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:33PM (#36303982)
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.

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