The Prime Rib Directive

I think the current approach to LLMs of just throwing more energy at them until they seem better is irresponsible. What if we could reshape the solution space (in this case, programming language) instead?

I think that is an interesting thing to investigate at least.

It’s more that people do use the LLMs, and I think it would be interesting to investigate programming languages from that perspective. What if changing something about programming languages makes LLMs more effective or say, more energy efficient? Won’t know unless we look.

I think a simpler language could be faster to compile and end up faster than C if done right, like FORTRAN.

A question: what are your goals for the language?

If I were designing a language in 2025, I’d probably design a language with the goals of: easy for the compiler to optimize, easy for an LLM to work with (less complex syntax and maybe fewer features? Not sure), and maybe easy parallelism?

“Juice isn’t worth the squeeze”

I think you meant “the Diet Coke isn’t worth the can”

😎

I agree that it is not okay but perhaps necessary.

I did see that. It rings a little hollow tbh, like when people try to justify supporting HP content by saying they’ll just not directly give money to JKR. Or eating at Chick-fil-A sometimes.

And look, I’m not perfect. There’s no winning.

Thanks. That is a little clearer.

And I get it. Nothing is easy and none of the choices are objectively correct, like The Good Place taught us.

It was not clear to me. You did explicitly call out X as being where tech discourse is and then said you would use LinkedIn and substack but not X?

It is news to me that substack is where tech discourse. I just thought it was where paywalled articles go to die and give me endless pop-ups.

No ethical consumption under capitalism and all that. And I totally get “Wordpress is a barrier”. But I didn’t quite get the “and so I must use substack” next step.

I feel like there’s missing info in the article? Does substack lead to more community engagement you can’t get elsewhere? Etc.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't actually see a 'why'. Specifically, why substack is okay? I see a list of reasons it is bad and I see a an "I'm going to use it anyway to engage with the community and lower the writing barrier", but no real justification for why supporting substack is okay?

Dinner for 14.5 hours or switching between 12- and 24-hour clocks? 😂

Apple’s woven cables are my cat’s favorite to chew on.

Except using these licenses has been a disaster for many companies as they are too vague to be "open". See HashiCorp with Terraform vs OpenTofu and the huge "binding FAQ" to clarify the vague BUSL. Even Elasticsearch walked their SSPL use back and offer AGPL now. CockroachDB abandoned BUSL.

I think the internet would judge me harshly if I replaced Gateron Brown with Cherry MX Brown, even though I much prefer the Cherry as they are lighter weight.

This inspired me to test a bunch of switches, including TTC Bluish White and Kailh Box Winter, and honestly not feeling enough of a difference from the Gateron Browns to justify getting new switches.

I need something maybe even lighter. Debating going linear with Kailh Box Silent Pink?

I choose Sheb Wooley (Wilhelm scream guy)

It unfortunately sets some flags as well so it’s not always possible to use. (e.g., Go’s assembler previously would always use XOR instead of MOV for zeroizing, which made it impossible to do certain bignum optimizations without ugly workarounds.)