I think mmap is unlikely to be the best option seeing as you'd be doing large sequential reads.

IMO it's completely insane that they're doing this. Same with Python packages.

I don't feel like it's the same - autotune can make me more in tune than I could ever achieve. Current LLMs definitely can't write better code than me, they can just do it faster.

Some definitely are. But I think a lot aren't. Hell, a lot of programmers still don't even use an IDE.

I don't know why it would make you ill.

It makes sense (RVA23 is probably the first profile that is actually competitive for desktop use), but also is there a single real RVA23 chip available yet? Might be a little premature...

No I disagree. There are some things that it's really infeasible to use the scientific method for. You simply can't do an experiment for everything.

A good example is UBI. You can't do a proper experiment for it because that would involve finding two similar countries and making one use UBI for at least 100 years. Totally impossible.

But that doesn't mean you just give up and say "well then we can't know anything at all about it".

Or closer to programming: are comments a good idea, or should programming languages not support comments? Pretty obvious answer right? Where's the scientific study?

Was default case fallthrough a mistake? Obviously yes. Did anyone ever do a study on it? No.

You don't always need a scientific study to know things to a reasonable certainty and often you can't do that.

That said I did see one really good study that shows Typescript catches about 15% of JavaScript bugs. So we don't have nothing.

Even accounting for that (at least in countries with national healthcare), they're definitely more expensive than regular employees.

AI can absolutely save you time, if you use it right. Don't expect it to magically be as good as a real programmer... but for instance I made an HTML visualisation of some stuff using Claude, and while it got it a bit wrong, fixing it took me maybe 20 minutes, while writing it from scratch would have taken me at least a couple of hours.

I find the need to have an account in order to contribute to projects a deal breaker. It causes too much friction for no real gain. Email based workflows will always reign supreme. It’s the OG of code contributions.

This is dumb. I have followed the simple 12 step process to set up git send-email and it was so much more hassle than creating an account on GitHub or Codeberg or whatever, and in the end the UX is much worse.

What's your job / where do you work then?

As long as you're going somewhere that has trains...

I think the point is that Rust will make it easier to distribute portable binaries. You can use Musl and then you get a completely static binary with no dependencies that works on old versions of Linux.

You can achieve the same with C++, but it's waaaay more hassle.