The way the execs talk down to employees now is really depressing to read about. That's a really unfortunate culture change since I was there.
I was there 2013 to 2017 and it was a pretty big shift start to finish just in that window.
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Don't most of the benefits just come down to using a statically typed and thus compiled language? Be it Java, Go or C++; TypeScript is trickier, because it compiles to JavaScript and inherits some issues, but it's still fine.
I know that Rust provides some additional compile-time checks because of its stricter type system, but it doesn't come for free - it's harder to learn and arguably to read
IMO, most of the terse syntax in Rust comes from the sugar they've added for error handling.
BobbyJo commented on Nvidia's new 'robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499 cnbc.com/2025/08/25/nvidi... · Posted by u/tiahura
I tried to look up human wattage as a comparison and I'm very surprised that it lands around the same ballpark. Around 145W as a daily average and around 440W as a an approximate hourly average during exercise.
I thought current gen robots would be an order of magnitude less efficient. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something.
Electric motors are very energy efficient. I believe they are actually far more efficient on a per-joint movement basis, and the equivalence between us and them is largely due to inefficient locomotion.
Where we excel is energy storage. Far less weight, far higher density.
BobbyJo commented on I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dum... · Posted by u/begoon
But how do you know if you can trust the docs if they are AI generated?
How do you know if you can trust then if they are human generated? Your trust the people. AI isn't going to jump and just generate docs, a person has to prompt it, and you should expect the person to proof read and correct it. If the person turns out to be untrustworthy, you stop trusting them.
BobbyJo commented on I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dum... · Posted by u/begoon
But it is a pretty good signal of low quality.
A signal is something you use to discern something in lue of direct information. In the case of docs, just look at them and if they suck, or are good, it doesn't really matter where they came from. That being said, Ill take AI generated docs over no docs, and no docs is very common.
BobbyJo commented on I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dum... · Posted by u/begoon
> already has an engine for building websites with Zig, but making sure that every Zig library has docs
Tbh, this sort of auto-generated docs from source code is not all that useful, since you get that same information right in the IDE via the language server.
The important documentation part that's currently missing is how everything is supposed to work together in the stdlib, not the 'micro-documentation' of what a single type or function does. And for this sort of information it's currently indeed better to look at example code (e.g. the stdlib's testing code).
IMHO it's way too early for this type of high-level documentation, since things change all the time in the stdlib. Putting much work into documenting concepts that are discarded again anyway doesn't make much sense.
Tests very often don't tell you the right way to use something, especially when you're talking about IO libraries. Examples themselves often don't even show the "correct" way, but rather just a way that will work in ideal circumstances.
BobbyJo commented on I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dum... · Posted by u/begoon
This is probably the right solution. It seems in reality nobody does this since it is expensive (more teachers, real attention to students, etc). Also if there is an explicit split there will be groups of people who "game" it (spend disproportional amount of time to "train" their kids vs actual natural talent - not sure if this is good or bad).
So, it feels to me ideally within the same classroom there should be a natural way to work on your own pace at your own level. Is it possible? Have no idea - seems not, again primarily because it requires a completely different skillset and attention from teachers.
This was the way all schools worked in my county in florida, at least from middle school on. Normal/Honors/AP split is what pretty much every highschool did at the time. You could even go to a local community college instead of HS classes.
I'm gonna add another perspective. I was placed, and excelled, in moderately advanced math courses from 3rd grade on. Mostly 'A's through 11th grade precalc (taken because of the one major hiccup, placing only in the second most rigorous track when I entered high school). I ended that year feeling pretty good, with a superior SAT score bagged, high hopes for National Merit, etc.
Then came senior year. AP Calculus was a sh/*tshow, because of a confluence of factors: dealing with parents divorcing, social isolation, dysphoria. I hit a wall, and got my only quarterly D, ever.
The, "if you get left behind, that's on you, because we're not holding up the bright kids," mentality was catastrophic for me - and also completely inapplicable, because I WAS one of the bright kids! I needed help, and focus. I retook the course in college and got the highest grade in the class, so I confirmed that I was not the problem; unfortunately, though, the damage had been done. I'd chosen a major in the humnities, and had only taken that course as an elective, to prove to myself that I could manage the subject. You would never know that I'd been on-track for a technical career.
So, I don't buy that America/Sweden/et al. are full of hopeless demi-students. I was deemed one, and it wasn't true, but the simple perception was devastating. I think there is a larger, overarching deficit of support for students, probably some combination of home life, class structure, and pedagogical incentives. If "no child left behind" is anathema in these circles, the "full speed ahead" approach is not much better.
> The, "if you get left behind, that's on you, because we're not holding up the bright kids," mentality was catastrophic for me
Your one bad year doesn't invalidate the fact that it was good to allow you to run ahead of slower students the other 9 years. It wasn't catastrophic for you, as you say yourself you just retook the class in college and got a high grade. I honestly don't see how "I had a bad time at home for a year and did bad in school" could have worked out any better for you.
> So, I don't buy that America/Sweden/et al. are full of hopeless demi-students. I was deemed one.
A bad grade one year deemed you a hopeless demi student? By what metric? I had a similar school career (AP/IB with As and Bs) and got a D that should have been an F my senior year and it was fine.