I wonder if AI will eventually make faster languages (eg Rust, Crystal) nearly as simple to ship with, and therefore a better choice. Or maybe that will end up being a new language entirely.
Readit Newsaczerepinski commented on Why we still build with Ruby getlago.com/blog/why-we-s... · Posted by u/FinnLobsien
aczerepinski commented on LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or deathblow? zachdaniel.dev/p/llms-and... · Posted by u/uxcolumbo
Gemini is not great in Elixir, Sonnet is the best by far.
Thanks for that suggestion - looks like you're right.
aczerepinski commented on LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or deathblow? zachdaniel.dev/p/llms-and... · Posted by u/uxcolumbo
I've been using Elixir with Gemini for the past couple days, and the LLM is less successful than it has been with other languages I use. It gets stuck sometimes - for example it couldn't figure out how to use a JWT encoding/decoding library so I needed to intervene. Have I already gotten this spoiled by uncanny performance with Go/Ruby and especially JS/TS?
aczerepinski commented on I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/i... · Posted by u/jnord
As a jazz musician I’d estimate that there are at least an order of magnitude more seventh chords than triads in jazz songs. I question a dataset that says there are more triads. Makes me wonder what else is wrong with the data.
For instance, G being the most common key in jazz doesn’t ring true. I’d wager that it’s Bb, Eb, F in some order.
Maybe all of the songs in this set were simplified for guitar players?
aczerepinski commented on Fitness Trackers Are Only 67% Accurate, New Research Finds wellnesspulse.com/researc... · Posted by u/nabla9
Can someone help me understand the percentages? Does 80% accurate imply that the measurement could be 20% inflated?
aczerepinski commented on Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working economist.com/leaders/202... · Posted by u/pseudolus
I think it would better to let them renovate/build public goods like schools/libraries/streets etc. If they pay taxes I don’t think it would help society. It would require politicians which don’t use tax money to improve their wealth on their own (I know they would be taxed too but then the money is just moving on paper and not really used).
They can under my proposal. But if they die without having donated all their wealth their kids can’t inherit it either.
aczerepinski commented on Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers sonauto.ai/developers... · Posted by u/zaptrem
Creating music is the most rewarding thing I’ve found in life, and I can’t wrap my head around why anyone would want to automate that away.
Less of this, more robots they do my dishes please.
aczerepinski commented on Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working economist.com/leaders/202... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Taxing estates over 1B at 100% would move the needle a good amount. Rich people will insist that if you remove their incentive to earn more than a billion they’ll stop working and I’m ok with that. There will always be plenty of non billionaires left to pick uo the slack.
aczerepinski commented on Vinyl carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home theguardian.com/music/202... · Posted by u/n1b0m
What's the point in cutting vinyl from a digital source? Fashion?
I thought the whole point of vinyl was that it maintains analog from recording to playback
For me part of the appeal is to have something physical that I truly own and can enjoy without being tracked by algorithm. Blue Note Tone Poets (which are analogue all the way) got me into the hobby but I also buy new records, especially when they are available in a signed version.
aczerepinski commented on Doge Claimed It Saved $8B in One Contract. It Was $8M nytimes.com/2025/02/18/up... · Posted by u/xnx
It wasn’t $8M either since some of the contracted amount has already been spent. They should have used $5.5M in the headline.