As far as I've been aware, 'guys' is mostly now considered non-gendered.
And the alternative 'folks' comes off as arrogant to me.
Readit Newsgompertz commented on Linux Foundation's updated inclusive language guide aswf.io/inclusive-languag... · Posted by u/tommica
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Most nerds I know wouldn't see obstacles to try out either Mastodon nor NOSTR because they'd be naturally curious about them.
Mastodon works as intended and grows reasonably well. NOSTR is quite frankly one of the most relevant innovations on open source forum/communities from the past two decades.
Both serve similar purposes (build online communities) but the while Mastodon uses a traditional server with a federation on top, NOSTR uses the concept of relay.
In essence, your texts never belong to the owner of a server, you send them to any of a thousand volunteer maintained relays and your audience reads them from there. Your identity remains the same, anyone can verify the authenticity of your texts and this is quite a feature on a time that digital censorship increases.
This comment single handedly caused me to sink 4 hours yesterday into exploring nostr and getting lost in it. I agree with your two decade sentiment, great technology.
gompertz commented on Alberta no longer sure about big savings from auto insurance reforms cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar... · Posted by u/geox
What is this doing on Hacker News.
gompertz commented on Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding solmaz.io/typed-languages... · Posted by u/hosolmaz
Curious, has it been proven that typed languages are easier for LLMs to work with as they dont have to infer types?
gompertz commented on Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data pricepertoken.com/... · Posted by u/alexellman
such level of condescending behaviour when you yourself are wrong is not allowed.
Put a really really bad taste in my mouth.
First poster could have approach better too. Like "Cool site! I think I may see an error on one item?". Instead of going right to a 'wrong' angle as if all the data should be discredited. I get highly triggered by this too.
gompertz commented on Java was not underhyped in 1997 (2021) dylanbeattie.net/2021/07/... · Posted by u/SerCe
> Java will make lower level languages with manual memory allocation like C/C++ obsolete because CPUs are getting faster.
Except that this actually happened wrt. a whole lot of application code. Sure, Java was slow and clunky but at least it was free of the memory unsafety that plagued C/C++. What was the mainstream "safe" alternative? There was no Rust back then, even Cyclone (the first memory-safe C style language) was only released in the mid-2000s.
Interesting! I never heard of Cyclone before. Looks like another Bell Labs contribution.
gompertz commented on I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well goto10retro.com/p/vibe-co... · Posted by u/ibobev
I work on niche platforms where the amount of example code on Github is minimal, and this definitely aligns with my observations. The error rate is way too high to make "vibe coding" possible.
I think it's a good reality check for the claims of impending AGI. The models still depend heavily on being able to transform other people's work.
Yep I program in some niche languages like Pike, Snobol4, Unicon. Vibe coding is out of the question for these languages. Forced to use my brain!
gompertz commented on CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download spectrum.ieee.org/cpm-cre... · Posted by u/rbanffy
The bio is in three parts. If he mentions Gary it will be in part 2.
Interesting, thx wasn't aware!
gompertz commented on CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download spectrum.ieee.org/cpm-cre... · Posted by u/rbanffy
> instead of only people such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
At least gates could program...
Yet in Gates' recently released memoir, if you do a ctrl+f for Kildall there are zero results. Unsure how Gates, as a programmer and business founder , could write a memoir without a single blurb for Gary.