sunshowers (u/sunshowers)

sunshowers commented on Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024) infinitelymore.xyz/p/comp... · Posted by u/FillMaths

nyeah · 20 hours ago

To be clear, this "disagreement" is about arbitrary naming conventions which can be chosen as needed for the problem at hand. It doesn't make any difference to results.

sunshowers · 19 hours ago

I'm not a professional, but to me it's clear that whether i and -i are "the same" or "different" is actually quite important.

sunshowers commented on U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession forbes.com/sites/mikestun... · Posted by u/alephnerd

seneca · 4 days ago

Yes, I see, you don't believe in countries or borders. I disagree with you, fundamentally, as do basically all Americans.

sunshowers · 4 days ago

I believe that countries and borders exist as a descriptive fact about the world. But I also believe that it's impossible to square immigration control regimes with any robust notion of freedom and liberty, and also that there isn't room for much disagreement on this specific point once you understand the intrinsic nature of such regimes. See Kukathas, Immigration and Freedom for more.

I know most people (of any nationality, not just Americans) don't understand this, but you and I are not most people. I believe things because it is correct to believe them, not because most people believe them (or not).

edit: to be clear, you can say "immigration control lessens freedom, but I'm willing to give up freedom—both yours and mine—because I value certain things more". That is a reasonable point, though I might as a follow-up probe into the motivation behind that. "I think the government gets to stop you from living with your spouse, but I'm okay with that because XYZ" better have a pretty robust XYZ behind it!

sunshowers commented on U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession forbes.com/sites/mikestun... · Posted by u/alephnerd

seneca · 4 days ago

What a childish argument.

sunshowers · 4 days ago

I need you to understand that immigration controls are fundamentally and inherently antithetical to freedom of speech, freedom of movement, and freedom of association. And this applies both to immigrants and to citizens.

Imagine if you needed government approval to live with the one you love! What a completely unreasonable intervention into the private lives of ordinary people. Oh wait, that's the actual reality immigrants live in.

sunshowers commented on U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession forbes.com/sites/mikestun... · Posted by u/alephnerd

seneca · 4 days ago

Every post you make on this site is essentially the exact same H1B propaganda. It's tiresome to watch someone use this community like this.

sunshowers · 4 days ago

Migrating to a place where people can contribute more to society is both a core tenet of individual liberty and one of the most positive-sum things any human being can do.

But given that you both feign concern over visa holders' working conditions [1], while at the same time advocating for policies that lead to worse working conditions [2], perhaps you just hate freedom and were never acting in good faith in the first place.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656527

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323501

sunshowers commented on VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code visualjj.com/... · Posted by u/demail

hippo22 · 10 days ago

I agree it will hold back new technologies, but, at the same time, I'm not sure what the value add of new technologies will be going forward. Often, as is the case with git vs. jj, the value add of a new technology is mostly ergonomic. As AI becomes more ingrained in the development flow, engineers won't engage with the underlying tech directly, and so ergonomic benefits will be diminished. New technologies that emerge will need to provide benefits to AI-agents, not to engineers. Should such a technology emerge, agent developers will likely adopt it.

For this reason, programming languages, at least how we understand them today, have reached a terminal state. I could easily make a new language now, especially with the help of Claude Code et al, but there would never be any reason for any other engineer to use it.

sunshowers · 10 days ago

Ah yes, the inevitable future where the only way we'll know to interact with the machine is through persuading a capricious LLM. We'll spend our days reciting litanies to the machine spirits like in 40k.

sunshowers commented on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp birdy.chat/blog/first-to-... · Posted by u/joooscha

swiftcoder · 17 days ago

Without interoperability with the chat platform all the regular people are already using, that's always going to be an uphill battle.

I use Signal to communicate with other tech folks, but good luck convincing your dentist/doctor/etc to send reminders on signal instead of WhatsApp.

sunshowers · 17 days ago

I talk to one of my doctors over Signal.

sunshowers commented on NPM to implement staged publishing after turbulent shift off classic tokens socket.dev/blog/npm-to-im... · Posted by u/feross

m4rtink · a month ago

Can we finally decare this (and other incomplete language specific package namanegers) to be a failed experiment and go back to robust and secure distro based package management workflow, with maintainers separate from upstream developpers ?

sunshowers · a month ago

Language-specific package managers are a natural outgrowth of wanting portability across platforms.

sunshowers commented on Corroded: Illegal Rust github.com/buyukakyuz/cor... · Posted by u/csmantle

nacozarina · a month ago

type safety was always a guardrail for the human not the machine.

humans aren’t reading code, so no need for it, ai can write everything in ASM & C, keep everything fast and economical.

sunshowers · a month ago

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