Amikke @Amikke@social.cleverlibre.org

It's always interesting to see how the IT space changes. I remember at most 10 years ago reading about the sufficiently smart compiler fallacy which was often used by fans of high level, interpreted languages such as Lisp or Python to justify their inherent performance issues. Because "the compilers are getting smart enough that with a sufficiently smart compiler all of these inefficiencies can be optimised away".

Since then advancements in compiler technology and overall CS created JIT-compiled languages with optional/inferred typing like Julia or Rust which write and read high level but statically compile to very efficient code. It's not quite the level of making Lisp or Python blazing-fast, but it's close enough to make the sufficiently smart compiler not so much of a fallacy after all.

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#smbc

Tankies are wild. "Capitalism is bad because it creates monopolies which are horribly inefficient so lets replace it with a single, country-wide monopoly ran by politicians, there is not a single possible way this could go horribly wrong."

#youtube

Someone recently reminded me of a Polish saying/joke from the bad old days of communist rule: There is a kind of communism that works, layered communism.

Layer of communists, layer of soil, layer of communists, layer of soil...

The history of multicellular organisms is basically a history of gigantic combining mech battles, since that'w what we basically are - gigantic sentient mechs built from trillions of what once was individual organisms.

No wonder the authors of TTGL got the idea.

Phone language: English (British)
Region: Poland
Uber: your driver is 1.5 miles away

What part of that locale suggests I want to use medieval units? Does Uber assume that every English-speaking person is from the two third-world shitholes stuck still using them just because one of them is the United States? Does it do the same for Brits?

#ux

Pl: chrabąszcz majowy, częsty widok w większości Polski. Dopiero ostatnio dowiedziałem się jakie to jest ciekawe i egzotycznie wyglądające stworzenie, zawsze widziałem je jako buczące wpadające na wszystko bombowce albo (pół)martwe brzydkie robale leżące na plecach.

En: the maybeetle, a common sight in most of Poland. I have only recently learned how interesting and exotic-looking of an animal it is, previously seeing them mostly as the humming, running into everything bombers or the (semi-)dead ugly bugs laying on their backs.