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There are people who use these, apparently. And it just feels so... depressing. There are people I once respected who, apparently, don’t actually enjoy doing the thing . They would like to describe what they want and receive Whatever — some beige sludge that vaguely resembles it. That isn’t programming, though. That’s management, a fairly different... See more

And speaking of things that work even more less good, the technology... sucks? It fundamentally doesn’t do the thing that its investors and diehard fans say it does. It just strings together text that is statistically plausible. And every new alleged advancement comes with some invested airhead billionaire boasting about how the computer is as smar... See more

But we didn’t really get that. We got, I guess, sparkling autocomplete — a fancy chatbot that can string words together in the most inoffensive people-pleasing customer-service voice you’ve ever heard.

The result is something I adamantly do not want to interact with. I do not want to be exposed to LLM output at any time. It’s noise , and I feel like... See more

"Since there is a callback function of this type, it is not efficient to do it by saying, "I have this object and set this value." If you define it as a whole, you need so much memory, because it is such a layout, can you not feel like it? So we decided to use the Snapshot features that V8 provided to make it more efficient. By the way, in pure V8,... See more

V8 has a snapshot feature that serializes the generated Isolate Context state and deserialize it to reduce overhead and accelerates the generation of Isolate Context.

This shows you the two steps you need to go through. First extract the ReturnType and then await the ReturnType.

Awaited helps you unwrap a promise. It's like calling await here. Without Awaited, if I remove this, then ReturnValue is just the promise again, but if I had it back, then we get the thing that's inside the promise, very, very useful.

There’s an old joke that you can tell what kind of conservative a person is by what year they want to go back to. I’d say the decline of a shared morality happened over the past 60 years with the rise of hyper-individualism and moral relativism. MacIntyre, by contrast, argued that the loss of moral coherence was baked into the Enlightenment from it... See more

Life has gotten very chaotic incredibly quickly. It has become increasingly difficult to parse anything from the static. People started coping with this lack of meaning through a kind of ironic detachment (which is very much still around), but it has matured into a pervasive cultural apathy, a permeating numbness. This isn’t nihilism per se. (Even ... See more