@PiotrKafel This is the seo-ed to hell and back, to the extent the experimental generative search experience that G now offers is much more useful than the main search (which is why it won't go anywhere, G isn't going to kill their golden goose)
@PiotrKafel Have you tried looking up anything nontrivial lately? Everyone is reblogging the same trivial tutorials, neatly stopping right where the complexity makes things interesting - and useful.
@PiotrKafel My advice is to embrace the functional side. IntelliJ has some neat advices on when to switch to streams / sequences for performance, or when to use fused operators.
Also, beware of extension functions, as they are an easy footgun.
@PiotrKafel A counterperspective: Groupon did not understand the enshittification cycle, mistimed it, and alienated both customer bases before Groupon grew big enough to effectively execute the value capture.
@crimebucket It is probably a surprise to many, but full stack reaction times on current self driving cars are quite a bit worse than a race car driver. This is one of the areas where optimization would help!
@panda_rocks2020@GergelyOrosz And when I read a new piece of code, I always think wtf the author was thinking, and I can rewrite it so much cleaner and tighter - but if I dive deeper, there's _always_ some reason why things are as they are.
@davidthomas426@mitsuhiko@rishmishra So over time clang extended to compile all of C++, and in the process got as slow as gcc, and llvm got up to comparable speed, and number of CPUs as gcc, and got as slow at compiling.
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend.
@PiotrKafel Yeah, I still get contacted by recruiters about opportunities in companies that have announced layoffs, and when pressed they claim that it's about a different department/vertical. TBH not even the rank-and-file within the company will know in advance of layoffs.
I need a way to filter out all the "Topic X is blowing up. Here's what you need to know/Here's N things you can do now" tweets that have started plaguing my twitter feed...
Consensus seems to be that ChatGPT/GPT-4 is getting dumber week by week (where "dumber" usually means loss of previously-available function). I'm reminded of this scene: https://t.co/yp5Fl0Te6h