I thought the data structure part is solved:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)

Ropes are for strings. In a word processor you need text with formatting, and structures as tables, images and math.

Human appetite for more knows no bounds. Imagine what we’d have to do for everyone to have a zettaflop. We won’t have the resources for it. So guys like this one are in competition with normal people who just need a little bit of compute, so that he can feel powerful with a million Claudes. Sad.

For one thing, most news websites would have to load at least 10,000x as much useless javascript to achieve the same performance.

Soon every website will have an LLM entirely in JS that will create the React code for the rest of the website, build it, deploy it, then create the article on the fly from a prompt, and present it.

Oof. You may have just named the next frontier in our becoming unmoored from base reality. That's gonna be a gold rush. And I hate that this just gave me a brutally demented idea for a dating platform. I have a conscience, damnit.

Web devs: hold my beer

Poor mother Earth, this race is unsustainable. In order to satiate guys like geohot we are pillaging the natural resources, destroying ecosystems, fucking up the climate.

I think i know two or three other people who are much, much more to blame... putting it on one dude is weird.

I apologise for not being very clear, it's on all of us - including myself.

who's talking about owning a zettaflop on earth? The second part of sustainable growth is growth after all

why do you think we are stuck on Earth?

Electron apps will expand to fill the available space!

I kind of agree with you there is only enough area for solar for 150 million people (even if we assume all land is solarable) but there is no reasons we couldn't eventually have everyone with a milion Claudes with fusion.

Edit: There is a problem with that - 10MW * 8 billion is something like half the solar power from the sun which implies wasted heat will heat earth considerably.

Sometimes I really don't get why my comment is downvoted.

What is tiresome is how sincerely these people insist on being able to make everyone act according to their will, while simultaneously displaying weakness, incompetence, and extreme pettiness. Trying to threaten people into respecting them. The lack of class is just so unsightly.

There was a time when this kind of thing would fly. When the one in charge is a giant orange child-man who can't keep a consistent thought across a single sentence, it makes it clear that the whole thing is narcissistic theatre. It doesn't surprise me that his underlings would try to emulate it, and do a bad job in the process.

I don't like being a part of the reactionary 'orange man bad' crew, but this is really shockingly bizarre. It's not the kind of behaviour you expect from a real leader of a real superpower. And it does make you think - perhaps there's something to be said about the USA not being nearly the power that it once was, and maybe this is what it looks like after you crest the apex of power.

It’s still much preferable to them being strong and competent in subduing everyone to their will.

That comes later.

It’s more like the abusive parents telling the child that they’ll sell him to the scary man at the bus stop every time they want to coerce the child into doing what they want.

Eventually the child develops disrespect for authority.

It’s just so POWERFUL and DANGEROUS that its very aura disrupts the weaker models.

Be careful, MYTHOS might be reading your comment directly from their janitor's iPhone RAM right now. You do not want to upset such a powerful entity!

Oh no, it will BREAK OUT and send me an email when I’m in the park.

How could it be that a political system which remained largely structurally unchanged since the freaking 18th century isn't equipped to deal with everything that has been going on in the world since then?

It must be due to bad actors.

Or a manager will not be needed anymore with no reports to manage.

It’s the crudeness of available management methods at play. Quite exposing for the profession, really (remember lines of code as measure of productivity?).

I recommend reading about the concept of alienation in Marx and Marcuse. They argue that it’s systematically produced, which I can’t prove, but just the observation that it exists, is very insightful.

You can just compile any tail recursive function to a function with a loop and no recursion.

This is in fact how Elm does it! Tail call recursion compiles to a while loop.

That does not address the use case where I find tail recursion most tempting. That would be mutually recursive functions.

If the function can be written as an idiomatic loop I probably would do so in the first place.

You _can_ do trampolines, but that is kind of infectious, or needs to be very explicit with extra code, etc.

Indeed. It's not very efficient though. If I remember correctly Scala does this.

Right but recursion is only a smaller part of why the optimization is important. It means tail-called functions still build on the stack and long function chains—as is common with fp—can overflow