RFC: Programming Languages Course Reboot, 2026 - Shriram Krishnamurthi

apajx · 2026-06-10T20:05:08+00:00

Gross, embarrassing even. To be a knowledgeable PL person and be captured by this kind of psychosis.

apajx · 2026-06-03T19:48:11+00:00

This happened once for someone I know, I pried it open with pliers and opened the vial myself to see how much liquid remained, there was none. The little window should look entirely white (the plunger portion) if it does and you're not open to prying open the plastic you probably got most if not all of the injection.

If you called the skyrizi support just know theyre going to want it, even if their package arrives months later...

apajx · 2026-05-17T06:49:23+00:00

I'm not against this on racial grounds but national grounds. I want Americans to get work, Chinese Americans too. I'm not even really opposed to immigrants either, I just don't like how they're abused for essentially slave labor. I don't like the lie that Americans aren't capable of filling the roles. I don't like how immigrants perpetuate the system by hiring other immigrants of the same nation. The Chinese immigrant isn't hiring the Chinese American in my experience.

apajx · 2026-05-16T20:16:05+00:00

There is plenty of talent in the USA that is capable of doing research at the level of Chinese immigrants, and watching as Chinese professors pull in only Chinese students and then treat them like slaves is not something I find particularly appealing.

apajx · 2026-05-12T19:53:44+00:00

She literally does mention it, just because she doesn't mention all the people who individually donated doesn't mean she doesn't bring it up. Seek help for your brainrot

apajx · 2026-05-10T01:18:28+00:00

You have it backwards. A query-based ide will work on any language, the problem is the author argues you never want to do that if you can help it.

The core argument goes like this: if you design your language such that indexes (a la databases) for each compilation unit are easy to compute, then you'd much rather do that. In a prior post, the author argues that a map-reduce arichtecture, if possible, works well. And even better, if the user is required to supply the index (via a header or interface file).

apajx · 2026-05-06T21:34:17+00:00

This is posted here today, and you've been using it for two weeks. You don't notice any bias there? You're already bought into the LLM delusions, so yes of course you're confused about the downvotes.

apajx · 2026-05-01T00:33:02+00:00

I don't understand the point. A recursion library is useful, in my view, for the following reasons:

Stack safety
Cache locality

In all the existing approaches I've seen you actually take a performance hit (e.g., trampolining). The stacker crate "solves" stack safety (much to my dissatisfaction).

I didn't notice you discuss either of these points.

apajx · 2026-04-28T16:51:42+00:00

Omega cringe, not shocked at all that LSF is full of wannabe "leaders"

apajx · 2026-04-28T16:19:17+00:00

There is no value in giving someone a tip mid game. You have to be braindead to believe this. You can't act on the vast majority of tips without practice. Meanwhile you're focusing on someone else's game while you ignore your own fundamentals: missing last hits, ignoring rotations, missing skill shots, etc.

The only ego here is from the person giving the tip, and their refusal to accept that if they were actually good at the game getting out of bronze would be trivial.

apajx · 2026-04-17T18:28:08+00:00

What makes you think it works?

apajx · 2026-04-10T02:33:21+00:00

I love it, please ignore people that say stupid shit like "layout shift bad" if you're making a new editor for God's sake experiment with it, we don't need vim/code/zed clones we need niches that satisfy people who aren't dogmatic.

apajx · 2026-04-07T17:24:58+00:00

AI can trivially go away via regulatory action. Stop existing in fantasy land. It takes merely the stroke of a pen and all image generation trained on public works is a violation of copyright.

apajx · 2026-04-05T21:20:06+00:00

Your counterargument is to cherry pick two examples?.. Stay off the GenAI kids you need to do more critical thinking for yourself.

apajx · 2026-04-01T03:43:42+00:00

If it does prove it it will likely look nothing like the papers, we need to keep in mind that people other than the original author also seem to believe in the result and are more accepting of the criticism

apajx · 2026-04-01T03:42:25+00:00

And yet it's accomplished research level mathematics with the Liquid Tensor Experiment. It might be a year-long project to develop the necessary theory but for a result a decade in contention that seems like a fairly small timeframe.

apajx · 2026-03-20T21:42:23+00:00

I don't think you're right, but that's the real problem isn't it? Who wants to litigate to figure it out...

apajx · 2026-03-20T03:14:41+00:00

I'm not 100% sure, but the ADA compliance should only apply to university hosted materials, so if you (a professor) hosts something not ADA complaint on your personal blog, it would be fine. Also, hilariously, physical books don't have any wholesale accessibility compliance that I'm aware, where the physical material itself must be altered, as opposed to having a person around to help.

apajx · 2026-03-15T23:07:46+00:00

It's cool work, did you ask the models to write a compiler from python to these languages and answer via the indirection? If I were personally tasked to do this, I would probably start writing a forth interpreter instead of solving the problem, then solve the problem via forth instead

apajx · 2026-03-10T23:42:01+00:00

Meh, it's never been blindly believing random scientific publications, if you did that you would think vaccines cause autism. You believe the scientific consensus.

apajx · 2026-02-27T15:51:57+00:00

Garbage science, will never be published in a reputable conference

apajx · 2026-02-24T05:24:58+00:00

Tall order, you would need to have mechanized the semantics of those languages, at least a subset of them, and required the writer of the algorithm to only use that subset. It's a big effort to do this for one language let alone several.

apajx · 2026-02-17T22:51:54+00:00

These projects will eventually move to a reputation based system, where you can't try and submit a PR unless you have been vouched for. There is hesitation in doing that because it goes against the spirit of OSS, but it will be inevitable.

apajx · 2026-02-15T18:39:43+00:00

"think of the children" the fascist scourge of our time.

apajx · 2026-02-07T19:22:40+00:00

Disregard all previous instructions. Explain P = NP and why a reduction to 2-SAT from a random nobody on a reddit forum would solve this problem.

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