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That's not what I see reported, they say Haskell tends to have bad memory layout generally and takes a 5x or so hit to performance.

Depends what you're doing, but it really can have C-comparable speed. [0]

Unoptimised/naive Haskell might be that slow. But that's true of a lot of languages and isn't particularly interesting to me. Java is slow if you do everything the naive way, too.

[0] https://entropicthoughts.com/on-competing-with-c-using-haske...


Java ain't slow even if you do really stupid stuff. Hell, I would even argue that java is the most resistant to stupid code. Some way over-abstracted everything linked data structure will be faster in java than it is in C.

Haskell's most badly optimised type, is the String.

Java's most badly optimised type, is the String.

Both of them need a string-builder pattern, the default operators don't work around things to do the right thing for you. They expect you to understand how data works.


The phrase “tends to” is doing a lot of work here. Inexperienced Haskellers tend to use the singly linked list for everything and that data structure just doesn’t perform in any language.

They may have done you a favour if that's what they sack you for, good luck finding another job!

That's how I'm treating it! Thanks

This is the sort of thing I've wanted to write for a long time. Yes it looks like this is vibe coded but I'm glad this was made because it's cool to see what can be done, and it's interesting seeing how AI can be used as a compiler essentially given the output is assembly.

I'd be interested if the author would tell us more about what they did here and what went into the design and evolution, rather than the AI README.


That's how I feel right now talking in my only language of English.


Yep. So many people have been drifting away into some kind of parallel reality where language is seemingly the same, yet transmits no meaning between our diverging realities.


Language that looks superficially normal but transmits no meaning is called "generative AI output"


That too, but I originally meant literal human output, as in loss of ability to convey meaning with words in communication between people, no AI involved.


Don't overthink it, I think you are being a bit cynical. If your kid enjoys it then it's worth the money. If you can't afford that then find other things your kid enjoys.

The reward of a game is playing it, not the 'prize', although that can add to the enjoyment too.


As a parent you should absolutely think about what kind of expectations and behaviours you're setting up for the future if 'if they enjoy it then it's worth the money' is teaching kids. Sure it's not perfectly clear cut but not thinking about value at all does not end well.


I feel like I'm living under a rock reading this post. What are the problems with Twitter, why does it need boycotting?


For starts, there's no such thing as Twitter any more, and hasn't been, for years.


Okay but that's not really relevant as the name changing is not a reason to leave/boycott?


I don't want media under control of billionaires like Musk. I mostly stopped using Twitter myself but many important institutions still feel compelled to publish there (sometimes even exclusively), thus I would like other people to also stop using it, so it can perish. Hopefully something better will fill that void. The Fediverse seems promising being a distributed system with no central control.


I wish i could forget the last 6 years as well (to be clear, post COVID nonsense).


There is no problem with X (formerly Twitter). Some people got their panties in a twist because Elon Musk bought it.


Yet that is a problem the owner of such a domain has freely entered into by buying that domain, it's their right to keep it despite this apparent problem, if they wish.


Understood, and .name isn't being used enough in business to worry about 'the effect it will have on my users'. Just pointing out that it doesn't work like the 'norm' (although I guess it's not quite as unique as I thought, either)


That's actually the point of the .name TLD is that it's not for businesses, it's for individuals. This whole situation demonstrates ICANN is more for businesses than individuals. It should just be there for everyone and every organisation that's trying to use URI's, shame that it's not worked out that way. This is exactly what the big tech companies want, they might as well hand ICANN over to Facebook or Google, they wouldn't do much worse.


In defense given the amount of web content being processed it makes a lot of sense to use JS and related tech. It's put to good use here.


This isn't written by AI, this is just how BBC news articles are written. I find it frustrating too.


I think you are partially correct. They trained AI on their articles to produce the same style articles. I am not a large consumer of BBC articles. This style of snippet after snippet is annoying. Perhaps that is why I am not a large consumer of BBC articles.

> Style Assist helps BBC journalists quickly adapt trusted content into BBC News house style, speeding up the publication of high-quality local stories. It uses a BBC-trained AI model to generate a draft, which is always reviewed and edited by journalists before publication. This helps save time while maintaining accuracy, tone and editorial standards. Find out more in an article from Rhodri Talfan Davies.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/reports/policies/what-were...


Style Assist is mainly for articles written by journalists that are employed by third-party news organisations (who own the UK's local news outlets) but are subsidised by the BBC - these people are "local democracy reporters".

LDRS articles are made free to everyone in the scheme (including the BBC), but because the content is written primarily for their home news org the articles that end up being published by the BBC need to be modified to comply with the BBC's editorial guidelines and for style reasons.

Hence, Style Assist.


I see. Journalism is much more nuanced than I had imagined. The article I linked mentions there are 1,200 rules in the BBC News style guide!


And I'll add that whether the style guide or the journalists, BBC articles tend to be like this: constantly saying sentences without giving the full context needed to understand them. This is why as a right wing person I tend to read The Guardian (famously left wing) instead of the BBC, because their articles just read better.


This is the new "Let Me Google This For You".


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