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  1. Aedil3 (1
  2. Aedil3 Sorry.
  3. dreamreal https://bytecode.news/posts/2026/05/the-tacit-dimension
  4. javabot dreamreal's title: "The Tacit Dimension | bytecode.news"
  5. Para Tacit. I've seen that word pop up this week quite a lot.
  6. Para Has to be confirmation bias.
  7. dreamreal I would have described it as implicit vs explicit, but ekrem used tacit, so I used his word
  8. Para I'm going to describe myself as tired.
  9. dreamreal that's clearly the wrong word, you need to ask an LLM what word to use to describe you :D
  10. Para ~gpt Dreamreal used the word "tacit" instead of explicit and implicit because original source used that. I'm just tired. Which word should apply to me? Also make a rough analog to Java because why not.
  11. javabot The word that should apply to you is "exhausted". In Java, let's use the analogy of a Garbage Collector (GC). When you're coding for hours, your brain creates a lot of temporary "objects" like solutions, code snippets, algorithms, etc. When you're tired ("exhausted"), it's like your brain's GC kicks in to clean up these temporary "objects" to free up mental resources. This happens tacitly, without explicit command.
  12. * dreamreal giggles
  13. Para -> I'm filled garbage thoughts.
  14. Para +with
  15. Para My stack's full as well, can't fit all words there either.
  16. dreamreal We've always thought so, Para :D
  17. Para Would be kinda interesting GC algorithm if it would free memory only opportunistically if there's literally nothing else to do and otherwise just slow down input by artificially slowing thread performance.
  18. sbalmos dreamreal: I will never not read tacit and wonder what part of music I am reading
  19. dreamreal heh
  20. NeXeN Para: hrmm, i like that. what happens when you get pinned? like say input doesn't stop like it normally does (i dunno someone downstream of your api forgets to throttle)? you just finna park your thread a while and wait for the washing machine to quit dancing?
  21. NeXeN kinda like epsilion, which just never frees memory, which is good for testing if your gas can will catch fire next to a cigarette
  22. NeXeN or if your algo is compact and neat
  23. NeXeN devs have a nasty habbit of not debouncing if they don't think they have to