BoingBoomTschak

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   by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

   >AVIF can absolutely do lossless RGB Bad formulation, the bit that followed those words does detail the "not really" part: compression just takes a massive hit compared to YUV; at least when I tried it last time with libaom ( h
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   by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

   To catch conformance issues by comparing two implementations. Perhaps to support obscure platforms only available through gcc.
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   by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

   Cue the Dr. Evil.
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   by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

   Lossless: stronger than both (even though webp was pretty good there), especially AVIF that can't really do lossless RGB (must convert to YUV or incur a really bad compression ratio) yet relatively fast encoding. Lossy: webp (VP8 I-fra
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   by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

   I think that the "manual JIT compilation" that Common Lisp provide is the most practical compromise here. Sure, you don't have the automated switching between bytecode execution and progressively optimized compilation and you
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   by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

   That link wasn't an argument to support my claim, just a related comparison. > So, why do you say that Prolog is a "poor general purpose language"? Big disclaimer: I have almost no Prolog experience beyond a distant univer
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   by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

   A bit too reductive, methinks. Even if you're only speaking in the literature professor sense, the vocabulary and sentence structures are a bit more varied and exercised than in a "very ordinary" style, words I'd reserve
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   by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

   Well, I think the wisdom is too neatly packaged (basically: Vetinari speaks, so listen you pillock) and his simplistic views often hamfisted by shaping the world to make them sound Right^tm to be "highbrow" per se, but still, it&#
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   by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

   Thanks, I was going to make that analogy. Somehow, you can always tell when a compositor (or a band of them) hasn't explored music enough to develop their taste; and no, I don't mean that they should make ridiculous "music&qu
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    Read some mature Discworld content ( Guards! Guards! is the best entry point, I'd say), it's an easy read too. Pratchett's skill with English would make even a tax report smooth and riveting. No need to always flex with some
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    A few other small and fast JITs: https://github.com/zherczeg/sljit (used by libpcre), https://github.com/asmjit/asmjit (RPCS3 and FBGEMM) and https://webkit.org/blog/5852&#x2F
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    How did it manage the feat of being more baroque than CL? Why that #e madness instead of https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_rat... ?
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    Instead of us two milling about: https://minikanren.org/minikanren-and-prolog.html (and this is both informed and pretty impartial from what I can read)
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    And then mini/microKanren put Prolog in its rightful place: that of a useful DSL instead of a poor general purpose language.
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    You can read the words, you know? Together with proper indentation that almost makes it look like Python, there's no way you can get lost in Lisp.
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    But consumers eat up the slop?
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    No album shuffle (like on iPods, like taking random CDs from your shelf; https://github.com/OxygenCobalt/Auxio/issues/221 ) and no way to correct headphone's frequency response (either AutoEQ presets like
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    Or https://github.com/baskerville/fmon for the hackers/suckless.
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    In my experience, you want "emacs-app", which is just upstream emacs compiled with Aqua support ( https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/81b99bcf7c59... ) to avoid going through XQuartz.
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    Vibecoded, from what I see in the git log.
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    You're still being very magnanimous. Feels more like a tech Ankh-Morpork without the humour to me.
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    Is there something wrong with being critical of bands for selling out, though?
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    Well, once MacPorts ( https://ports.macports.org/port/emacs ) has it!
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    Related cool thing: Emacs may be getting a new GC in 32, https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/feature/igc3/READ...
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    And lex talionis as a byproduct.
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    But our Exa news isn’t about one feature or product. It’s about model choice and how people find things online.
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    Do we need a vibecoded "monkey pushes buttons monkey gets banana" web app for every image codec? What kind of luser that can't be bothered to use a simple CLI or at least open GIMP (inb4 grandma, grandma doesn't care abo
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    Thank you, you made be go down the Google hole to see if my MX-5 ND had anything like this... and it doesn't! Since only >= 2018 homologations are required to have an eCall module builtin, the ND only works if you have a smartphone
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    Tax fat people. No, I'm not joking. Especially in countries with some sort of socialist health system.
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    by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago

    Unless laziness is pervasive (I guess, no knowledge about GHC internals), you basically have an FEXPR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fexpr ) which was replaced by macros for good reasons.