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by Decabytes 4mo ago
> Why have operators at all? I mean as an avid Lisp fan, I feel like Lisp basically answers the question of how much syntax you need in a langauge. I must admit though, not having to deal with operators precedence is really nice (mod
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by Decabytes 4mo ago
Here is where I think Zig shines. When you are a high level programmer that needs to drop down to a low level programming language for performance reasons. The issue with doing that as a high level programmer is that you don't do a lot
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by Decabytes 4mo ago
I am not 100% opposed to AI and I spent multi hundreds of dollars across the major players right now, but I'll see what I can add. > At some point, execution speed starts to matter more than the elegance of the code. This sentiment
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by Decabytes 4mo ago
In Grad school I remember learning Python 2, and there was one particular night where an assignment of mine just wasn’t working and no searches were helping me. I was frustrated to the point of tears, and when I solved it, it wasn’t with so
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by Decabytes 4mo ago
Blizzard's Real ID system would fix all of this. It was ahead of it's time /s
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by Decabytes 4mo ago
Very cool use of Elixir! I have been considering the Fig Stack (F# + Zig) myself, so I'm excited to see Zig being paired with a Functional Language
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by Decabytes 4mo ago
There is an idea I've been kicking around for a long time, which I'll just call dual programming. The idea is to develop a stack that consists of just two programming languages, 1 higher level language, and one lower level languag
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by Decabytes 4mo ago
I really appreciate Casey for making this video. The two quotes that stand out to me are > This is a case where someone who had direct decision-making authority during the time period when the very worst most dystopian parts of the techn
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by Decabytes 4mo ago
> What does it bring to the table that isn't achievable with Cargo? Speaking purely about the cli dart devtool (flutter and debugging) dart compile (More options but the big one is JavaScript transpilation) dart info (outputs diagno
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by Decabytes 4mo ago
Just want to throw the other Google language into the ring. While I would say Dart has a few more fancy language features than Go, it has an extremely strong and modern cli tool, which is a one stop shop for all your formatting, linking, an
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by Decabytes 5mo ago
How do the various BSDs run on framework laptops?
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by Decabytes 5mo ago
When I was in grad school, my mentor once said, that he didn’t actually see programming as anything more than a tool to solve the problems he needed to solve. As someone who was excited about learning to program, I couldn’t understand it. A
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by Decabytes 5mo ago
I know that many garbage collected languages have ways of reducing gc pressure by minimizing classes, and pushing more things on the stack. I’ve even heard how languages like Java will allocate a massive amount of memory in the beginning, a
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by Decabytes 5mo ago
I legit have had this same thought. If we are going to be writing programs with AI, We should be programming in a more performant and explicit way, with statically typed programming languages that are able to encode the invariants in the pr
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by Decabytes 5mo ago
We should go back to designing UML diagrams for programs before we write them /s
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by Decabytes 5mo ago
Like most things in programming, handling the easy stuff is easy, but it’s all the edge cases that kill you. I’m writing an IDE in flutter right now, and all of the defensive programming I have to do to handle the unhappy path, is where 50%
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by Decabytes 5mo ago
Come to the Gnu Savannah (jk) strange to see so many projects moving off GitHub. I always used gitlab, and only grudgingly had a GitHub, because that is where every project was. So while seeing people move off GitHub validates my choice to
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by Decabytes 5mo ago
Flutter has brought the joy of desktop gui programming back for me. Especially in this vibe coding era, building all those apps that only really have value to me has never been easier. And seeing the support for Flutter from Canonical has b
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by Decabytes 6mo ago
I like this visualization, but I think there is a harder to quantify layer under this. While someone making 50k a year in 2000, would need to make 100k in 2026 for the same economic power, it is actually much worse. In the year 2000, there
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by Decabytes 7mo ago
S-expressions are a cheap dsl too. I use it in my desktop browser runtime that is powered by wasm that I’m developing As the “HTML”^1 and CSS^2 in fact it works so well I use it also reused it to do the styling for html exports in my markup
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by Decabytes 7mo ago
Does anyone use the super tiny models for anything ? Like in the 2billion or lower parameter level?
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by Decabytes 7mo ago
I’m working on an R7R7-small scheme called Sable. The focus is on having good Windows support, vscode support, Lsp and Debug adapter protocol support. It is closer to SBCL and is image based, and builds with just the platforms native c comp
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by Decabytes 7mo ago
Yes wasm is basically a rust thing at this point unfortunately. And if you want to write a wasi preview 0.2 component, you need a bunch of rust tooling to do it properly
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Markiplier discovering the value of On Premise Servers [video](youtube.com)
1 points by Decabytes 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Decabytes 7mo ago
The existence of permissive licenses like BSD or MIT does not show that copyleft was unimportant.Those licenses allowed code to remain open, but they also allowed it to be absorbed into proprietary products. The GPL’s significance was that
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by Decabytes 7mo ago
This would be a great Asahi Linux target, but I know that group has a lot on their plate with the MacBooks pros already
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by Decabytes 8mo ago
Any tips for working with Gemini through its chat interface? I’ve worked with ChatGPT and Claude and I’ve generally found them pleasant to work with, but everytime I use Gemini the output is straight dookie
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by Decabytes 8mo ago
Gemini has always felt like someone who was book smart to me. It knows a lot of things. But if you ask it do anything that is offscript it completely falls apart
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by Decabytes 8mo ago
I too have felt these feelings (though I'm much younger than the author). I think as I've grown older I have to remind myself 1. I shouldn't be so tied to what other people think of me (craftsman, programmer, low level develo
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by Decabytes 8mo ago
I’m always amazed and slightly envious of what programming languages with large developer bases can do. I mean if a language is Turing complete it can do anything, but JavaScript takes this to the extreme. Mind you I never said anything abo

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