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by EGreg 1y ago
HN anathema: crypto and blockchain — can and does trivially solve the issues Patrick writes about. You can easily make sure the account has enough money, without knowing whose account it is. Crypto is “buyer beware”. The traditional fintech
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by EGreg 1y ago
The R can stand for anything It’s just a letter after all But you should be able to retain/release this variable, and it is not on the stack I was considering +G for GPU SIMD vectors, but didnt know if I need to
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by EGreg 1y ago
Here, I will write one by hand right now: d IntegerMath : SomeInterface, SomeOtherInterface someProperty:I someOtherProperty:I-M referenceProperty:IntegerMath+R+N // nullable recursiveProperty:IntegerMath+N &
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by EGreg 1y ago
Yeah, I shouldn't have used ChatGPT to create the example I posted. It still messes up (since it wasn't trained on the language at all, of course). I will fix up the examples, but it should be very obvious and clear, never "w
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by EGreg 1y ago
Would you consider arranging a call to discuss our respective projects? If you're building something along these lines, then I think we might end up joining forces. I've always preferred collaboration and joining forces building o
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by EGreg 1y ago
I'd actually consider your criticism seriously, if it was anything other than the usual HN "saw the word blockchain , did an immediate TDLR with the word grift" regardless of what was done or built. If you had anything subst
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by EGreg 1y ago
I guess that's why patents are annoying. I have been Mr. Open Source and against intellectual property for most of the past 15 years. But with AI companies rampantly taking everyone's work and repurposing it, and with VC companies
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by EGreg 1y ago
Here is some example code // U Demo Program: “Ledger & Fibers” // Showcases every language feature in a cohesive file. /* Notes: - Tabs only for indentation - All statements are expressions -
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Show HN: The U Programming Language(gist.github.com)
1 points by EGreg 1y ago|7 comments
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I made a provisional patent this year, about how exactly I would solve this problem. Imagine hiring a "team of developers" who can learn your library and iterate 24/7, improving things, doing support, even letting the pointy-
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by EGreg 1y ago
Well, either way, you agree with me. Government and corporations work together and distract the individual telling them they can fix the downstream situation in their own, private way.
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Why I'm Confident in my Views (and why it's not a cult)(magarshak.com)
6 points by EGreg 1y ago|1 comments
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by EGreg 1y ago
Agreed, that was phrased wrong. The fruits across the board have been genetically engineered to be extremely sweet (fructose, not the syrup): https://weather.com/news/news/2018-10-03-fruit-so-sweet-zoo-... While t
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by EGreg 1y ago
There are certain things I am sure of even though I derived them on my own. But I constantly battle tested them against other smart people’s views, and just after I ran out of people to bring me new rational objections did I become sure. No
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by EGreg 1y ago
This is next and not Electron-based: https://zed.dev/
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by EGreg 1y ago
Someone’s never used the old MacOS before OS X. Anyone remember Kaleidoscope? Someone’s never used Windows before Vista. Remember how themeable XP was across all apps? We had standard OS controls, that’s why all that worked. The web has… ex
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by EGreg 1y ago
I didn't say it was!
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by EGreg 1y ago
I meant Atom used to be the base, and now it's VSCode
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by EGreg 1y ago
Well CPUs already transparently handle memory paging so why not copying? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_paging
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by EGreg 1y ago
What about Wine? Is that still a thing? Visual Studio Code seems to be their big open source push, besides GitHub. Everyone uses it, and most development environments and UX are based on it. Used to be Atom, I remember.
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by EGreg 1y ago
From my college days, which were quite long ago. And working with Win32 "BitBlt" requests to the OS, etc. And also, it would just make sense. If copying entire blocks or memory pages, such as "BitBlt", is one command, wh
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by EGreg 1y ago
I’ve been using a text file for years. I wanted to make my own todo app. One thing that I would want is to reorder things, group and rank them etc. For example, in my text file I usually put the number of minutes or hours something would ta
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by EGreg 1y ago
Wait, I thought memcpy would have launched some sort of built-in mechanism (parallelized or whatever) to copy in RAM. Just indicate the start and length. Why would the CPU need to keep issuing copy instructions?
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by EGreg 1y ago
I mean, most of what you do in life is a habit. Diogenes of Sinope lived in a barrel. Your ancestors lived without electricity, some without running water. If you want to drastically cut down on wasteful spending today, I remember a great b
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by EGreg 1y ago
As a meat eater I can tell you that for me I just need to feel something substantial and somewhat large I can bite into and that doesnt give way right away. Something seared on a flame. Maybe a nice savory flavor too. So for example biting
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by EGreg 1y ago
That’s so 2024. Get with the program. It’s not prompt engineering — it’s magic!
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by EGreg 1y ago
What’s interesting is many on HN will do a lot to avoid the obvious answer: AI and automation.
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by EGreg 1y ago
I know exactly what you mean ^_^ honestly — and I’m saying this with a certain satisfaction — it’s been difficult to stop smiling :) It’s not slop — it’s inspiration!
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by EGreg 1y ago
“10x? That’s crazy talk. I’m only 5x more productive, let’s be accurate sirs”
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by EGreg 1y ago
Not only that In chaining, methods all have to be part of the same class. In C++ we had this stuff ages ago, it’s called abusing streaming operators LMAO

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