IshKebab

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by IshKebab 5mo ago
> ::tcl::unsupported is a namespace that contains bits and pieces of Tcl that are experimental, not intended for production code, perhaps useful for debugging and introspecting Tcl, and liable to change or removal without warning.
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
No. Tcl is all strings from a language point of view. To your Tcl code, everything is a string. Internally in the main Tcl implementation, it isn't just strings. It's a bit cleverer so it can be faster. But that is completely in
723.
by IshKebab 5mo ago
That's just a performance optimisation. It doesn't change the semantics at all. From the changelog: > Tcl automatically manages these values so their type is transparent to the Tcl script writer. https://www.tcl-lang
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
Why? It's much better if people's salaries are predictable and not dependent on random guilt-induced tips.
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
One way is that selective killing is more useful and therefore desirable. For example consider the classic slaughterbot video. It's plausible that someone capable might want to kill all democratic senators. It's much less likely t
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
Because the targeting in that case was done by a human.
727.
by IshKebab 5mo ago
Tcl is still entirely stringly typed. That's never changed. There are under-the-hood optimisations to make it less insanely slow but that only affects performance. Tcl is a cool hack (the interpret is simple to write) but it's ins
728.
by IshKebab 5mo ago
The second piece of advice there is still wrong though. They still want all icons or no icons for visual consistency, just on a smaller scale. Visual consistency like this is bad because it removes distinct features (like the presence or la
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
Wishful thinking. Code has always been a bottleneck. It never took zero time. Also declaring that it "won't" is an assertion that AI will stop improving, which is absurd. A graph showing different numbers of "software
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
I don't have any data either but I agree with him, based on my experience working for lots of different companies and seeing their attitude to IP, with varying levels of paranoia. Companies can be really paranoid about IP theft. The
731.
by IshKebab 5mo ago
They're relatively common in industrial applications now because they have really good software support and great long-term availability.
732.
by IshKebab 5mo ago
Damn I think I have one in a drawer.
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
jQuery and graceful degradation are different things. The vast majority of sites in the jQuery era that used jQuery did not gracefully degrade.
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
> If a LLM can transcode correctly, then it should also output 100% correct C code. Well LLM's cannot transcode perfectly correctly, so the fact that Rust has lots of static checking is really important. Not just for memory safety -
735.
by IshKebab 5mo ago
I'd love to see Asciidoctor vibe-ported to Rust! Have either of these people detailed their methodology & costs?
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
He says, typing on one of the most hideously complicated things humanity has created.
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
> In what scenario would you ever make the names dumb and forgettable Clearly you've never bought a TV or headphones!
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
The frontend was Ruby?? Are you sure?
739.
by IshKebab 5mo ago
He's serious. American programming salaries are an extreme outlier. You guys are in for a massive shock if they ever normalise.
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
Yeah but the idea is that you can have a generalist robot that can do many different assembly line tasks. There are plenty of manufacturing tasks that are still done by humans because it's too much hassle to make a dedicated robot to
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
Then they can't bring anything up or down the stairs. Still, I expect it won't matter - by the time we have reasonably priced robots that can reliably do all housework, that's like 90% of jobs eliminated from society and prob
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
Yes. If you have a choice. For people who don't have a choice, type checked Python is better than nothing.
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
Facebook definitely was social before about 2010. Especially if you were at uni in the golden era before they left everyone in. You pretty much only had people you actually knew as friends. People posted photos and messages about real life.
744.
by IshKebab 5mo ago
Now? It's been like that for a decade.
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
> Put simply, a user on a 99% reliable smartphone cannot tell the difference between 99.99% and 99.999% service reliability! Sure they can. If Google loads and Github doesn't, then it's clearly Github being down, not the mobile
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
Yes, but they also hiring is so random already they don't care about it being like 3% better or whatever.
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
Plus addressing doesn't work well unfortunately - lots of poorly written websites will reject it.
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
This appears to be philosophical pseudo-nonsense. Not worth reading, sorry.
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
Yeah you can easily get this speed down to like 100ms which is near enough to instant to not matter. You definitely don't need to go to client side rendering for most things to feel fast. Also I couldn't see any explanation of wha
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by IshKebab 5mo ago
Something that works but is a surprising and suboptimal way to do things. I dunno, that's the best I can do for now. Maybe you can do better?

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