James_K

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by James_K 2y ago
> Compare your ideas against history’s greatest thinkers What made these people great thinkers is their minds rather than their writing styles. I'm not sure that chatbots get smarter when you tell them to impersonate someone smart,
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by James_K 2y ago
There is no need to have a digraph surrounding every element of data. Beyond being ugly, the digraphs make the file almost impossible to edit for anyone not already familiar with them. They require a large number of random symbols to be mem
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by James_K 2y ago
It also excludes tests, which is how they reach such a low number. It seems they are trying to count the number of lines actually used in the executable. I can't see the value in this metric. If they want to talk about executable size,
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by James_K 2y ago
/tmp/kibi % cloc . 98 text files. 89 unique files. 11 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.96 T=0.05 s (1936.6 files/s, 82405.1 lines/s) -------------------------------
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by James_K 2y ago
Shocking that they stopped at five.
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by James_K 2y ago
I suppose it could be an accident that the headline has the connotation, but I tend to think it unwise to give people the benefit of the doubt if the "accident" in question is also beneficial to them.
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by James_K 2y ago
Counterpoint: the article is aimed at people who know nothing about the topic, the first image in the article (the one you'll see if you post a link to it) is of Mount St. Helens erupting, and it drives engagement. I was definitely muc
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by James_K 2y ago
Is it just me or is this title designed to make you think gophers somehow caused a volcano to erupt?
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by James_K 2y ago
It would be nice if these hobs had both temperature and intensity settings. That way it would turn up automatically in the situation you describe.
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by James_K 2y ago
They just use the implementation from the last version of the compiler, which you can follow back in a long chain to the first implementation. As for the implementation of the garbage collector, it probably just doesn't allocate anythi
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by James_K 2y ago
Mentioning macros as a reason to love Rust goes against my experience with them.
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by James_K 2y ago
I'm really annoyed when lisp languages use infix operators. Is it really so hard to write (= (f a) b) over (f a = b)? In fact, can you even call it lisp if the first element of the list isn't the operation of that list? Perhaps if
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by James_K 2y ago
I think Americans should evaluate their personal responsibly for this shameful event. You had eight years to do something about this man.
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by James_K 2y ago
Maybe I'm a bit weird, but I would never commit to using something if the person making it wasn't providing a consistent interface. It could well be different in your case, but as a general rule, a sub 1.0 version is software that
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by James_K 2y ago
> This crate is in development, and breaking changes may be made up until a 1.0 release. When will this happen? I imagine a lot of people who want use it might just forget about it if you say "do not use this until some unspecified
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by James_K 2y ago
Code optimised for an interpreter is often also optimised for the programmer, whose primary job is interpreting code. What makes natural language intuitive is that it doesn't have to be precise. You can assume language does what it is
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by James_K 2y ago
If Perl blows your mind, Perl6/Raku would send it to space.
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by James_K 2y ago
I would say safety is a big one. It's a lot easier for users to justify fiddling with a touch screen interface when it's a part of the car vs on their phone screen. Sometimes you want to make unsafe things harder to do.
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by James_K 2y ago
The issue such things face is that they are very difficult to justify. If you say "I am going to improve the efficiency of the rendering process by 30%", no one will question what you're doing. The numbers are better than bef
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by James_K 2y ago
Yes they totally could. I auto-format all my code and it works mostly without issue even in relatively complicated languages. Why would you turn of images in the source? A comment with a diagram would be useful. Rewriting class variables is
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by James_K 2y ago
I've been using Emacs for ages. The performance is probably somewhat below average, but I just learned to ignore it. Having better editing features is worth more to me than responsive keyboard input. It would be nice to have both of co
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by James_K 2y ago
I've not seen many IDEs with the functionality I just listed. Most of the time it's just debugging support and code completion. The idea that most programmers have edited code in the way I just described for decades is patently ab
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by James_K 2y ago
> long after the company stops distributing their app There is a cool idea called open source, but I suppose something as radical as giving users ownership of software for their car isn't something companies would be willing to cons
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by James_K 2y ago
I've seen a million and one text editors, and almost all of them offer the feature of being "fast <rocket emoji>" or "gpu driven" or "cleanly implemented" (now "AI integrated"; LOL). Never
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by James_K 2y ago
A lot of people don't realise that you can push both the up and down button at the same time to set a hob ring to zero intensity. So level 9 to level 2 is actually just three presses.
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by James_K 2y ago
These stupid touchscreen controls are one of the main things that convinced me modern designers simply don't both testing and using the products they produce. If you take a touchscreen stove top and use it for more than about 5 minutes
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by James_K 2y ago
I think the added complexity is in areas where it doesn't really matter. The stuff the driver actually cares about is still the same as it was then. You can just put the rest in a bluetooth phone app. If it is more complicated than a b
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by James_K 2y ago
I've always thought these complaints are really just a reflection of how stuck we are in the C paradigm. The idea that you have to edit programs as text is outdated IMO. It should be that your editor operates on the syntax tree of the
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by James_K 2y ago
Easiest way to get downvotes is to ask people not to give them. You just gotta ignore the haters.
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by James_K 2y ago
Sadly, I do not. You can emulate it pretty well with just putting numbers on the end of function names though. I'm always a little shocked at how the people who make programming languages seem to consistently ignore some of the most ob

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