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by PeCaN 9y ago
All 6 of us. :( Really though, I spend the time reading the readme thinking “This looks very cool, shame it doesn't have a nice language to go with it…”
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I used https://github.com/jkuhlmann/gainput for input. I never did get around to handling audio. For the UI I used imgui. Skia actually comes with an imgui backend (it's used for the Viewer tool) that is easy enou
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Skia is probably the most popular 2D graphics library at the moment. I don't really know why this got on HN now. It's already extremely popular. I use it in a little WIP game engine. It's very pleasant, excellent little lib
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You have to sign an NDA just to get the roadmap ‽ Is it that volatile that they don't want to go public with their intentions? That's not really a good sign, IMO.
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Yes. AS/400's architecture is superficially very similar to this. All AS/400 resources are objects with a unique 128-bit ID that can be used directly as a pointer, for example. Actually, it goes even further back to the Syste
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Reminds me a lot of LiquidHaskell, you should take a look at what they've done if you haven't seen it yet. It's a very good idea IMO. https://ucsd-progsys.github.io/liquidhaskell-blog/
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To be fair, there is still TPC, so you can get some idea from that. Given that MS typically does very well on TPC I kinda wonder why they forbid publishing benchmarks. Anecdotally it's very fast as well. Disclosure: I work for a compan
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Instruction set makes much less of a difference than the actual microarchitecture. For an extreme example, see Pentium 4 vs Core. Something that runs fast on one could be dramatically different on the other. The only time ISA really influ
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I'm always amazed when I see things like Red, with a 1MB executable with an interpreter, compiler, GUI, networking libraries, parsing libraries, and more all built in. Or the QNX demo disk back in the day. OS, GUI, web browser (with ja
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It wouldn't change at all. Interpretations of quantum mechanics are just that, interpretations . They don't change the results.
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Since it now uses DirectWrite, it should support Arabic well, at least on Windows. DirectWrite handles shaping for a bunch of scripts.
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Have 27,569 examples: https://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
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It's $4000 for the desktop system and $4700 for the workstation. I'm not really sure where you got the $6500 figure.
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Also, nobody wants to be the guy who opposed the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act”.
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Don't load the shotguns, turn off the safety, point it at their foot and tell them “please be careful”.
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Actually it's English, where octopi is a perfectly acceptable and widely-understood plural.
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Don't forget something even as simple as syntax. OCaml syntax (and, IMO, any ML-like) is far better than C-like syntax, IMO.
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Hey, thanks for open sourcing TreeSheets. I forked it[1] some time ago to add localization support (though I also reorganized the code a fair bit in preparation for some other changes I was planning). It's a very cool project, pretty e
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Ah yes, now to update a few million lines of code. Be right back.
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That's par for the course for a workstation. Actually on the affordable end, which is surprising given that it's using POWER9 which I figured would be expensive (by virtue of not being x86).
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Got a source for the "suffering"? also, iirc the patients that need that drug are literally low triple digits if not lower. making sure they all get it one way or another is not exactly a challenging logistics problem. imo it&#x27
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I have a hard time psychopaths are quite as… blunt, frankly. He pumps a lot of money into medicine research. He gave away drugs for free to people who couldn't afford it. Neither seem particularly likely for a psychopath, and even if t
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> I bet Fukushima was pretty damn safe, maybe one of the best nuclear power plants designed. While it was an okay plant, they'd actually been warned about the emergency cooling system as early as 1967. Also, they ignored a 2008 stud
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There is also, IIRC (though it's been a few years since I was last researching this) for many people a limit on the tolerance one builds up (though it certainly gets very high). I recall something about addicts in the Netherlands—which
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by PeCaN 9y ago
Woah. That is seriously cool, that we can do that. Congratulations on your recovery, and thanks for going through that for science. Can you maybe elaborate a little on how they selected the cells to lab-grow? Step 2 and 3, in particular. By
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A few companies like IKEA and Indian Railways, as well as a bunch of healthcare companies. As for why, because it works really well. It's not new and shiny but it doesn't break, it's fast, and it has a lot of nice features th
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Compiler problems are not the sole reason Itanium failed, perhaps not even the primary one. They were not good initially, that's true. But Itanium was more killed by a combination of factors, and especially by AMD64 existing. The first
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Makes it great for building Snapchat clones though!
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To be fair, it does have Rust (but no Cargo port yet). And Go, if that counts as a “modern” language.
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> You can browse the web, what else? There's a decent office suite, Vim, IRC client, etc > What other languages are supported, is there Haiku Ruby? The usual complement of scripting languages (Ruby, Python, Perl, Lua), any JVM la

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