Pxtl

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by Pxtl 8d ago
That's surprising because WVO just updated the readme to actually be a decent pitch for the language (although it's LLM-text heavy) just before it was posted to here.
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by Pxtl 8d ago
Why? It's idiomatic to math. There's a lot to hate about math notation (use more than one letter in your variable names!) but "let" for declaring variables seems harmless. If I'm going to pick a bone about modern
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by Pxtl 8d ago
Yeah, it seems like the sweet-spot for this is real-time and embedded because it should be extremely conservative and consistently fast about memory allocation and de-allocation. Sad that it's got plug-in stuff as a "non-goal&quot
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by Pxtl 8d ago
I'm a big fan of Aardappel, I used to co-run the Cube/Sauerbraten mapping website. I've never played with his language projects since they generally seemed too C-fixated to me... but despite that being the case here, I can a
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by Pxtl 8d ago
I feel this in my bones. I've literally had to fix outages in products where the failure was a "document store" or a "notification system" haphazardly slapped on by a student under direct supervision of a PM with n
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by Pxtl 8d ago
My experience is always "we have a standard SQL server datamart. We just need to put a good reporting tool on that. You're a business analyst and product manager, go analyze some products." "But can't you just mak
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by Pxtl 12d ago
Also it would be nice to have a good standard vector format that isn't the complete kitchen-sink that is SVG, but we don't have that. We needed "jpeg but for vector graphics" and instead we got "html but for vector
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by Pxtl 12d ago
The form of JPEG-XL that can lossless convert to/from traditional JPEG is exciting tech that should be adopted universally. The non-backwards-compatible version of it seems redundant with AVIF.
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by Pxtl 13d ago
"Lisa, get in here... in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
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by Pxtl 13d ago
Why not? It's not like they face any consequences for being party to fraud. Laws are for poor people.
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by Pxtl 13d ago
The ladies at Tran Girlismo called this soon after the blockade started.
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by Pxtl 14d ago
"There's nothing to explain. You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen."
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by Pxtl 23d ago
Could this also be coming from the problem that Qwen3.8-27B's default mode being "extra-high reasoning level"?
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by Pxtl 23d ago
Holy crap really? Yay! I know a couple of trans folks that will be ecstatic.
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by Pxtl 23d ago
Aside: I'm honestly bewildered that Google doesn't have the ability to handle that in gmail accounts. If somebody gets married or otherwise needs to change their name, their answer is "just make a new google account" wh
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by Pxtl 23d ago
I'm working on same for my family since I want to properly degoogle a bit. One thing I think long term - if I give my kids first-name @ last name , that means that I forever hold power over their email. Which isn't great. But w
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by Pxtl 23d ago
Agree that the .name 3rd level domains are silly, disagree on .co.uk being a problem. If .gov and .mil and .com make sense, then .gov.cc and .mil.cc and .com.cc make sense. Of course, I think having more than one non-cc TLD was a mistake, b
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by Pxtl 23d ago
The prose equivalent of Artgerm (a comic cover artist whose style looks to have heavily inspired a lot of AI art).
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by Pxtl 24d ago
That's literally the meaning of the statement "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent". Irrational means stupid. Stupid can win for a very long time, and in the end the "loss" is born mostly
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by Pxtl 24d ago
I don't think of Zitron as a journalist, I think of him as an entertainer, no different from all the columnists paid to tell people that what they already think is right. The fact that you're holding him to a higher standard than
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by Pxtl 25d ago
Bitcoin changed everything. It used to be if you hacked somebody's PC you got.... a hacked PC. Big whoop. Bitcoin provided both a financial use for stolen compute and a bankless online international payment system for ransoms. That
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by Pxtl 25d ago
Newspapers and magazines didn't sell ad space to obvious crooks back in the day. Scammers didn't have tv ads. Obviously there was somebody watching them. The trashy scams were reserved for the real scummy publishers: comic bo
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by Pxtl 26d ago
I mean is it the API or is it the website provider's metadata? I don't know anything about the gmaps API. I would assume the default locale would be that of the requester, not US (but then I know MS has the "Invariant local
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by Pxtl 26d ago
I'm wondering, I haven't used the gmaps API. Is this because they're proxying maps requests through the US, or is there a specific header request to request the US version of the map, or is it just that they've a US-bas
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by Pxtl 26d ago
One kicker is how many sites leveraging Google Maps API in Canada are showing "Lake of America". I'm not sure if that's because they're proxying the Google Maps requests through a US server, or they're using a
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by Pxtl 1mo ago
IANAA and IANAL, but AFAIK the procedural vote requirement for 25the amendment isn't any lower than it is for impeachment.
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by Pxtl 1mo ago
A little under half of American voters picked him three times... a huge chunk of those ultimately regretted it after the Iran war created inflation (not about the dead Iranians though). Many of the same people also voted for GWBush twice an
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by Pxtl 1mo ago
Laws are for poor people
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by Pxtl 1mo ago
Apparently according to downthread that's a "Reddit opinion" to notice what their re-elected political leaders and all their pundits keep saying.
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by Pxtl 1mo ago
The trick is that the stuff about steel and car parts is in Ontario, which is a province that does not kick up a fuss and pressure the federal government to protect its industries.

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