RodgerTheGreat

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by RodgerTheGreat 9mo ago
There's still an obnoxious slop image front-and-center, full of nonsense typos. Not a good look for any educational resource.
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by RodgerTheGreat 10mo ago
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by RodgerTheGreat 10mo ago
It's definitely far easier to emit a controlled, useful subset of PDF than it is to parse PDF documents. I wrote a small PDF library for the Decker ecosystem that just focuses on bitmaps and page layout; roughly 4kb and 135 LoC. docs
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by RodgerTheGreat 10mo ago
Glad to see you're aware of Decker. It addresses a number of the shortcomings of HyperCard that you specifically call out: basic sound editing and recording are built in and can be wired up without custom scripting, "Decks" a
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by RodgerTheGreat 10mo ago
If anything, Python programmers should be mortified that PSF leadership includes someone who seemingly spends all his free time and social capital trying to normalize slop and downplay the negative externalities of a bunch of companies th
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by RodgerTheGreat 10mo ago
He's a salesman pushing an entire industry who regularly receives special treatment and access from LLM vendors. The fact that he's open about getting these favors and subtle enough to sprinkle his salesmanship with a thin venee
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by RodgerTheGreat 10mo ago
It's rather disheartening to see new chip8-related projects which reference Octo, modern test ROMs written with Octo, and still see a citation for cowgod's egregiously incomplete and misleading documentation.
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by RodgerTheGreat 10mo ago
Yes. I consider Octo feature-complete, but I still address bug reports.
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by RodgerTheGreat 10mo ago
The New Yorker's primary editorial thrust has always been that the author is more important than the subject, and the journey is more important than having a thesis at all.
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by RodgerTheGreat 10mo ago
A sadly typical flavor of essay: a lisp enthusiast who believes that learning lisp has made them into a uniquely Very Smart Boy who can think thoughts denied from programmers who use other languages. The "blub" paper asserts that
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by RodgerTheGreat 10mo ago
The turtle/tortoise note is correct for UK English, but in the US (where Id software was headquartered during the development of Quake), tortoises are considered a subset of "turtles". Per Webster: > Turtle (noun): any of
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by RodgerTheGreat 11mo ago
There are a number of dynamic languages to choose from where tables/dataframes are truly first-class datatypes: perhaps most notably Q[0]. There are also emerging languages like Rye[1] or my own Lil[2]. I suspect that in the fullness o
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by RodgerTheGreat 11mo ago
The value proposition for AWK is very different from Perl. AWK is a tiny language that can be learned quickly, and it's ubiquitous: a hard requirement for even the most bare-bones POSIX environment. AWK is on your machine already; Pe
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by RodgerTheGreat 11mo ago
ngn/k is a performant FOSS implementation of k6, but it has many constraints and limitations that may make composing large programs difficult. It may be the best dialect for tinkering and learning the language. https://codeb
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by RodgerTheGreat 11mo ago
I have experience working with large codebases in K. In practice, most of those codebases don't look dramatically different from any other garden-variety dynamic language. The high-level architectures are similar, and intrinsically-ser
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by RodgerTheGreat 1y ago
For the sake of the patients, I hope there's a better long-term service plan than Second Sight Medical Products had: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus_retinal_prosthesis
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Yet another year with Decker(beyondloom.com)
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by RodgerTheGreat 1y ago
very important things should have short names. locals you're immediately operating upon should have short names. short names should be used in a consistent way. less important things can have longer names. variables in a broader scope
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by RodgerTheGreat 1y ago
i'm a fan of t=\:t:!x
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by RodgerTheGreat 1y ago
MATLAB doesn't have a FOSS implementation that runs in a browser.
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by RodgerTheGreat 1y ago
A few more examples in K and Lil where pervasive implicit iteration is useful, and why their conforming behavior is not equivalent to a simple .map() or a flat comprehension: http://beyondloom.com/blog/conforming.html
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by RodgerTheGreat 1y ago
Use your imagination a little; I'm sure you can come up with several variants that are an even viler and more exploitative/manipulative idea than the product as it stands. Let your kid call a crude simulacrum of dead relatives, le
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by RodgerTheGreat 1y ago
The Birth & Death of JavaScript wasn't talking about WASM, it was talking about Asm.js, which crucially differs from WASM by being a backwards-compatible subset of JavaScript amenable to JIT compilation. The goals of these standa
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by RodgerTheGreat 1y ago
For contrast, here's how I'd handle the example given on the front page in Lil[0]: i:"%j" parse shell["curl -s https://api.weather.gov/gridpoints/BOU/63,62/forecast"].out
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by RodgerTheGreat 1y ago
In contrast, Magnasanti : https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-totalitarian-buddhist-wh...
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by RodgerTheGreat 1y ago
That's much longer than a quarterly earnings report away, which makes it "somebody else's problem" for the executives pushing these policies. There's no reason to expect these people to have a long-term strategy in
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by RodgerTheGreat 1y ago
UV maps, especially for low-poly models, do not generally have a 1:1 geometric relationship with polygons in the original model. Areas with more significant detail will get more space on the UV map, mirrored or repeating areas will be overl
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by RodgerTheGreat 1y ago
It's a version of the library of babel filtered only to the books which plausibly consist of prose. The set is still incomprehensibly vast, and all the more treacherous for generally being "readable".
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by RodgerTheGreat 1y ago
Depending on how elaborate your GUI needs are, CardStock might be suitable: https://cardstock.run
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by RodgerTheGreat 1y ago
I wrote a blog post some time ago which contrasts the "Schwartzian transform" with the slightly clearer alternative used by most APL-family languages and (in my opinion) an even cleaner approach which is possible in languages wi

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