Shish2k

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by Shish2k 4y ago
My code got faster, and removed memory safety issues, but I got no upvotes :P
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> You can't get that emotional attachment form generated voices. Vocaloid managed to turn people’s emotional attachment to generated voices into a billion-dollar industry (I’m actually crying right now, just remembering the emotiona
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> If you were a good IC, you got made a manager I’ve been here for 8 years, and never known that to be true. At most, higher IC levels are expected to do more “direction setting” work (ie, writing a technical design doc for your team to
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Hacker News is a super-text-heavy site, but even with this extreme example, the favicon alone means that 20% of the page weight is binary data. For any normal site, binary data outweighs ASCII by several orders of magnitude. In either case
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by Shish2k 4y ago
How many "big piles of mostly-ascii data" are there though? (Does anyone want to write a script which searches /dev/mem and categorises pages of RAM into ascii-or-not-ascii so we can get some meaningful numbers? :P ) (
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by Shish2k 4y ago
“SQLite is a successful open source project thanks to the fact that a significant chunk of development infrastructure isn’t open source” isn’t a great argument regarding the sustainability of open source… If Richard gets hit by a bus, and t
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Yes, the GPL and the AGPL are two different licenses, that’s… the point. “The AGPL includes additional [requirements for businesses / freedoms for end-users] which are not included in the GPL” is a feature, not a bug. If as a software
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> This post seems to support my hypothesis about TDD: it is for the poor programmers If there’s one thing I’ve learned after decades in the industry, it’s that we are all poor programmers. Our squishy wet human brains are simply not a
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by Shish2k 4y ago
“Women can’t face widespread harassment which pushes them away from tech conferences, because gender is a social construct, and thus there is no such thing as ‘women’, and thus we don’t have a problem so stop complaining about it”
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> If women, or gays, or trans, or people with disabilities, don't submit talks, then they will not get talks accepted. If you went along and had a terrible experience as a guest (for example being the only woman in a room with a hun
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Just because something is legal doesn’t mean Nintendo won’t sue you for it
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For a random subset of users, when they view one image, the app downloads two images (eg webp and jpeg) and makes a note of which one decodes fastest; the goal being that in the future they can just download the fastest-decoding one, saving
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by Shish2k 4y ago
To speak entirely subjectively, nearly all of the languages felt like I was writing approximately the same amount of code - the only exceptions being C++ (where I needed to keep switching between .cpp and .h files and manually keeping the
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by Shish2k 4y ago
I love this, I think I might leave it running while I fall asleep, instead of my normal audiobook-or-podcast :)
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Initially I was using a fairly-well-known PDF which explained the gameboy hardware with 90% accuracy, and focussed on just getting the CPU working to a point where it could print “hello world” to the link cable port. After that, I discove
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by Shish2k 4y ago
For a few of the languages I’ve added a “thoughts on this language” section in the language folder’s README, but I only started doing that after a few implementations were already finished, so it’s a bit inconsistent - maybe it’d be worth m
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Yeah, I haven’t dug into what’s happening there - with the previous version of the compiler debug perf seemed to be nearly as fast as release perf :S
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More languages would totally be welcome, so long as they’re following the same general source code layout so that it’s easy to see how different parts map to each other :)
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by Shish2k 4y ago
C++ and Rust contain (incomplete attempts at) emulating the sound chip - the other languages just have an empty stub (I want to get at least one implementation working properly before using it as a reference to write the others - interestin
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by Shish2k 4y ago
You should put an example badge on the page :) (I first looked around the page, then around the main github repo looking for an example, before eventually reading the rest of your comment and seeing one there :P)
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by Shish2k 4y ago
https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy The same gameboy emulator rewritten in C++, Go, Nim, PHP, Cython, Python, Rust, and Zig (and WIP typescript); mostly to teach myself the languages and to compare and contrast their i
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I have a feeling the current actions are economically optimal, and so, they’ll keep happening - if they optimisitcally hire a ton of people, then fire most of them, that’s expensive in the bad years - if they only hire as many people as t
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Because it seems like a majority of engineers believe themseles to be above-average, and believe that any kind of collective action would reduce all engineering pay to the lowest common denominator. Additionally in the USA there seems to be
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I agree we should be evaluating “this candidate is a good engineer” and ignoring “this candidate has various attributes which often correlate with being a good engineer” - but how do you propose measuring the former? Bear in mind that eve
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> you just don't stand near cliffs Actually we don’t _just_ do that - we also put up fences, we reinforce parts of cliffs that need to stay up, we supply safety equipment to people who need to be there for some reason Similarly with
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It’s basically as complicated as “If a subclass and a parent class both define a `bar()` method, and you have an instance of the subclass named `foo`, calling `foo.bar()` will call the subclass version” I actually find that simpler than som
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by Shish2k 4y ago
I agree with all of those points, except that it does have one thing going for it - it is easy for end-users to deploy PHP apps: FTP your files onto any random cheapo shared web-host, done. I’m amazed that it’s been so long and no other lan
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> The type definitions exported by these libraries can be large and complex, and the error messages emitted by TypeScript are so long and cryptic What’s the alternative? If you make a type error in TS you get a cryptic error[0], but if y
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by Shish2k 4y ago
IIRC originally neither mercurial nor git would scale enough, but mercurial was much more willing to accept scalability-related patches, so long as they didn’t harm the more common small-scale use-cases. After a couple of years of submittin
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> sometime their developer experience is inferior to what you get with off-the-shelf OSS Working at Meta, being able to use Sapling (our Mercurial fork) is actually one of the highlights and I was pretty miserable every time I needed to

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