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by Ygg2 2y ago
> Good for you. > https://quick-lint-js.com/blog/cpp-vs-rust-build-times/ Look you're picking a memory unsafe language versus a safe one. Whatever meager gains you save on compilation times (and the li
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by Ygg2 2y ago
> Rust is a much more complex language than C Feature wise, yes. C forces you to keep a lot of irreducible complexity in your head. > Rust has a much, much slower compiler than pretty much any language out there True. But it doesn&#x2
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by Ygg2 2y ago
> The more seriously you take Discworld, the smarter you get about Roundworld.” Depends where. Getting serious about Discworld would make you think thinking something makes it real. Which is a different set of crazy.
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by Ygg2 2y ago
Also Chromium based.
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by Ygg2 2y ago
> Anchors are just pointers. > That's why it has complex keys. Yes. And it leads to exploits or errors. The dumber the serialization format, the better. JSON has thrived without these mis-features. And most stuff I've seen
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by Ygg2 2y ago
> YAML 1.2 is quite nice, and I wish we could fix libyaml instead of everyone and their dog inventing their own half-baked language to scratch an itch. YAML 1.2 is categorically better than YAML 1.1. That said: It still suffers from man
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by Ygg2 2y ago
Seeing how YAML allows for keys to be objects (and often mutable at that), I can't agree with that sentiment that YAML is good at expressing maps.
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by Ygg2 2y ago
A VPN could work iff they made it actually usable. To this day I can't pay because VPN is partially rolled out.
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by Ygg2 2y ago
I'm explaining how we got here, not justifying it. > We managed to write cross platform games and applications across 8 and 16 bit home computers, but apparently that is too complicated to architect for Chrome as App adopters. I&#x2
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by Ygg2 2y ago
> They wanted to estimate the risk of accidental detonation of a nuclear weapon, and concluded that the risk is zero because it never happened so far. Given it didn't happen so far, I'd say they were right on the money. While m
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by Ygg2 2y ago
Well it's more of there is one cross platform GUI, plenty developers know it, and it isn't hobbled by performance issues or hard to develop for.
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by Ygg2 2y ago
> you really wanna weigh your odds of nuclear devastation on a guess? No. But my point is you are oversimplifying it. Article 5 isn't a go to war button. If Poland was to consider it an attack, that's not important. The questio
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by Ygg2 2y ago
Sure, we don't know but we can guess. While Poland can trigger Article 5, and current US admin will most likely tell them to shove it, maybe deploy some forces there. US weakening ties with EU is going to make nuclear war less likely.
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by Ygg2 2y ago
Keep in mind article 5 says "react as it deems necessary". > will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary https:/&
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by Ygg2 2y ago
> I never understood the argument. In nutshell: https://xkcd.com/605/ Grug version: Man sees exponential curve. Man assumes it continues forever. Man says "we went from not flying to flying in few days, in few
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by Ygg2 2y ago
It's not too late for "Rewrite it in Zig" or "Rewrite it in Ada".
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by Ygg2 2y ago
Whenever I see a quaternion post, I wonder why the rotors aren't the default[1]. They are mathematically equivalent, easier to explain, can generalize to higher dimensions, and aren't mocked in the Alice in the Wonderland[2] (famo
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by Ygg2 2y ago
TigerBeetle is impressive, but correct me if I'm wrong the schema can't be changed. To me, that that's like a single use DB, when often people don't know what they need.
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by Ygg2 2y ago
> I agree that "vestibular" refers to a more particular concept. Not just that. A more surprising (i.e. less likely) result carries more information. In the informational theory sense. A word with broad scope will be more used,
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by Ygg2 2y ago
> So, she is basically saying that theoretical physics experiments aren’t going to live up to the hype of fundamentally understanding the universe immediately… No, she said, that: A) It's not going to solve the issue that it's
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by Ygg2 2y ago
> I don't see inherent advantage to a term being narrow, nor to being broad. A narrow definition will appear less frequently and thus probably have higher informational content. It's why a word "a" has little informat
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by Ygg2 2y ago
> I’m not saying every C compiler is always perfectly predictable No C compiler is predictable. First, there is the compiler magic of optimization. Then you have Undefined Behavior, which in C, that's almost a guarantee, you'll
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by Ygg2 2y ago
> but strict as in rigid and inflexible - seemingly needing to separate everything with a sharp objective binary line rather than being able to consider the context (something that is "big" in one context may not be in another
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by Ygg2 2y ago
> You're being too strict with language and definitions. Yeah, because the stricter the definition, the more useful it is. A "thing" has less informational value than a "yellow jacket" and that has less informati
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by Ygg2 2y ago
> The assembly outputted from C compilers tend to be more predictable by virtue of C being a simpler language. That doesn't seem to be true, not in the presence of UB, different platforms and optimization levels. > Sometimes to d
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by Ygg2 2y ago
Ok. But what is machine-readable, then? Is a picture of my passport machine-readable? Is a PDF machine-readable? How do you classify it? And what happens when ten years in the future once algorithms become more optimized? If an AI can read
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by Ygg2 2y ago
Keep in mind, I consider what's machine-readable to mean, what's only readable by a machine. I.e. a magnetic tape is machine-readable, while JSON is human-readable.
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by Ygg2 2y ago
Technically, LLM can be a parser, if you tell it to output its findings in another data format, as: A parser is a software component that takes input data (typically text) and builds a data structure
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by Ygg2 2y ago
Having had to have displeasure to program parsers for YAML, the ability to start your word with a valid token symbol in an unquoted string (for example :this or ,this or &:hate_you) is so limiting and prevents many optimizations.
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by Ygg2 2y ago
So every text is machine-readable? Because even English can now be readable by a machine via LLM. Then why use machine-readable? Just say text.

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