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by beagle3 6y ago
But replace the last line with 3+j["foo"] in python (and respectively, echo (3+j["foo"]) in Nim), and the Python prints 45 whereas the Nim compiler greets you with ~40 lines of output asking you what exactly you meant. J
902.
by beagle3 6y ago
Synology is selling an experience, like Apple, not hardware. It's a plug-it-and-it-works private-on-premise cloud. They are not competing with Google or Apple in the sense that customer usually decide on-premise or cloud-based and only
903.
by beagle3 6y ago
The Nim forum has recurring questions about deserializing JSON that only make sense if you assume Nim is runtime dynamic like Python. And many random question start with “Python let’s you..” or “shouldn’t we make this more like Python” to w
904.
by beagle3 6y ago
Doesn't depend much on the standard library -- almost not at all, and usually behind flag (e.g., if you don't -d:useMalloc , nim will not us malloc). I think it's no longer maintained, but there's a kernel that boots on
905.
by beagle3 6y ago
Nim looks Pytonish (and has some Python-inspired syntax), but it is very much NOT Python. People coming from Python that expect a "compiled, faster" Python often find a compiled, faster language but have very weird concepts expect
906.
by beagle3 6y ago
> does this mean it can be deactivated? Sort of. You either deactivate it completely with --gc:none ; or, you do it on per-variable basis by using a "ptr" (pointer) type, which is outside of the GC's realm. Any variable
907.
by beagle3 6y ago
K makes this explicit with the ‘where’ function which converts a Boolean array into the list of indices of true values. Thus, x[4 5 6] is index access (“at”); also x@4 5 6 x[&x>3] is “x at where x is greater than 3” ;
908.
by beagle3 6y ago
I don’t know what your metric for being best is, but APL and K do arrays more natively and completely than anything else.
909.
by beagle3 6y ago
resuming backup after network has disappeared for a while or after sleep is problematic and mostly impossible to do in an atomic way. If you have enough local storage, I'd put a local backup process (restic/borg/bup), and the
910.
by beagle3 6y ago
Is it using anything more than WebRTC? (Or HLS if the low latency mode is finally in?) Is there a reason not to switch e.g. YouTube and Netflix, Zoom etc to a similar model and forego the app? (Yes, the app has its positives but also the 15
911.
by beagle3 6y ago
Apple support in the US is second to none, in my experience. My experience with Apple support outside the US has been hit-or-miss but mostly miss.
912.
by beagle3 6y ago
You can do pure Windows with wNim or Winim and its few helpers. If you are looking for cross platform, very graphical, not necessarily accessible, there's NimX. I think there's also a port of Dear ImGui called Nimgui. If you are o
913.
by beagle3 6y ago
> I really despise the 'common' module approach because it scatters code that should be in the same file. If you have circular dependencies then, in my opinion and experience, it unifies code that should be in the same file,
914.
by beagle3 6y ago
Nim is a huge language, but it is very well designed, and unlike e.g. C++, you can use and discover its feature gradually - including when using 3rd party libraries. It has lispy macros (except reader macros - you start with a parsed-to-ast
915.
by beagle3 6y ago
Diaspora and Mastodon (among others) are there fwiw.
916.
by beagle3 6y ago
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffre... shows there are a few errors. NewsBlur doesn't complain that anything is wrong, but it will skip specific items that do not validate - so it all look
917.
by beagle3 6y ago
Likely him. He signs as "simon funk" though that's a pseudonym. If this post looks familiar[0], that's him. And this is the post that got him added to my blog roll (And 14 years later, he is still there) [0] https:&#x2F
918.
by beagle3 6y ago
It’s spirit lives on in https://freshcode.club The RSS feed doesn’t validate so you’d want to browse it with a browser, rather than track it with a feed reader.
919.
by beagle3 6y ago
> The only interpretation I see is that the author has a set of sources they trust that produce "analysis" that the author sees as reliable. Their opponent in the argument has exactly the same same thing but from sources that t
920.
by beagle3 6y ago
(I posted this to HN but am not the original post author). From following him, he trusts analysis which can be repeated - that is, based on available data; and does not trust e.g. quotes from Fauci (that seldom if ever reveals what data or
921.
Pioneers get the arrows, the settlers get the land(sifter.org)
1 points by beagle3 6y ago|6 comments
922.
by beagle3 6y ago
“It is hard for a person to understand something when their income depends on not understanding it”(upton Sinclair) explains too much of the modern world, unfortunately.
923.
by beagle3 6y ago
You are correct, of course. It doesn’t make it less credible, but it also doesn’t make it automatically credible. I have not yet had a chance to read the letter and all commentary, but I hear echos of Max Howell’s “google didn’t hire me bec
924.
by beagle3 6y ago
How much did the devops guy bring? How much did the qa guy? The help text writer? The support person? In most profitable software companies, it is indeed shared with through bonuses and RSUs, but it is not a well defined / easy to unde
925.
by beagle3 6y ago
I was not referring to phone lens, although those things are being applied there too. It is now possible to build a telephoto lens for your DSLR, that costs $2 to make, is short and flat, yet has better optics than your current kit. When th
926.
by beagle3 6y ago
Note GP asked about revenue sharing, whereas you discuss profit sharing. That's not the same thing. Salespeople and sales partners are often compensated with a sales based commission, which is a revenue sharing scheme. It's co
927.
by beagle3 6y ago
Traditional lens manufacturing is likely in its last days (which can easily take a decade or two, but ... the end is visible). Modern lens are made with techniques perfected in semiconductor manufacturing, and use advances in material scien
928.
by beagle3 6y ago
May find it later when I am not on mobile, but iirc they aimed for 1W and ended up achieving 0.1W or so - at first they were sure something was wrong about their test rig because it seemed like an unpowered CPU was actually working - and th
929.
by beagle3 6y ago
Yes. But Apple has the neural accelerators which are a waste of transistors for most workloads, and Intel has a bunch of chips without AVX512. So that does not fit the GPs claim that the M1 is fast because Apple does vertical integration an
930.
by beagle3 6y ago
That doesn’t sound reasonable to my (electrical engineer but 15 years since last involvement in processor design) ears. Intel has enough product lines that there are no “unnecessary interfaces”; what were the unnecessary interfaces in the I

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