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by billfruit 2y ago
But why though? What about legacy systems, which may not have a rust toolchain? What about new architectures that may come up in the future?
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by billfruit 2y ago
Perhaps the best trick is to use an electric rice-cooker, then you need to think only about one parameter, the amount of water to add.
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by billfruit 2y ago
Why not Java? Shouldn't it tick all the boxes? JVM is like the Cologne Cathedral of the software world.
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by billfruit 2y ago
In a recent attempt to use Gimp for a small project, a few features I found were lacking: 1. Viewing the layer boundaries of all layers. Very helpful in seeing the total layout of the project. 2. Select multiple layers and do operations lik
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by billfruit 2y ago
In other words the monkey was only the straw that broke the camels back.
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by billfruit 2y ago
Emacs suffers some on windows too, because it also depends on external utilities for some functionality. For example grep-find depends on external grep program which is not bundles in, and on windows, the operation will simply fail.
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by billfruit 2y ago
I think experienced windows devs would use and recommend windows libs/userland over WSL. May because WSL becomes a huge dependency and many windows boxes don't have it installed, whereas windows userland is always available.
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by billfruit 2y ago
Now you need a whole userland to get basic functionality of the editor. Who will vett the correctness and suitability and efficiency of the 3rd party user-land? Notwithstanding that the third party userland is possibly not necessarily, sinc
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by billfruit 2y ago
What if those external utilities are not available? Which might very well be the case if you run Vim on Windows. It is better to have atleast some fall back capabilities(for searching across files, searching within files, sorting etc) build
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by billfruit 2y ago
Perhaps real time flood water monitoring? Despite advancements in technology, as on today it is not possible to get near real time information of flooding.
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by billfruit 2y ago
There are things missing from Emacs too. Intelligent project and context aware auto-complete. Project wide search that works out of the box.
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by billfruit 2y ago
But is that the only way? Can organizations be driven on pure process instead to having to find, and refine 'some narrative' to keep it all together.
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by billfruit 2y ago
Then what do we do if we want to repel birds, especially pigeons.
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by billfruit 2y ago
What about commerical projects which have been open sourced? I wonder why such a scarcity of documents? I think the lack of such documents hits teaching and learning of software engineering very badly.
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Ask HN: Are real world software engineering/design docs available for study
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by billfruit 2y ago
More useful than anecdotes would be a theory(which put forths an explanation of why something might be so), which is interesting even in the absence of any experimental data.
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by billfruit 2y ago
Another approach might be to build an app that parses the SMS trails that card transactions generate to reduce the need for manually entering transactions.
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by billfruit 2y ago
Does it still use the Mix computer and assembler? Does these make the material clearer or more hard to understand at this point of time?
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by billfruit 2y ago
I have nothing against completions being configurable or extensible, but only about not having a reasonable default set of capabilities shipped with the system and having to depend on extensions of various qualities and states of completion
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by billfruit 2y ago
Yes, but is there any argument to not to have intelligent automatic code completion out of the box, as a user today.
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by billfruit 2y ago
While Emacs(I'm speaking of emacs here because that's what I use, but it should apply largely to Vi as well) is very configurable and extensible, I wish something was there that is more "batteries included" than them. R
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by billfruit 2y ago
Use Emacs to drive gdb (through the GUD mode) gives a much more ergonomic interface. It highlights the line of code being traced in the code window.
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by billfruit 2y ago
The same is even better with Java. It's common to find Java binaries build 20 Years+ to run on present day systems without issue.
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by billfruit 2y ago
Does it do 3d?
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by billfruit 2y ago
Not specifically aimed at this comment, but it looks like in most Prolog threads here, many commenters seems to plugging in Scryer Prolog, but perhaps, SWI is the most 'batteries included' and mature Prolog implementation for peop
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by billfruit 2y ago
Also Macaulay in his 5 volumes of the History of England. Not to mention Carlyle, who elevates it to an even more lofty style that one wonders if he has not overcooked it.
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by billfruit 2y ago
Where can one read those
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by billfruit 2y ago
They are also somewhat of hassle and something not necessary to have.
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by billfruit 2y ago
Every other language does seems to not require header file/forward declarations. I don't understand the backlash against that. Are modern C compilers actually still single pass?
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by billfruit 2y ago
Alloy is a brute force model checker (for rather small models). Is that the state of the art for formal methods? How do you think of formally verifying systems with floating points calculations, with randomness, with databases and external

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