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by chaboud 2y ago
I had a similar reaction while reading this, something along the lines of “well, that’s a bunch of idealistic tripe”. And, honestly, I think that somewhat holds. That said, as an aim, writing readable code that doesn’t need to be read to
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by chaboud 2y ago
Seems like the Atari was repurposed into doing duty as a webserver… (Kidding. Posting links on HN is basically a community load test.)
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by chaboud 2y ago
Yeah. I was looking for something a little more meaty, but there are solid ways to attack this. I like to use copy-on-write reference immutable tree storage with self-recycling/self-freeing reference counting shared memory objects. En
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by chaboud 2y ago
It’s a horrible fear. When my eight year old was an infant (four months old), a second cousin (semi distant family member) drowned in a pool at a family gathering. My son’s mom and I (both former lifeguards) put him in infant swim classes
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by chaboud 2y ago
Fair enough. Honestly, there are very few people in the world who could confidently claim that they know all of the STL. The first place I worked at disallowed it (MSVC 5 was fresh then, so it was somewhat understandable), and we had our
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by chaboud 2y ago
Sure, but assumptions about the state of data are made in real world code. It’s just a mess, which is why the code in question needs to break into jail and very explicitly indicate that it isn’t going to fire off exceptions (and hold to it
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by chaboud 2y ago
That hardly seems fair. (Microsoft was doing this to C++ well before the early part of the millennium…) Edit: and in non-joke fairness, Microsoft has really come a long way on this regard.
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by chaboud 2y ago
That’s a bit like saying you know C++ but not streams or templates, or C but not floating point operations. It’s probably worth learning STL. Anyway, the reason to use move instead of copy is for performance. Move constructors are faster
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by chaboud 3y ago
There is no encoding that would shred "any" (read: every) trillion bit sequence. If that were true, some fundamentals of information theory and compressibility would break down. Lossless encoding works by taking advantage of the
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by chaboud 3y ago
Financial and rigid business incentives (and, yes, regulatory requirements with teeth) are good forcing functions. I’m not sure “bureaucratic tangles” like the Big Dig would qualify. I’ll call this “tightness” in a program. Category two h
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by chaboud 3y ago
I played with an approach like Gribel in a software abuffer engine years ago, where coverage fragment lists were already part of the picture. Combined with video textures, it's fair to say that my result was... slow. But I'm mor
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by chaboud 3y ago
https://www.indepthcine.com/videos/shutter-angle
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by chaboud 3y ago
However, the audience is used to shutter angle as part of the visual vernacular (e.g., narrow shutter angle for hyper edgy rap videos, long shutter angle for dreamy retro vibes). If rendered content can't speak the same visual languag
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by chaboud 3y ago
I read through it and got the sense that it just jumped into one particularly odd special case bag of crazy after providing a clean explanation of motion blur as a function of shutter-angle (exposure window). I'm glad it wasn't j
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by chaboud 3y ago
That seems like a bit of a strawman, honestly. The era of $10/MB international roaming faded back in ~2015, effectively crunching the demand for global roaming WiFi hotspot rental. Current pricing is somewhere around $10/day for
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by chaboud 3y ago
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think it’s nonzero. I just don’t know if it’s enough to overcome the tonnage cost (bulk rate for IOT/B2B cellular), and the business development challenges for global cellular and advertising are no joke w
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by chaboud 3y ago
The cohort Venn diagram is world travelers who can’t afford a global service? People who can pay for a flight but would rather watch an ad than pay for service? And the value of that ad inventory of people unwilling to pay is? I’m all for
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by chaboud 3y ago
The real core of NT, the kernel team, could have been fed by two pizzas (if they could agree on the toppings). I didn’t work at Microsoft, but I had some occasions to meet with them (I was working on high performance media tools that squee
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by chaboud 3y ago
1. Donald Rumsfeld was right when he said “A’s hire A’s, B’s hire C’s”. 2. Environments where people can’t tell the difference between 1x and 1000x engineers lead to performative work and arsonist firefighting. 3. When folks in your organi
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by chaboud 3y ago
That must have been an amazing ride. Note: in my opinion, a small, lean, focused team is the right way to build an OS. I haven't seen the "throw an army at it" approach succeed for building the core of an OS or platform, as
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by chaboud 3y ago
Maybe the useful XKCD number would be the proportion of comments before and after the first XKCD reference? There’s also the “true XKCD percentage”, which could exceed 1 for highly XKCD’d topics.
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by chaboud 3y ago
The circular dependency problem is kind of "90's interview question" easy (source: I was asked this in an interview in the 90's). What other comically obvious lessons remain to be painfully learned for npm folks?
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by chaboud 3y ago
At some point every render-engine builder goes through the exercise of imagining purely physically-modeled photonic simulation. How soon one gives up on this computationally intractable task with limited marginal return on investment is a
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by chaboud 3y ago
Clarkson is the sort of guy who would have both friend and foe knocking over his walls just to mess with him. Nonetheless, sheep farming can be incredibly difficult, and sheep love to assert just enough independence to be annoying.
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by chaboud 3y ago
Well please don’t stand in front of it…
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by chaboud 3y ago
I, for one, think zero good will come of it… Two soon?
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by chaboud 3y ago
I love this framework, but I learned a slightly different one from… Craig Ferguson? At a comedy show? Pretty sure… The ordering I learned was: - does this need to be said? - does this need to be said by me? - does this need to be said by
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by chaboud 3y ago
Having not read the paper, it sounds like the author is asserting that the game is solved under perfect play as a draw. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_game That would point to there being no advantage in perfec
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by chaboud 3y ago
We used to eat this stuff (and the vegetarian counterparts) while backpacking in the 90's. If you're putting on high mileage, you end up consuming 5000+ calories per day. Pemmican is one of those things that your body learns to
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by chaboud 3y ago
It'll be the publication of the uncompleteness theorem... representation of math with no math.

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