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by chubot 4y ago
FWIW here is a list of other such projects: https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Alternative-Regex-Synta... Feel free to add other projects, including the ones in this thread
902.
by chubot 4y ago
Yeah it's best to just use POSIX shell arithmetic, and not be clever, and not the other 2 ways bash has to do it! THat is: i=$((i + 1)) The (( )) construct, without the $, is different, and it's also not POSIX. It has t
903.
by chubot 4y ago
This site does that: https://explainshell.com/ Although I suppose it's not integrated into a shell
904.
by chubot 4y ago
Ah yeah, I think the historical issue is that Google doesn't use std::string internally for performance reasons. They have their own C++ string implementation, which protobuf uses internally, like all other code. And then when they op
905.
by chubot 4y ago
Yup, this is classic Unix style! Having data-centric interoperability among tools also helps you port to new platforms more smoothly, as opposed to throwing away your code or rewriting from scratch. Examples: 1. Using text formats embedded
906.
by chubot 4y ago
I wonder if 25-35% of all CPU cycles being devoted to moving bytes around is a design problem, i.e. a result of the RPC-oriented programming model we used at Google I know there were also measurements about protobuf encode/decode, and
907.
by chubot 4y ago
I had a great middle school teacher who would always get us to talk about politics, around the Bush 92 era. She told us about this election being the one where the better looking guy won, because TV existed. But it sounds like it was mostl
908.
by chubot 4y ago
In the past I've not been a fan of the phrase "global elite" , or given it all that much thought. But a few things have made me rethink that: (1) I watched The Century of Self by Adam Curtis, which was a recommended documen
909.
by chubot 4y ago
A weird thing is that ChatGPT definition is vacuous -- there is maybe one meaningful word in this sentence: In software development, a platform target triple (also known as a "target triple") is a string that specifies the target
910.
by chubot 4y ago
Yeah I was thinking about this thread about Apple in 1996 or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33289954 A few people including myself remarked how it sounded like Google now And I noted that I don't think Google
911.
by chubot 4y ago
I wish Elon didn't get sucked into culture wars, because slimming down Twitter's workforce wasn't a bad idea I fantasized about someone buying Google and slimming it down too, because it used to be a great place to work (I wo
912.
by chubot 4y ago
Thanks, that's probably it! (I need to do stuff like this, but I don't use a Mac regularly, and that would help)
913.
by chubot 4y ago
Somewhat dumb question: I wonder what tool he used for the red font code annotations and arrows? What tool would you use, like Photoshop or something? And just screenshot the code from some editor or I guess Jupyter?
914.
by chubot 4y ago
Yes but I’m looking for general purpose storage, so that’s one litmus test :)
915.
by chubot 4y ago
Is DVC useful/efficient at storing container images (Docker)? As far as I remember they are just compressed tar files. Does the compression defeat its chunking / differential compression? How about cleaning up old versions?
916.
by chubot 4y ago
Can it be used to store container images (Docker)? As far as I remember they are just compressed tar files. Does the compression defeat Xet's own chunking? Can you sync to another machine without Xethub ? How about cleaning up old fi
917.
by chubot 4y ago
It was/is used to prototype Rust’s borrow checking rules, which are part of a really complex type system I heard rust author Niko mention it in a talk a few years ago, and it’s mentioned here too http://smallcultfollowing.co
918.
by chubot 4y ago
This is a very shallow, incorrect analysis. The author needs to learn about composition to understand both Unix and Plan 9. As others mentioned, the author also needs to consider what research is.
919.
by chubot 4y ago
Yup, rust swift Julia and I think crystal use LLVM. Zig used it to bootstrap too LLVM has definitely enabled more language diversity!
920.
by chubot 4y ago
Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works Love this one ... I wonder what would happen if every Tweet creation screen had this gentle reminder on top
921.
by chubot 4y ago
The documentary talks a lot about economics of farming, including the perverse incentives created by government subsidies Regenerative farming is cheaper in the long run because you're not buying fertilizer (they talk about how much th
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by chubot 4y ago
Good documentary about this issue on Netflix: Kiss the Ground (2020) https://www.netflix.com/title/81321999 It has some striking pictures of two farm fields side by side. One supports diverse plant life and produces nu
923.
by chubot 4y ago
Yeah my recommendation isn't because I think it's a fair and balanced viewpoint, but that it provides a much-needed perspective. It shouldn't be the ONLY book you read about such issues. I also like Guns, Germs, and Steel,
924.
by chubot 4y ago
Great critique! Reminds me a bit of Back to the '70s with Serverless (2020) http://evrl.com/devops/cloud/2020/12/18/serverless.html (2020) which I linked from Summer Blog Backlog: Distribut
925.
by chubot 4y ago
Hancock is very questionable in motives and methods (talks a lot about how he is suppressed rather than what he thinks is true) But it’s true that narratives around past civilizations are controlled for political reasons Eg in China the win
926.
by chubot 4y ago
FWIW the reply by the founder of repl.it explicitly takes the other side of the bet I expect $1B solo founder startups to become normal pretty soon https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1600143003607105537 (I honest
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by chubot 4y ago
Yeah the original comment is (rightly) flagged dead "Racist" is an extremely lazy label; it shuts down any interesting or well-motivated conversation. It's especially silly in this case because the "traditional racist&q
928.
by chubot 4y ago
Yeah that's a good question. Google does serve all the out-of-copyright books, but I know nothing about the inputs to the LLMs. I think they still have big computational limitations, i.e. it doesn't "just scale" like w
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by chubot 4y ago
Does this sound old-fashioned? Read more books and less Internet. There is a lot of information in books that is not on the Internet, yet many people don’t seem to realize it. I notice a lot of people seem to get almost all of their inform
930.
by chubot 4y ago
Did you read that book? I did, and Graeber certainly doesn’t think GGS or Diamond is racist

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