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by cyco130 11mo ago
LLMs are not people. We can’t blame them.
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by cyco130 1y ago
Internationalization and localization are extremely hard problems. I know because I worked as technical translator for sone years. But, in C++ land, I had very good success with Qt and its translation system in one of my open source project
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by cyco130 1y ago
In fewer words: It was already a fairly flexible and customizable tool. But then came a time when a client requested faster horses we could show them our car instead and they recognized the value. (And occasionally, when _they_ requested a
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by cyco130 1y ago
Absolutely. When we started growing (I was employee #3, we were about 20 people when I left), we didn't use our own product for our own needs. It wasn't designed for a tiny startup, it would be like building a sand castle with a b
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by cyco130 1y ago
For six years I worked in a SaaS startup that built an applicant tracking system (a tool to manage recruitment efforts in big/mid-sized companies) tailored for the local market of the country we lived in. My experience tells me that ou
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by cyco130 1y ago
It requires parentheses `(3).myMethod()` but you can by monkey patching the Number prototype. Very bad idea, but you absolutely can.
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What screen time does to children's brains is more complicated than it seems(bbc.com)
9 points by cyco130 1y ago|0 comments
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by cyco130 1y ago
I write some of my thoughts on this sone years ago. The library described at the end is now fairly out of date but the ideas and suggestions are still good, I think. https://dev.to/cyco130/how-to-get-client-side-navigat
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by cyco130 1y ago
Fair enough. I fully agree.
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by cyco130 1y ago
Deaf homo sapiens sapienses do have perfectly good language skills.
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by cyco130 1y ago
It also had the best “swipe” text typing mode for Turkish. iPhone got it very recently and it’s close to useless and Android one was meh last I checked.
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by cyco130 1y ago
Another way to induce memory corruption glitches on old computers was to quickly turn off and on again. I never managed to get anything useful like your unlimited lives hack out of it but I did see lots of interesting graphical glitches on
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by cyco130 1y ago
I believe at least the Vitest project considered using node:module hooks for live reloading but rejected it in the past. The reason given to me was that, there is no way to garbage-collect a real EcmaScript module since they're always
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by cyco130 1y ago
The green proposal was the one that got picked up to become Ada by the way. Red was the runner-up.
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by cyco130 1y ago
Don't know about the whole Europe (or EU) but I strongly suspect it is indeed (almost) everywhere. I'm Turkish and Turkey has it too. And yes, my mother uses it, and my grandparents used it when they were alive. You can't do
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WeightWatchers files for bankruptcy as fat-loss jabs boom(bbc.com)
3 points by cyco130 1y ago|0 comments
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by cyco130 1y ago
The reverse effect is also interesting: I think what women think men go for in a woman is very different from whan men actually prefer. Reminds me of Seinfeld's The Fix-Up episode: "Who cares about eyebrows"!
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by cyco130 1y ago
I wrote a whole Atari 8-bit emulator in TypeScript (Github only has the CPU for now, I’ll push the whole thing when I find time to clean up): https://sfotty.cyco130.com
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by cyco130 2y ago
An old teacher's saying from Turkey (where grades were out of 10 back then): 10 is for god, 9 is for me, the best student gets an 8.
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by cyco130 2y ago
And now I’m proud because that’s pretty much the exact idea I tried to pitch at the great grandparent.
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by cyco130 2y ago
Gold mine! Didn't know about to concept, thanks.
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by cyco130 2y ago
I've long entertained the idea of a language feature that allows returning unknown sized objects by value. The calling convention would generate two function calls, one to go get the size which would then be passed to alloca to reserve
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by cyco130 2y ago
I’m Turkish as well (and over forty). It’s a joke, I have no data on its prevalence except anecdotal. It does seem much more common nowadays than when I was a kid though.
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by cyco130 2y ago
Reminds me of a dark joke I sometimes make: Why are there no Turkish people above forty with nut allergies? Because they all died in early childhood.
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by cyco130 2y ago
As others have pointed out, that's pretty much how things originally started. A more recent example I remember is the Action! programming language for Atari 8-bit computers[1], an Algol descendent for 6502 with static activation frames
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by cyco130 2y ago
That’s the tricky part. There’s no stack anymore. Activation records of functions are heap-allocated and can stick around as long as necessary.
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by cyco130 2y ago
Unfortunately Firefox is no real competition either. Most of their revenue comes from Google, ostensibly for making Google the default search engine but, in reality, probably to allow Google to avoid antitrust lawsuits by claiming they have
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by cyco130 2y ago
I'm building a web-based Atari 8-bit emulator [1]. I haven't pushed my current progress yet, the repo only contains the CPU emulator and a few utils which I wrote a few years ago. Lots of bugs and missing features but it can alrea
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by cyco130 2y ago
Even 6502 from 1975 has it (and a few more like shift/rotate instructions).
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by cyco130 2y ago
LLVM now uses something they call the "Greedy Register Allocator". As far as I can tell, it's a variation on the linear allocator with some heuristics. Here's a presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch

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