dunham

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by dunham 11mo ago
I thought Object.freeze threw an exception on mutation. Digging a little more, it looks like we're both right. Per MDN, it throws if it is in "use strict" mode and silently ignores the mutation otherwise.
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by dunham 11mo ago
I once made a hacked version of javascript for work, starting with rhino. I adjusted it to make `.` and `[]` on null/undefined return undefined. Kind of like the `?.` in modern javascript, but it didn't exist back then. I was insp
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by dunham 11mo ago
You're in good company. The original C++ compiler translated to C. Haskell translates to C--. That sounds like a good approach, concentrate on the things you want to do/learn and let the C compiler pick up the rest. You can then
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by dunham 11mo ago
> I've heard of people who use Black Friday as a good trigger on what to unsubscribe from as every company wants to send you something for that. That's a good idea. I also use app updates to decide whether I actually need to ke
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by dunham 11mo ago
I bought one of those iBooks for Debian linux, but I found the resolution was a bit small for X. At the time, I had a thing for non-intel architectures. Prior to that, I had done a lot of work packaging up Debian for Sparc machines. I had a
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by dunham 11mo ago
Yeah, I used to use the app store version of Slack because it was sandboxed. (I later switched to having Safari run it as a web application.) Even if I trusted them, the sandbox would be a layer of protection against bugs. I'd love to
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by dunham 1y ago
I meant that I have repositories checked out of github that contain pdf files. Most repositories that I check out of github are in ~/code, which I back up in case it disappears upstream. But it does look like a lot of those files actua
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by dunham 1y ago
mdfind is the command line interface to macos "Spotlight", which is the global file index. So it can do things like full text search in addition to matching metadata values or size bigger than X. I don't know windows well eno
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by dunham 1y ago
do pdfs count? % mdfind -onlyin ~ kind:pdf |wc -l 11116 (2k of those are in my directory of github checkouts and there are duplicates in there.)
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by dunham 1y ago
I haven't had it crash. Typically my documents are under a 300 pages (either academic books or papers), but occasionally I use the PDF reference, which is 1300 pages.
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by dunham 1y ago
Yeah, I've been very happy with it over the years. But my one minor nit-pick is that it uses a _lot_ of memory. I presume it is pre-rendering stuff for speed. On iPhone and iPad I've been using Notability.
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by dunham 1y ago
Nice work, thanks for taking the time to write it up. I regret not doing that for my projects. I also did something similar back around 2014 in https://github.com/dunhamsteve/iwork but I didn't get much further th
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by dunham 1y ago
Yeah, these monitors were a bit heavier than most consumer 21" monitors at the time. We also got Viewsonic monitors for PCs, which were lighter. At the time, I had assumed the additional weight was from extra shielding, but I later rea
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by dunham 1y ago
I remember the Sun monitors (21" I think) were about 80 lbs. I've read that part of that was a metal frame to hold all of the wires in front of the screen. They were fun monitors - we had a lab full of them, they would degauss on
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by dunham 1y ago
Our app reports all of the runtime exceptions to the server. We had one years ago (maybe before 2008) that was caused by somebody's "toolbar" replacing a method like Element.appendChild with one that sometimes crashed. This i
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by dunham 1y ago
The "Eve" programming language / IDE - https://witheve.com It was a series of experiments with new approaches to programming. Kind of reminded me of the research that gave us Smalltalk. It would have been interest
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by dunham 1y ago
In general, yes, although it's nice to have more than one javascript implementation. And one advantage of JSC is that it implements tail call optimization (per the ES6 spec). I wrote my own language that targeted javascript. When I mad
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by dunham 1y ago
Or birds all the way down: > In his 1807 Almanach des Gourmands, gastronomist Grimod de La Reynière presents his rôti sans pareil ("roast without equal")—a bustard stuffed with a turkey, a goose, a pheasant, a chicken, a duck,
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by dunham 1y ago
Yeah, table 3 (path 37) here: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/202... That gets you your log7 reduction of salmonella, so it is safe to eat, but I don't know if it would be &
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by dunham 1y ago
I dabble at home, but it looks nothing like work code. I also started writing code for fun as a kid, before doing it professionally. I do find it hard to do much after a day of work and taking care of family. (I've just been laid off a
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by dunham 1y ago
It's not quite the same, but in the past I've written (in python) scrapers that run off of the cache. E.g. it would extract recipes from web pages that I had visited. The script would run through the cache and run an appropriate s
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by dunham 1y ago
Yeah, I don't leverage LLMs much, but I have used it to look up APIs for writing vscode extensions. The code wasn't usable as-is, but it gave me an example that I could turn into working code - without looking up all of the indivi
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by dunham 1y ago
I've actually had this fix a bug before. An O(n^2) issue adding a character at time to a string inside a loop. I had decompiled the class, fixed the issue, checked in the original decompiled source and then the change. Then a coworker
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by dunham 1y ago
Around November 2024, mine were all moved to a folder tree "Migrated Paper Docs" in my dropbox in a folder tree, as .paper files. The web UI says the folder has 84 decedents. My backup, done through the API years ago has 118, but
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by dunham 1y ago
I wrote off paper when they announced (later 2019) that everyone would be migrated to the new storage in a few months and then kept pushing the date out over the next four years. It seemed that they were not allocating any resources to the
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by dunham 1y ago
It's leveldb with a custom key format in chrome and electron. It would be nice to have WebSQL though, even if it has to be spec'd as "it's sqlite".
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by dunham 1y ago
I tried mosh years ago, but ended up settling on "ShellFish" by the same guy who wrote "Working Copy". It can reconnect if you use a tmux session, and it has the ability to preview remote files and interact with the Fil
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by dunham 1y ago
All of those links appear to be discussing the F-47 and this thread is discussing the F-35.
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by dunham 1y ago
I had a block for a while because I _had_ chosen a name for my language. Suddenly what I was writing was the official implementation, it had to be "right", and I got design paralysis. I found I was making further progress doing ex
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by dunham 1y ago
As I understand it, dependent type theory requires higher order unification, which is undecidable. So they typically use bidirectional type checking instead of Hindley Milner. With bidirection type checking, I think it only needs the unific

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