elcritch

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by elcritch 3y ago
I really enjoy writing code in Nim. The move to the new memory management system turns it into a true systems-language (comparable to C++ + SharedPtr's or Rust + ARC's everywhere). I've been working on a multi-threaded pure
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by elcritch 3y ago
Thanks y'all for the context. I was mainly going on the context from that one slashdot link. If he waited too long to sell and only got a ~$1 million that could quickly become $500k after taxes, especially in CA. Just another case of o
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by elcritch 3y ago
Given ESR was very wealthy by most any standards, it seems very disingenuous to list himself as an LBIP. His need “high”. Seriously did he waste his fortune in which case I don’t feel bad for him or want to support his wasteful ways. Altern
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by elcritch 3y ago
I hope someone makes a spoof animation / video that shows a timeline of the descent from “do no evil” to “evil” and showing how search used to be great up just an SEO optimized wall of ads. I still have fond memories of being in high s
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by elcritch 3y ago
There's two VSCode vim plugins, one a native one and the other actually uses neovim. They're both pretty good. The main downside is that VSCode plugin can take some time to startup. I use the native one as it's a little less
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by elcritch 3y ago
Upload video, sync photos, backup the phone, watch 4k movies, etc
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by elcritch 3y ago
Carrying the remainder microcents as a bill seems overkill and not necessarily correct. Accounting regulations and accepted practices have well established rules on rounding, like bankers rounding (1). You could probably treat the extra mic
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by elcritch 3y ago
I actually sorta think unencrypted email has been a boon for society as both corporations and government agencies have left paper trails that helped expose their misdeeds later.
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by elcritch 3y ago
How is that a counter example? Seems like another example of “professional managers” coming in and screwing up a company. The first Boeing CEOs were from Boeing and were steeped in Boeings engineering culture and valued that expertise. Late
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by elcritch 3y ago
Though this argument falls apart with evidence that CEOs of big firms do need to deeply understand their companies domain. It may work to a degree, but doesn’t seem to coincide with the most valuable companies. It’s why when Intel was floun
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by elcritch 3y ago
Or they make friends of other parents and their kids become friends or playmates. Having cousins is also similar.
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by elcritch 3y ago
You should add Nim to the list! There's a few implementations, though I'm not sure how complete they are. As others point out they're often used as ways to learn a language. Fun writeup: https://itwasscience.com&#x
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by elcritch 3y ago
One series I'm listening to has "magic" as generated from all living creatures.
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by elcritch 3y ago
Sure.
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by elcritch 3y ago
Presumably in a post apocalyptic situation survivors wouldn't be surrounded by a glut of processed sugary foods.
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by elcritch 3y ago
> We as an industry keep reinventing the same solution: compartmentalisation to contain the interactions, create a noun to solve it but introduce a thousand more interactions: processes, Kubernetes pods, Docker containers, Hypervisors, m
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by elcritch 3y ago
At least they should still report the name and company. The home address is too much perhaps, but owning a company IMHO seems like public Information.
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by elcritch 3y ago
There's plenty floating around. Thougn it's definitely debatable depending on how you define productivity. 1: https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/ 2: https://clockify.me&#
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by elcritch 3y ago
What's interesting to me is that if you adjust the average salary in the 80's for inflation and productivity gains it'd be close to what (non-FAANG) devs make now. As in the "high salaries" of tech workers is just w
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by elcritch 3y ago
What won't be mentioned is if that "shadowy hacker collective" is the NSA.
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by elcritch 3y ago
Interesting project, though I'd rather just use Obj-C. I guess if you wanna use it in something like JavaScript or Lua it'd make sense to have C as a bindi g layer. > https://gamepipeline.org/betray.html Intere
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by elcritch 3y ago
Good luck on the metaverse app! I'd love to see more interesting metaverse takes. One quibble though. Rust isn't race condition free, it's data race free. You can still end up with race conditions outside of data access. htt
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by elcritch 3y ago
A quarter sounds about right, and that's a quarter of our debt that could've been used to rebuild decaying infrastructure, increase medical care, housing, etc. Aside from the monetary cost the country will loose out on the dividen
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by elcritch 3y ago
I generally agree, but I don't think Afghanistan and Iraq were rounding errors by any factor. It's a major percentage of the US'es debt, as in trillions of dollars. Perhaps the US economy (and politics) is resilient enough to
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by elcritch 3y ago
The article says he was charged with “preventing boarding” and “disobeying the port captain”. Presumably if he’d chartered a tug to drop him off in international waters he could’ve been clear of the coast guard.
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by elcritch 3y ago
No, a well designed safety protocol will integrate with the robot operation. Unless the safety protocol is flawed there should be no incidents with the robots. If the safety protocol is flawed it could happen with humans as well.
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by elcritch 3y ago
Thanks, that tells me a bit. Signals are my favorite way to do reactivity. I'll have to checkout gtk's properties.
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by elcritch 3y ago
While Elixir is technically a compiled language, it's only compiled in the same sense that Python compiles to byte codes.
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by elcritch 3y ago
Elixir / Erlang does open up a lot of paradigms. However it'll be interesting to see how Java fairs with its new virtual threads. There was already Akka so it should happen fairly quickly. Still I'd prefer Elixir. The BEAM VM
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by elcritch 3y ago
What are your favorite parts of gtk+? I'm working on my own UI framework and trying to borrow myfavorite parts of the lot of them. Gtk+4 seems to have some decent stuff, but I've only dabbled with it and worked more with old schoo

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