errantspark

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by errantspark 5y ago
Roughly speaking your options are something like D, Zig, Nim, and Crystal. I would say your best bet actually is Rust in terms of RoI on self-investment. Rust likely has the brightest future and the most active community, good docs and mo
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by errantspark 5y ago
I vibe with/have been through a lot of what you're talking about. HMU if you want another friend, email in my profile.
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by errantspark 5y ago
Ahh yeah I think you're right, I was just going by feel from what I remembered of the board.
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by errantspark 5y ago
Looks like an 0805, that's not too bad if you have decent fine motor skills and two soldering irons. If you have enough motor control for decent handwriting you'll be fine, just don't get frustrated and dwell too long, you ca
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by errantspark 5y ago
> It must be soul crushing to work on DRM for any industry as your job. Knowing that no matter what you do, how clever you are, etc - it doesn't matter at all, it'll be bypassed very shortly. I can't imagine doing this, to
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by errantspark 5y ago
The problem with LTSC is that newer games won't work, other than that it's a pretty reasonable experience. I put vanilla Win 10 on computer recently and it's bad. Luckily the games I'm trying to run are better supported
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by errantspark 5y ago
While I mostly agree with you on this post being ridiculous and anachronistic but I will contend you on: > Language syntax has nothing to do with framework features, and especially things like writing UI components, managing state, and u
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by errantspark 5y ago
Sorta a chicken/egg situation no? Does the same hold in a different culture?
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by errantspark 5y ago
My laptop does have a sim tray and an internal modem, the antenna is in the screen. (HP Spectre x360 13" for those curious)
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by errantspark 5y ago
Nice, thanks for pointing this out. It's fucking annoying that I'll have to figure out how to install the Windows Store on my computer to get an app that can receive text messages, something that you know, should be available thro
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by errantspark 5y ago
None of the TTYs that Windows exposes will even let me connect (access denied error even as admin) and there is no Linux driver, or maybe there is now with very recent kernels?[0]. It would surprise me if it worked well but I will spend som
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by errantspark 5y ago
The problem is that I don't have an alternative method of proving my trustworthiness and as a result lose access to some products. Often times prepaid plans are not equivalent to postpaid plans, I can't just put a security deposit
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by errantspark 5y ago
Yeah, I'm sure it's possible to do so, but unfortunately my BIOS locks me into the OEM modem, there is no linux driver for it and the windows one is not documented so no luck for me in that regard. At some point I'll pour som
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by errantspark 5y ago
A credit score is used as a trustworthiness analog in arenas other than lending. For example renting a house or car, and some phone companies won't give you access to a post-paid plan, all of which can have a stratifying effect. The id
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by errantspark 5y ago
My laptop has a built in cellular modem, I find that being connected to the internet constantly is much more useful in a laptop form factor. Phones mostly just try to serve me ads in invasive ways and I'm not here for it.
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by errantspark 5y ago
I constantly run into this problem, I've used my google voice number for everything for years (yeah it's not a great move but very hard to migrate away from) and a frustrating number of services recently have been rejecting it for
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by errantspark 5y ago
Absolute bullshit, they should be liable for interest AND a massive penalty.
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by errantspark 5y ago
It feels like the problem is tied to our understanding of what's important as a society. We agree more or less that money represents value, even if people say it doesn't their actions say they it does. I think the more we double d
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by errantspark 5y ago
Gotcha, I wasn't really aware of instruction level parallelism previously. I think the pieces of the puzzle are a lot clearer to me now, thanks for the replies.
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by errantspark 5y ago
"x86 has an innate disadvantage [...] fattening up the frontend" this is inherent largely because of ISA complexity and variable width instructions? "M1 core which is [...] much wider than both AMD and Intel" The core wi
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by errantspark 5y ago
Very wide in the sense of memory bandwidth particularly, or is there another kind of wideness at play here? "has a big reorder buffer", I'm interpreting this as "one of the notable advantages of the M1 is it's abili
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by errantspark 5y ago
Interesting, I didn't know that the memory latency was worse. The bandwidth is still much higher right? In your estimation how much of the perf gains of the M1 chip are due to the increased memory bandwidth vs other optimizations/
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by errantspark 5y ago
I am curious how much of the M1 gains can be realized by just slapping 16 gigs of cache on your die. I know that's a gross oversimplification, and I'm 100% just going off intuition here but it seems to me that memory access effici
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by errantspark 5y ago
Thank you so much for this! It was truly a lifesaver for a young pirate. My dad blocked torrents on our home network and I hadn't yet learned enough linux to crack our neighbors WEP DownThemAll was key to pirating games and movies off
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by errantspark 5y ago
"a computer system should maximally reward learning. (The way Emacs does.) And that this should certainly be true of a computer one uses for 8-14 hours a day, for decades." I think this is a good take, modern interface design focu
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by errantspark 5y ago
I imagine there are some lower hanging fruit for an embodied internet like not having ads and a general respect for providing me with value rather than trying to extract value from me.
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by errantspark 5y ago
you can just curl the article to get past the paywall
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by errantspark 5y ago
Honestly a lot of this sounds a lot like having normal healthy boundaries at work.
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by errantspark 5y ago
TS =/= statically typed languages Static typing can be a very useful tool especially when the language is designed around it, in TS it is a painful kludge.
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by errantspark 5y ago
> benefits of a statically typed language on a large team I mean yeah, sure, if you have to work on a large team in the browser/node you're going to have to make tradeoffs for that, and using TS seems like it'll help every

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