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by frou_dh 4y ago
IIRC Joe Armstrong said he was puzzled why people latched on to the term "BEAM" so much, and he preferred that it was simply referred to as the Erlang VM.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Here it is: https://feeds.resonaterecordings.com/software-unscripted (that URL was surfaced by my subscription in Overcast).
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I've actually found it quite an active/engaging experience to take in some normal code-presenting videos/screencasts as audio-only (i.e. earphones in, phone in pocket), because you build up in your minds eye the code they&#x2
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Software Unscripted https://twitter.com/sw_unscripted is good. I don't know whether it's well known or not. Possibly a hidden gem. Already mentioned, but Signals & Threads https://signalsandthreads.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Does this work put Ruby into a faster category than Python until if/when Python gets a JIT in its official implementation?
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by frou_dh 4y ago
> Computers should have nothing more than text terminals, as Ken & Ritchie intended. Odd statement because that same Bell Labs crew created Plan 9 as unapologetically bitmapped GUI, since even 30 years ago they already considered TTY
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I thought that SDL2 was perhaps going to be eternal, but SDL3 is actually in development: https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-3-0/40374
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by frou_dh 4y ago
4D chess in lieu of 3D printing opportunities?
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by frou_dh 4y ago
In general, most OS vs OS debates are pointless because so many people go at it with the unconscious bias "I have extensive experience of X. When I try Y then all the parts that work differently from X are obviously wrong and stupid&qu
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I did some non-game programming on a PS2 Linux Kit and it wasn't particularly interesting. Just sitting at a normal Linux CLI with ancient versions of tools.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
IIRC, at least around the time Apple Silicon was introduced, they were running some kind of taskforce to make code contributions to key open source projects to ensure they were compatible.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I don't pay much attention to washing the underside of such plates, and the washed plates don't seem to retain any noticeable dirt on the underside either. So I'm inclined to think there's not much of an actual problem.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances [...]"
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by frou_dh 4y ago
That would be a funny departure from the typical Emulator + ROMs use-case that is retro gaming.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
You're overblowing it. Yes paredit etc will be faster, but just using normal editing in an editor that has decent generic treatment of parenthesis and autoindent is not too bad, and certainly not unusable.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
The trend is to just assume that using GC is off the table, without that being driven by any actual requirements or measurements.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I sometimes regret having built up tons of Bash aliases, because in the long term it ends up with me not really knowing half the tools I use, just my little cryptic vocabulary.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
That latter line of thinking was quite apparent in Go, where a bunch of the global functions had signatures that weren't expressible in the type-system.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
The whole journey just seems like when big business and manic mental health episodes collide.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
From this classic HN comment it sounds like working on the Oracle codebase is an exercise in clusterfuckery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
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by frou_dh 4y ago
In the strictly browser realm, there's also Brr: https://erratique.ch/software/brr/doc/Brr_canvas/index.html which is a recent reimagining of the traditional interface to browser APIs (provided by j
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by frou_dh 4y ago
In that respect it's more about ML/SML from the 1970-80s. Even putting null-safety aside, the latter part of the post with destructuring tuples and pattern-matching shapes looks almost 1:1 like SML code!
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by frou_dh 4y ago
It seems there's often a need for languages to evolve towards sanity rather than being sane out of the gate.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I'm not a car guy so am pretty oblivious to the trends, but I actually stopped and took a photo of an Audi with this a couple of months ago, because it looked fantastic IRL. Not sure how much it comes across in the photo https:/&
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by frou_dh 4y ago
It was actually a very uncomplicated process. Not much pain. I significantly lost hearing in that ear immediately. There was not really any way to treat it apart from waiting for it to heal itself, which it did after about 4 weeks. Hard to
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I stopped doing it not because of real or imagined wax impaction, but because I had been doing it exactly the same way forever and one day it actually did perforate my eardrum. I guess my luck finally ran out. Now that's healed and I d
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Have seen quite literally dozens of versions of this idea over the years. I'm sure this is well made and a fun project to develop, but I just don't get the fascination with this idea of desktop OS mimicry in a browser tab.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
That sounds a bit like the Forth guy Chuck Moore's 'full stack' ethos that led to the GreenArrays stuff, right?
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by frou_dh 4y ago
It's illustrative of how crazed some TypeScript advocates have become, that any deviance whatsoever causes them to be shocked and appalled, as some have expressed in this comments section. People, if you must be religious about a progr
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Sounds familiar. Dub it J4Z - Java For Zoomers

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