geokon

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by geokon 4mo ago
Ah okay. That's a good insight! and something to keep in mind. There is a reality distortion lens to it all in the end. As you say, people want to explore the frontier of technology
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by geokon 4mo ago
Are pretty much all surface mounted components fine with this? I wanted to waterproof a micro devboard by submerging it in mineral oil. I was worried the board may delaminate or components would turn to goop
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by geokon 4mo ago
Seems like a fair play by Alibaba. However, is there any "open source" attempt at crowdsourcing distillation? Like some place people can submit their chatbot convos so they can be aggregated? Like an equivalent to OpenCrawl but fo
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by geokon 4mo ago
Where do you find more nuanced discussions?
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by geokon 4mo ago
I actually don't understand the tearing they're talking about. If the fields are final then you can't modify the Value Type anyway? And a simple write-lock bit for fat Value Types would solve everything while maintaining most
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by geokon 4mo ago
Is there some reason there isn't simply a write-lock/semaphore on Value Types that are over 64bits? The overhead should beat pointer-chasing. I mean maybe someone wants to concurrently write to values from different threads with n
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by geokon 4mo ago
a few questions for the pros > "The defining trait: no identity" I get that this makes objects behave like primitive types. Maybe thats reason enough. But is it necessary for the performance boost and de-fluffing the objects? S
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by geokon 4mo ago
Do you have some concrete examples? "Back-in-the-days" you'd click and stuff would instantly happen, and I don't remember anything being more difficult to visually interpret. On my Kubuntu desktop if I disable all animat
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by geokon 4mo ago
Hopefully people see this comment b/c mine was a bad/incorrect summary :) I real liked the orgmode workflow b/c the code was self documenting in a sense. I had a very similar workflow for many years (though I've since st
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by geokon 4mo ago
You can find his talk about it a bit on Twitter and in the Github issues. But as far as I remember it mostly boils down to the fact that thing/geom got very little traction and external contributions. He developed this huge ecosystem o
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by geokon 4mo ago
It's extremely modular and simple and extensible. It's a collecting of small libaries that makes generating arbitrary vector graphics extremely fun. You have a base SVG layer and on top you have a charting library, 3D models and o
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by geokon 4mo ago
I wonder if it can make a flexidisc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc I remember to listening to some in my childhood and never understood why the tech was not the standard (relative to the brittle cumbersome vi
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by geokon 4mo ago
yeah, your overall point stands. Sometimes you can get a bit mixed up on "wait, does this take a File object or a string with the filename?". I guess my point was that because you program to interfaces this happens a bit less ofte
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by geokon 4mo ago
In Clojure you typically program to interfaces/protocols and not to types The Clojure docs should be more straightforward about the interfaces that are available and targetted You can still have a problem of not knowing which is requir
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by geokon 5mo ago
lobste.rs uses a web-of-trust referral system. I guess it still involves a moderator killing off bad nodes, but it seems to scale well
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by geokon 5mo ago
I use KDE and really have no complaints, but I'm a bit surprised it's still being actively developed (or is it really?). All the C++ programmers I've known have moved on to other languages. I'm surprised there is a large
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by geokon 5mo ago
It hasnt been updated in years Though im not if its production-ready and "done" or just adandoned
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by geokon 5mo ago
Programming Clojure's Fourth Edition was published earlier this year, so it should be very current. Alex Miller is a great writer. It's in the ~2 USD purchase :))
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by geokon 5mo ago
Nice set of reflections from a veteran "Clojure heavily favors a style of coding which creates impedance mismatch when dealing with other systems" "I'm excited to bring what I've learned from Clojure to new language
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by geokon 5mo ago
It's interesting how many projects seem to be in large part trying to address Clojure's slow startup time. Esp since Project Leyden seems to be around the corner and seems like it will solve the underlying JVM issue once and for a
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by geokon 5mo ago
Is the primary reason similar to Babashka, startup-speed? Do you have any thoughts of Project Leyden? It sounds like it'll solve the startup speed problem and make these projects redundant, but maybe I'm missing some element
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by geokon 6mo ago
normally more parameters leads to overfitting (like fitting a polynomial to points), but neural nets are for some reason not as susceptible to that and can scale well with more parameters. Thats been my understanding of the crux of mystery.
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by geokon 6mo ago
I've never quite wrapped my head around the full JVM Threading story (esp with the new VThreads). Does the Thread Pool system work well when you over-parallelize your workload? If it's thread-and-forget? Can you thread stuff in a
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by geokon 6mo ago
Awesome modern flexible framework for making GUIs. It's important to highlight that the it doesn't enforce any single model of how to hook up your GUI and state management. The built-in subscription model is fantastic, but you can
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by geokon 6mo ago
The problem is that you have to recalculate the world at each update. In Clojure you have immutable datastructures that help. On the webstack you have React and reconciliation. All solutions come with a performance overhead. There are some
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by geokon 6mo ago
> .. abortive attempts at solving this ... I'm curious what you found inadequate with the existing solutions? I remember when I started writing Clojure I'd use stuff like Records to encode the data-shape. Paired with Protocols
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by geokon 6mo ago
Oh wow, that's really impressive Though to my mind the correct solution would be to launch a program + VM, then freeze/store the program state. Then you could just memcopy+execve the program and immediately skip all the initializa
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by geokon 6mo ago
It's interesting that the flights are not timed for when the moon is in the magnetosphere shadow. As far as I could gather it seems they're intentionally exposing astronauts to more radiation to test equipment (maybe with an eye t
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by geokon 6mo ago
I hadn't heard of him before. The wiki article is worth a look https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Farrow It's got to be one of the most unusual biographies of a living person that I've ever come across.
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by geokon 6mo ago
You generally do present your passport when leaving. Most places you get an exit stamp (which matches your entry stamp). They usually confirm things such as not overstaying a visa. ex: overstaying in Thailand results in a on-the-spot fine C

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