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by hajile 3y ago
Fixed implies broken. If it hadn't blown up on Twitter and risked bad PR and stock prices dropping, it would still be there. They had to hard code in that racist garbage. AI is just making the cognitive dissonance of the creators appar
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by hajile 3y ago
I guess I'll start by saying that JS is my absolute favorite among all the top languages out there (StandardML, Rust, Scheme, and CL probably being the others in my top 5). Thanks for making it! Of course, everything said is hypothetic
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by hajile 3y ago
My assertion is that linked lists map BETTER to the human and WORSE to the computer. The thought experiment is simply a way to prove that fact and is not a premise let alone a false one. If arrays and linked lists had the same performance c
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by hajile 3y ago
(set x (list 1 2 3 4 5)) (for item in x (do stuff to item)) Now try to explain BASIC, but do it by first explaining how to create and manipulate a block of memory. You are conflating language differences with the real a
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by hajile 3y ago
You can code your own dialect of ANYTHING. OOP does this all the time (anyone for Enterprise Fizzbuzz). C considers macros as bad because they are dangerous and have all kinds of weird side effects that break things. If they had all the cap
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by hajile 3y ago
The saddest thing to me is that Brendan Eich didn't do a scheme like he intended. If that had happened, the web would have been fast 15 years earlier. Things like Flash wouldn't have ever happened. ES2015 would have never been nec
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by hajile 3y ago
This is all "I don't know the language" type stuff. If you don't know Python, slicing syntax is also strange. Common Lisp was VERY forward-thinking and has all kinds of these features that only became mainstream decades
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by hajile 3y ago
How is the idiom of linked lists foreign to modern devs? You create a list of items. You can add/remove elements to the start, end, and even the middle and even indexing is just as easy with the `nth` function. From a programmer perspe
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by hajile 3y ago
Does the CL spec require the implementation to use linked lists or merely to behave as if it were a linked list? I believe it is the latter and that makes a world of difference when it comes to optimization. A great mainstream example of th
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by hajile 3y ago
There are a few points here. 1. Most x86 machines aren't running the fastest CPUs. They are running U-series CPUs and usually aren't even running the best U-series CPUs. H-series laptops are relatively rare. 2. Even U-series machi
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by hajile 3y ago
We need a new form factor that allows a small motherboard to be parallel to a back-mounted GPU/PCIe. This is what people are already trying to do with SFF cases and those wonky PCIe cables/boards.
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by hajile 3y ago
PC laptops with similar build quality cost the same or more. x86 machines only compete when you don’t consider power consumption (which really matters for laptops). It’s so bad that most top end x86 machines won’t even try to hit those peak
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by hajile 3y ago
The figure I cited per-100k for white males (just a subset, not actually all white males) was right there in the article YOU posted.
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by hajile 3y ago
70% of suicides are white AND male. While white people are 58% of the country, males are only HALF of that number. Put another way, 70% of all suicides are committed by just 29% of the population. 28 per 100k is nowhere near 28% (it's
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by hajile 3y ago
70% of US suicides in 2021 were white males and most of them were young. If those problems weren’t so specific to them, then why is that rate so high?
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by hajile 3y ago
We aren't talking about the implementations, we're simply discussing the spec. Can you name another language spec that took over 15 years from conception to completion? Even Common Lisp which languished for a terribly long time du
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by hajile 3y ago
We're talking the 2008 timeframe. When George Bush reigns and the biggest films are The Dark Knight and Iron Man. Halo 3, CoD4, and Crysis are new. Our latest generation of devs are just toddlers. Stackoverflow is created. The world is
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by hajile 3y ago
It's been 10 years since R7RS launched and I believe around 15 years since R7RS-large began work. That goes a bit beyond "slow".
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by hajile 3y ago
R7RS isn't worth supporting right now. R5RS is too small for real work unless you add tons of SRFIs, so they created R6RS for people who want to get stuff done. But the the R5RS people got ticked off because "its too big". R7
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by hajile 3y ago
It's here that I'll again get on my soapbox about Scheme. SRFIs suck really badly. The language isn't useful without them, but every implementation uses a different subset. You have to find out which SRFI does what you want (
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by hajile 3y ago
Without examples of why these laws are bad, they'll just continue to exist. > To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writi
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by hajile 3y ago
Geekerwan has a great review that covers this in their iPhone 15 Pro review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSCTlB1dhO0 The CPU peaked out at 14 Watts in multicore Geekbench. That's close to the peak CPU power consu
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by hajile 3y ago
Per-clock performance is THE metric. Apple can't sustain those peak clocks for more than a few seconds before throttling down. Once both chips are running at a sustainable 2-2.5GHz, the IPC starts mattering a lot.
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by hajile 3y ago
Intel 10nm is actually smaller than TSMC N7. It has also had two massive performance upgrades which should put it around and maybe ahead of TSMC N6.
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by hajile 3y ago
The big issue with adding features was mostly security (as I understand it). Then they realized that they were never going to achieve good performance with WebGL and Apple proposed porting Metal to the web as webGPU. There doesn't seem
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by hajile 3y ago
RISC-V is already putting the squeeze on ARM in the embedded market. RISC-V is fewer gates at almost every performance level the embedded market is interested in due to having a tighter, non-legacy ISA (there's even the open SERV core
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by hajile 3y ago
Isn't GTK effectively dynamically typed in C?
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by hajile 3y ago
I just considered the top Google hits for some big tech companies. This particular one is from this site. https://finbox.com/NASDAQGS:AMZN/explorer/gp_margin/
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by hajile 3y ago
I literally just looked at the Google default results. In this case, here's your source. Those margins plus the AI bubble are why MS stock prices are so high. https://ycharts.com/companies/MSFT/gross_profit_ma
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by hajile 3y ago
Seems more likely that they'd upgrade the screen at higher tiers instead. They did something similar with the M1/2 iPad Pros had 8GB of RAM while the expensive 1/2TB models ($1500/1800 for the 11/12.9") got a q

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