jcelerier

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by jcelerier 4mo ago
> More nails does not create more house. sure, but less nails definitely prevents you from having more house
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by jcelerier 4mo ago
> If you crash from an unhandled exception, you don't. .. you absolutely get a stack trace from unhandled exception in c++, that starts where the exception is thrown? At least with clang and GCC, maybe MSVC isn't able to. foo.c
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by jcelerier 4mo ago
It's crazy for me to think that people cannot see how wrong it is from the normal speed video. For me it's obvious and infuriating, it physically feels like it's punching my retina
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by jcelerier 4mo ago
> If you can deliver the same thing in fewer correct lines of code it really depends on what you're doing. If your goal is "become interoperable with the N different and incompatible network protocols that people have devised f
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by jcelerier 4mo ago
Apparently roughly ~150k math PhDs live on earth right now, assuming they all know Lean that's between 0.001% and 0.002% of earth population so quite closer to no one than one
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by jcelerier 4mo ago
Allowing closed-source to exist is always the less moral choice for many reasons (one example being ecological sustainability)
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by jcelerier 4mo ago
> How fast do you want your slideshow to be? we're in 2026, 240hz screens are becoming common. Nothing in the end-user experience should take more than 3-4ms. My personal goal when developing is keeping things at at least 60FPS and
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by jcelerier 4mo ago
would be great to have the weights somewhere
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by jcelerier 4mo ago
or maybe erlang / elixir do not have 1/1000th of the libraries and features available to C++ thus it's more efficient to port what can be ported? would you rather have the whole of C++ ported to erlang?
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by jcelerier 4mo ago
next intel cpus will have AVX 10.2 & APX
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by jcelerier 4mo ago
export to large files that represent numbers in textual format for instance ? this can be the difference between "waiting 10 seconds when hitting ctrl-s" and "the software saving automatically on each change because it's
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by jcelerier 4mo ago
> it's OK to not be the most efficient all the time is it ? it's a non-negligible reason for the absolutely unsufferable technological world we are currently living in
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by jcelerier 5mo ago
out of dozens of laptops and computers we have where I work, we have maybe 3 that have a PTP-compatible NIC.
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by jcelerier 5mo ago
You could almost sell a RTX 3090 for more today than what it cost brand new when it came out six years ago
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by jcelerier 5mo ago
the only thing that should be standardized are things that cannot be done through libraries in an efficient way. Boost.PFR is great, I built a lot of things on it, but eventually you hit the limits of what a pure library approach can do -&g
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by jcelerier 5mo ago
> No one is doing that, these people don't exist so out of touch lol. Had an ex-partner (complete non-computer person, working in branding & communications) who was doing that three years ago.
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by jcelerier 5mo ago
> that’s why JS text editors have reasonably acceptable performance Absolutely not
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by jcelerier 5mo ago
But this fragmentation is what needed to make good software. If you put things in the standard library you're just adding a +1 to the fragmented landscape because for instance it will never be specialized enough to cover all use cases,
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by jcelerier 5mo ago
robots have existed for more than 20 years though. Boston Dynamic's dog is 22 years old, Atlas 15-ish
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by jcelerier 5mo ago
Did you try https://github.com/celtera/libremidi ? It should poll BLE devices
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by jcelerier 5mo ago
> People will happily chat over nondeterministic Zoom and Discord Only because they don't even know how a good system feels like
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by jcelerier 5mo ago
But JS arrays are limited to 4GB. Size is defined to be a 32-bit int.
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by jcelerier 5mo ago
But that's the thing, if I'm doing audio and buying 128GB of ram for the sake of doing music with my sample libraries, and loading hundreds of parallel tracks and being able to scrub through them without lags or audio clicks, I a
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by jcelerier 5mo ago
Can a single webpage address & use more than 4gb of ram nowadays? I was filling 16gb of ram with a single Ableton live session in 2011.
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by jcelerier 5mo ago
Well, if you don't care about not being able to do your defense after 4 years of work because someone managed to do it just before you..
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by jcelerier 6mo ago
> VoiceOver loves to say "not responding" in Safari and locks up, I wonder, what's the correct solution for this ? Because so many apps I use including browser are definitely "not responding" multiple times per d
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by jcelerier 6mo ago
I don't read OP's post we're talking about ("What's crazy is that a company [...] could be worth more than $60B...") as not understanding, but as disagreeing that our world should work in such a way where this
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by jcelerier 6mo ago
Or devs are just different users who care about different things and have different experiences. Reminds me of the famous dropbox post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 - I don't even know if dropbox still exi
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by jcelerier 6mo ago
Here I was, naively hoping for a fork that would only allow watching Heat 2 with subtitles... Welp, time to put these tokens to good use
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by jcelerier 6mo ago
> Preventing the problem from the beginning is better than ensuring you have somebody to blame for the problem when it happens. that's assuming that the problems and incentives are the same for everyone. Someone whose uncle happens

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