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by kaba0 2y ago
It may have attention, but almost nothing uses it (also, it’s not that good security-wise to begin with with developers defining their own permissions), most everything is still just run as your user, having access to your ssh keys, browser
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by kaba0 2y ago
I believe the answer is much more pitiful, and is a mix of not-invented-here, and “it ain’t written in c”.
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by kaba0 2y ago
They did make it, but with Amazon’s backing. Subsystem for Android is still available and works surprisingly well, but thanks to Microsoft’s similarly short attention span than Google’s, it is discontinued. Though while we are at it — why i
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by kaba0 2y ago
X being network transparent hasn’t been true for decades — no one uses xmotif and similar GUI libs, they just grab a buffer and paint stuff themselves, making the X protocol an inefficient format to carry bitmaps around. Local-first is the
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by kaba0 2y ago
Interestingly enough, this actually turned into a positive over time — also, java was usually fast enough (compared to python) to avoid reaching for native all the time, so it wasn’t as big a pain point, it managed to create an almost compl
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by kaba0 2y ago
> C# [..] but I would say that their choices over the years have been more pragmatic overall from the perspective of someone who needs to write readable, good quality code without jumping through too many hoops or getting lost in the ver
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by kaba0 2y ago
Java’s ecosystem is just vastly bigger. In many categories, Java has multiple open-source offerings vs .NET’s single, proprietary one that is often just a bad copy of one of the former libraries.
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by kaba0 2y ago
Go is not at all playing in the same league as Zig or Rust. Of course managed languages are more than fine for almost every use case, but I really hate this trends to wash go together with low-level languages for absolutely no good reason.
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by kaba0 2y ago
It’s almost like “any other computer” is not thin as a finger, packed to the brim with features that require miniaturization. Can you just fix an F1 engine with a wrench?
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by kaba0 2y ago
That would probably be infeasibly slow. There is a whole field of CS that deals with minimizing error when doing floating point math. They just probably use decent algorithms/encoding.
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by kaba0 2y ago
Alt (or is it super)+left mouse can move it, and right mouse can resize.
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by kaba0 2y ago
With all due respect, I believe there is a certain demographic in IT that just has a way too trivial working model of how stuff they don’t work on directly operates. Like, they know how to do a simple HTTP query in C/go whatever, and t
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by kaba0 2y ago
Like, what is better? GUIs are hard, the old way was duplicating state at the ”view” and the “model” layer, resulting in millions of bugs. The core idea of react v=f(m) is sound, and is the correct approach. Also, react itself is not even t
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by kaba0 2y ago
It’s also the concatenation of two, extremely common syllables, so purely by chance one is ought to hit them. Like, where I’m from its the name of a margarine brand - is it also misappropriating?
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by kaba0 2y ago
Do you have perhaps some links/references on that? I have once tried benchmarking it by writing a tiny VM interpreter and a corresponding threaded one with direct jumps in Zig (which can force inline a call, so I could do efficient dir
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by kaba0 2y ago
With all due respect, you are way too hand-wavy about a topic you don’t want to learn more about. Maybe go at it with an open mind?
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by kaba0 2y ago
Ok, 4 hours vs 10. It is still the difference between not powering off between bringing it from one power source to another and an actually portable use-case.
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by kaba0 2y ago
Only if you are thinking about it on a small scale. If it will have a second iteration, which becomes a huge hit, then all that 10 billion R&D was happily spent.
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by kaba0 2y ago
I mean, the latter is basically OpenAI’s assistant, that has some APIs it can autonomously call. The open problem here is making it on-device, and privacy preserving. Though I’m optimistic about this, as Apple has bought up a huge number of
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by kaba0 2y ago
The M-serious brought an absolutely insanely big jump on the performance-energy efficiency graph, and that’s without doubt. Nothing came even remotely close to that before. Those ultrabooks were insanely expensive and had like 3 hours of ba
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by kaba0 3y ago
I don’t think it’s a fundamental property of single-char open/close delimiters. Like, try-with-resources, or scala/kotlin/groovy/etc-like blocks do let you specify specific initializers xor finalizers, but one might as w
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by kaba0 3y ago
> Which is part of the reason behind the huge popularity of Go in Asia I don’t get your point - what does Go do uniquely here?
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by kaba0 3y ago
In some countries (Austria), the company that you have a non-compete clause with should pay you a salary if you can’t reasonably be employed due to it. So it is not enforced most of the time.
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by kaba0 3y ago
The real world bank processes themselves are significantly more complicated than for any one person to hold it in their head. Simplification is important but only until the point it still completes 100% of the required functionality. Code
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by kaba0 3y ago
Favor composition over inheritance.
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by kaba0 3y ago
> Linux shell Just because it might come in handy for some: There is iSH for iphones, that emulate a whole x86 CPU to run a lean linux environment. I use it to ssh into servers and edit some txt/special files ios is too dumb to hand
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by kaba0 3y ago
How are throws non-local? They simply pop a stackframe, the exact same way as the `return` keyword. Then the calling method gets to decide what to do, exceptions just have an implicit “unwrap-or-return/bubble up”. Exceptions are nothi
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by kaba0 3y ago
Something being analogous to something else means, that there is a bidirectional function/mapping between the two. One can easily map any Result-typed expression to a checked exception one, and vice versa.
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by kaba0 3y ago
Repeating the same stuff won’t make it true.
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by kaba0 3y ago
> or put throws everywhere Or put Result/Error etc. type everywhere. It’s literally analogous.

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