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by kibwen 3mo ago
I'm afraid I don't see how the linked comment demonstrates the positive utility of QC.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Ironically, given that the primary use case for developing quantum computers is breaking classical encryption, switching en-masse to post-quantum schemes may very well ensure that developing a working quantum computer may never be economica
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by kibwen 3mo ago
You won't end up with a mix in the same program unless the code that you're using to parse the config is deliberately written to allow a mix, which no sane code owner would allow. And even if it did, that still wouldn't be en
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by kibwen 3mo ago
All scalar types other than strings (especially nonsense like datetimes). I'm already ingesting the configuration file as a string and parsing it into a language with actual types, e.g. Rust, and the act of parsing it into my defined c
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Seconded. Your configuration should be a simple declarative language with no Turing-complete escape hatches. Turing-complete configuration languages are the devil. That goes for build systems too: if you absolutely need Turing-completeness
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Given how many murders are committed against one's spouse, there ought to be.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
This makes no sense. Valve can already just advertise the Steam Machine on the homepage, the page that everyone sees when they open Steam. They don't need to manipulate any rankings on the top-sellers list, the page that no ordinary pe
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Very interesting, it didn't occur to me that hardware products would show up on Steam's top-sellers list. At this rate, the Steam Machine will probably turn out to be a modest success. Remember, it's a PC, not a console. Unli
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by kibwen 3mo ago
The friendly, generous humans who resoundingly endorse the corrupt Ken Paxton's actions and will overwhelmingly vote for him to serve them in the senate this year? Actions speak louder than words. With friends like Texans, who needs en
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by kibwen 3mo ago
> space isn't a lot slower than terrestrial But it depreciates faster. That fiber run is lasting for 50 years, not 5. You need 10x the installation capacity just to keep up.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
The physics problem regarding radiator arrays isn't unsolved, but it's not a problem that scales up gracefully. Small-scale radiators could get by via passive cooling, but large-scale radiators need active cooling, and now you nee
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by kibwen 3mo ago
The purpose of an optimizing compiler is not merely to produce efficient assembly. The goal of an optimizing compiler is to produce efficient assembly while confidently preserving a program's observable logical semantics. Asking an LLM
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Not sure if you've seen the price of silver, but those spoons are going for a pretty penny these days.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
I wouldn't quite go that far. The fact that markets can remain irrational longer than participants can remain solvent means that participants with deeper pockets have an inherent advantage, even if they have less information. How quick
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Now we're just having a semantic argument over the word "expressiveness", which is not especially interesting; see https://chrispenner.ca/posts/expressiveness-spectrum . My argument above remains true re
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by kibwen 3mo ago
I don't know either, but if we visualize the RGB color space as a triangle that is entirely contained within the weird shape that represents the set of all colors the human eye can perceive ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by kibwen 3mo ago
The Civ III manual was 242 pages long: https://archive.org/details/Civilization_3_-_Manual/mode/2up
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by kibwen 3mo ago
A language is more expressive when it allows more programs and less expressive when it allows fewer programs. I don't know zig-clr, but if it rejects programs that Zig accepts (for example, by rejecting the aforementioned ambiguous poi
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by kibwen 3mo ago
SPARK omits some features of Ada, so it would only reinforce the sentiment that bolting on verifiability after-the-fact is difficult. Expressivity is generally the antithesis of static analysis, and it's very easy and tempting to make
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by kibwen 3mo ago
As long as you're fine with losing your distinctive voice (which should be taken as table stakes for people who value anonymity to the extent of worrying about this), it's perfectly reasonable to use tools to stymie stylometry. I&
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by kibwen 3mo ago
The interfaces to custom allocators are more idiomatic, standardized, and normalized in Zig, but there's nothing systematically unsafer about the Rust equivalent. You can use custom allocators all you want in Rust, as long as you'
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Not quite, it's also about transferring money to the Saudi princes who financed his buyout of Twitter.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
> It's a scam only if you think the stock market in general is a scam. So in other words, yes, it's a scam.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
It's utterly mortifying. I would have been having an out-of-body experience if I was in attendance at such a wedding. If it had been my own wedding, I'd have been livid at the insult.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Nice try, but our password is the same as the password to my HN account, and for security HN automatically censors your password if you type it in a comment. See: *******
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Curated by whom? If you want to curate a language package manager, there's nobody stopping you. Curation is a product that can trivially be built on top of an allow-by-default platform. If you want to make "NPM, except we've
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Two years until... what, exactly?
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by kibwen 3mo ago
This comparison is tiresome. Distro package managers are curated, language package managers are not. They're serving completely different use cases; the former is the App Store, the latter is the web.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Whatever happens, I can assure you that the Ellisons will remain multi-billionaires and the American taxpayer will manage to end up poorer, courtesy of their friend in the White House.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Both Google's and Apple's app stores are 99% slop by volume, so no, it's not working.

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