klodolph

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by klodolph 7d ago
The particulars of Rust make this a little more difficult, I think. There’s a certain tension between making your language more concise and adding useful redundancies, and Rust has generally gone to the “concise” side, with some redundancie
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by klodolph 8d ago
CLAUDE.md: @AGENTS.md
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by klodolph 10d ago
I think what’s worse is flash lifespan. You can recap, but can you find replacements for failed flash? Can you reimage it with the correct data? Can you even access the flash, which may be buried inside a chip somewhere? Plastic may get bri
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by klodolph 14d ago
> you are doing something quite unnatural It is equally unnatural to form kana in your head when thinking about how to say something! Or, it’s unnatural to think about whether a verb is godan or ichidan when speaking, it’s unnatural to t
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by klodolph 14d ago
I don’t want to be argumentative here, but, - “Need to” is a very different criterion from “is useful”, and “visually split” is, well, kind of unexpected to me! - The comparison to native Japanese speakers seems especially irrelevant here,
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by klodolph 14d ago
I have trouble comprehending the idea that this is only interesting in a theoretical sense but not all that useful to a learner. Could you give me something additional here? I’m not trying to be a dick here but my first reaction is “that’s
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by klodolph 14d ago
The pair is something of a simplification, and romaji makes certain things in the language more obvious. Like the good old mat-u -> mat-anai, mat-imasu, mat-eru. Added the hyphen to make it clearer, but this hyphen splits a kana neatly i
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by klodolph 14d ago
If you want to learn pronunciation you should be listening to audio. Sure, maybe don’t force people to learn kana first. But Hepburn is kind of the worst of all worlds, it is just a waste of time to learn Hepburn.
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by klodolph 14d ago
> Also "serious Japanese learners" would likely be using kana. I think the exception is people using the JSL textbooks :) there is a reasonable defense to using JSL. But you’re right. I think it’s indefensible to teach Hepburn
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by klodolph 15d ago
Well-put
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by klodolph 15d ago
I think this comment could be written in a way that was less combative and more clear.
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by klodolph 15d ago
I’m interested to hear what file manager you’re using.
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by klodolph 17d ago
> Don't close your mind to new knowledge and it might just get interested! Please be respectful in these conversations—I’m interested in hearing more about this, but the comments you’ve been making are emotionally charged and insult
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by klodolph 17d ago
To be honest, a lot of these seem to have the shape, “I want to be able to press button A to do action X,” but for the Finder, you have to press button B instead. I was hoping for something a little more interesting. Things like, “In a Real
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by klodolph 19d ago
What do you like about the other file managers over the Finder? Finder has column view and quicklook. If there’s something that I’m missing out on from, say, Explorer or Thunar or whatever, I’d love to hear it. Whenever I have to sort throu
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by klodolph 19d ago
As a Mac user since the 1980s, I feel feel like Finder is easily best in class, even after ten or fifteen years of design. I would describe Windows Explorer as “embarrassingly bad” in comparison, despite having a good hold on the shortcuts.
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by klodolph 21d ago
> Try it yourself, use a big model like Opus or Sol to implement everything by first making a plan using plan mode. When I do this, I can have it use cheap subagents with models like Luna to read the relevant files.
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by klodolph 26d ago
C++ lambdas and Go closures are incompatible with each other. If you pick something that lets C call Go closures (which are fat pointers passed around), it is likely to be incompatible with whatever your C++ library is doing.
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by klodolph 27d ago
I think it’s foreseeable that if you use the LLM to commit work you’ve written, it might cause problems with attribution. In general I assume that attribution to AI is approximate. People copy-paste things out of chats and those don’t get a
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by klodolph 27d ago
I may be missing something, but this is exactly what I want as a default. I want the session links there. I see PRs from my coworkers with session links. I still get to control whether other people can see the session, but I don’t lose it.
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by klodolph 27d ago
> I do not see why we need to make any design decision to specify object layout > we simply need a code pointer and static chain pair The code pointer and chain pair needs an object layout. You would have to pick a specific layout, an
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by klodolph 28d ago
This feature would IMO violate the contract that C allows you to specify memory layout of objects, to some level of detail (I am being a little vague about the “level of detail”). Supporting closures, more or less, requires design decisions
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by klodolph 28d ago
Yes, but the advice was W^X. Either a page of memory is executable or writable but not both at the same time.
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by klodolph 28d ago
Yes, that’s the “ABI” alternative that I was referring to.
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by klodolph 28d ago
It’s not a question of ISA support. If you call via a function pointer, how do you supply the pointer to the data? (It has to either be in a separate place from the function code, or the same place. One requires an ABI change, the other an
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by klodolph 29d ago
Feels like there are a few categories of services from cloud providers, There’s the basic infrastructure we know and love like S3, EC2, etc. There’s the higher level but still basic stuff that just makes a lot of sense. I like ECS + Fargate
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by klodolph 1mo ago
I take breaks from AI agents and write a percentage of commits purely by hand, partly to keep experiencing the flow state, partly because I think I need the expertise.
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by klodolph 1mo ago
Speaking of gear, there are also a lot of people who will go out and spend $440 on a SM-7b, and then use it to record somebody (1) not saying interesting (2) who doesn’t have good speaking skills (3) in a room which doesn’t sound good (4) w
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by klodolph 1mo ago
I likewise used to bring a backpack full of gear, but I think the experience of traveling and taking pictures over and over again with the Big Nice Camera did a lot to hone my skills as a photographer. I have photos I’m genuinely happy with
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by klodolph 2mo ago
Well, that’s half of it, and the other half of it is no sub-pixel coordinates.

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