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by klodolph 2y ago
There’s a breed of programmers around who just like making things harder for themselves, and are somehow good at it. It’s like being a competitive power lifter or something like that. More weight, more weight, and at some point you get exc
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by klodolph 2y ago
Roku’s pending demise—it seemed apparent to me back when my Roku 4 was EOL’ed. Seemed like there was some kind of battle over streaming channels and some apps weren’t available. I understand the Roku 4 EOL was a little early due to some qui
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by klodolph 2y ago
I guess you’re saying “not capable of understanding a brilliant language” = “stupid”? This equivalence seems obviously wrong to me. Even if you believe that anyone not capable of writing Rust or Haskell is stupid, it doesn’t mean that Rob
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by klodolph 2y ago
Exactly my point! I don’t think anyone can reasonably look at that quote and think “He thinks the programmers are too stupid.”
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by klodolph 2y ago
These digs at Go are so vacuous. You don’t just drop a union type into a language with some syntax and semantics. There’s an impact on how the runtime works. Every language’s design is somewhat impacted by runtime considerations. For Go, th
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by klodolph 2y ago
> The standard implementation is pretty simple: the different variants of a sum have a tag that tells the runtime which variant they are, and hence where to find pointers. That won’t work in Go, because it would not be safe. You would ne
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by klodolph 2y ago
I see these kinds of hateful comments repeated on HN all the time, and these comments disgust me. Why phrase the criticism in such an incendiary way? What’s the goal here?
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by klodolph 2y ago
The problem is that you can’t really make this work within the runtime in the way you think it would work. The runtime relies on being able to figure out where pointers and non-pointers are. When you assign to a union, you’re not just chang
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by klodolph 2y ago
Start with 150 V instead. You probably don’t need voltages that high. DIYers can stick with 200 V or something reasonable. The remaining people who deal with 450 V are probably servicing guitar amps. Plate voltages can exceed much more th
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by klodolph 2y ago
Tubes have a limited lifetime, but high-reliability, long-life tubes were developed specifically for digital circuits. One such development was a change in alloys for the filaments. It turns out that the filaments were made from a tungsten
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by klodolph 2y ago
> Vacuum Tubes require high voltages to work efficiently and are not for the faint hearted. People used to build vacuum tube circuits on breadboards at home back in the 1950s. They seem pretty frightening by today’s standards, but they’r
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by klodolph 2y ago
Ah yes. If he dies.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Yeah… I want to think of it like mining, where you’ve found an ore vein. You have to switch from prospecting to mining. There’s a lot of work to be done by integrating our LLMs and other tools with other systems, and I think the cost/b
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by klodolph 2y ago
> I was able to read the StarCraft manual on the bus to school, car rides, waiting rooms. If the info had been locked in the game itself, in some kind of sub-menu, I never would have read through it, because I was playing the game. Kind
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by klodolph 2y ago
What era were you doing this in? I love looking at these old manuals but every era was different. I think the decline is kinda obvious… the manual is an expense, most people don’t want to read it, and it’s better to make the game explain it
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by klodolph 2y ago
Plenty of assembly files do not use the C preprocessor. It turns out that assemblers have their own macro system.
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by klodolph 2y ago
I guess I hit a nerve.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Why would you not just use the odometer reading? Cars get sold, eventually. You put the odometer reading on the paperwork to transfer the car. Check that against tax records. Purchaser has incentive to check that the recorded mileage is cor
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by klodolph 2y ago
This has been clear from the data for a long time.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Makefiles are kind of fragile and they barely get the job done. They’re error-prone to write—even experienced programmers often end up with dependencies in their makefiles which are incorrectly specified, or you end up using stale intermedi
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by klodolph 2y ago
It lacks explicatory power past the triad. Sure, if you look at major triads only, and ignore extended harmony, it works fine. But it’s also not that useful if you look only at triads, because there just aren’t that many triads.
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by klodolph 2y ago
Counterpoint didn’t have “chords” anyway.
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by klodolph 2y ago
> If you accept a physical basis for fifths (by virtue of the harmonic series) then surely it's not a major leap (no pun intended) from that to thirds? It’s not a leap to go from the fifth (as an interval, two notes) to the major tr
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by klodolph 2y ago
That’s a historical, cultural foundation for thirds—exactly the point I am making.
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by klodolph 2y ago
The harmonic series really, really does not explain why harmony comes in thirds. The minor 7 is not in the harmonic series. It’s just not there. This is not a nitpick or a quibble—the minor 7 is just a completely different interval, separat
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by klodolph 2y ago
“Your ears interpret them in terms of their relationship to thirds” I don’t really see a basis for this one. I think if we really dig into it, the use of thirds is somewhat arbitrary and has more of a historical basis to it than any other f
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by klodolph 2y ago
Definitely. I think people using MkDocs should use Material as their first choice.
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by klodolph 2y ago
> So when the generated asm is the same between the abstraction and the non-abstraction version, wheres the cost? The generated asm isn’t the same. There’s also a presupposition here that you know what the non-abstracted version would lo
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by klodolph 2y ago
That’s way off from what I meant, maybe I can clarify what I’m saying here. You should consider the people who deploy to systems like S3+Cloudfront when designing your static site generator. Too many systems are just designed to be served
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by klodolph 2y ago
Opinions—Hugo or Jekyll for blogs. Yes, that Jekyll! Hugo gives you more rope to shoot yourself in the foot with. MkDocs or Docusaurus for documentation. MdBook is not in the running, IMO, unless it’s radically improved since the last time

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