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by kragen 10mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but with LLVM on Wasm, I think casting a function pointer to the wrong type will result in you calling some totally unrelated function of the correct type? That sounds like the opposite of safety to me. I agre
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by kragen 10mo ago
I think it's universally agreed at this point that OO didn't provide the order of magnitude improvement in software development velocity that Jobs was touting. I do think ObjC is more flexible than C or C++.
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by kragen 10mo ago
The Apple's technical quality was head and shoulders above the other PCs of the epoch. It did much more with less hardware than its contemporaries like Altair, IMSAI, Osborne, Kaypro, TRS-80, Heathkit, the PET, the Atari 400, the TI-99
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by kragen 10mo ago
That is not correct. Objective-C has a completely different OO system from C++. All they have in common is that they're both extended subsets of C. Retain/release are also not smart pointers; Objective-C doesn't have the C+
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by kragen 10mo ago
I think the claim was not that the NS* API of NextStep was "10× more productive" but that the Objective-C programming language was. Objective-C is fantastic at calling existing C APIs. It's even easier than doing it in C# o
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by kragen 10mo ago
Taking a shit contributes a lot to human welfare, too. That doesn't make it technology.
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by kragen 10mo ago
Oh, thanks! I stand corrected.
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by kragen 10mo ago
Do you mean "just this week"?
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by kragen 10mo ago
Holy shit, this is amazing. I had no idea anything like this ever existed.
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by kragen 10mo ago
Thanks!
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by kragen 10mo ago
Alternative archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20130927070227/http://rampantgam...
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by kragen 10mo ago
The popular notion that "Kodak invented the thing that killed them" is basically nonsense. Steve Sasson's tale of technical struggle in 01975 at Kodak is real, but dozens of other people were doing the same thing at the same
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by kragen 10mo ago
He usually garbles the scientific theory in his videos, but I trust that he's honestly reporting his experiments, and that his theoretical errors are honest mistakes rather than intentional attempts to mislead. You should be aware that
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by kragen 10mo ago
It would be very surprising if that were true, given the LWIR emittances in the NASA paper cited in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46212591 . I totally believe that you can get significant percentage improvements with
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by kragen 10mo ago
Thank you for finding this! I was wrong, and I'm pleased that the product is in fact what the great-grandparent claimed. And the NASA publication is very helpful for putting this in context.
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by kragen 10mo ago
Thanks, that's staggering!
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by kragen 10mo ago
BSD and Linux seem to be fine for the average person. I wouldn't recommend TempleOS.
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by kragen 10mo ago
If he succeeds, perhaps you shouldn't care. If he fails, you should care, because that means that the average person will certainly fail. They will lose the cancer test results on their iPhone, the job they use the iPhone for, possib
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by kragen 10mo ago
Probably worth reading Doctorow's "Scroogled": https://craphound.com/scroogled.html Centralization of power in unaccountable organizations has always been a recipe for disaster. I could suggest some slogans:
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by kragen 11mo ago
"So what" is that Intel is making things ASML can't, things nobody has done before, and they have to try things that might not work in order to make things nobody yet knows how to make. Just to survive, they have to do thing
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by kragen 11mo ago
No, as I explained, it's based on the resulting increase in human capacities and improvement in human welfare. Technology is a collaborative, progressive endeavor in which we advance a skill (techne), generation by generation, through
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by kragen 11mo ago
So should we be talking about how "those democratic people" put everyone who disagrees with them in concentration camps because that's what the Democratic People's Republic of Korea does? There are, of course, extreme-ri
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by kragen 11mo ago
Yes, but it works at night! Not sure if you can get the MTBF on Stirling engines higher than on LFP batteries, though.
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by kragen 11mo ago
This is the opposite. It says, "Refelects [sic] 90% of solar infrared rays," because of its "High IR reflective Pigments [sic]," so its emissivity in the infrared is 0.1, but the IR-selective paints we're talking a
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by kragen 11mo ago
IIRC, the papers they're working from mention that lime works very nearly as well as the baryta they're using. Guess what people have been painting their houses white with for several thousand years?
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by kragen 11mo ago
Wow, that's awesome, and a much bigger temperature difference than I would have guessed. Did you get frost?
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by kragen 11mo ago
You mean, in 01999? I'd have to see that, because my recollection of that time is that JIT was generally considered unproven (and Java slow). That was 9 years before Chrome shipped the first JavaScript JIT, for example. The only exi
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by kragen 11mo ago
Because Reuters and NPR consist of journalists, and if US consular officials were denying visas to people due to having worked in journalism, they would not be implying that with subtle innuendoes; it would be front-page news on NPR, Reuter
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by kragen 11mo ago
Fraud detection is a Red Queen's race. If the amount of resources that goes into fraud detection and fraud commission grows by 10×, 100×, 1000×, the resulting increase in human capacities and improvement in human welfare will be nil.
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by kragen 11mo ago
If your database of software projects has a thousand web browsers in it, you have to ask why all those programmers couldn't work together and write just ten or fifteen web browsers; maybe they're hobbyists who are reinventing the

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