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by kryptiskt 1y ago
R6RS has syntax-case macros which is superior to Common Lisp macros in every respect, they're both hygienic and can be used to implement a sloppy macro system if one so wishes.
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
So where is the product? Why haven't the vibecoders built a browser or a kernel or anything remotely ambitious? They have had years at this point. With their fabled productivity increase, making a better kernel than Linux in that time
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
An alternative doesn't have to match all capabilities of the current tech. It "only" has to be competitive in one niche, a la The Innovator's Dilemma. Then it can improve and scale from that beach head, like when CMOS we
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
Yes, but in a GUI debugger the stack and everything else is available all the time and you don't have to enter commands to see what the state is. It even highlights changes as you step. It's just so plainly superior to any termin
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
All the information is there, but the presentation isn't. You have to keep querying it while you're debugging. Sure, there are TUI debuggers that are more like GUI debuggers. Except that they are worse at everything compared to a
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
Having the code, the callstack, locals, your watched variables and expressions, the threads, memory, breakpoints and machine code and registers if needed available at a glance? As well as being able to dig deeper into data structures just b
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
Japan holds the record for the smallest rocket to reach orbit with the SS-520, which put a cubesat into orbit in 2018. Its dimensions according to Wikipedia: Height – 31 feet (9.54 meters) Weight – 2.9 tons (2.6 metric tons) Diameter – 20 i
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
I see this thing in the EU lately too. I hate it, how about a fund to spend on the local academic talent? Like, should the way to get a decent salary as an European academic in Europe be to get a job in the US so they can be headhunted with
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
SASL (the predecessor to Miranda) isn't statically typed, but it's very small and very much feels like a language in the ML tradition.
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
If we see farther away galaxies moving away at the same speed as nearby galaxies that means that all the expansion of the universe happens between us and the nearby galaxies (since the farther away galaxies wouldn't be moving away from
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
I'd think LLMs would be more dependent on compatibility than humans, since they need training data in bulk. Humans can adapt with a book and a list of language changes, and a lot of grumbling about newfangled things. But an LLM isn&#x2
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
Why do you assume it's a drag for them and not a competitive advantage? I don't know if it's such a terrible thing to use a slightly out of mainstream language, when the standard in the business is to accumulate tens of milli
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
Since RSS is a pretty simple format, it doesn't require any automation, just a little copy and paste. "Handwriting your RSS feed"[0] makes the case for doing it that way. [0] https://everest-pipkin.com/teachin
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
Fedora wasn't like that, it was spun out of Red Hat when they went enterprise only with RHEL.
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
They are fucking up the product that they are dominating a market with in order to be an also-ran in another market that's hot. It's Windows 8 all over again.
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
California's economy is so big because it's part of the American economy. California gets credited for Google, but most of the suckers clicking on ads and making Google rich aren't in California, most of Google's workers
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
The Magic Circle is selling itself as "the world's premier magic society", complete with titles. That's not a harmless men's club, excluding women from that makes it harder for them to make it as professional magici
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
The cycles are programming cycles, not clock cycles. Their stability measurement was 60,000 seconds.
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
Yes, I'd say the composability of commands is vi's key feature. I can't remember any but the most common shortcuts in other editors. In vi I get so much more bang for the buck since I have easy access to all the commands I re
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
I like CyberChef for having a whole bunch of such tools bundled into one page, and especially that you can string them together into a pipeline: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ Note: It's made by the UK equivale
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
They can offer humans in the loop, and those cost a lot. Like, a real live human will contact you and ask if you really want to transfer microsoft.com to Shady Shell Company (Bermuda) Ltd. Porkbun's pricing model is less attractive whe
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
You can hook it up to a cloud service, say an S3 bucket, and allocate storage space as needed. Then it fulfills the condition of unbounded memory, at the small price of unbounded cost. But it will not be a problem during your lifetime. If y
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
Like, say I have a data structure that is four bits wide (consisting of a couple of flags or something) and I want to make an array of them and access them randomly. What help do I get from C to do this? C says "fuck you".
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
C lacks sympathy with nearly all additions to hardware capabilities since the late 80s. And it's only with the addition of atomics that it earns the qualification of "nearly". The only thing that makes it appear as lower leve
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
No, I judge ChatGPT by the same standards as I judge humans. It's an inveterate liar, and I much prefer to deal with trustworthy sources of information even if they are slightly less convenient than that smarmy bullshitter.
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by kryptiskt 2y ago
Henry Petroski wrote a great book about the history of the pencil. There used to be a mine in Southern England which contained pure graphite, that was found in the 16th century. That graphite could just be cut into sticks and made into wri
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by kryptiskt 2y ago
Abstraction is necessary to handle scale. If you have painstakingly arrived at a working solution for a complex problem like say locking, you want to be able to package it up and use it throughout your codebase. C lacks mechanisms to do thi
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by kryptiskt 2y ago
Intel have fabs in the US, Israel and Asia. So it depends.
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by kryptiskt 2y ago
I'd have expected better from Warren Buffett. It's not a zero-sum game, the developed countries running chronic trade surpluses like Germany and Sweden (my home country) are fooling themselves, because the only way they can do tha
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by kryptiskt 2y ago
They love to waste government funds too when they can get their hands on some.

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