lachlan-sneff

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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
Err, what?
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
I think this is a pretty solid acquisition by google. I have doubts that the tech from North will be able to match the tech in the "upcoming" apple ar glasses, but things will probably eventually match up, like Android and iOS.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
I hate this perspective. Aging and imminent death aren't valuable. This is a view popularized by "deathists" and those paralyzed by fear of death.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
This is ridiculous. Your code will just have to support multiple architectures, which is very easy with modern languages and tooling.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
That code in the comment above isn't actually rust. It's a lisp, I believe. In Rust, you'd write something more like: fn f(x: &[i32]) -> bool { match x { [x, y, _] if x == y => true, _
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
I wonder if advancements in semiconductor manufacturering will eventually help bootstrap molecular nanotechnology.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
There's no way to distribute really lightweight thunks of arbitrary code. Maybe WASM can work here, especially if you shape the standard APIs in the right way. You'd also need built-in support in tooling and compilers, where you c
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
Wow, that is fascinating. This should absolutely be pursued further.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
I haven't had time to read the book yet, but the web version of it is just so beautifully displayed. So, kudos for that :)
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
Now we just need an adaptation of Revelation Space and my life will be complete.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
Musk's most recent estimate of the eventual cost per kg on starship was 10 usd/kg. He may be considered an unreliable source at this point, however.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
Yeah, I wish wasm had more support for pure programming. Of course, state can be constrained, but it's pretty heavyweight.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
It's not an actual "kernel". It's an application that hides all hardware specifics from applications that run inside it. Or something like that, I have no idea.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
I think the many of the ideas behind Urbit are exciting, but I don’t think it’s putting itself in a good position. It’s just too weird. If it used WebAssembly instead of some small, functional bytecode, you’d lose some beauty perhaps, but i
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
Rust can easily do the same.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
I wish they hadn't picked go. Go isn't a bad language really, but it's a huge pain to integrate a go library into an app written in another language.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
Wow, this is really interesting. I bet that there's a way of doing this robustly by streaming wasm modules instead of full executables to every server in the cluster.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
This is absolutely true.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
Yes, compute shaders will enable slightly more ability to do computations that are less parallel than just fragment shaders can handle.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
I think that wasm potentially has a great future for cross-platform binaries. Eventually, hopefully, the same code that can run in a browser will be able to run natively on linux or macos without recompiling. A major blocker for this is tha
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
I was the president of 4027 at the time.
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by lachlan-sneff 6y ago
This will be a lot more useful if we get terminal access as well, even if it's just to a sandbox or container and the ability to link compiled libraries in other languages to our code in this version of xcode.
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
I was in FIRST in high-school. It was a great experience and we were on the alliance that won the Detroit competition in 2018, so that made it even better.
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
I feel completely different. I think I would be happy if I had free time, but my university is giving me more work to do now and finding the motivation to study is very difficult.
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
What a beautiful page.
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
Totally possible through convergent assembly.
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CellView – Tool for rendering biological scenes with billions of atoms at 60 Hz(cg.tuwien.ac.at)
1 points by lachlan-sneff 7y ago|0 comments
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
Are you calling the software the "matter compiler" or is a "matter compiler"/"nanofactory" an eventual end goal of the project?
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
Unrelated to this thread, but are you still working on the matter compiler project?
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
One step down, 1e6 steps to go.

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