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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Julia is incredibly fascinating for me as a language to observe, although I haven't got the time/patience to try it out yet. Its language design seems incredibly progressive and yet pragmatic: they've repopularized dynamic di
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
My response's more about the dynamic execution side of things (latency & memory bloat of Julia). Static compilation is a whole different topic, but I'm confident that it can be solved with existing LLVM infrastructure (because
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
You're right, done some more research and there seems to be an interpreter in the compiler: https://github.com/JuliaDebug/JuliaInterpreter.jl . It's only enabled by explicitly adding annotations in your code,
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Yeah, though the solution for it basically seems to be "throw out all the previous code that was highly coupled with LLVM and actually write our own fast JIT compiler and interpreter from the ground up". It's possible, but pr
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
A side note: wow Dijkstra really has some top-notch handwriting.
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Yes, that's the moment you finally accept that reality is just plain shit sometimes, but you need to deal with it and move on.
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
I don't think this is an inherent problem of having a compiled dynamic (in other words, JITted) language. Things like Javascript (V8) and Lua (LuaJIT) manages to have fast startup times while having exceptional performance in hot paths
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Although the comment was written as a half-joke, it's an incredibly obtuse and specific South Korean reference that others might not know, and I thought it would be fun to post about it.
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
About Blender... I think the reason has more to do with the stagnation of animation/modelling tools since the monopoly of Autodesk has taken place. Maya seem to be getting more and more bloated throughout the years without any substant
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Though from a few videos it's got an incredibly primitive UI that mainly uses the side buttons instead of the big touchscreen. The interface seems much more apt for a feature phone than a smartphone. (Though I realize there can be some
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Holy shit... By the way, there's a weird-ass Korean adult animation about a dystopian world that has (tried to) solve their energy crisis by burning human feces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachi_%26_Ssipak htt
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
I would disagree with the “No ads, no bullshit” part though…
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
I think graphical fidelity can also be part of usability. Artists always seem to complain about things like waiting for baking lights to finish, shadows having weird artifacts, lighting not appearing naturally and have to resort to using ha
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
This has been repeatedly said throughout Godot’s development history, but there are several crucial reasons as why the team was motivated to create their own scripting language. From the FAQ ( https://docs.godotengine.org/en&
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
I tried to use it since I desperately needed a standalone renderer in C++ that is better than my hand-rolled one. Turns out that it only supports Clang and not GCC (it depends on libc++ instead of libstdc++, which generates tons of ABI issu
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Oh, I've mistaken usb-c for thunderbolt, you're right.
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
For me, the existence of a usable screen and keyboard is far more important than raw specs. (Maybe it's fine if you're the type of developer who always brings your HHKB and secondary portable monitor with you...)
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Nah, 4TB disk drives are not that expensive.
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
It doesn't have a keyboard and a comfortably-large-enough screen though. You would be better off using a Chromebook with Crostini for less than that price.
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
It's using a custom AMD APU, so I estimate it would be probably a bit weaker than Ryzen 7 5700G's integrated GPU (1.6 TFLOPS advertised vs 2.1 TFLOPs for 5700G). Though the performance may get a lot worse if you're using it o
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
The device has a USB-C port so I think it will probably work. People have been successful connecting up their eGPUs to the GPD Win 3 (which is a similar device)
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
The screen's as big as the largest model for Nintendo Switch, I think the hardware is fine. The problem is that most PC games are optimized for higher resolution and screen size (especially the 4x or strategy ones), and unlike Nintendo
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
Although this is a pretty niche case - this might be a godsend to those who have too many little indie games piled up in their library and actually want to finish some of those in commute. The hardware doesn't seem to be apt for the la
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
I wonder if they would touch the Linux kernel a bit to improve things on power management. Vanilla Linux doesn't seem to provide good battery life for portable devices (at least, if we look at laptops.)
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
In fact, Roman gold currency was invented primarily to pay the troops. As a result gold as a currency only circulated around regions where the military was fighting, and in peaceful areas far from warfare the usual methods of debts and IOUs
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
In fact, the military (and the police) is what actually enforces national currency in the utmost top level. Look what happens if you don’t pay your taxes (which is a way to enforce usage of a currency), you’ll be arrested and will go to jai
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
> 1.3 is just collapse Concerned about the fertility rate being 1.3? That’s too mild, no match against the godly number of 0.84 from South Korea! Ah, our country’s really fucked.
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
As a South Korean, I can confidently say that nobody actually gives a shit about these rules, there are too many ways to circumvent around it, and as a result people don't think they're that "oppressed" from it. (Read my
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
There's a well-known open secret that every kid in South Korea have perfectly memorized either their mom or dad's citizen ID (the full 13 digits). There's also a statistic that the distribution of age in kid's popular on
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by lasagnaphil 5y ago
This also seems like a good choice if you're training a model in a headless server via SSH and just want to plot out some data fast.

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