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by laserbeam 2y ago
About a decade ago… I was all up in the craze of checking out different chat platforms and going for the most secure one. Back then, Signal was BY FAR the least stable. I kept loosing messages, had loads of problems using it on both my phon
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by laserbeam 2y ago
Is there any intermediate representation of the project that gets dumped to disk which could be used as a basis for an LSP? I know the need for an lsp drops significantly with fast compilation… yet this still feels like it might improve the
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by laserbeam 2y ago
> (and to unblock updating to the latest Zig version, which we've use for our stdlib for years) It's somewhere in the middle of the list of the "Why now?" section.
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by laserbeam 2y ago
This statement assumes all costs and losses involved in the experiment were “for nothing”. I highly doubt that’s the case.
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by laserbeam 2y ago
>> And I buy this stuff. Every time I need customer service and I'm getting stonewalled I just go onto a marketplace, find an exec and buy their details for pennies and call them up on their cellphone. I find it funny how easy it
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by laserbeam 2y ago
It's new. It's led by a star dev. It has sane defaults. It's written in a new programming language, so devs can learn from it if they're interested in the language (there are only a handful production ready projects writ
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by laserbeam 2y ago
> Is it completely removed from Sublime Text? Of course not. I was just describing 2 different levels of coolness.
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by laserbeam 2y ago
Cool, but git integration in the editor was also cool until SublimeHQ decided to spin out a dedicated client for it. The only debugger I'm happy with right now (in terms of performance/features) is RemedyBG, but it's windows
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by laserbeam 2y ago
Is there any chance we'd see a Sublime Debug? Loved Sublime Text and Sublime Merge. The main thing I'm missing in my life is a really good and fast cross platform UI for a LOT of debugger backends. (I tend to works with a lot of p
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by laserbeam 2y ago
The remarkable team is good at marketing their product, and of course they’ll get it “calm certified” if they can. Keep in mind there are plenty of alternatives to it (boox, supernote, kindle scribe, many more). I bet you 90% of them are ju
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by laserbeam 2y ago
People use screen readers for accessibility. I would not expect anyone to be able to "look for and find" your mp3... I would instead expect them to use the tool they normally use for accessibility. The real question is "what
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by laserbeam 2y ago
And when I don't care... to be honest I'm even OK with the dull browser TTS implementation when reading your average substack post. Shove the phone in my pocket, go shopping, get the jist of the article.
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by laserbeam 2y ago
On the one hand, this is very convenient. Probably cool for some non-fiction. On the other, some of my favorite audio books all stood out because the narrator was interpreting the text really well, for example by changing the pacing during
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by laserbeam 2y ago
So, the point is to make CLIs discoverable and aid with writing commands? Cool! Here's what's missing. A persistent view of what the user is actually typing. The menus are all nice, but if this is fancy autocomplete I always want
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by laserbeam 2y ago
My point is that analogy is influenced by fiction. It is too easy to attach concepts from fiction to the double slit experiment. Saying things like "which outcome your reality follows" are humane experiences overlapped on to the e
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by laserbeam 2y ago
I think the "parallel universe" analogies are misleading at best. I actually think most "narrative" explanations of quantum physics are as well. For a long time I used to imagine quantum physics with the same language we
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by laserbeam 2y ago
Whenever I ask a musician at a concert how to best support them, they tell me to buy a tshirt instead of a CD. That is bonkers.
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by laserbeam 2y ago
Tidal still has support for DJ software. I know that’s niche, but it matters to me.
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by laserbeam 2y ago
I stay on Spotify because Tidal's search is bad. Whenever I fire it up and search for music I literally have to type the full artist name sometimes. If I'm off by 1 letter it will often not find the song for me. This is especially
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by laserbeam 2y ago
Does anyone here work at Tidal? Hi there. Tidal... The only reason I still use Spotify is that your search is quite bad. I would love it to be more fuzzy and include approximate results so I can actually find music in it. I have to be TOO e
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by laserbeam 2y ago
As a kagi early adopter… why would I bug report on a feature I actively avoid using? I can totally recommend search to anyone, but I agree with others in this chat that most toys feel beta. I’m glad to have them but can’t recommend them. Fo
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by laserbeam 2y ago
That's my question. I'm also under the impression that optimizations CAN be made manyally, but I find it surprising that "current compilers aren't smart enought to find them" isn't improving
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by laserbeam 2y ago
"enabling frame pointers is a 1-2% performance loss, which translates to the loss of about 1 or 2 years of compiler improvements" Wait, are we really that close to the maximum of what a compiler can optimize that we're gettin
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by laserbeam 2y ago
Having a few eink readers/tablets, I can say that I almost never care about battery life. You end up charging them once a week or two anyway. I never look at battery stats for them because it almost never ends up important in practice.
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by laserbeam 2y ago
I "love" that almost everything I want to see in a browser (content, shops) wants me to install an app, and almost everything I want to have as an app (tools, editors, email... MS Office is the biggest offender here in my books) w
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by laserbeam 2y ago
Can you even win a war without winning some battles? I joke there… but keys assume you have the research on the topic, then how do you answer if you want to fight a battle and give out an answer? The way I read the article it doesn’t talk a
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by laserbeam 2y ago
Certain classes of programs should be built as ReleaseSafe rather than ReleaseFast to keep many of the runtime checks. It's perfectly reasonable to write a database and build as ReleaseSafe, but also make a game and build it as Release
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by laserbeam 2y ago
Love this! It feels like the album art could make use of some cool dithering algorithm instead of a simple black/white filter. Something in the style of Return of the Obra Dinn.
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by laserbeam 2y ago
I’d wager the furniture industry is currently responsible for a significant % of anual deforestation, which as far as I know isn’t regrowing fast enough. An approach like this could benefit from crops which are not productive for humanity o
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by laserbeam 2y ago
I’m skimming through this and it feels like a well thought out research proposal with concrete next steps. My thermodynamics is too bad to comment on the approach but it looks cool. As long as setting up experiments for it is reasonable in

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