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by lioeters 5mo ago
It's true that Zig is very readable. I haven't yet seriouly studied or written much of it, but browsing through codebases of popular Zig projects, a lot of it just makes sense intuitively. In that way it has a Python-like friendli
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Just wanted to write a positive encouraging word, even if you might not see it. I for one know that you're a good, kind, and brilliant person - maybe misguided politically, or manic and difficult at times, but you're doing great s
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> grammer Say less fam.
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It's been at least a solid decade of the Linux desktop, it's just not evenly distributed yet.
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Thoroughly enjoyed this interview. Zig is blessed with a project lead who is a real one, a person with principles. Respect.
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What an article, richly illustrated with diagrams, going deep into technical details to squeeze 4x performance improvement. The knowledge and experience that took to write this is worth gold. It might benefit the world if there was philanth
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"..How about infinity plus one! Or infinite infinities!" -- Every child who learns about infinity for the first time, but also serious mathematicians in philosophical struggle with the truth. And Cantor, may the angels soothe his
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It's alarming how people are willing to overlook the obvious in-your-face sloppiness of the Bun rewrite. A million lines of code in 9 days, pushed to main branch, forced on the existing userbase irresponsibly. Nobody understands the co
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by lioeters 5mo ago
What I find so strange about the awe and horror of the atom bomb, its utter power and violence, is how it was the result of decades - well, centuries - of abstract thinking in mathematics and theoretical physics. And how it required particu
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by lioeters 5mo ago
Pretty sure there's an implicit dynamic where the more someone uses AI, the more you require AI to understand and work with what it produced. If everyone around you is using AI, you are pressured to use AI to keep up with their level o
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by lioeters 5mo ago
After getting burned so many times on libraries, frameworks, services and platforms, even entire languages - one learns to be wary of critical dependencies. Every new project offers convenience in exchange for you giving up control of part
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Node.js TypeScript: The future of –experimental-transform-types(github.com)
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"The European philosophical tradition consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
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A variation of that joke is used in Zen Buddhism as a teaching story. A famous monk, who lived in voluntary poverty in a mountain hut, wakes up in the middle of the night because a robber had broken in - except the robber couldn't find
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by lioeters 5mo ago
That part you quoted was interesting to me too. I remember once re-reading the incompleteness theorems - where it talks about a "finite set of axioms", it seemed there may be a loophole if we can imagine a theoretically infinite s
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Fascinating, in-depth technical details about a major architectural change in compiler internals.
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Pretty sure that's a typo, I think they meant "not unusual". Otherwise it sounds like a strange sentence construction.
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> origin of the universe? Creatio ex nihilo. > consciousness? Ditto. It's actually the same question.
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That's brilliant. Can't beat the convenience of a single-file executable!
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Slow-clap with one hand.
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Ex-CEO of Google telling a crowd of young graduates entering society, "You will work for AI." Then trying to counter the boos with remarks like: "If you get offered a chance to ride on the rocket ship, you don't ask ques
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by lioeters 5mo ago
Really enjoyed that article, thanks for the link. I agree there can be a bubble and a genuine paradigm shift at the same time. We're going through our first wave of attempts, more or less wrong, but the general direction is right, that
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by lioeters 5mo ago
> only solution appears to be "even more AI" That's the idea, to transform businesses to be wholly dependent on "AI" service to develop software. What better way than to re/write entire codebases until no hu
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That would have been the proper way to port a codebase to another language, by parsing the syntax tree and applying deterministic and verified transformations.
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I reviewed the million lines of code added in a week, and I'm horrified. Not running that thing on my machine.
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Captured by revolving doors.
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"Why experts fail to X", written by a non-expert.
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Emotions are not only biological stimulii but a culturally conditioned experience . When people say a culture has words for certain emotions that don't exist in other cultures - it means a person's culture, including language, sh
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> inserted 3D objects in the demo above are actually from the TempleOS codebase itself Brilliant. The dream lives on! This is the best form of paying respects. It's walking a fine line between madness and genius, and who knows if it
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> 640kB is fine How refreshing to hear this kind of old-school hacker thinking, in a thread where most people have given up on local computing in exchange for convenience and permanent third-party dependency. With embedded systems afford

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