louthy

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by louthy 3y ago
The games industry has always lost its best talent because it doesn’t pay well enough. It’s a shame, because it’s a fun creative industry to be a part of (well, it was 20 years ago when I left)!
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by louthy 3y ago
> If you're interested in writing C# and .Net code on a Linux machine. Then wait no further. VS Code (with .Net dev kit extension) works great. I’d advise using Jet brains Rider for serious C# development (on both Linux and Windows)
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by louthy 3y ago
> We use high level languages because they improve reading comprehension and save us time when writing. Which completely contradicts your earlier point. Why not just get copilot write assembly for you? Or, spit out raw machine code? Oh,
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by louthy 3y ago
This is the problem. As programmers we should be focusing effort on reducing boilerplate, so that it’s never needed again. Instead, we’ve created a boilerplate generator.
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by louthy 3y ago
LINQ is arguably stolen from Haskell, not F#. It is closer to ‘do’ notation than Computation Expressions (which has more features). The fact that Eric Meijer was very active in the Haskell community, I think, pretty much confirms that.
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by louthy 3y ago
> No, because AI is (for now at least) shaped and constrained by us humans rather than developing free based on the laws of the universe Aren’t humans part of the universe’s rules? What makes AI development any less ‘free’ than any other
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by louthy 3y ago
It’s pretty simple to turn all that off. It’s bloat, for sure, but can be made invisible. If they could just fix the back-button on Brave iOS so it doesn’t occasionally pick a completely different tab, I’ll be happy.
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by louthy 3y ago
Because (if the assertion is true) he eschews the terminology used by the FP community for his own wording in an attempt to pander to people who aren't (apparently) willing or able to learn the existing terminology. In my FP library [
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by louthy 3y ago
Not sure why Scott Wlaschin needs to keep renaming existing concepts ('Monads' to 'Railway Oriented Programming' and 'Function Composition' to 'Pipeline Oriented Programming'), but I really don't
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by louthy 3y ago
If you want to see this taken to the max, then my library [1] has many monadic types (which is what LINQ is for) implemented. Including an implementation of Haskell Pipes [2], with some examples [3] [1] https://github.com/l
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by louthy 3y ago
This is something that every start-up company ends up going through at some point. I’ve been there and it’s painful! Sometimes you just don’t have enough time or resource to build the capabilities that would stop an issue like this. Sometim
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A Big Cosmological Mystery(uclan.ac.uk)
1 points by louthy 3y ago|0 comments
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by louthy 3y ago
As the original poster, I can say that it's my ADHD that made me go for a smarter machine. The amount of times I'd come back to my washing machine days later, after forgetting I'd put a wash on, was just ridiculous. And, the
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by louthy 3y ago
My Miele Washer/Dryer [1] has plenty of ‘smart’ features (which I consider to be more than just network connectivity - it’s also computer enabled features, rather than simple mechanical operations IMHO): * Touchscreen or app control *
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by louthy 3y ago
> It's even in the bottled water The bottled water that comes in plastic bottles? Not that surprising?
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New material found by AI could reduce lithium use in batteries(bbc.com)
8 points by louthy 3y ago|2 comments
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by louthy 3y ago
> I tried Duolingo once many years ago, but there's no way that memorizing words is going to get you all the way there. You need reading, writing, listening, and speaking practice in real world situations I’m not disagreeing that mu
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by louthy 3y ago
Profit can be made to be 0 very easily though (a big capital investment, for example). So, it's hard to use that as a barometer of size.
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by louthy 3y ago
Most of the synths and drum machines I own are from the 1980s, if that counts? ;) When I bought a Raspberry Pi 5 recently (to run as a always-on local web-server) it did cross my mind that it was probably plenty powerful enough for 95% of w
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by louthy 3y ago
> "Seems like an excuse to hide what you did and claim your problems to be universal" He literally tried to imply incompetence. That is a personal attack. When the entire point of this thread was to empathise with non-techy
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by louthy 3y ago
Great anecdote, thanks for sharing. But the next time you decide to be a patronising asshole to someone you’ve never met and who very likely has significantly more experience than you, maybe remember this meme [1] Because it describes you c
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Apple pays out over claims it deliberately slowed down iPhones(bbc.com)
37 points by louthy 3y ago|47 comments
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by louthy 3y ago
> Which year of the Ford Mustang? 1971.5
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by louthy 3y ago
“Rounding errors in unit translation may have occurred.”
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by louthy 3y ago
> the earthquake extended the coastline by as much as 250 meters, I took the 250 metres (I know, I know ... a 'metre' is approximately 0.2 Ford Mustangs), and the wingspan of a bald eagle of 1.8 metres (1 Steven Spielberg). Di
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by louthy 3y ago
To avoid any confusion, it’s 138 bald eagles
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by louthy 3y ago
I guess I’ve always been lucky with Windows, it has always resolved all my devices automagically. The only thing I need to manually install is the drivers for my UAD Octo card. The last but one Linux Mint install I did didn’t even recognis
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by louthy 3y ago
> If you have hardware that has linux support then everything should work at install time or after install. So, if you buy something that works, it will work, and if you buy something that doesn't work, it won't. Wow, what ins
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by louthy 3y ago
Have you thought of joining a Linux support forum from the 90s? You'd fit in really well.
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by louthy 3y ago
I dunno, installing Windows from scratch is still pretty slick. You don't normally end up having to do extra work to get basic things like Bluetooth working, or whatever. Pre-installed Linux laptops is great - and is clearly the way t

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