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by louthy 4y ago
> so it performs almost on par with the mutable dictionary. I notice you have a comment that says "This trie is now the fastest immutable dictionary I'm aware of". Unfortunately I have to make you aware that my implementa
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by louthy 4y ago
> Are you saying the biggest and probably most complex software (OS-es, browsers, etc.) out there is written in fp languages? You know I didn't say that. The imperative coding approach is cognitively more difficult. So at scale (si
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by louthy 4y ago
The biggest mistake you make is thinking you do something different to me or any other software engineer. You don't. You do the same thing and the same rules apply. You seem to think you're the only person doing anything creati
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by louthy 4y ago
> 3d engine is very structured, it isn't the creative part of game development. I also did lots of the creative bit ;). I just assumed this was going to go down a performance route question, sorry! > Big upfront design as you su
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by louthy 4y ago
As an ex-3D engine dev, I respectfully disagree. But if you're happy to give some examples of why you can't constrain your data-types then I'm happy to admit I'm wrong. I realise sometimes there's aspects of a game
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by louthy 4y ago
You're mischaracterising what I am saying. You're talking about 'over architected' systems. That doesn't represent how I work or anything I am advocating. Types are composable, when you design a system or sub-sys
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by louthy 4y ago
> And how do you know you've constricted your data enough? Types are composable. Sum-types and product-types allow the composition of smaller types into larger ones. They come in the form of discriminated-unions and records in FP
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by louthy 4y ago
> adding new business logic to a process, Adding logic is the smallest part of the problem: adding types, that aren't constrained to represent the smallest set of values needed for the problem at hand, that's the biggest proble
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by louthy 4y ago
> The statistics and metrics in medical papers are woeful Ok, this probably needs some extraordinary evidence … > which is why it's commonly accepted that 1/2 of all medical research is false. The irony
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by louthy 4y ago
> It's snobbery to have an opinion? Of course not and I didn't say any such thing. The original comment "People use IIS?" is clearly a passive-aggressive dig at MS, its tech, and those that use it (as is so often the
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by louthy 4y ago
Nothing, it’s just standard tech snobbery
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by louthy 4y ago
> The market for closed source Microsoft sponsored languages gets smaller each year Presumably because they're all open source now? C# is still in the top 5 according to TIOBE [4] (whether we pay any attention to that is shrug ), b
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by louthy 4y ago
I think the summarisers are going to be valuable. As a Kagi subscriber I'm looking forward to them integrating their AI labs demo that was showcased recently. There's certainly potential for search to become an order of magnitud
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by louthy 4y ago
The article is about Twitter. So it’s really not that “interesting”, it’s literally the point of this discussion thread.
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by louthy 4y ago
I assume this is what Kraftwerk were banging on about
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by louthy 4y ago
Not long after the last train to trancentral
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by louthy 4y ago
You're thinking of The Manual [1], written by Bill Drummond (one half of KLF); not by John Higgs who wrote the book I listed above. Incidentally, Bill Drummond's 45 [2] is a great read too. Especially for the creatively minded pe
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by louthy 4y ago
John Higgs wrote a brilliant book [1] about the band KLF (who famously burned a million pounds). I highly, highly recommend it - even if you know nothing about the band (or care to), it's an incredible read. [1] https://joh
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by louthy 4y ago
A few months. I still get both of the issues I mention above.
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by louthy 4y ago
I use 1Password with Orion and it works (on iPhone btw)
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by louthy 4y ago
It’s still quite buggy, things like occasionally not drawing the page when you switch to a new site; and sometimes being stuck rendering on half the screen only (seems related to the tabs pop out). I’m still sticking with it for now, becaus
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by louthy 4y ago
Coding speed is absolutely not the problem that needs solving. What is needed is how to do more with less code. Long term maintenance of massive code-bases is the hard bit that eats away at productivity.
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AI image creator faces UK and US legal challenges(bbc.co.uk)
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by louthy 4y ago
I just had to check that 'imprassive' wasn't a synonym for buttocks!
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by louthy 4y ago
It happens to the best of us! :)
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by louthy 4y ago
> I think we are conflating (at least) two different issues For sure, I have absolutely no idea how your comment relates to what I wrote.
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by louthy 4y ago
Which is the actor model with supervision hierarchy (for clarity). I happen to agree, the actor model is the best approach to writing micro-services in my humble opinion. I would still call them 'micro services' though. Has the
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by louthy 4y ago
... then before you know it your code-base is 10 million lines long and you have no idea where anything is, what the side-effects of calling X are, what's been deprecated, onboarding is a nightmare, retention of staff is difficult, etc
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by louthy 4y ago
> Would you be able to write it down on paper? That would require a pen and paper to hand, forever, just in case you end up in a conversation. The act of finding said pen & paper would be enough for it to be gone forever.
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by louthy 4y ago
This spirit definitely still lives on in the modular-synth world: https://www.thonk.co.uk/

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