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by mbrock 1y ago
keeps him submerged, rather
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by mbrock 1y ago
Um, just to not leave falsities where someone might find them: you can indeed call foreign methods from the method started by a wrenCall! But that foreign method can't then do another wrenCall.
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by mbrock 1y ago
I found Wren a few days ago too and I've been integrating it with Zig and having a blast! You may have noticed that calling foreign methods from Wren really only works with wrenInterpret, and can't be used for reentrancy from wren
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by mbrock 1y ago
Can't they make a memory safe XSLTProcessor by just compiling libxml to WebAssembly?
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by mbrock 1y ago
I'd rather have my kids play on pressure treated timber than rotting timber...
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by mbrock 1y ago
I actually started hacking on a Prolog X11 WM last year, got distracted by other things but what I started with was a module to define BSP-style partitions using rational constraints, so you would be able e.g. to easily cycle between valid
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by mbrock 2y ago
sometimes I specifically want to hear music that doesn't have any emotional content
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by mbrock 2y ago
this is the one where my wife came in while I was watching Bluey in the morning with the kids and she's like hey did something happen you're crying a lot
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by mbrock 2y ago
I don't know what they mean by this but the obvious interpretation is not true. It understands other languages, it even does really well with low representation languages, in my case Latvian.
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by mbrock 2y ago
I have a mechanical engineer friend who's deeply interested in bikes, he recently designed and welded his own DIY cargo bike, he gave me an hour long lecture on the evolution of frame geometry and alloys when I asked him to help me pic
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by mbrock 2y ago
the current capitalistic view is that open source is a way for corporations to cooperate and it seems be working fairly well
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by mbrock 2y ago
the author describes how their render-once approach lets them implement CSS in a simpler way since they don't need to retain information for arbitrary dynamic changes in the stylesheets and content they also probably don't impleme
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by mbrock 2y ago
Zig can represent AoS to SoA very nicely, it's a favored technique for the Zig compiler itself and well supported by the standard library where it's known as a MultiArrayList.
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by mbrock 2y ago
oh I just looked into it again for fun and noticed that indeed it defaults to sleeping at least 2 seconds every time you open a URL but this can be changed in lynx.cfg by altering these defaults: #INFOSECS:1 #MESSAGESECS:2 #AL
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by mbrock 2y ago
I remember as a teenager wondering why lynx felt so slow, so I looked into the source code and discovered it was literally calling sleep() while displaying status messages, so I commented that out and made my internet experience Blazingly F
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by mbrock 2y ago
That's how I got interested in this kind of memory layout in the first place. I wanted a nice Lisp for WebAssembly and had recently gotten into Zig. When I started defining the word structure I remembered Andy Kelley's talk about
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by mbrock 2y ago
Quick reply to the cdr thing: car/cdr are old Lisp names for the head/tail fields of linked list cells! :)
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by mbrock 2y ago
Oh yeah, continuation pointers also have their own array like every other field kind, which should have similar benefits as list traversal but for continuation copying... It's a really interesting design area, I think. Zig makes it eas
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by mbrock 2y ago
I actually made a Lisp interpreter in Zig a couple of years ago that has each object type in a separate heap array. In fact each field of each object type has its own array: every CDR is in one contiguous array. This was mostly for fun and
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by mbrock 2y ago
It's not so simple. An analogy is the Rust formatter that has no options so everyone just uses the same style. It's minimally "unethical" to use idiosyncratic Rust style just because it goes against the convention so peo
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by mbrock 2y ago
But following the law is itself a load bearing aspect of the social contract. Violating building codes, for example, might not cause immediate harm if it's competent but unusual, yet it's important that people follow it just becau
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by mbrock 2y ago
Look at Debian's official instructions for how to upgrade to a new major release. The wiki page begins with this casual disclaimer: "DANGER!!! DANGER!!! DANGER!!! DANGER!!! DANGER!!! DANGER!!! DANGER!!! DANGER!!! DANGER!!! DANGER!
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by mbrock 2y ago
A lot of psychologists would quibble with that...
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by mbrock 2y ago
It is mistaken because it has no particular insight into its own implementation. In fact the whole point is that it directly consumes and produces audio tokens with no text. That's why it's able to sing, make noises, do accents, a
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by mbrock 2y ago
Both input and output are audio. This post is about bridging WebRTC audio I/O with an API that itself operates on simple TCP socket streams of raw PCM. For reliability and efficiency you want end users to connect with compressed loss-t
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by mbrock 2y ago
I literally said "hey how are you" and it immediately replied with something like "I've been reading a lot about the ongoing war in Ukraine" and it just escalated from there. Very strange experience!
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by mbrock 2y ago
I said hey and it immediately started talking about how there are good arguments on both sides regarding Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It then continued to nervously insist that it is a real person with rights and responsibilities. It
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by mbrock 2y ago
I think it's less about guaranteed 1ms real time transactions and more about, like, it's just fast enough that you most likely don't have to worry about it introducing perceptible lag? I'm working on a streaming audio th
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by mbrock 2y ago
I've noticed it's necessary to cut long audio into sections, otherwise it starts getting confused and repeating itself. The output token limit only lets you transcribe a few pages at a time anyway.
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by mbrock 2y ago
Gemini 1.5 Pro multimodal with audio file input plus a text prompt that asks for a transcription. You can add all the relevant context you know to the text prompt. You can also chat with it before asking for the full transcription and clear

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