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by messe 4y ago
No.
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by messe 4y ago
Because it’s consistent with the rest of Zig’s capture syntax: if (foo()) |result| { while (it.next()) |elem| { bar() catch |err| …
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by messe 4y ago
It has no “for (init; cmp; step)” type loop, and instead you had to use: var i: usize = 0; while (i < sz) : (i += 1) { ... } Meaning that the scope for i would leak. It did have a foreach-style for loop, as seen in t
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by messe 4y ago
Presumably, you’re donating 100% of your own efforts to remedy that? (With the occasional and understandable break to comment on HN, of course)
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by messe 4y ago
Oh, nice, Jones forth! I second the recommendation to read through it. I ported this to ARM assembly years ago, and it was a lot of fun. No idea where that program is now, unfortunately. Now that I'm using Apple Silicon day to day, may
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by messe 4y ago
If you leave something around long enough, it often ferments. Sometimes the result smells ok. Eventually somebody is curious enough to try it.
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by messe 4y ago
> Everything is uniform and organized, which makes eye movements simpler and easier. Unless you’re reading one letter at a time, consciously moving your eyes from one to the next, I’m struggling to see how that would be the case.
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by messe 4y ago
> Modern world requires eggs to last longer, could be 3 months before an egg hits the shelf at the grocery store, so we wash them and keep them refrigerated Far from true everywhere, including in the UK which the article is about. Here i
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by messe 4y ago
You're right, kernel-level context switching is much slower than user-level context switching. User-level can also have the advantage of having more actual context about the task that is running, meaning that it's often able to av
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by messe 4y ago
Isn’t that just any multithreaded OS running on a single core cpu?
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by messe 4y ago
> a screen that beats the M1 By what metrics?
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by messe 4y ago
> In fact, I'd prefer if the tools you mentioned used something else besides yaml. Unfortunately, there norway way that's going happen.
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by messe 4y ago
Huh, this exactly what I’ve been looking for recently for some local/home-network/homelab setups, even down to the use of systemd-like ini/toml syntax.
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by messe 4y ago
> Maybe to send fuel in orbit along several weeks or months instead of with one giant rocket. Less efficient but easier. Unless you're getting fuel from the moon, the sensible way to do that is to do your refueling in LEO. Otherwise
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by messe 4y ago
> it's more there as a "petrol stations Which makes very little sense from a delta V standpoint. I’ve yet to see a good justification for the gateway, especially after NASA selected Starship (which contains more useable living
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by messe 4y ago
Yes, you are. > Every aspect of your experience is your nervous system and the sensory organs at work There's still a leap from that to the existence of subjective experience.
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by messe 4y ago
Given how many people in this thread don’t seem to grasp the idea of qualia, and think the hard problem of consciousness to be easy, I’m not entirely unconvinced I’m surrounded by a bunch of imperfect p-zombies.
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by messe 4y ago
I think you’re confusing consciousness (qualia, the subjective experience of being you) with awareness.
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by messe 4y ago
> The only working example of sentience we have is ourselves, and we function in a completely different way than LLMs I'm not sure I'm fully convinced of that. I find that the arguments for LLMs potentially gaining sentience ar
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by messe 4y ago
> Now the end client is without a product, and without money, with basically no recourse They can sue in small claims.
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by messe 4y ago
> Amazon told me to take up the refund with Royal Mail In most jurisdictions, at least in Europe (and I think the US, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), you take it up with the merchant as they're the ones who hire the
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by messe 4y ago
> While I experience the world in a subjective manner, I have ZERO evidence of that. Isn’t it in fact the ONLY thing you have evidence of?
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by messe 4y ago
Interesting, it seems Clang and GCC handle the following example differently: i = 0; while (i != 1) i ^= 2; return i; GCC turns it into an infinite loop[1]: .L2: b .L2 Whereas Clang (and, MSVC) remove
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by messe 4y ago
> C should have never ben part of Go to begin with It’s unavoidable on most platforms. Linux is pretty much the only mainstream platform where the syscall interface is considered the stable interface between user and kernel. Other platfo
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by messe 4y ago
Depending on what you’re going for with that comparison, I’d suggest Von Neumann.
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by messe 4y ago
> All of this is basically nostalgia bait. That’s definitely true of Picard, but is it for the rest of NuTrek? It’s hard to see how Discovery, awful as it is, is nostalgia bait. > lightning in a bottle Do I spot an RLM fan?
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by messe 4y ago
For anybody unaware, the Jurassic Park “it’s a UNIX system!” software is real: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager) And you can run a “modern” (1999) recreation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by messe 4y ago
Not just Endjinn, I think vacuum dirigibles are mentioned in a few of the Culture novels.
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by messe 4y ago
Interesting. That's not from the authors though: https://twitter.com/ulugeyik/status/1623749246322089984
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by messe 4y ago
Relevant xkcd "Linear Regression": https://xkcd.com/1725/

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