mntmoss

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by mntmoss 7y ago
I think what happened is that the developers that figuratively jumped up and down screaming about compile times all shifted towards interpreted languages. JS has been able to do roughly what C did in the 1990's, in terms of raw perform
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by mntmoss 7y ago
Yesterday I did a Discord voice hangout with the folks I normally co-work with. It went off pretty well, I got to hike outside while talking to them. It does have its limits, though. Everyone's voices get filtered through the system wi
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by mntmoss 7y ago
The N64's RSP was quite exciting for the era because of the high degree of programmability. As it turned out, though, almost nobody did anything to program it. They used the microcode that shipped with the devkit. And since the N64 was
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by mntmoss 7y ago
For the developers and third-party publishers, it's a really big deal to have a standard of some kind. It means that they don't have to spend their time making the market: the console makers do that, and then they just sell into i
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by mntmoss 7y ago
A distinctive feature of a pandemic event is that it really is a global thing. Even the world wars could claim to have quiet fronts... and that matters as a global society. Normally - since the modern era began - we're in a default st
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by mntmoss 7y ago
The "free" of it definitely made a difference, but there was also a certain lack of concern about the shape of the resulting product that made ZZT feel different and more flexible than the preceding tools when you tried to work wi
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by mntmoss 7y ago
On the upside, you have the raw story material that great biographies are made of.
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by mntmoss 7y ago
In crashes all the vulnerabilities tend to collapse at once like a house of cards, and in a sense we have learned things one crash at a time. When gold was the primary form of money, there were many crashes because of lack of control over m
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by mntmoss 7y ago
Computers solve the legible problems. But scheduling is one where the problems lack in hard specification, and plans involve several "layers" of prioritization, so what's called for is approximate results that avoid failure
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by mntmoss 7y ago
Note that this one is not a crash imposed by market forces overextending themselves(the usual dynamic of recession), so much as a reset button suddenly pushed. An economy under quarantine is not just a depressed economy, it's a differ
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by mntmoss 7y ago
I think the tendency of generalists is to specialize into a kind of faith in abstract principles, processes and structures that cross domains. As kids, we mostly learn "do what we're told" because it becomes clear early on th
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by mntmoss 7y ago
Marketing will solve this aspect of the challenge. Poverty is a relative state, not an absolute one: We want more because our betters have more. The negative associated personal outcomes of poverty are not a corrollary of insufficient carb
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by mntmoss 7y ago
On the other hand, the nature of "collapse" is the suddenness with which it takes place. There are all kinds of changes taking place right now, as a result of this crisis, that were previously dismissed as politically infeasible.
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by mntmoss 7y ago
The other day I spotted in the SF Chronicle a picture from the 1918 pandemic showing a gathering of people manufacturing gauze masks. [0] Gauze appears to be out of favor as a barrier material today, although I suppose one could get creativ
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by mntmoss 7y ago
The trends definitely favor a mobile-first approach going forward, if simply because of the additional systems integration work that goes into tuning laptops. Battery life aside, the laws of physics dictate that you're more likely to h
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by mntmoss 7y ago
Here is what I have discovered after grinding at that process many times: You have to find a mechanism of internal feedback and drive the project through that. What I mean there is, simply, when you get the idea and your first instinct is t
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by mntmoss 7y ago
I have been supplementing with varying amounts of D3 since 2010. That year a housemate had come down with a bad flu and I handed him 4000IU as an "anti-inflammatory". The next day he knocked on my door ecstatically and asked what
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by mntmoss 7y ago
There isn't, not with this kind of stuff. Some things in life are all-or-nothings, comfortably early and overprepared or not prepared at all. In fact I would say most major life events take that pattern. Older people increasingly resem
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by mntmoss 7y ago
There are certain kinds of internal timers in games that end up locked to a base tickrate; e.g. physics behaviors. While it's possible to allow adjustment of those rates in many cases, it comes at the price of lowering reproducability
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by mntmoss 7y ago
They can identify the market but not have the right way of reaching it. Two of the biggest changes in the past few decades: 1. Everything can be shipped online, so niche targets have more options. I have a memory of craving Yoo-Hoo in colle
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by mntmoss 7y ago
Yes, and the FFI friction maps to my main concern with Go as it stands: it's a bit like Python in that it wants to be extended rather than embedded. That always creates a "hollowing out" of its core over time as users exceed
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by mntmoss 7y ago
That solves the problem for one computer, but I can't see how it would solve it for networks and databases, given a computing environment that will continue to evolve and foil compatibility. But a time protocol that recieves the wide a
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by mntmoss 7y ago
I think it helps to know of ways to model problems beyond "arrangements of objects in patterns" which is the thing that CS education has dropped the ball on the most: you get the algorithms, you get some exposure to practical syst
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by mntmoss 7y ago
That which Lua is missing is primarily in terms of its ability to define clear, succinct algorithms. And in this respect the more Algol-derived languages enjoy a substantial advantage by having readily available tools for the task. Tables a
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by mntmoss 7y ago
It's the difference between events and artifacts, and there absolutely are differences between the two as time goes on that make even the very best preserved materials different in their essence. An event is experienced once and rememb
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by mntmoss 7y ago
When you refactor you are taking shots at moving around where coupling occurs. If your code is maximally decoupled it is primitive copy-paste code that never calls functions and intoduces unique variables for each section - and if it's
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by mntmoss 7y ago
In theory, we are asymptotically approaching a stable set of programming languages - a constellation of local-optimums. When something comes along with a different name and new syntax and cleans up some semantics, it's called a new lan
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by mntmoss 7y ago
A lot of the bloat is derived from overarching platform features. A 1980's application had to live on its own and communicate mostly in printed English documents. Many of those early microcomputer apps were therefore glorified printer
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by mntmoss 7y ago
I think the post is both accurate and easily ignored, because it lives from within its own wisdom. Of course you can do better if you work at it - but, why aren't you? And that's not even a question of personal responsibility and
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by mntmoss 7y ago
You can use empty scope braces for this task in most languages. It's not a "half-indent" but it gives you the alignment and informs responsible variable usage.

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