motorest

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by motorest 1y ago
> They can do this because they have a choice. Apple cleaned itself of the GPL once it could, after a long stint where it couldn't. Had GCC been the library backend standard instead of LLVM, the world would have a lot more GPL in it
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by motorest 1y ago
> Python was used as an example because people know Python and reader can compare it to something known. I don't think you understood the point I made. My point is that Python supports conditional expressions for years. Support for
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by motorest 1y ago
> In my mind, Behringer didn't revolutionized anything, but rather iterated their way to fame. None of the stuff they release is really "innovative" except when you consider the price, as your comment allude to. Your comme
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by motorest 1y ago
> The lawmakers did not have any involvement. The executive branch unilaterally abused its power to declare that encryption was a munition, to work around the fact it had no other power to restrict it without convincing the legislature t
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by motorest 1y ago
I'm definitely missing some key insight because after reading the article I felt it was a strawman argument. Python already has conditional expressions, which already allow 'x if (predicate) else y'. Therefore in Python if is
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by motorest 1y ago
> There was no law to restrict that, so they just made something up. That's a rather facetious interpretation. You're complaining that there was no law preventing software being distributed, and as there was a need to prevent t
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by motorest 1y ago
> So it can refer to people and what is in their minds too? You're being needlessly obtuse. If you bother to learn about the topic, you'll understand it's about distributing software.
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by motorest 1y ago
> Also bad at integration between modules. I have not tried to solve this yet, by giving documentation of both the modules. You should first draft the interface and roll out coverage with automated tests, and then prompt your way into fi
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by motorest 1y ago
> I expect the $500 billion magic machine to be magic. Especially after all the explicit threats to me and my friends livelihoods. That's a problem you are creating for yourself by believing in magical nonsense. Meanwhile, the rest
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by motorest 1y ago
> Current state-of-the-art models are, in my experience, very good at writing boilerplate code or very simple architecture especially in projects or frameworks where there are extremely well-known opinionated patterns (MVC especially). Y
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by motorest 1y ago
> Beyond this, if you’re working on novel code, LLMs are absolutely horrible at doing anything. A lot of assumptions are made, non-existent libraries are used, and agents are just great at using tokens to generate no tangible result what
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by motorest 1y ago
> The replies are all a variation of: "You're using it wrong" I don't know what you are trying to say with your post. I mean, if two persons feed their prompts to an agent and while one is able to reach their goals th
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by motorest 1y ago
> free for me but not for thee That's rich, coming from a country which outright bands foreign corporations from even operating within their borders, and those who they allow have to operate through a state-controlled corporate min
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by motorest 1y ago
> (...) the CFA franc Why do you think this is relevant in discussions over who would respond to shutting down the Suez canal? I mean, do you have a map?
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by motorest 1y ago
> and that action is perfectly fine. But it is then hypocritic to claim one is more justified than the other Not really. Everyone was extending courtesies to China, but China opted to unilaterally reject the notion thay others could rece
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by motorest 1y ago
> because they know that "Western" powers would wage war if necessary. Why do you feel the need go single out "the west"? I mean, where do you think the container ships crossing the Suez go to and come from? Do you th
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by motorest 1y ago
> although they had to find a partner to do Azure. By "finding a partner" you actually mean have Azure-branded services provided by Chinese companies through isolated data centers. Which kind of proves OPs point.
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by motorest 1y ago
> We‘ll see how rare and isolated this is will be. Why do you presume this is bad?
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by motorest 1y ago
> And the west always said that China is bad for doing it. "The west" criticizes China because the ruling regime imposes a series of arbitrary restrictions to foreign companies, including outright banning them, while demanding
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by motorest 1y ago
> It would be foolish to sell off a great value like ASML or others that adds incredible value. But one should also not get mad when other countries do it, because they see their industries as valuable things as well. This reads like a s
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by motorest 1y ago
> It gets a lot less contradictory when you realize the principles are window dressing for the interests. I don't think this is the epiphany you think it represents. The whole point of laws and regulations is to protect interests. D
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by motorest 1y ago
> Do you hire deaf people? I think you may start to understand the requirement once you realize the issue is where attention is and is not placed, instead of what sense is being exercised. I mean, think about it. The recommendation was t
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by motorest 1y ago
> Environment variables are often used to pass secrets around. But, despite its ubiquity, I believe that's a bad practice: I think environment variables are recommended to pass configuration parameters, and also secrets, in containe
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by motorest 1y ago
> The first lecture was using a 4x4 matrix because you can use it for a more general set of transformations, including affine transforms (think: translating an object by moving it in a particular direction). I think this is mixing up con
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by motorest 1y ago
> Python with types is still just python. Typescript is a different language from JS (guess it a superset?) No, it's the exact same thing. TypeScript adds support for type annotations, and removing these annotations leads to JavaScr
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by motorest 1y ago
> Meanwhile, copperspice got rid of the MOC more than 10 years ago. That's perfectly fine. Copperspice didn't aimed to support legacy code, and thus could introduce backwards incompatible changes without looking back. Dropping
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by motorest 1y ago
> I used to use Qt quite extensively years ago, and it seemed that all MOC was really bringing to the table was signal-slot connections which can certainly be done in much nicer ways (e.g. just use std::function to represent signals). Th
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by motorest 1y ago
> The same reason Typescript exists TypeScript exists for the same reason things like mypy exists, and no one in their right mind claims that python's openness should be threatened just because static typing is convenient.
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by motorest 1y ago
> Open web standards are great but consider where we could have been if competition drove them a different way? We're still stuck with JavaScript today (wasm still needs it). Layout/styling is caught up now but where would we b
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by motorest 1y ago
> Regarding containers, nope, I know and love docker, but it's unnecessary complexity for a one person project. This is a perplexing comment. Can you provide any specifics on what leads you to believe that Docker is a hindrance? I&#

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