musicale

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   by musicale 1y ago

   Transformers are very good at multiplication. They just don't expose it to the user.
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   by musicale 1y ago

   I find JavaScript itself to be a pretty usable language (maybe somewhere between Python (easier) and Java (harder) or C++ (harder still)), but the browser DOM environment is a pain to deal with. After understanding Self, I didn't find
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   by musicale 1y ago

   I think it's a bit more than that. I like that I can easily swap the SSD and DRAM in my Thinkpad. But Apple has definitely done some interesting things including: - good thermals (especially vs. Thinkpad P series), even supporting fanl
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   by musicale 1y ago

   The ones you remove by setting ENABLED=0 in /etc/motd-news apt remove ubuntu-advantage-tools https://canonical.com/legal/motd https://support.tools/remove-ubuntu-pro-advertisement-a
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   by musicale 1y ago

   JavaScript owes a lot to Self, not only in its runtime but also its prototype-based object design (though perhaps that's something of a liability since class-based object systems turned out to be more popular.)
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   by musicale 1y ago

   I appreciate Sun creating things like Java and improving the performance of the JVM (adopting ideas from this Self runtime etc.) I don't know whether it made any money for them, but it certainly helped the rest of the computing field &
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   by musicale 1y ago

   Compiler/runtime support via clang and llvm should help I hope. I'd like to get to the point where web browsers (for example) always run with memory-safe compilation and runtime features on every platform. OS kernels would be nice
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   by musicale 1y ago

   I like that the textbook is open access as well!
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   by musicale 1y ago

   I think Musk has announced that Teslas will no longer be made by forced labor.
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    by musicale 1y ago

    They didn't rock but... modern MacBook Pro models are bigger and heavier and have a notch (and yes, I know technically the notch is more screen rather than less, and that one can simply use the space below, but I still don't like
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    by musicale 1y ago

    Ubuntu is great once you remove the motd advertisements.
12. 552.▲
    by musicale 1y ago

    Experience is not always the best teacher. Reading, observation, etc. can be better for avoiding bad outcomes without needing to experience them firsthand.
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    by musicale 1y ago

    > platform development It's almost 100% platform development. The iPhone is a walled-garden game platform and Apple treats it like one. To answer your question, it probably isn't sensible to expect Apple to charge a drasticall
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    by musicale 1y ago

    $250M would pay for a lot of grad students. Mixture of non-experts.
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    by musicale 1y ago

    Physical modeling is great; music synthesis is usually very practical to do in software since audio frequencies are in KHz, giving you a lot of cycles to spend on each sample. Also links to Julius Smith's home page (and online textbook
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    by musicale 1y ago

    Perhaps they will buy a Ford or Volkswagen instead.
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    by musicale 1y ago

    AI assistants misrepresent news more than BBC does, claims BBC
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    by musicale 1y ago

    I had hoped that the keys to increasing energy use were sitting, eating snacks, and sleeping. > The research also found a clear link between being more active and spending less time sitting still. This is hard to argue with, but I will t
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    by musicale 1y ago

    What competing OSes/languages do you think might have/should have surpassed Unix and C?
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    by musicale 1y ago

    I've always thought that Searle's argument relied on misleading and/or tautological definitions, and I liked Nils Nilsson's rebuttal: "For the purposes that Searle has in mind, it is difficult to maintain a useful d
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    by musicale 1y ago

    Staring at screens may damage your vision, posture, sleep and sanity but as you note it's probably not as bad as soot wart, phossy jaw, shoddy fever, black lung, etc.
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    by musicale 1y ago

    5ms input lag isn't a dealbreaker. Even the Apple II was around 30ms touch-to-pixel latency, limited by its ~30fps. https://danluu.com/input-lag/ According to the above, the 2017 iPad pro with Apple Pencil replica
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    by musicale 1y ago

    > Only with spark (i.e. formal verification) Ada's original memory safety was still a lot better than C's. As noted, PL/I was not 100% memory safe, but it was good enough to prevent buffer overflows in Multics.
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    by musicale 1y ago

    > Fil-C shows this can be solved at the software layer for things in this category that can afford the overhead of a GC. Mainline clang and g++ are also getting better with things like -fbounds-safety and -fsanitize=address. As I underst
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    by musicale 1y ago

    macOS is (a) Unix (officially even!) and inherits many of its features and issues. To Apple's credit though they seem to be using a memory-safe language (Swift) for new code and libraries (at least at user level) and may be rewriting o
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    by musicale 1y ago

    Apple's classic human interface guidelines were well thought out. They should consider (re)reading them sometime.
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    by musicale 1y ago

    I immediately disabled transparency effects and liquid glass hasn't bothered me since.
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    by musicale 1y ago

    > we are finally getting low level software that no longer needs it Ada has had memory safety for decades – not to mention Lisp, Java, etc. if you can live with garbage collection. Even PL/I was better than C for memory safety, whic
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    by musicale 1y ago

    What could possibly go wrong?
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    by musicale 1y ago

    Shame that the Philips Zeus flat/thin (1cm) screen CRT never made it to market. Regarding latency, you should be able to do pretty well with a modern 120Hz or 240Hz display.