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by norir 1y ago
The correct answer was almost surely lua + native modules for hotspots. I'm not surprised they couldn't see that though.
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by norir 1y ago
It's interesting that you say this because I have been doing exactly this over the last few years using only the voice and body percussion. There are small groups all over the us (and world) doing vocal improvisation for free or at ver
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by norir 1y ago
I personally find syntax highlighting an annoying distraction, but I know this is a minority (and unpopular) viewpoint. For me, it actually has negative value, especially if I find myself spending time troubleshooting it (which I have exten
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by norir 1y ago
Compiler performance must be considered up front in language design. It is nearly impossible to fix once the language reaches a certain size without it being a priority. I recently saw here the observation that one can often get a 2x perfor
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by norir 1y ago
Many argue that rationalism itself, the elevation of reason above all other values and forms of knowledge, descends directly from Plato. I have only read a few of the Socratic dialogues myself, but I certainly have gotten the impression tha
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by norir 1y ago
Here is the most valuable exercise I can think of for language development: write a function that produces a formatted error string that renders the location of the cause of the error and the reason for the error. Once you have this, it wil
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by norir 1y ago
There is a well known effect that goes by many names that anything taken to its extreme becomes its opposite.
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by norir 1y ago
Most people do not have the talent and/or discipline to become good programmers and resent those who do. This alone explains a lot of the current argument.
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by norir 1y ago
I find the notion of kolmogorov complexity both interesting and potentially a bit misleading. The reason it is misleading is because of the extra implicit context that is not present in the artifact but is necessary for interpretation. Sure
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by norir 1y ago
It's a bit of a shame that Forth has become almost synonymous with indirect threading implemented in assembly. This is true and somewhat interesting of most implementations, but obfuscates the deeper philosophy of Forth. For me, this i
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by norir 1y ago
> A good software engineer + AI will ship features faster / safer vs a non engineer with AI, who will beat just AI Safer is the crucial word here. If you remove it, I'd argue the ordering should be reversed. I also will point o
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by norir 1y ago
For scala 2 at least, the standard library is very heavy and the compiler of course relies on it. It has a god object, predef, that cascades massive classloading if you touch anything in it. As a result, it is essential for latency to keep
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by norir 1y ago
Many command line tools do not need memory management at all, at least to first approximation. Free nothing and let the os cleanup on process exit. Most libraries can either use an arena internally and copy any values that get returned to t
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by norir 1y ago
This has become an impoverished conversation. I have seen this pattern where llm capabilities improve and people who had previously dismissed the technology based on its present capabilities realize they were wrong in their pessimistic asse
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by norir 1y ago
And it wouldn't surprise me if he is now the boss of people like his prior boss.
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by norir 1y ago
Timely, relevant piece: https://psyche.co/ideas/is-being-single-a-happier-experience...
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by norir 1y ago
It is far game to criticize cursor's marketing copy and I don't think it is fear mongering to point out that it is not exactly confidence inspiring when the first thing they show you as an example of its utility is both low qualit
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by norir 1y ago
I am not a fan of this design in a low level language. The first version of switch does exactly one thing and is very clear. The second now is forcing me to think both about branching logic and control flow. I understand the surface level a
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by norir 1y ago
There is an argument that western civilization went astray when Plato elevated human reason above all other virtues. The obvious problem is that for all of the wonderful things reasoning has given us, it is just as effectively used for dece
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by norir 1y ago
When I run a profiler on a compiler I wrote (which parses at somewhere between 500K-1MM lines per second without a separate lexer), parsing barely shows up. I'd be very surprised if the zig compiler is spending more than 5% of the time
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by norir 1y ago
I am not a fan of PEG. It is straightforward to write a fast parser generator for languages that require just one character of lookahead to disambiguate any alternation in the grammar. This gets you most of the expressivity of PEG and nearl
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by norir 2y ago
This is undeniably true. The consequences of a technological collapse at this scale would be far greater than having never had it in the first place. For this reason, the people in power (in both industry and government) have more destructi
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by norir 2y ago
The hardest part of writing a compiler is designing a language. In my opinion, most compiler courses seem too fixated on the implementation details. The fact that this course targets x86 already misses the mark for me. Computers are very fa
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by norir 2y ago
Congratulations, you have unearthed a new layer of hell.
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by norir 2y ago
Does the author really believe anyone can transcend tribalism?
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by norir 2y ago
Book 8 of Plato's Republic is also on point in describing the transition from democracy to tyranny.
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by norir 2y ago
The trickster is indeed an ancient archetype that can bring both wisdom and chaos. Historically, however, my understanding is that prior to Plato, essentially all knowledge, including philosophy, was understood to be received from divine so
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by norir 2y ago
Many spiritual and philosophical traditions claim the immortality of the soul. Socrates argues forcefully for it in Phaedo. Nearly all mystics (and many if not most neuroscientists) also come to the conclusion that our world of the senses i
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by norir 2y ago
This advice strikes me as very sensible if I want to maximize my audience of readers who lack the attention span to take in any information of real depth.
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by norir 2y ago
For me, the abundance/yimby movement is an ok answer to the tantalizing but wrong question: what can do to make people's lives better through technology or public policy? For me, there is a deeper problem that this framing can&#x2

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