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by pragma_x 2y ago
I agree on all fronts. This parallels the last time I looked at, and gave up building a backend for LLVM. And that was after giving up doing the same for GCC. Those codebases are _impenetrable_. It's clear as mud how one would hook
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by pragma_x 2y ago
Totally valid take. The answer is: it depends. The advantage of a lot of scripting tech is some form of REPL, which is really just a super-fast code-compile-run loop. In your example, "why?" boils down to how useful/painful
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by pragma_x 2y ago
Oh wow. And here I thought it was bad when someone stole my "dining dollars" card back in college.
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by pragma_x 2y ago
Since you've done this for real in a library, I have to ask: how would you decide to use a compile-time template solution like this versus a code generator or some other "outboard" tool to generate code? I'm curious sinc
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by pragma_x 2y ago
Agreed. On the one hand, I would love this kind of tech to be available for entertainment purposes. An RPG with convincing NPCs that are able to provide a novel experience for every player? Sounds great. On the other: this is fraught with
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by pragma_x 2y ago
I'm in the same boat here. I'm very not over the Nix learning curve, so I'm left to conclude that it's actually not easy for some projects. Last time I tried to use Nix to build a dev environment, it did not go well. I
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by pragma_x 2y ago
Does anyone here know how the sensor technology actually works? Is it capacitive touch, a low voltage electrical connection, or something else? Also, how would something like this differentiate mouse use from speech?
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by pragma_x 2y ago
FWIW, I've considered mapping a midi pedal board to meta keys and macros before. That alone could be useful - you'd go from a typist to something like an organist.
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by pragma_x 2y ago
> but when you look at the prices, that was worth $100-$10,000. Why would anyone take all this risk, and lower base salaries for that lottery ticket?! I was in a company when my options were "purchased" from me at the strike pr
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by pragma_x 2y ago
32+ years and still kicking. Simplicity at it's best: all you need is a text editor and lots of CPU time.
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by pragma_x 2y ago
This article sent me down a rabbit-hole about device cgroup rules, since the concept was foreign to me. Bottom line here is that these rules look cryptic because they map to device _numbers and types_ as enumerated by the kernel. Some like
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by pragma_x 2y ago
I agree on all points. I think where automation would really shine for this tech is to incorporate conduit, plumbing, doors, and windows to the wall construction. I'm imagining something like a massively scaled-up pick-and-place crane
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by pragma_x 2y ago
> pre-cast concrete shipped in I've also seen this done where the walls were cast concrete using molds placed on the large and flat foundation floor. Still went up alarmingly fast. It does make me wonder if similar balloon techniq
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by pragma_x 2y ago
I love this. My first impression was: "What in the QA is this? I wonder what this breaks?" > because they used the domain name as the commonName Understandable, but that's old-school, right? I'm pretty sure the x.509
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by pragma_x 2y ago
This is not an exaggeration. Those boom times, much like the discovery of gold on the Klondike, was the wild-west of information technology. If you had a pulse, and knew which part was the "mouse", you were employable. Granted,
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by pragma_x 2y ago
For anyone else that was confused by the headline, this is about the destruction of 600,000 individual (small) routers. Not routers that are worth $600,000 (each or combined).
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by pragma_x 2y ago
Ah yes, programming like the vikings intended.
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by pragma_x 2y ago
Every time this comes up I'm struck by the same thought: do these cats measure _anything_ their people do? And what in the world happens when someone takes off for two weeks to go on vacation? The solution to all this is very simple.
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by pragma_x 2y ago
> and that it'll stay genetically modified? I honestly think the play here is to have customers continually inoculate with the same, or even improved, versions of their modified bacteria. Possibly with a very strong antibiotic cour
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by pragma_x 2y ago
Considering what some people do with basement spaces and almost no ventilation at all, I'm going to hazard a guess that a windowless interior room is not a dealbreaker.
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by pragma_x 2y ago
When done right, I appreciate that Traefik's config design meets the container config/run time split pretty well. I also get that we're arguing TIMTOWDI vs YAGNI. So, I want to take a beat to say that I think your take is abs
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by pragma_x 2y ago
Possibly unpopular opinions to follow. This is made even worse by: - Having documentation split between v1 and v2, that is similar yet different enough to yield half-baked configurations before you realize what you did wrong. The website i
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by pragma_x 3y ago
mov ax,0x0013 ; VGA 320x200x256 colors mode. int 0x10 ; Set video mode. Oh man that takes me back. Also this is sporting a fixed-point sin table and compiled down to a .com. It's like 1994 all over again.
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by pragma_x 3y ago
The division between theorists and empiricists is as old as civilization itself. The world truly belongs to those that can be both. I agree with your take. In this case, we have one group that tries to explain the world using algebra while
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by pragma_x 3y ago
That's my take too. You'd have to preserve the entire execution state at that moment in time, including the coroutine scheduler. That's probably easier with some virtual execution model (VM) instead of native threads, stack
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by pragma_x 3y ago
I agree completely. FWIW, this sentiment is why we're seeing a lot of cloud "platforms" crop up that do exactly what you're talking about. Rather than get mired in the component-zoo of virtualized datacenter (read: pre
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by pragma_x 3y ago
I dug into the article, specifically the Nissan section. It reads like the car itself _could_ be gathering information on its own. IMO, the Nissan phone app is the more likely culprit here. Unless there's something wild going on with
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by pragma_x 3y ago
I can't say if that was a design goal, but it sure looks like it. That's also the way to avoid scaling compiler memory use to program size. At first I thought that it wasn't possible for C. After I thought about it, as long
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by pragma_x 3y ago
I'm all for it. But there are some practical hurdles to overcome to being successful at changing how you garden or cultivate the land. I've only just started looking into this, and I've already hit some trouble. Where I liv
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by pragma_x 3y ago
Honestly, I really think the effect could be just some kind of galvanic effect. Potting soil is moist, has a non-neutral Ph, and has trace metals hanging out. So if you stick a zinc-coated or copper wire in that, it'll probably start t

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