samatman

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by samatman 3mo ago
I understand the reaction, but I don't agree. I suggest reading the associated proposal[0] along with the devlog, and having a real think about what's going on here. I'm responding to you saying that you "don't und
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by samatman 5mo ago
"Things might change in the future" is a perfectly general statement which applies to any state of affairs which is not restricted by natural law. That makes it very nearly meaningless.
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by samatman 5mo ago
It's fascinating how intuitions differ. To me, it doesn't feel like theft at all. For one thing, theft is depriving another of something, and has therefore never been a good metaphor for infringement; hackers used to be the most
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by samatman 5mo ago
As an experiment, I ran this by A Certain Chatbot, but asking: who should I read to get a good answer to this question? If you prefix the name of OpenAI's commercial offering's website to this string: "share/6a0f2a87-dba
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by samatman 5mo ago
It's more complicated than that. Quite a bit more. Commercial use counts _against_ a fair use defense, but is not dispositive: it's not accurate at all to say it "generally does not cover" commercial use. This is the &qu
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by samatman 5mo ago
It may interest you to know that this was a misremembered truth. It is widely believed by their neighbors, that the _Druze_ wear baggy pants because they believe that the Mahdi will be born to a male, and the pants will catch the baby etc.
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by samatman 5mo ago
Well yes, but the _effect_ is to unroll the loop for runtime, if the inline-for survives that long. A for loop executed during comptime is just const stuff = comptime stuff: { for (0...8) |i| { // etc, build
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by samatman 5mo ago
Is it older than March 2025? The first year was rough, from what I've read. Mine arrived March 2025, it has taken no work to print excellently, and at about 700 hours I have lubricated it every 200 hours, and I just tightened the belts
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by samatman 5mo ago
Dusting off my HN credentials to plug Qidi. If you can afford to pay more for less printer, get a Prusa Core One. I almost did, but at the time the cost would have included four months of waiting, and that was just too much. But the Qidi Pl
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Show HN: Zelda: Type-Safe Intrusive Linked Lists in Zig(github.com)
3 points by samatman 1y ago|0 comments
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by samatman 2y ago
Is it? I'm with you on gobsmackingly ancient, but it's "doesn't support long options" which I haven't bumped into. I do replace some coreutils, but not all of them. What's a good example of such a utility
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by samatman 2y ago
Ok, sure, we can reason about anything. We could reason about machine code, if we had the time and inclination. I barely participate in Hacker News anymore because it seems to have collectively lost the ability to extract meaning from word
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by samatman 2y ago
The central claim is that Zig's use of comptime is similar enough to templates to conflate them. That's simply incorrect. There's no value in trying to extract information from something which makes such a basic mistake as
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by samatman 2y ago
This blog post is disqualified from any serious discussion, because it doesn't know the distinction between templates, which Zig's comptime constructs are not, and partial evaluation with reified types, which Zig's comptime c
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by samatman 2y ago
You can't reason about macros, that's not how they work. You can read their definition, you can expand them, but there's no way to look at a macro call and reason about it, it can do anything at all. In C you don't even
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by samatman 2y ago
My life would rapidly fall apart. I use Siri for about three things: timers, reminders, and asking about the weather. But the reminders are mission critical. I use the watch, and any time my flighty brain hits on something, I set a remind
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by samatman 2y ago
I've never heard from anyone who likes the Apple Mouse enough to use it, but doesn't like the charging from the bottom. It's frequently cited as a 'flaw' by those who don't use it, this has become a bit of con
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by samatman 2y ago
Cars and medical equipment are already heavily regulated.
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by samatman 2y ago
People do this all the time actually. "Cotton is fungible", "oil is fungible". The grading is assumed.
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by samatman 2y ago
No, almonds are grown in California because of a uniquely favorable climate. They're profligate with water because they're allowed to get away with it. If water were priced by auction, which I support, almond growers would invest
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by samatman 2y ago
If "grow them elsewhere" were plausible, California wouldn't be growing 77% of them.
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by samatman 2y ago
When would it kick in, do you think? Would you need a JSON loisence? A bash loisence? Is Javascript ok but only in the browser, and only under 500 lines? At what point does the bobby say Oi! ?
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by samatman 2y ago
Perhaps that's why I've met so many engineers from these normal countries in my own, abnormally wealthy one. In fact, they've told me so, in so many words.
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by samatman 2y ago
The existence of various grades of a commodity says nothing about whether that commodity at those grades is fungible. Mostly it implies the opposite, in fact.
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by samatman 2y ago
That water grows 77% of all almonds, worldwide. Is there some better use for roughly 15% of California's water consumption? Are you sure?
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by samatman 2y ago
System Settings / Accessibility / Keyboard / Full Keyboard Access This is macOS we're talking about. You can move the pointer with your face if you want (or more likely, if you need to).
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by samatman 2y ago
What is "unintentionally dog-whistling" supposed to mean? Isn't intention the essence of the concept of the "dog whistle"? I'd also like to observe that Scott Alexander does a yearly survey, which provide unusu
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by samatman 2y ago
Communities are people. They are not definitions.
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by samatman 2y ago
Is your Markdown renderer ever going to figure out how to reflow paragraphs with hard newlines in them? Will there ever be a way to dispose of the enormous header blocking me from reading source code? Those are what I want from the future o
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by samatman 2y ago
They have! It's called Julia and it's great.

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