sinistersnare

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by sinistersnare 3y ago
My partner and I regularly work physically next to each-other, even though we both have separate office spaces. It does help stay focused and it's a great change of pace. It is an interesting idea to invite friends over to work with! I
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Rust's Poor Composability(thedav.is)
115 points by sinistersnare 4y ago|159 comments
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by sinistersnare 4y ago
(I'm a contributor to Perspective) As a Firefox user I definitely want to see better FF support here! The first step is to get a good test suite. Currently our tests only run on Chrome. So after we get tests running on Firefox, we can
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by sinistersnare 4y ago
Andy Wingo's blog is awesome. A great resource for those interested in PL design and development. I learned a bunch of stuff about delimited control from this blog, among other things. Also, Andy implements delimited control in this po
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by sinistersnare 4y ago
Maybe you should watch the video and realize that it can't be live and let live. By you living with your truck, we die.
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by sinistersnare 4y ago
How does Mercurial differ in this way? I always figured mercurial was just a 'better UI', but using similar internals.
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by sinistersnare 4y ago
Looks awesome, I think this is a great mix with prompt engineering. It seems this does not work on Firefox? I could only draw on about half the canvas and it was pretty buggy. Dont support the chrome monoculture!
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by sinistersnare 4y ago
This seems to be a great resource! However, when I looked at prices, seats are quite expensive. Does anyone have any advice for finding cheaper train tickets?
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by sinistersnare 4y ago
I appreciate your effort! I was loathe to leave Signal, but I can't support them after all of the dumb stuff they've been doing. They also added some sort of crypto a couple years ago? The default android messenger is good enough
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by sinistersnare 4y ago
Millenials and Zoomers, I assume
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by sinistersnare 4y ago
Easier Thread to read than Twitter: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1603834995830816769.html
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by sinistersnare 4y ago
I think people should look at Ascent [1]. I love the way it embeds Rust seamlessly. It's like JSX for Datalog/Rust. [1]: https://github.com/s-arash/ascent
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by sinistersnare 4y ago
I think that taking options and results usually is an anti pattern. You want to handle the errors at creation-site and not propagate it to another function. Of course this is just a minimal example... Others have talked about the real point
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by sinistersnare 4y ago
Interestingly, the transcript linked at the bottom of the page does not active my FF android reader mode either. However, that page _is" quite readable.
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by sinistersnare 4y ago
Another blog with handwritten posts is [1]... This person also is an Emacs contributor, and writes the blog with a Supernote ([2]), not a Remarkable. [1]: https://sachachua.com/blog/2022/09/monthly-review-augu
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by sinistersnare 4y ago
Having `true/false/on/off/null`, 4 different comment styles and 5 numerical types screams anything except for 'Simple' to me. It may be a fine language, but it seems like it needs a new name. Maybe 'YAYAML
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by sinistersnare 5y ago
I think Rust does a _ton_ of bikeshedding. Here is one example[0] showing how much of a discussion is required for a relatively simple QoL feature. [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/62358
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by sinistersnare 5y ago
"There may be something better in the future, so we shouldn't change anything ever" is not a very strong argument. No one thinks Rust is the end-all-be-all. They simply think that Rust is better than C, quite easily at that.
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by sinistersnare 6y ago
Why aren't there any bold laptop manufacturers? This is a 2021 laptop that uses USB-A primarily, a meh panel, and no particular standout design features. Why do I have to get a mac if I want actually good design? System76 should take a
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by sinistersnare 6y ago
Using `unwrap` is not something that can come back to bite you in a long term (other than API design wise). Replacing it is dead easy, as the compiler helps you. Also, you can replace it with a call to `expect` to give a relevant message to
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Abstract Machines: Interpreters for Computer Scientists(drs.is)
2 points by sinistersnare 6y ago|0 comments
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by sinistersnare 6y ago
If you translate your language to use Continuation Passing Style [0], then you get tail-calls for every function, which effectively obviates the stack. This technique is used by functional language compilers, see Compiling With Continuation
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Against Glob Imports(drs.is)
1 points by sinistersnare 6y ago|0 comments
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by sinistersnare 7y ago
Your argument reminds me of this (relevant) XKCD comic. https://xkcd.com/1102/
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by sinistersnare 7y ago
I don't know about PL/I but Prolog kind of cheats, in my opinion, about the reserved words. It is very strict about naming conventions, which is (IMO) worse than having reserved words.
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by sinistersnare 8y ago
I also made a closure converting pass to my compiler (in racket also!) Here's mine: https://github.com/sinistersnare/SinScheme/blob/master/src/r...
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by sinistersnare 8y ago
There was this HN post a bit ago: Relevant Link: https://wicg.github.io/change-password-url/index.html HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18618193
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Fancy Tree Traversals(drs.is)
3 points by sinistersnare 8y ago|0 comments
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by sinistersnare 8y ago
Python is not specified but CPython serves as a reference implementation. Python has _numerous_ alternative implementations. Jython in Java, IronPython in C#, PyPy in Python (kinda...), and even more lesser-known implementations.
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by sinistersnare 8y ago
Yeah, the feature is not introduced that well. It is mostly a good feature for the extension that they are talking about, TreeStyleTab[1], which explains the feature. Piro's blogpost is actually awesome. It describes the history of the

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