talideon

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by talideon 10mo ago
I typically use OCaml myself for them and have never found the standard library to be particularly "depleted" for AoC, though I do have a couple hundred lines of shared library code built up over the years for parsing things, inst
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by talideon 11mo ago
That's not right. They were an early investor in ARM Ltd., but they in no way "helped develop ARM". That was all Acorn. ARM Ltd was created because Apple thought ARM was a good fit for the Newton, but didn't want to be b
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by talideon 11mo ago
Starlark is a subset of Python that's only primitive recursive. And in a distributed build system, being able to guarantee termination is a very good thing. It also means Bazel can do predictable fan-outs of builds. Starlark has very
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by talideon 11mo ago
Well, I'd say the Qualcommisation of Arduino is happening as expected and apace.
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by talideon 11mo ago
True, but writing imperative code in OCaml feels quite right. Maybe it's just me, but it always feels significantly clunkier than the functional equivalent. I've had things I've been implementing and though "this works b
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by talideon 11mo ago
If that's what you use as your yardstick of what's Unixy, then I guess you don't consider "find" to be Unixy, in spite of being one of the early Programmer's Workbench tools. Short options were a compromise to
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by talideon 1y ago
Yeah, this puzzled me too. I'm assuming they're referring to the semantics of "var" in JS vs "local" in Lua, with the latter resembling "let" in JS, which doesn't have broken scoping.
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by talideon 1y ago
You're conflating a few things here. V8 and Spidermonkey aren't the only interpreters out there. There are a number of them explicitly designed to be small, easy to compile and to embed, such MuJS, Fabrice Bellard's QuickJS,
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by talideon 1y ago
Sure, there are many ways to achieve the same end of limiting blast radius, but that's not really the point here: the point is that we should dismiss projects like this solely because something might go wrong, especially when there are
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by talideon 1y ago
Nah. There are ways to mitigate the blast radius of experiments like this. You can't utterly wrap developers up in cotton wool. Ultimately, people learn strong lessons from screwing up. You can at least make sure they're doing thi
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by talideon 1y ago
The only way it can break is if you skip straight to forward to a release that no longer contains the tooling allowing you to make the transition cleanly. They outlined this is the article.
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by talideon 1y ago
It's Mitchell's hobby project. If he had an interest in improving other technologies, he would. People are allowed to have hobbies.
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by talideon 1y ago
Ghostty is his hobby project: why would he do that?
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by talideon 1y ago
The Python docs say it's part of the built-in standard library, not that it's literally there and in scope by default. We learned the value of modularity decades ago. This is a sign of Fortran's age, not a good thing. Very fe
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by talideon 1y ago
If you're coding, you don't have to understand how to implement control flow. The average C programmer hasn't a clue how the underlying control flow is implemented. It's an _implementor_ of an interpreter or compiler who
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by talideon 1y ago
And "filmed in front of a live studio audience", which doesn't prevent the addition of laugh tracks.
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by talideon 1y ago
Oh, I know exactly what you were trying to say, but it's in no way analogous. Your analogy is bogus. And sure, you don't need a master woodworker to operate a CNC machine, but the that person is still highly skilled, it's jus
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by talideon 1y ago
Somewhat more than that. RISC OS was MOS on steroids too.
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by talideon 1y ago
Those CNC-made cabinets are driven by software written by a human being. And I'm not talking about the CNC software itself: CNC machine operators _code_, even if it's not obvious to those who don't know somebody who works wit
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by talideon 1y ago
WHOIS privacy isn't a registry-level service. It's a registrar-level service.
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by talideon 1y ago
Much as I like the idea of DANE, it solves nothing by itself and you need to sign the zone from tampering. Right now, the dominant way to do that is DNSSEC, though DNSCurve is a possible alternative, even if it doesn't solve the exact
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by talideon 2y ago
In this case, it's nothing specific to uv though: there's a PEP outlining how this stuff is declared and uv is just one of the tools that happens to support the format. I wouldn't be at all surprised of pipx also supports it.
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by talideon 2y ago
uv has little in common with 0install, which has its origins in RISC OS's application directories. uv is an attempt to fix the fragments Python development environment tooling story.
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by talideon 2y ago
You can thank the Tories for that. It's a law they put in place so that they wouldn't have to put up with the poors protesting.
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by talideon 2y ago
I think you're misunderstanding things a bit: it's the jaw misalignment that leads to an overbite (or underbite) the allows the pronunciation of these sounds. Whichever you have, you're still producing labiodentals. What chan
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by talideon 2y ago
It doesn't hold water. It's just a typical form of lenition. plenty of languages exhibit the same phenomenon. The example I'm most familiar with is Irish, where /f/ under certain phonological and grammatical conditi
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by talideon 2y ago
They're labiodentals. It doesn't matter whether you've an overbite or an underbite. It's contact between the lips and teeth that matter. It's just most of us ended up with the former.
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by talideon 2y ago
To this day, the 3 is still my ideal version. Everything else since has fallen flat in some way in comparison. It was the right size, had paddle buttons for turning the page, had a passable keyboard, was responsive, could play audio, &c
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by talideon 2y ago
I don't think I ever felt as if Alyx was hitting on Gordon when I played the game. Fangirling, sure, but that's it. I can fully imagine Gordon's legend building up over time, however justified it might be. It didn't feel
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by talideon 2y ago
Isn't this what Navier-Stokes is for, or am I misunderstanding things? Does this improve on it in some way not clear from the article?

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