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by tom_ 9mo ago
I wonder if the author deliberately wrote it like AI would, or whether the AI did that for them.
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by tom_ 9mo ago
"Got" is the usual past participle in British English. Even if you don't speak British English yourself, it does count as a valid form of the language - even if of course a barbaric, corrupted one, degenerate, practically a p
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by tom_ 9mo ago
The decline has been pretty surprising: more questions asked in May 2021 (133,914) than in the whole of 2025 (129,977).
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by tom_ 9mo ago
If your opinion mattered, you would work at Microsoft setting the targets that the Start Menu team need to meet to hit their bonuses/not get fired. But you don't. So it doesn't. (I've pinned Visual Studio to the start me
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by tom_ 10mo ago
I think it makes sense to leave freeing up to the callback, because then management of the object (whatever it is) is up to the caller rather than the library. It might make sense to reuse it for a subsequent request (one way or another), o
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by tom_ 10mo ago
The space separated function call examples could do with a 2+ary example i think. How do you do something like pow(x+y,1/z)? I guess it must be "math pow x plus y 1 over z"? But then, the sqrt example has a level of nesting r
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by tom_ 10mo ago
Who cares about the Pi Zero? There's no umbrellas and no strollers/pushchairs/prams/etc. - and to add insult to injury you're not allowed booze as well.
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by tom_ 10mo ago
I was wondering just the other day whether those Statue Head Twitter accounts were still going.
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by tom_ 10mo ago
"the core loop"? What is this?
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by tom_ 10mo ago
And indeed that has proven the case. But my assumption was that Python had been so obviously designed with performance so very much not in mind, that it had ended up in some local minimum from which meaningful escape would be impossible.
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by tom_ 10mo ago
I'm struggling to picture how we get there from here? There's a huge pile of second hand PCs available, and almost all of them are massively more powerful than necessary for terminal purposes only.
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by tom_ 10mo ago
As a data point, running a Python program I've been working on lately, which is near enough entirely Python code, with a bit of I/O: (a prototype for some code I'll ultimately be writing in a lower-level language) (macOS Vent
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by tom_ 10mo ago
The MIT licence does not require this.
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by tom_ 10mo ago
No, you don't sacrifice refresh rate! The refresh rate is the same. 50 Hz interlaced and 50 Hz non-interlaced are both ~50 Hz, approx 270 visible scanlines, and the display is refreshed at ~50 Hz in both cases. The difference is that i
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by tom_ 10mo ago
It's not absurd at all (in my view). A test checks that some obtained result matches the expected result - and if that obtained result is something that got printed out and redirected to a file, and that expected result is something th
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by tom_ 10mo ago
Did an LLM write the readme?
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by tom_ 10mo ago
My parting shot was slightly tongue in cheek, apologies. Fifty years is a long time. The process, whatever it is, will have been replaced or otherwise become irrelevant long before the period is up. 64 bits will be sufficient.
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by tom_ 10mo ago
That specific quote feels to me like a strange one to complain about, given that it's so obviously his own subjective opinion. Even if you're English, perhaps inclined to employ this sort of phrasing to state something that you ar
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by tom_ 10mo ago
A couple of the comments to the article suggest using 64-bit numbers, which is exactly the right solution. 2^64 nanoseconds=584.55 years - overflow is implausible for any realistic use case. Even pathological cases will struggle to induce w
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by tom_ 10mo ago
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@draknek/115713018435458495 > The funding for underrepresented creators was a condition of my involvement in this project, so doesn't represent his values so much as mine. He was
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by tom_ 10mo ago
The LLM is not a person.
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by tom_ 10mo ago
It's got a definite creamy tinge to it, not B&W. A quality=90 jpeg exported from GIMP is ~1.4 million bytes and not obviously visually different. (Test process was loading original image into one Firefox tab, and quality=90 jpeg im
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by tom_ 10mo ago
That may not be true if you struggle with "th"? Some ESL speakers do.
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by tom_ 10mo ago
Perhaps related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266655 ? - it's just too powerful, and they had to shut it down before something bad happened.
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by tom_ 10mo ago
The article also has a whole section on a wooden coffee cup!
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by tom_ 10mo ago
The *40 routine feels a bit questionable. Looks like it'll lose some bits. 24*40 is a 10-bit quantity, and you'll need to track the last 2 shifted-out bits. Throwing one away and using the other to add back into the LSB is probabl
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by tom_ 10mo ago
The 286 looks like it ought to be usefully quicker in general? Motorola did a good job on the programming model, but you can tell that the 68000 is from the 1970s. Nearly all the 68000 instructions take like 8+ cycles, and addressing modes
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by tom_ 10mo ago
Still a problem today, with a lot of terminal programs assuming the background will be dark!
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by tom_ 10mo ago
As if anybody would be daft enough to deny that you are of course absolutely right, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-d... has this additional detail: > Mr. Rubio's
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by tom_ 10mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23145123 has some links. http://n-gate.com/hackernews/ kept up something similar for a while.

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