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by transfire 2y ago
Can you save your game?
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by transfire 2y ago
Here’s the thing. If you are poor — making a low income — it doesn’t really mater. Even if you owe them some money you’re too insignificant for the IRS to worry about. More likely they owe you refund money and it will just sit there and eve
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by transfire 2y ago
Could be useful for touch sensitive robot skin?
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by transfire 2y ago
Awesome! I’ve been waiting to see if someone would eventually do this. With further refinement this could be a big deal for Ruby. No more “Ruby is too slow”, when you can Crystalize your bottlenecks. One feature it seems to lack is the abil
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by transfire 3y ago
Stow never got enough love. Gobo Linux was based on the same idea, it never got enough love. Now we are paying for it with heavy weight solutions — containers, snaps, flatpak, etc. instead of evolving to a higher-order form of Stow.
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by transfire 3y ago
Something I realized years ago, the 6502 instruction set is small enough that it can be (almost) entirely implemented as memory look up — no actual logic computation need occur.
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by transfire 3y ago
That makes sense. Thanks!
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by transfire 3y ago
Curious, why does the light splinter?
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by transfire 3y ago
It would have a better chance of passing if it offered some financial benefit to employers. Maybe a reduction in payroll taxes?
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by transfire 3y ago
Not really a good question. It could be interpreted as asking how many books you have left to read . It’s also rather poor grammar without a ‘do’, “how many do I have now”.
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by transfire 3y ago
I think the take away is that the progress has been surprisingly good and, if it continues, the next generation of designs after the ones we currently have might be viable.
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by transfire 3y ago
Good Lord! If we can’t even get fonts right… we got problems.
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by transfire 3y ago
HP is the worst. To even print from Ubuntu I had to install their spyware. And it still doesn’t work all the time. I blame Microsoft though. They strong armed HP back during the WebOS fiasco and that was end of anything good from HP.
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by transfire 3y ago
Shouldn’t that be “1-trit”?
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by transfire 3y ago
I miss you, Gobo.
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by transfire 3y ago
I don’t think NixOS was actually usable back then either. It was still more an idea and few people had heard of it.
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by transfire 3y ago
There is nothing “dangerous” about this if you know the behavior. In Ruby nil is a representation of emptiness, so when using the to_ conversion methods you will get an empty instance of a type. If you don’t want this behavior you use a con
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by transfire 3y ago
From what I have observed the current generation of AI (LLMs) is only good enough to help a programmer — write example algorithms, give ideas for what direction yo take, etc. However, we are about one major breakthrough away from total game
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by transfire 3y ago
I used to use Gimp for simple editing needs about a decade ago. I got fairly good at using it back then, but haven’t needed it in a long while. Yesterday I needed to draw an outlined circle… and couldn’t figure out how.
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by transfire 3y ago
This was probably my first computer game — this or Cave. Both of which I played on a terminal tied to a mainframe. I have no idea which mainframe. I was probably 7 or 8 making 1977 or 1978. I never was able to get past the first troll in Ca
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by transfire 3y ago
“It’s the macros, Stupid!” Seriously. Macros have to be understood a priori to be readable. Macros make the cognitive load of the language very heavy. Contrast that to Ruby which can do rich DSL without macros. It’s much easier to read and
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by transfire 3y ago
Sorry. There’s way too much complexity here. And too much shouting! The namespace idea did seem interesting though.
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by transfire 3y ago
This sport is still played (recreationally) at St John’s College both in Annapolis and Santa Fe, where it is known as Spartan Madball.
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by transfire 3y ago
Put those people in jail!
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by transfire 3y ago
Crystal hits the sweet spot between programmer productivity and computational performance.
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by transfire 3y ago
If all in house… Samba is typical. However I have heard that Windows can support NFS too. And in fact I have read that you can setup both over the same files.
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by transfire 3y ago
Somehow this reminds me of Gentoo.
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by transfire 3y ago
A similar language that’s been worked on for a while now is [Min]( https://min-lang.org/ ). Interestingly it is written in Nim. I was interested in the C interface part but it never got there. :(
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by transfire 3y ago
> `def` … is itself a word. But of course, that is the way of the Forth. Hmmm… Have a look at JonesForth. I think it might be very rewarding for you.
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by transfire 3y ago
Unfortunately the first tip doesn’t apply to structs.

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