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by tuveson 10mo ago
> But what is a hobbyist surgeon? Serial killer
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by tuveson 11mo ago
Escape from New York is the good one (in my opinion anyway)
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by tuveson 11mo ago
I like the cover of the book Crafting Interpreters: https://craftinginterpreters.com/image/header.png It's basically a flowchart showing all of the different things that we mean when we say compiler/interpret
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by tuveson 11mo ago
The post specifically calls out Apple and Mozilla as wanting to get rid of XSLT support, but just insinuates that this is because Google is paying them off. Obviously I think Google's monopoly position and backroom dealings are bad, bu
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by tuveson 11mo ago
If Google cured cancer tomorrow, there's someone that would be complaining about it and adding "cancer" to the "killed by Google" list. I would be very surprised if smaller browser vendors were happy about having to
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by tuveson 11mo ago
> There’s a much smaller network of people with relationships to Eastern European or other companies. Unlike eastern Europe, India is geopolitically in a pretty good spot right now, having decent relations with most developed countries,
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by tuveson 11mo ago
I know what you mean, but I think the issue is not social media, but rather big corporations being shitty. PepsiCo makes addictive beverages that cause people develop to diabetes and heart disease, but that doesn't mean beverages shoul
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by tuveson 11mo ago
This website is social media.
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by tuveson 11mo ago
> Detached home ownership is the dream, the more land it comes with, the better. Not everyone wants to live in the country or the suburbs. I wouldn't live there if you paid me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93oFXRe
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by tuveson 11mo ago
Loading time is pretty rough, but it seems responsive enough after the initial load. Probably as fast or faster than downloading and installing GHC locally.
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by tuveson 1y ago
C compilers will still shit themselves and give meaningless error messages if you forget a semicolon after a function declaration in a header file.
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by tuveson 1y ago
What problem does that solve with GC, specifically? It also seems like that creates an obvious new problem: If you have multiple heaps, how do you deal with an object in heap A pointing to an object in heap B? What about cyclic dependencies
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by tuveson 1y ago
Maybe try a different ML-influenced language like OCaml or Scala. The main innovation of Rust is bringing a nice ML-style type system to a more low level language.
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by tuveson 1y ago
Just to offer another perspective: I think the way your website works right now is actually very nice and the person you’re replying to is wrong. When I go to godbolt.org, it similarly puts me on the screen where I actually want to be, as a
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by tuveson 1y ago
I assume this is because sqliteonline is using the sqlite library, not running the literal sqlite command line application. Per item 7 in the faq ( https://sqlite.org/faq.html ), the way to get that info would be to run somet
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by tuveson 1y ago
One funny fact about the “No Kings” protests held abroad is that they were called “No Tyants” so as to not be interpreted as anti-monarchist.
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by tuveson 1y ago
Phillip Morris has a 238B market cap. What problems are they solving?
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by tuveson 1y ago
People say “pick the best tool for the job” and then refuse to pick COBOL for their COmmon Business Oriented probLems
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by tuveson 1y ago
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand the joke. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of CSS the joke will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also the author's nihilistic outlook,
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by tuveson 1y ago
> But even in the US, no one I've ever had the option to vote for (and who had even a remote chance of winning) would ever consider lifting these sanctions. So I am similarly powerless to change this situation. Not saying Obama’s fo
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by tuveson 1y ago
Programming in a structured high-level language like C is much more productive than programming in assembly. Programming in a managed language with GC can be more productive still. The creation of package managers and the widespread availab
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by tuveson 1y ago
> to help out the people who hate AI. Was it? I feel like it was clearly meant to be smug and inflammatory rather than useful in any meaningful way.
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by tuveson 1y ago
How much of an improvement does SIMD offer for something like this? It looks like it's only being used for strings and comments, but I would kind of assume that for most programming languages, the proportion of code that is long string
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by tuveson 1y ago
> I've certainly messed up my fair share of recursive calls. It’s a common enough problem that the “why is my program crashing” website is basically named after it.
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by tuveson 1y ago
> browsers and operating systems And the VMs for the two languages that you mentioned above (edit: though to be fair to your comment, I suppose those were initially written 20+ years ago).
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by tuveson 1y ago
Don't be too hard on AI, it can delete code too! https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in...
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by tuveson 1y ago
I have to assume the author listed these times based on how long it would take for someone to follow along with the blogs that they linked to, which demonstrate stripped down simple versions of these things. Like the POSIX shell example jus
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by tuveson 1y ago
My feeling has been that it’s a lot of people that work on B2B SaaS that are sad they hadn’t gotten the chance to work on the Manhattan Project. Be around the smartest people in your field. Contribute something significant (but dangerous! A
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by tuveson 1y ago
I know BASIC is kind of a “bad” language, but there’s something so delightful about it. If we’re plugging TinyBASIC projects that others might find interesting, I made an MMO TinyBASIC REPL the other day: http://10klob.com/
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by tuveson 1y ago
This kind of question winds up being the CS equivalent of “is a hotdog a sandwich”. I agree that transpiler is a more accurate term for it and that a hotdog is not a sandwich. But there are lots of languages that start life as compile-to-C

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