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by uticus 3y ago
> ...long on punishment and short on compassion... matter of perspective, friend. short consequences for the guilty party may mean long consequences for the innocent. moreover - and i don't think you meant it this way, but - "p
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by uticus 3y ago
> I can't say what problem it is supposed to solve "Haml accelerates and simplifies template creation" https://haml.info/ If you'd rather write raw HTML, keeping track of closing tags etc, then don&#x
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by uticus 3y ago
> almost no one is writing HTML anymore JSX?
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by uticus 3y ago
Amazing considering how much heat travels from Sun (and punches through atmosphere) to Earth surface. Didn’t realize there was that much of an insulation property.
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by uticus 3y ago
Pretty good but regurgitated design patters overall, I'm not impressed. Moreover I personally find the part about "Don’t waste vertical space" too far gone, it would be better to switch to a more terse language like APL or de
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by uticus 3y ago
As pointed out in another comment on this post [0], it would be an "FPAA," [1] and it has been manufactured. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38812160 [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by uticus 3y ago
Related, with 130 comments: "The Analog Thing: an open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer (the-analog-thing.org)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36165513
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by uticus 3y ago
I understand what you mean but at the same time in the web-dev world I find it interesting that React is migrating from OOP to functional. ("We recommend defining components as functions instead of classes." at top of page at htt
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by uticus 3y ago
@dang there are a lot of posts from "splware" / "esproc" for the last two months, all focused on how great "Esproc SPL" is. seems like using HN as advert space, against HN submission rules [0]? 2 months ag
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Spellcaster – or, discovering and recovering a lost programming language (2021)(blog.information-superhighway.net)
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by uticus 3y ago
> In all sorts of different fields, research productivity has been flat or declining for decades, and peer review doesn’t seem to have changed that trend. But, ease of communication and parsing ideas has certainly advanced every scienti
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by uticus 3y ago
Speaking of Lua, it reminds me of LuaJIT and Mike Pall with his hot loops coded in assembly. There are places where performance increases weigh more, iteration is definitely a candidate.
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by uticus 3y ago
> I wonder if there is a generally accepted quantifiable definition of programming language expressiveness. If there is such a definition it would not fit into these sorts of conversations. I love Ruby but every time I see someone mentio
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by uticus 3y ago
Don't forget TruffleRuby's other tricks: parallel code [0] and polyglot language interplay [1] [2]. [0] https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/ruby/#aim [1] https://www.graalvm.o
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by uticus 3y ago
Not to mention the warm-up time - the graph in the referenced article is measured in seconds , with max > 20! Can attest, just pulled TruffleRuby (both native and JVM), it is over ten seconds to start a hello world script cold. As in, s
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by uticus 3y ago
> At some point I came across some writing that suggested that Forth had a “loop control stack”. Wouldn't it be nice if I could implement some kind of loop control stack that worked for all kinds of iteration?...I added two loop con
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by uticus 3y ago
If satellite cameras are capable of extreme resolution, would it work the other way? Could a camera be pointed up from ground, and capture revealing details about orbiting vehicles (like the X-37 & Chinese variant)?
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by uticus 3y ago
Sorry, yes I was picking too hard on JS. But hopefully my point still stands. A coder writes instructions for the computer; it amazes me the tolerance for having those instructions go through multiple layers of transformations (sometimes ev
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by uticus 3y ago
> This is likely one of the largest solar radio events ever recorded. > Radio communication interference with aircraft were reported by multiple NWS Center Weather Service Units (CWSU) co-located at FAA facilities. These impacts were
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by uticus 3y ago
At what point does the language become a useless abstraction, and AI becomes the new “language”? I’m a software developer yet still amazed at how many layers of abstraction are tolerated in user space. Take web development. You’d think at s
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An interactive guide to the Fourier transform (2012)(betterexplained.com)
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by uticus 3y ago
I’ll add to existing comments that it might also be interesting to look through conversations re Smalltalk. Ruby was influenced by Smalltalk, so interesting to note in Smalltalk it is impossible to have private methods. https://s
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by uticus 3y ago
Tangentially related, just watched Star Trek the Motion Picture (director's cut) for first time as an adult. One of the best tie-ins between NASA and scifi I can think of. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_
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Memory-safe languages so hot, agrees Lazarus Group as it slings DLang malware(theregister.com)
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by uticus 3y ago
I'm struggling to understand. I can understand how a timing attack would reveal enough details to differentiate between data being touched (but not expected to be returned). But I can't understand how this would cause SQL injectio
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by uticus 3y ago
Agreed, Ruby the language is fantastic for ease of use starting, then more complex concepts ready to go (functional programming, WASM, C interopt, etc) when you're ready to dive into them. IMO the jury is still out on its recent change
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by uticus 3y ago
Ah the V-22. My personal immediate choice among all flying objects for 'never put me on that thing'. Close second is anything rocket powered.
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by uticus 3y ago
> Now the exploit was rewritten to read memory, and blink out the contents using the LCD backlight. A LEGO construction was built and a webcam would register the binary stream of a few megabytes of memory contents. Slooooow. It both a
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by uticus 3y ago
> I'd teach them relational algebra ... Agreed. Curious what materials you've found that really drive this home? Like 90% of googlesearch results simplify things to the point where this is missed.
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by uticus 3y ago
This sums up so many things well and clearly. It's so quotable. - The money trail: "Their true customers—their advertisers—will demand it." - The current state of affairs: "Surveillance has become the business model of t

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