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by ux266478 10mo ago
I too wish we were weaving exotic matter metamaterials out of the aether, but until then hydrocarbons are a miracle from the heavens for their uses. A modern cedar tree.
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by ux266478 10mo ago
> Anthropomorphic language about, and by, AI, attacks the core belief that human language use is attached to meaning This is unsound. At best it's incompatible with an unfounded teleological stance, one that has never been universal
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by ux266478 10mo ago
That's not how it works. The demand for engineering hours is an order of magnitude higher than the supply for any given game, you have to pick and choose your battles because there's always much, much more to do. It's not biz
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by ux266478 10mo ago
The only pro I can think of is you get a standard scheme set of batteries, which isn't even really a pro in this space. The biggest con is implementation size and complexity. IIRC the JITter alone is twice the size of LuaJIT's ent
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by ux266478 10mo ago
Guile is an embedded scripting and configuration language. Its competition is Lua. Which is unfortunate for Guile, because it's even less attractive there.
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by ux266478 10mo ago
The language is different. The changes to environments in particular are a non-starter. Sandboxing is incredibly clunky in 5.2+, and we lost a lot of metaprogramming power and dynamic behavior.
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by ux266478 10mo ago
I totally get why they did, having had to support Mac for an in-house engine. Apple is by far the most painful platform to support out of the big 3 if you're not using turnkey tools, and they don't make up for it with sales outsid
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by ux266478 11mo ago
If someone likes you, trade secrets flow like wine. That's basic humanity. It's not unique to China, though the relationships involved are a little bit different. It's not a bad thing either, we all live in the same society.
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by ux266478 11mo ago
Probably the fact that the politicians hold actual power of force, control of ownership, etc. Nobody alive today in a first world country has lived to see what happens when their own government's blood is up. Prigozhin had a personal a
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by ux266478 11mo ago
To be fair to C++, the only languages with actually decently debuggable metaprograms are Lisp and Prolog. Modern C++ in general is so hostile to debugging I think it's astounding people actually use it.
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by ux266478 11mo ago
I want to preface this with "This isn't a gotcha". I think you make an important oversight with these claims, which is that you can enforce logical safety over a memory unsafe language and have a much higher degree of safety
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by ux266478 11mo ago
is a meta-level grammar the same as an object-level grammar?
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by ux266478 11mo ago
It's just provencial nonsense, there's no sound reasoning to it. Reductionism being taken and used as a form of refutation is a pretty common cargo culting behavior I've found. Overwhelmingly, I just don't think the majo
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by ux266478 11mo ago
> Your HTTP client, cli utility helper, whatever library is not a consumer product. I'm not sure how the author came to this conclusion. At any rate, programmers aren't any worse about this than mathematicians. Just replace [fi
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by ux266478 11mo ago
I didn't claim that you were doing formal proofs. You can still make bad rhetoric, formal or not. You can say "The sky is blue, therefore C is a memory safe language" and that's trivially inferred to be faulty reasoning.
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by ux266478 11mo ago
Actually it's the classic "inductive reasoning has to meet a set of strict criteria to be sound." Criteria which this does not meet. Extrapolation from a sample size of one? In a context without any LLM involvement? That&#x27
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by ux266478 11mo ago
Can these claims back themselves up with a study showing that over a large population size with sufficient variety, sourced from a collection of diverse environments, LLM output across a period of time is more reliably correct and without i
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by ux266478 11mo ago
no, but you can misread the two interchangeably no matter how familiar you are with the language.
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by ux266478 11mo ago
I've found usually to poor effect. Both Rust and Haskell did away with .mli files and ended up worse for it. Haskell simplified the boundary between modules and offloaded the abstractions it was used for into its more robust type syste
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by ux266478 11mo ago
That qualifier only makes the anthropormorphization more sound. Have you actually thought it through? Give an untrained and unspecialized human the power to cause significant loss of life in a medical context in the same exact capacity, and
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by ux266478 11mo ago
I mean I had to manually patch the rpaths of macos binaries distributed as an app bundle, because dyld didn't have the relative location of the shared libs in the app bundle in its search path. Not a huge deal, since patching rpaths wa
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by ux266478 11mo ago
one of the weirdest and most off-putting parts of macos for me was that dyld isn't aware of that standardized location. a lot of curious oversights the more you pick at it.
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by ux266478 11mo ago
statically linking dependencies is a trivial change in a build script. why are you acting like its some esoteric forbidden art?
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by ux266478 11mo ago
> Out of curiosity, what would that be? I'd argue Rome's ability to sustain martial force well beyond what others would have considered reasonable was decisive in their advantage. To look at it in another light, it was actually
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by ux266478 11mo ago
The Precursor greatly interests me. Do you have personal experience with it?
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by ux266478 11mo ago
No. The touchscreen firmware's source is not distributed[1] for one, and neither is the firmware for the baseband processor. Possibly more aspects. Although "open" doesn't matter as much as "libre" does. Modify
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by ux266478 11mo ago
All phones end up reliant on proprietary blobs. Not that I disagree in principle, but we have to be realistic. Hardware manufacturers, telcoms and to some degree regulators all do not like user freedom with regards to phones.
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by ux266478 11mo ago
Both of these things respectively are just pattern matches and monads, just not user-definable ones.
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by ux266478 11mo ago
Those are the docs for a compiler, not the language standard.
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by ux266478 11mo ago
I think Rust has a lot of nice things about it, semantically. I think sepples is extremely ugly too. I didn't downvote you though, I don't even know how to do that on HN.

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