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by ux266478 4mo ago
That's all very well and true. However where I disagree is built upon the context that Apple is a very large corporation with a very large market share. There is a point at which an organization, private it may be, has grown to encompa
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by ux266478 4mo ago
That might be reasonable for a general purpose computer if we were talking about something like a Parallel Inference Machine running KL1 software on a KL0 kernel. But I think conflating Apple's products with that level of foundational
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by ux266478 4mo ago
Pretty much all ARM platforms are. Even ARM devices designed from the ground up to be Linux devices are full of issues, like the MNT Pocket Reform's lack of HW suspend. The tight interop between vendor and implementation is a huge anti
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by ux266478 5mo ago
Why is an opinionated build system for a language not useful software?
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by ux266478 5mo ago
It would be more appropriate to say it emerged (as a sovereign nation) because of anti-multiculturalism, to be perfectly clear. Otherwise, it would still be a part of Malaysia.
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by ux266478 5mo ago
Could be improved. Encode the image to webp with high compression settings and handle the ASCII mapping by spinning up a local LLM to do OCR on it. Individually. For each cell.
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by ux266478 5mo ago
If I saw our UI show up in the profiler eating 5ms of CPU time every frame, I'd send whoever was responsible to QA hell until they find some way to redeem themselves. Not even fancy animated 3D UIs, like what you get in Death Stranding
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by ux266478 5mo ago
How on earth are you spending more than 50us on a UI like this from start to finish? What the actual hell? 11ms to construct a scenegraph of this complexity? I don't even know what to say to that.
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by ux266478 5mo ago
Hot take: I liked Windows 8. It used less memory than Windows 7, increased battery life, the file manager and task manager were much improved, I could mount ISOs without third party software, among other things. In truth, I didn't even
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by ux266478 5mo ago
Human beings sometimes get outsmarted by predators. It's certainly a strange thing to take pride in intelligence as an inviolable absolute.
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by ux266478 5mo ago
It's unfortunately the most common on this topic. I've been in the position of advocating for the existence of cognition and sentience in generally less-than-considered places, like plants, for a long time. I wish I could say LLMs
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by ux266478 5mo ago
If we take the classical position that words point to real things in the world, "useful label, loosely agreed to out of convenience" is kind of just regurgitating the meaning of "word". The first half indicating the func
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by ux266478 5mo ago
A small but illustrative example: given a live running clisp program, I can click on a UI element to inspect both the live object and the underlying code in the IDE. I can even copy and paste UI elements! Emacs is text-centric, LispWorks is
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by ux266478 5mo ago
The surveillance mesh of ring cameras sure hasn't, ironically enough.
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by ux266478 5mo ago
What I mean by that is that it's in the same weightclass of speed, depending on the problem being tackled. In the case where data's shape is mutable, SBCL will scream ahead thanks to CLOS. You can cheat LuaJIT with dynamically-def
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by ux266478 5mo ago
Fennel really is great, and a great way to get into the clojure family. My biggest gripe with it is that debugging is the typical transpilation bed of needles. The bridge between Fennel and the Lua VM is super fragile, and it just doesn&#x2
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by ux266478 5mo ago
Janet is faster, but lacks anything like tk. It's probably also quicker to learn, as you don't get into complex evaluation structure until you start messing around with quasiquotes, while tcl requires you to understand mixing 3 di
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by ux266478 5mo ago
> How fast is it? Roughly as fast as puc-rio Lua. It won't blow your socks off, but it's more than respectable.
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by ux266478 5mo ago
> but because many engines have moved to a visual node style of programming, it's also less and less programming in the gameplay department. He's talking about the people who make those tools, and he's right. Engine develo
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by ux266478 5mo ago
It's also amortized over a much longer period of time too. Those 23 people would scratch build that $40 game in 2 years. These days it's more like 8 years, and you're rarely building from scratch.
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by ux266478 5mo ago
I'm actually not a fan of Idris' implementation of the IO monad, it really should have been a free monad with a cofree comonad so you can enforce invariants against the world without a bunch of extra machinery. It seems kind of im
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by ux266478 5mo ago
No, it wouldn't make sense. Coalton is a strict language.
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by ux266478 5mo ago
The IO monad is for reifying execution order of a program. You more or less never have multiple IO monads.
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by ux266478 5mo ago
> To get an idea of how off the rails this has gotten, go read up on their statements trying to justify banning high school calculus. Can you provide a link?
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by ux266478 5mo ago
Restarting The Oracle
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by ux266478 5mo ago
I'm deadly certain that routing more of society into producing SaaS webapp shovelware (and the infrastructure to support it) is not in fact going to improve quality of life, and will in fact cause us to stagnate.
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by ux266478 5mo ago
Things are better for you than your dad, presumably. Unfortunately, many Americans still live like that, so the conclusion doesn't hold water.
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by ux266478 5mo ago
Yes actually, this is remarkably well studied: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-... I hate to imagine what this graph looks like today, given the massive amount of inflation th
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by ux266478 5mo ago
> Or when our paycheck is going to be multiplied accordingly. That doesn't increase shareholder value, so it would be a violation of the c-suite's fiduciary responsibility. Sorry, the extra capital will instead be used on stock
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by ux266478 5mo ago
One of the top 3 liberating experiences I've had was escaping wage labor. There's just something so utterly insulting about the whole affair.

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