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by vacuity 3y ago
> To this day, there are things that's were easy in Flash that are borderline impossible on the web... My only experience with Flash is playing Flash games, heh. What would you say made Flash so powerful to achieve such things?
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by vacuity 3y ago
I don't think such an attitude is warranted. While I'm skeptical about the potential of LLMs as AGI (whatever that means), being able to summarize subjects and even come up with test questions can be very valuable for learning. I
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by vacuity 3y ago
Riemann died young, too. I only really know him for the Riemann sum formulation of integrals (I have yet to learn complex analysis), but I wouldn't be surprised if he has some popular reach through the Riemann hypothesis.
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by vacuity 3y ago
Euler went blind in one eye, and remarked "now I will have fewer distractions". He eventually became almost blind entirely, but with the aid of scribes, his productivity actually increased. It's remarkable how Euler didn&#x27
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by vacuity 3y ago
Is the backtrace performed by the OS and that's why it still works? And the debug info needs to still be provided, just not an unwinding mechanism?
696.
by vacuity 3y ago
Naively, what is the difference between panics and exceptions? Is it the philosophy on when/how to use them?
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by vacuity 3y ago
I was just making it clear that the OS policy pervades. That is, the developers of CPython or another execution context need to care about it, and so it informs some of the implementation details that may leak into programs. We agree that P
698.
by vacuity 3y ago
Python presents an abstraction, but underneath, it's bound by the address space just as C is.
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by vacuity 3y ago
The OS controls the MMU.
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by vacuity 3y ago
The C memory model is what imposes pointer provenance and all that jazz on C programs. The OS provides an abstraction over physical memory, and programming languages abstract over individual address spaces.
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by vacuity 3y ago
I wouldn't call that the C memory model, as it's imposed by the OS on all programs.
702.
by vacuity 3y ago
A very simplified and possibly wrong answer: memory in C is a bunch of arrays of bytes that have lots of rules on when and how you can use a particular array given the state of all relevant arrays.
703.
by vacuity 3y ago
I think there is a strong culture in the Rust community to use `unsafe` carefully, somehow fostered by the overt advertisement, features, and/or design philosophy of Rust. The infamous actix-web debacle suggests that Rust users tend to
704.
by vacuity 3y ago
Considering Python's library ecosystem and the general expanse of Python code, some might say it is the right tool. It's far from ideal, though. A slew of mediocre decisions just begets more, I suppose.
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by vacuity 3y ago
Unfortunately, careers don't get advanced that way. There are very backwards incentives.
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by vacuity 3y ago
I doubt your second sentence. Considering the prevalence of memory safety bugs in C/C++ code, when both Firefox and Microsoft report a figure of ~70% of bugs involving memory safety, generous deployment of tests, fuzzing, sanitizers, a
707.
by vacuity 3y ago
Considering how we all seem to be the product of millions of years of hit-or-miss natural selection, it feels almost natural that our advancements have also had a great deal of luck/improbability.
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by vacuity 3y ago
As I understand it, generics are just a particular mechanism for interfacing with multiple types, and C manages without. For the same program, could a programmer ever be more unaware about which types are parameterized and which specific im
709.
by vacuity 3y ago
I get where you're coming from, but I think it doesn't have to be more complicated than: "Are the two values standard Rust number types? If yes, they do simple multiplication on an asm level. Otherwise, check the relevant Mul
710.
by vacuity 3y ago
Although with a language like Go, I would think programmers should expect that allocations occur frequently, and rely on the GC and language design to ensure decent performance or whatever is being asked for. It won't hold true all the
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by vacuity 3y ago
Note that C++'s design of RAII and Rust's design have important differences.
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by vacuity 3y ago
This kind of thing is why, while I hold the sciences in healthy regard, I'm especially wary of treating fields such as psychology as usually producing factual results.
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by vacuity 3y ago
For a new OS, would it be good to circumvent this with a rudimentary runtime type system managed by the kernel? It would probably cost a bit of memory and performance overhead on syscalls, and eat up the syscall space. It could be reflected
714.
by vacuity 3y ago
While I agree that issues such as artists not being able to support themselves or rampant misinformation are ultimately contingent on social issues, I think we should try to mitigate the negative impact of AI in the meantime. Otherwise, the
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by vacuity 3y ago
There isn't a binary "memory safety" choice for a given language, but C is way off on the wrong end of realistically promoting the writing of memory safe code.
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by vacuity 3y ago
What is that supposed to mean? Many people want equal rights and justice for everyone. What I'm doubting is whether your particular ideas for achieving that are appropriate. Good intentions alone don't solve problems. Feel free to
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by vacuity 3y ago
If only the world in general could be more peaceable and not have separate states. Many of the elements could stand to be adopted in general. As it is, your plan mostly seems good, although I'm doubtful about how "anti-extremism&q
718.
by vacuity 3y ago
You don't seem to be asking a question anymore. That's not what I said maybe to, anyways. If both languages have grammars that are on the same level, I don't see why someone experienced in writing a lexer/parser would ha
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by vacuity 3y ago
What would dismantling of Israel entail? I think Israel should be reformed to accept Palestinians and whatnot, but dismantling seems like a far stronger word.
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by vacuity 3y ago
Writing a Rust lexer/parser, maybe. The entire compiler? Dubious.

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