vitiral

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by vitiral 2y ago
Fair enough! I only wrote it early in my career, it might feel more restrictive now
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by vitiral 2y ago
False. If there's an army of people saying it's impossible to leave Google then fewer will use it.
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by vitiral 2y ago
Ah, makes sense. I think there are use-cases for both, even personal hobby projects. There's some languages with so much damn syntax that I don't think I could even begin to write code without a formatter (I'm looking at you
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by vitiral 2y ago
I personally dislike ad-hoc DSLs that aren't composed of the language's existing syntax. Considering I get pleasure from formatting the code beautifully I'm not sure how it's even possible to be doing _myself_ a disservi
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by vitiral 2y ago
Im not sure how it's even remotely related to testing. I do agree that it depends on the person, just like every medium depends on both the artist creating the work and the patrons viewing it. Many people who use formatters (myself inc
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by vitiral 2y ago
I'm going to take a contrarian view here. Code formatting is amazing in a corporate environment where nobody truly cares about their code -- it's just a means to get a paycheck. It's also great for beginners to a language who
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by vitiral 2y ago
My favorite bit Sioux City Approach: "United Two Thirty-Two Heavy, the wind's currently three six zero at one one; three sixty at eleven. You're cleared to land on any runway." Haynes: "[laughter] Roger. [laughter]
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by vitiral 2y ago
... and because they designed the chip to be a jack of all trades, which he really likes.
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by vitiral 2y ago
seeking patents to then open source it? Right?... Right?!?
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by vitiral 2y ago
Why not both? If there is collapse and we don't have all our existing manufacturing, I could see concentrated solar power into steam being a primary energy source. You can also store steam and then use it for all sorts of purposes incl
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The Inset Operation(github.com)
2 points by vitiral 2y ago|0 comments
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by vitiral 2y ago
yup, that was pretty much my point/question. Thanks for confirmation!
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by vitiral 2y ago
I like this! I think the hard part can be finding projects that are both interesting and achievable for the beginner.
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Bootstrap Your Mind(github.com)
4 points by vitiral 2y ago|0 comments
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by vitiral 2y ago
I'd like some feedback from those in the know. It seems to me we've been building "robots" since the industrial revolution. An assembly line is a series of "robots" performing highly specific actions on highly
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by vitiral 2y ago
Sam Altman doesn't work at Google though
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by vitiral 2y ago
Where did you get 7 trillion?
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by vitiral 2y ago
Being a bit pedantic. Globally but not locally deterministic
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by vitiral 2y ago
I guess it's time to amend contracts so that Big Tech Bro has rights to everything, no matter what
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by vitiral 2y ago
Why build the transcontinental railroad when there's hardly a market for it? - dude on the internet in the early 1800s
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by vitiral 2y ago
> how does threading work? Basic answer: there is no threading, at least not for the user. The build system runs a thread per BUILD file (in bazel). Since the BUILD files are written in starlark and starlark has no threads -- there is no
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by vitiral 2y ago
It's really interesting that the original author compares it to Lua. I've never heard that comparison, but I've been recently considering building a similar build system. Mimicking starlark files would be easy: all you would
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by vitiral 2y ago
Which segfaults are NOT the result of memory safety violations?
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by vitiral 2y ago
I'm aware that binder itself isn't written in Java of that's what you mean (?)
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by vitiral 2y ago
Large parts of the OS and services like binder DEFINE memory safety. They twiddle the bits to setup the MMU, as well as the functions and data structures for the allocator/etc. Binder, as I understand, is an interface that accepts inte
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by vitiral 2y ago
> The motivation for this design is that a client can send a transaction and then wait for a response with one ioctl syscall. In contrast, IPC with sockets requires two syscalls, send and recv. What a great motivation. Oh wait, then you
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by vitiral 2y ago
Why not when you feel the opposite about "faith healing"?
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by vitiral 2y ago
sure. How effective is faith/placebo at curing those conditions I wonder?
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by vitiral 2y ago
That was the point of the question. Wouldn't you say "placebo" has heavy intellectualizing overtones?
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by vitiral 2y ago
The problem as I see it is that all medicine is fundamentally trying to find effective scaffolding on the human body, triggering it's own ability to heal. A surgeon can't repair a corpse. What causes the body to heal itself more e

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