vmchale

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   by vmchale 6y ago

   Huge subsidy to Texas because of ridiculous policies in CA. Maybe CA should crack down on zoning policy in SF etc.?
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   by vmchale 6y ago

   > I want to see if Apple is as eager to beat the competition in the HPC space Doesn't HPC use PPC or something? I could see them delivering on Desktop, not sure about HPC though. There's only one Fortran compiler for M1!
3. 183.▲
   by vmchale 6y ago

   Surprised SQLite was faster on Ryzen. But looks like M1 outperforms nearly everywhere else!
4. 184.▲
   by vmchale 6y ago

   Less sympathetic plaintiffs?
5. 185.▲
   by vmchale 6y ago

   Sounds terrible but I guess better than being mentally ill if it works!
6. 186.▲
   by vmchale 6y ago

   You can get prison time for growing them in the US, depending on the state (spores are legal here too, no psilocybin).
7. 187.▲
   by vmchale 6y ago

   Psychedelics are sometimes recreational but they can do more.
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   by vmchale 6y ago

   > I never understood why Europe under-invested in semi considering the talents they have and the strategic nature of it. Lots of better stuff in the US, until recently when the stagnation in the US made it more feasible (and politics mad
9. 189.▲
   by vmchale 6y ago

   Turns out tweets are not law... who knew!
10. 190.▲
    by vmchale 6y ago

    See also: https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/1773#issuecomment-418... Dismissive maintainers indeed!
11. 191.▲
    by vmchale 6y ago

    Elm is definitely not ready for production, hostile compiler maintainers.
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    by vmchale 6y ago

    > dependency info is turing complete It's NP-complete in general I think, definitely the case in Haskell-land. I think OCaml sets an explicit timeout for dependency resolution? > the dependency graph cannot be computed without in
13. 193.▲
    by vmchale 6y ago

    Man these people always end up on the wrong side of history.
14. 194.▲
    by vmchale 6y ago

    It's more comparable to cannabis, maybe worse though? Don't think it's on the same level as cocaine.
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    by vmchale 6y ago

    > While criminalising hard drugs is not ideal, legalising them and thereby making them more easily available will have a devastating impact and destroy too many lifes. Also tricky, quaaludes are the only drug I can think of that actually
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    by vmchale 6y ago

    > Writing compiler backend in a declarative manner is something I've been toying with for a while now, and I don't think it's realistically possible with current technology. Functional style isn't too bad. Maximal mu
17. 197.▲
    by vmchale 6y ago

    Wonderful! pdfgrep is good but slow.
18. 198.▲
    by vmchale 6y ago

    I'm also curious. Phoronix added clash/GHC compiler benchmarks which is relevant to my interests.
19. 199.▲
    by vmchale 6y ago

    IIRC iPhone did well on SMT solver benchmarks as well.
20. 200.▲
    by vmchale 6y ago

    Hope so. I could happily use arm chips on mobile.
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    by vmchale 6y ago

    > Just nobody believed those Geekbench benchmarks showing that in short benchmarks your phone could be faster than your laptop. I saw a paper on (I think?) SMT solvers on iPhone. Turned out to be faster than laptops, I kind of brushed ov
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    by vmchale 6y ago

    > I'm just disappointed to see "techies" still being blamed and called money hungry just because people are looking the other way at other problems. If anything the problem is renters and their zoning laws...
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    by vmchale 6y ago

    > There's a lot of Unix-y stuff being used in academy, research, and HPC: plenty of folks there would be just as willing to switch to a PC with Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS (which run the world's HPC clusters) if macOS gets i
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    by vmchale 6y ago

    > The general public hasn’t even heard of Homebrew, never mind understands how impressive it would be to get such software working on day 0. Sure, but making it easy for developers to use your platform is good because then it's easi
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    by vmchale 6y ago

    > Tbh it’s kind of weird to me that Apple didn’t sponsor the work needed for this, and would ensure that it happened sooner. It's unfortunate they don't have a package manager. They could do better than apt if they put resource
26. 206.▲
    by vmchale 6y ago

    Neat! Love seeing more takes on this (nix-like builds)
27. 207.▲
    by vmchale 6y ago

    Also Mirth (which is not established but looks fun).
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    by vmchale 6y ago

    > Comparatively, New Zealand and Canada have done a dramatically better job than America. People there appear to be willing to set aside their selfishness in favor of the common good. Or even temporary constraints in favor of better thin
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    by vmchale 6y ago

    Hardware is still bad, inferior to Windows. With Catalina, my Mac speakers intermittently stopped working though. So it's getting more competitive as Mac gets worse.
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    by vmchale 6y ago

    > It's cheaper, more reliable, and just works" I'm on Linux now. It randomly breaks but so does Mac so I might as well have a tiling window manager.