waynecochran

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by waynecochran 6mo ago
It is this week. Which is interesting because the photo in the clip is the familiar near side -- I recognize the bunny.
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by waynecochran 6mo ago
That was immediately my thought.
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by waynecochran 6mo ago
Anyone have an example?
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by waynecochran 7mo ago
Folks talk about xv in the past tense. I still use it. On AWS it is still a great way for me to view images on headless ECS instances using an X11 server on my Mac. I still use on my local Linux boxes because it has image editing features I
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by waynecochran 7mo ago
People are still using Windows?
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by waynecochran 7mo ago
This is one of those posts I would like look back on in a year or two. I am usually a late adopter with everything. This time is think its different. I am seeing what AI can do with my own eyes. I am creating new things at light speed and f
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by waynecochran 7mo ago
handled i^i outa the box ...
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by waynecochran 7mo ago
:(
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by waynecochran 7mo ago
I have my suspicion that it is still used heavily inside Apple. It especially caters to programmers that are control freaks like me -- you are a little closer to the metal (pun intended).
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by waynecochran 7mo ago
wait .. what ... for real? Take my money Apple.
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by waynecochran 7mo ago
I still find Objective-C++ useful for writing MacOS apps that make heavy use of C++ libraries (e.g.; Eigen, OpenCV). The caveat is I have done a lot of Objective-C programming and Swift is still not as seamless as I would like bridging with
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by waynecochran 7mo ago
When will I be able to run Xcode on one of these?
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by waynecochran 11mo ago
Been using Perl since the beginning… essentially every time I needed to write a shell script more than 10 lines long I used Perl … eventually was also using it for web back end stuff too … kind of like duct tape. I still use it today if I n
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by waynecochran 11mo ago
It is not nostalgia. It is mathematical thought. It is more akin to to an equation and more provably correct. Closer to fundamental truth -- like touching fundamental reality.
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by waynecochran 11mo ago
Also, we can store 1/4 exactly in binary, but not 1/100, 1/20, or 1/10. So that solves another problem.
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by waynecochran 11mo ago
I remember writing a Prolog(ish) interpreter in Common Lisp in an 90's AI course in grad school for Theorem proving (which is essentially what Prolog is doing under the hood). Really foundational to my understanding of how declarative
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by waynecochran 1y ago
There are all kinds of retro stuff that I still love. What is it about Palm OS that you love?
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by waynecochran 1y ago
Moc?
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by waynecochran 1y ago
For the record I am a pre-AI human and I read this.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
50% of all men below 50 have an online sports betting account. Hmmm .. you might have to back that stat up. I am guessing there are men who have several accounts and over counting is happening. Or that was just made up like 62% of
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by waynecochran 1y ago
Remember when Snow Leopard came out? No new user features. It just ran faster. Greatest OS release in history. Why can't Apple just do that again with one of their OS's?
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by waynecochran 1y ago
This is fantastic. If I can integrate it into an IDE for commenting my programs that would be next level.!
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by waynecochran 1y ago
if there was a period of time where 24-bit values were in vogue, I must have missed it. The mantissa in a single precision IEEE float is 23 bits. Count the hidden bit for normalized floats and you have 24 bits.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
She has taken to click bait -- e.g., using the word "shocking" and showing pictures with here mouth open (actually she can't really open her mouth, but you get the idea).
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by waynecochran 1y ago
Not always a viable option -- especially for embedded and systems programming.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
I assume this means, for example, using their own AWS / EC2 instances to store and process -- not "local" geographically, but "local" personally.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
I remember using Brief in DOS back in 1990 or so. It rocked. I have been an emacs guy in the Linux world, but I would love to have Brief again.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
At this point, C++ has long abandoned C at the language level. If you are going to write C code, write C code -- don't hamstring modern C++.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
To save the kitten, one could at least write classes that override the call operator::(). No need for void* or any ptrs at all and std::function is avoided as well. That will at least get you to 2010 C++ code.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
That is the only thing "modern" in the above code and it does not save the kitten.

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