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by widdershins 2mo ago
Yeah, I'm not an archery nerd and even I could see that the archery looked very poor compared to other movies like Lord of the Rings. There didn't seem to be any weight to the draw in most casts.
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by widdershins 4mo ago
Agreed. Work through the Emacs tutorial to find out how vanilla editing works. Then look at buffer management, window management (Emacs 'windows' are actually more like frames in other apps) and simple tooling like search. Then st
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by widdershins 6mo ago
Britain and Portugal have one of the world's oldest alliances, established in 1386. At various times, especially starting in the 1700s, British wars with France meant that French wine and brandy became unavailable, or was even banned.
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by widdershins 6mo ago
It's more minimalistic, that's true. But there's nothing stopping you writing or downloading an array library so you can do this: enemies = array.filter(enemies, function(e) return e.alive end) Or even setting a metata
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by widdershins 6mo ago
I signed up and I'm finding browsing a repo quite snappy. Good job.
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by widdershins 6mo ago
Neither the title nor the article implied so.
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by widdershins 6mo ago
This is fantastic. I don't know if it tells us anything about the human brain, but it's so cool to be able to do emperical science on large neural networks like this.
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by widdershins 7mo ago
Yeah, this speed is excellent! I'm using GPT-5 mini for my "AI tour guide" (simply summarizes Wikipedia articles for me on the fly, which are presented on my app based on geolocation), and it's always been a ~15 second w
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by widdershins 7mo ago
It's working reasonably well for me. But this is inside a well-established codebase with lots of tests and examples of how we structure code. I also haven't used it much for building brand new features yet, but for making changes
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by widdershins 7mo ago
> I imagine an LLM would be very good at writing Elisp to leverage EMacs’ strong core functionality Yes, they are pretty good. I have set up GPTel (an excellent Emacs package for interacting with LLMs) with some tools allowing it to run
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by widdershins 7mo ago
https://gleam.run
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by widdershins 7mo ago
I'm not familiar with the Web Audio API, but I am interested in audio APIs in general. Could you explain where the designers went wrong? The templates listed in this (very nice!) app seem to look relatively sane as these things go.
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by widdershins 8mo ago
Ask it to cite the document and page, and verify it yourself.
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by widdershins 8mo ago
It lasted because React genuinely did introduce a useful new paradigm - of UI being a (mostly) pure function of state. This has actual benefits. Unfortunately the way this was implemented was (very) suboptimal, and now they're locked i
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by widdershins 8mo ago
"and can't be easily extracted" is doing a lot of work there. People are very good at reverse-engineering. There would soon be a black market for 'clean' private keys that could be used to sign any video you want.
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by widdershins 8mo ago
I wouldn't describe intelligence as well specified. We can't even agree on what it is.
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by widdershins 8mo ago
I agree - I use 4o via the API, simply because it answers so quickly. Its answers are usually pretty good on programming topics. I don't engage in chit-chat with AI models, so it's not really about the personality (which seems to
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by widdershins 9mo ago
I don't think Hayleigh was trying to gatekeep, just noting that some developers prefer features that Gleam intentionally omits. As for the @external annotations, I think you're both right to a degree. Perhaps we can all agree to s
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by widdershins 9mo ago
Fine, but also how to explain the crazy claims flying around the internet that London is a warzone and a no-go area? I live here and... seriously, nothing has changed. I feel perfectly safe and always have. Yeah sure, there's some phon
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by widdershins 9mo ago
That's a sad way to think. I'd like to hope that humanity can improve itself, and that includes building products that are safer, more refined, more beautiful, more performant and more useful. I agree that there's a lot of cr
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by widdershins 9mo ago
I don't find that convention unusual. That's how I (and everyone at my company) writes code every day. If an argument is a pointer, that means it may be null. If it may not be null, it should be a reference.
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by widdershins 9mo ago
> almost anything now can be interpreted as 'offensive' or 'hate speech' I only know about the UK, but this is not really true there. Your speech has to be obviously threatening or abusive, and obviously motivated by
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by widdershins 10mo ago
This doesn't seem like something that should require generating assembly to solve. Couldn't `CALLBACK` just return a table, which contains both the userdata pointer to `REAL_CALLBACK` and a value for `findex`, eliminating the glob
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by widdershins 11mo ago
> With a reference counting GC, you're essentially emulating "perfect" use of C++ unique_ptr. Did you mean shared_ptr? With unique_ptr there's no reference-counting overhead at all. When the reference count is atomic
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by widdershins 11mo ago
> With respect to the income tax, it is possible for higher earning (not by US standards) employees to receive a bonus and actually take home less money than before they received the bonus. What are you referring to here? Higher rates of
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by widdershins 11mo ago
I think if this were the case, we would have quickly moved on from storing source code as text, and begun storing it as ASTs which could be 'viewed' in any localised version of the programming language. This may have had wider ben
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by widdershins 1y ago
There's a talk from Lustre's developer about doing LiveView-type things with Gleam/Lustre. The promise is that you can easily pick and choose which parts of your app run on the client, and which run on the server. https:&#x2
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by widdershins 1y ago
> The inspector is menu driven, and you can always see the available options by typing "?." For the most part, the options are self-explanatory. I've enjoyed using Chez Scheme a lot, but I never could get my head around it
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by widdershins 1y ago
The OTP package is not built-in because that would prevent Gleam being compiled to other targets, namely Javascript. This is a big draw for the language, and it's worth pulling out BEAM-specific stuff into packages for this reason. I t
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by widdershins 1y ago
Yeah, but at that point is the company that developed the superintellegence really relevant any more? Doesn't the superintellegence take over and capture all the value for itself? If the concept of 'value' even has the same m

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