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by wtetzner 3y ago
> Come on. Both binutils and nasm can generate perfectly working PE object files. I don't know the answer off the top of my head, but I bet anything even pure MSVC has a simple answer here. Right, meaning you have to implement N sol
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by wtetzner 3y ago
> If you need to read in 1M integers, put them in a file and read them in. ..and if you're in a context where you need that data in the binary, because you don't have a reliable place to store a file? > That's now extra
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by wtetzner 3y ago
There's a tradeoff between the complexity of the implementation of a data structure, and the use of one. While the complexity of implementing purely functional data structures is often (except maybe in the case of singly linked lists)
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by wtetzner 3y ago
They're only grossly inefficient if you wouldn't otherwise need to frequently make copies of large mutable data structures. It all depends on what you're trying to do.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
What happened with the trademark stuff? Has it been resolved? I can only seem to find info about the controversy, and not anything about what happened after.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
Are you saying the only quick way to iterate is unit testing? My point is that there's a whole class of things that require unit testing in Python that are just automatically caught in Rust. If you don't know Rust well, it's
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by wtetzner 3y ago
Yeah, it would be nice if you could easily hook into the test runner/reporting stuff.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
You also need to do multiple system design interviews. Yes, you might be able to game it, but I doubt you could game it and still be an incompetent programmer. You also wouldn't be able to keep that job very long, given the way perfo
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by wtetzner 3y ago
How do you game the interview system? Practice leetcode problems a lot? Sounds like a lot of work.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
Nintendo themselves use emulators.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
I like Rust unit tests, simply because you don't need to set anything up to use them. Also they can go in the module you're testing, so writing tests for things that are not public is simple.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
No, because to iterate in Python, you have run the program and get it into the right state. For many things in Rust, I can just use `cargo check`.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
That's only until you've grokked Rust. I find iterating in Rust to be faster than Python.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
Well, it would need to be trained to do that I guess. The source information would need to be part of the training data.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
Wikipedia lists sources at least, in a way that makes it easy to quickly jump to them. It would be nice if ChatGPT provided sources by default.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
You also have to be careful about how you determine what a "negative" health outcome is. A lot of leaps are taken in the conclusions of papers about various studies.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
They didn't suggest replacing it with JavaScript.
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by wtetzner 3y ago
In terms of copyright, I don't believe there's any issue with drawing Pikachu, unless it's an exact replica of someone else's drawing. Not sure if there would be trademark issues. But that would be the case regardless of
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by wtetzner 4y ago
I haven’t been keeping up, but how many games on Steam still require Windows? I wonder if SteamOS (or another Linux distro) would be a reasonable option for people on older machines?
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by wtetzner 4y ago
WASM isn’t really even an assembly language, despite the name.
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by wtetzner 4y ago
A library for what language?
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by wtetzner 4y ago
> Yes, sometimes, but if that’s what you’re going for it’s still important that you’re solving a problem that you understand well. I disagree. Writing a program can be a fantastic way to learn more about the problem. Of course, if you wa
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by wtetzner 4y ago
Sure, but the filesystem is already an integration point. I much prefer standard file formats that I can use with any piece of software than trying to get pieces of software to talk in some other way.
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by wtetzner 4y ago
Some researchers have started calling Alzheimer's "Type 3 Diabetes".
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by wtetzner 4y ago
The problem with the application solving the problem is that it can't control other applications attempting to write to the same files.
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by wtetzner 4y ago
And its output is more or less as aligned with human interests as humans are. I think that's the more frightening point.
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by wtetzner 4y ago
Yeah, I think the reason it can be harmful is different from what people initially envision. These systems can be dangerous because people might trust them when they shouldn't. It's not really any different from a program that jus
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by wtetzner 4y ago
Sure, but the same can be said about believing the things random people on the internet say. I don't think AI really adds anything new in that sense.
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by wtetzner 4y ago
I think it’s elegant, but it seems to me that the check shouldn’t be evaluated until after type checking. But I’m probably missing something about the way Zig works.
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by wtetzner 4y ago
This is Hacker News, where people are ostensibly interested in the technology used to build projects.

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