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by xondono 5y ago
Not to be brazen, but if your argument could be used to justify any investment, I’m not sure it’s a good argument.
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by xondono 5y ago
> The differential engine was successfully built as a museum project …with modern CNCs. It was simply not feasible at the time to build the parts required with enough precision, that’s what I meant by “no impact”, no one built on it beca
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by xondono 5y ago
Yeah, but trying to build things too early makes them meaningless. Babbage designed a computer that had essentially no impact, because it could not be built, and by the time the tech was around we had better ways to build computers. As a gl
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by xondono 5y ago
I can avoid thinking that as a species, QC is a bad investment. I think we’re trying just too early, like Charles Babbage. Great idea but the world doesn’t have the tech required. I think that if they are honest with themselves, most resear
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by xondono 5y ago
Because we all know “Quantum Supremacy” is just another marketing term, like “Militar grade encryption“.
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by xondono 5y ago
> But the callback could of course set a result type somewhere [..] then we could know if/when it is finished That would be a Mutex<>, the author mentions it in the comments. This would solve the “writing at the same time issu
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by xondono 5y ago
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by xondono 5y ago
For the same reason that keeping a shared excel file in a network disk is a bad idea. The closure can write to database, and after the call, there’s no way to know if it has already written, or even if it’s writing to it right now .
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by xondono 5y ago
Maybe it’s only my take, but from what I understand, the author wants to easily create closures with mutable references and call them from anywhere, asynchronously? And the complaint is that Rust semantics makes this hard. Well yes, Rust ma
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by xondono 5y ago
> Async ruins everything even in GC languages Except Rust has no GC…
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by xondono 5y ago
Some years ago someone posted here on HN an excel extension that turned excel into an actual IDE. While it’s true for a lot of people is the only choice, there’s also an amazing amount of enterprising users that sadly don’t know any better!
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by xondono 5y ago
> no, because then the NFT would be exactly the same as the digital artifact I should not be able to copy-paste the digital artifact and then create a second token. You should be able to copy the digital asset, but the second part (cre
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by xondono 5y ago
Except they really don’t. The tokens are blockchain-backed, the digital artifact itself isn’t. To be what you define, I should not be able to copy-paste the digital artifact and then create a second token. The token should, in some way, beh
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by xondono 5y ago
> but there's usually plenty of other sources for information from other people who implemented something using the part That’s only the case if you use the small (tiny!) subset of parts that everyone uses. If instead of using some
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by xondono 5y ago
It does depend on the platform you are using. One of the devices I’m working on had to use rust (we were looking for some niche libraries, and we found that the C ones weren’t working, while the Rust ones did). Building GUIs in rust is stil
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by xondono 5y ago
And yet it’s trivially easy to understand that new shinny thing, and most problems you have, there’s thousands of posts explaining how to solve them. Embedded has advanced a lot on this front, but for a lot if the industry, good luck findin
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by xondono 5y ago
I would recommend to revisit that with fresh eyes. I’ve found that’s easier to build a simple UI by loading chromium + webapp than having to deal with the intricacies of multitarget crosscompiling.
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by xondono 5y ago
It’s okay to use that for an elevator pitch, I’d just reverse the order. First tell me what you do, then tell me what you are similar to. >> We are building Jitsu, ( https://github.com/jitsucom/jitsu , https:&#x2F
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by xondono 5y ago
I’m just saying this is better: We are building Jitsu, ( https://github.com/jitsucom/jitsu , https://jitsu.com/ ) We help companies collect events from their apps, websites, and APIs and send them to data
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by xondono 5y ago
Kudos on the work done and I hope you the best of luck. A little note of advise: I wouldn’t start my company description as “the Y of X” or “the Y alternative to X”. It’s okay to mention if you are similar to another well known company, bu
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by xondono 5y ago
But that’s another different battle, and has nothing to do with this change. Disks were already soldered down, and that’s a tradeoff. I get that for some people swappable disks are great, but those people couldn’t really use pre-M1 macs. Th
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by xondono 5y ago
I get that for people from IT it sounds surprising, but from a hardware perspective I would say it’s a good change. Instead of having a SPI flash memory with the firmware they’ve gone ahead and merged that into a single flash memory. It’s w
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by xondono 5y ago
Limited write cycles will produce data corruption, but what the article explains is that Apple is using the Flash in M1 macs in a similar way to other ARM devices, that is, they have the firmware there. I don’t know how much time do you exp
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by xondono 5y ago
Not OP, but it’s disingenuous to keep up making tipping points and giving estimates for them given the error bars are bigger than the deltas involved. Some people will argue that this rethoric is necessary to keep the attention of the publi
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by xondono 5y ago
While I agree that a lot of companies have been screwing up the supply chains and their providers ( cough automotive cough ), maybe we should not build extra widgets just to support events that happen 1 out of every 100 years. Not every
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by xondono 5y ago
GPL is not a magic spell, the other open source alternatives didn’t disappear, they were rendered obsolete.
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by xondono 5y ago
Altium/Protel is very much an incumbent with >30 years in the market
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by xondono 5y ago
You’re seeing too much conspiracies. CAD is hard, and it’s very hard to displace the incumbents, for the same reason that is hard to change programming languages, people have too much tied up in the old option. Most of the free/open so
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by xondono 5y ago
> if you spend a dozen lines marshalling unsafe code around and ultimately writing the equivalent C code in Rust, and slightly slower (perhaps the compiler optimizes anyway?), is it worth the effort? The thing is, that's not general
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by xondono 5y ago
> Where doesn't Rust 'compete' with C, and where is C the better choice in a kernel? My opinion as someone who writes C for embedded devices and has started to play with rust: C is better than Rust primarily when the C cod

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