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by zellyn 2y ago
fwiw, the part in that demo where they add one type of object, and it automatically added the necessary related objects due to the inputs and outputs being typed is :chefs-kiss:
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by zellyn 2y ago
Kelsey is a technical advisor to MassDriver. He introduced them on this live chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKmKxKafdS0
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by zellyn 2y ago
Oh, wow. That's fantastic!
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by zellyn 2y ago
After reading Laurenz's blog post on TeX vs Typst layout [1], it made me wonder: how hard would it be at this point for them to make Typst directly understand TeX, and let you insert chunks of TeX. It would make for a really nice upgra
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by zellyn 2y ago
I think that was everyone's first thought! It's the first comment on the video too!
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by zellyn 2y ago
Tell me you worked at Google without telling me you worked at Google
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by zellyn 2y ago
I've been using Hermit to install uv, then pointing scripts at $REPO_ROOT/bin/uv. That gives you a repo where the scripts can be run directly after cloning (Hermit is smart enough to install itself if necessary). Unfortunatel
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by zellyn 2y ago
My head canon is that sitting around drinking tea and watching the sunset is what humans need most…
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by zellyn 2y ago
For reference, this blog post appears to be by the same person who is the overwhelmingly primary contributor to Typst: See https://github.com/typst/typst/graphs/contributors
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by zellyn 2y ago
Having just finally read (well, listened to) Kuhn's book, I can say: (a) I wouldn't quite characterize the book as being "about this theory" — it's a bit more nuanced. He definitely says that it's usually young
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by zellyn 2y ago
I dunno. When I first read Norvig's beautiful solution, I immediately thought, "Only someone coming from a Lisp and (old school) AI background (or maybe a super-Mathy background where everything is a Set) would have picked that re
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by zellyn 2y ago
Yes. "dynamically growable slice" : "vector" :: "tomato" : "to-mah-to"
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by zellyn 2y ago
I happen to like the way Go did it, but now that generics and iterators have landed, it should be possible to create an always-make-a-copy vector type (although it'll need to use `get` and `set` like Java Lists, not [42] like slices&#x
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by zellyn 2y ago
In the period when Go was ready for production use and Rust wasn't, I couldn't wait for Rust to be ready, so that the response to everyone hating Go for not being a C++ equivalent could just be, "I think you want Rust."
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by zellyn 2y ago
The most important thing to know is that Go slices are exactly how you would implement a dynamically growable slice in C if I asked you to. No less, but importantly, no more: a pointer to a piece of memory, and a current length and capaci
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by zellyn 2y ago
Hah. I didn't even realize you could _not_ name them. I just do: jj b c zellyn/appname-update-plugh-tests jj git push
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by zellyn 2y ago
I can second this opinion. The moment I read "something that beats the git cli hands down" I command-F searched for "hands down" to find this comment or make it myself.
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by zellyn 2y ago
Trump is just going to blanket pardon anyone involved.
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by zellyn 2y ago
Why did this just plummet to page three? Very weird. [Edit] A few seconds later, I cannot find it no matter how many times I click "more".
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by zellyn 2y ago
This really drives home how scattershot organizing books by publisher is. Try searching for "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and clicking on each of the results in turn: they're nowhere near each other. Or try "That
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by zellyn 2y ago
In our monorepo (of 101470 Java files, according to find . -name '*.java' | wc -l ), I shudder to think how long that would take. For large repos, I imagine you could get quite a bit faster by only considering files creat
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by zellyn 2y ago
Wow. I invite everyone to go actually read the Gleam’s homepage: https://gleam.run/ After reading the discussion here, with our poor community being “blinded by pathetic posturing” and such, I was expecting some kind of pol
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by zellyn 2y ago
sewen (et al) This is lovely and I'm itching to try it. One question: We have a use case where a location gets cut off completely from the internet at large. In that case, it makes sense for the local hardware (typically Android and&#x
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by zellyn 2y ago
Martin Kleppmann was also directly involved with Bluesky as a consultant.
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by zellyn 2y ago
I wonder if this question can attract any MLIR people to answer my question: From Chris Lattner's descriptions of LLVM vs MLIR in various podcasts, it seems like LLVM is often used as a backend for MLIR, but only because so much work h
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by zellyn 2y ago
I got started programming with a borrowed ZX-81. It was magical, and also absolutely terrible. You could only load and save via tape, which took ages. If I recall correctly, both the power cord and the giant rectangular 16K RAM expansion we
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by zellyn 2y ago
One of my pet hobbies is trying to figure out the least prime prime number and most prime composite numbers under 100. My votes are 61 or 89 for least prime-seeming primes and 87 and --yep-- 57 for more prime-seeming composites.
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by zellyn 2y ago
The HR threats are execrable, but an old school hacker would be happy to call you whatever you want, man, woman, demonking42, 0x10c, …
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by zellyn 2y ago
I noticed this too, although to be fair, “domain specific language” is a remarkably good definition of “jargon”
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by zellyn 2y ago
They want incremental compilation at the function level. So if you change a function, you recompile just that function. This necessitates a custom linker (indeed a custom linking strategy), and (I think?) a custom compiler.

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