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by zem 1y ago
"shell-y skylark" was brilliant (:
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by zem 1y ago
a link shared by a subscriber that lets nonsubscribers access an otherwise paywalled article
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by zem 1y ago
I'm guessing the event space is the largest fraction of the cost.
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by zem 1y ago
tangentially, if you like that genre one of my favourite books in it is "where wizards stay up late", about the development of the internet.
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by zem 1y ago
google also has a mercurial interface to piper
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by zem 1y ago
the fact that having your game constantly interrupted by ads didn't in and of itself make watching sports unbearable just shows how bad the downward pressure on what is considered acceptable is. gambling ads will probably become the ne
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by zem 1y ago
looks like a very pleasant and capable language! honestly not what I was expecting given the origin story as a game scripting language.
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by zem 1y ago
just over the 10 year mark, but i enjoyed "east side sushi". nice feel-good movie.
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by zem 1y ago
roald dahl also had a story ("the great automatic grammatizer") where computers could write in the style of any writer, and a corporation was basically approaching writers and buying up the rights to their names. more poignant tha
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by zem 1y ago
it's not about producing tangible stuff, it's about working with physical materials and getting tangible feedback from the interactions between your body and the stuff you're working with. working with a computer didn't
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by zem 1y ago
quite apart from which, "flash but done right" would be amazing!
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by zem 1y ago
that just pushes the question back a step - why is the BOM not decreasing (in real terms) over time as the components get easier and more efficient to produce?
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by zem 1y ago
except that the entry barrier to hooking your fan up to home automation is even harder than keeping a remote findable and in batteries, and if you're non-technical your only option is probably some internet-of-shit stuff that has to go
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by zem 1y ago
ironically the article itself uses "trivial" in its other, more mathematical sense :)
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by zem 1y ago
the whole point of the "code is data" mantra is that it is both - the list `(1 2 3)` and the lisp code that evaluates to said list when parsed and interpreted.
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by zem 1y ago
if you want a really good book about mathematicians rather than mathematics per se, I can recommended "uncle petros and goldbach's conjecture"
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by zem 1y ago
common practice in san francisco too. i always feel good when i see something that was just taking up space in my house and not being used has been picked up and rehomed.
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by zem 1y ago
one of my favourite english curiosities follows this structure - "outgoing" and "retiring" are both perfect antonyms (enjoying or not enjoying socializing) and perfect synonyms (leaving a political office or job)
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by zem 1y ago
I am strongly for ty's behaviour here. working python code should not raise type errors unless the user explicitly opts in to a more static subset of the language by adding type annotations.
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by zem 1y ago
surfacing revealed types as `@TODO` made me laugh, but thinking about it it's actually a pretty neat touch!
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by zem 1y ago
compiling to c++ has the possibility of interop with c++ libraries, without being tied to c++ as a language. that's really hard to do any other way.
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by zem 1y ago
that is truly fighting the good fight :) good on you.
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by zem 1y ago
when it hits 1.0 they can feature freeze and call it "done"
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by zem 1y ago
I work on cinder, it is primarily a JIT compiler, and does not have this sort of concurrency construct (which looks extremely exciting and well thought out, props to the verona team!). cinder is actively developed (we recently upgraded it t
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by zem 1y ago
wonder if they're trying to upstream the changes to lua, or if the lua folks don't want to expose those c api functions for general consumption.
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by zem 1y ago
imo that misrepresents crystal, which is not a compiler from ruby to c++/native but a separate language that takes a lot of inspiration from ruby and tries to maintain a similar syntax, but does not consider itself a ruby dialect or im
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by zem 1y ago
fortunately the LSP protocol means you can use pyrefly with whatever ide or editor you like!
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by zem 1y ago
these are two different issues. supporting django involves adding a special-case module that essentially replicates its code generation and then adds that to the type-level view of the code. pyrefly or ty could do that and would still be ju
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by zem 1y ago
I love the language, but I do hate the import system too, it makes everything harder
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by zem 1y ago
the specs are still evolving, and the various type checker implementations are what is driving them forward. in general, capturing the dynamic typing semantics of python in a gradually typed system is not a fully solved problem, and the typ

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