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by MetricExpansion 8mo ago
Swift actually does this copy-on-mutation strategy as well for its standard library’s container types like Array and Dictionary, and it does indeed make multithreaded programming much easier without requiring full copies. The downside is th
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by MetricExpansion 2y ago
If I understood all the semantic properties, including the separate compilation requirements, correctly, here’s how I think it would be done in Swift with the proposed nonescapable types features (needed to safely express the AsRef concept
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by MetricExpansion 3y ago
The AI safety people should be ashamed that their legitimate views cannot be easily told apart from the sarcasm of the GP.
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by MetricExpansion 3y ago
The embedded copy of Clang is doing some heavy work I think. At no point does any of the C or C++ code get transformed into Swift. Instead, it's used to import the the header directly into Swift (in a manner similar to a pre-compiled h
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by MetricExpansion 3y ago
I think this whole thread has an interesting contrast to a prior HN thread about Alcohol being unsafe at any level of consumptions and which is rated as a Group 1 carcinogen by the WHO, a much stronger designation than has been given to A
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by MetricExpansion 3y ago
This was the social network that was supposed to support ActivityPub, right? So… maybe logged out support will be good? I’m still not holding my breath though.
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by MetricExpansion 3y ago
This (Group 2B) is the same list that includes mobile phone radiation. I think I’ll take my chances.
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by MetricExpansion 3y ago
Honestly, sometimes I question how much this site is really “hackers”. I downloaded the SDK and gave it a try. It was pretty seamless to get the sim booted up. However I did have trouble getting any of my hobby apps to build for the native
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by MetricExpansion 4y ago
Alchemy ultimately did work out. We eventually did figure out how to transmute elements.
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by MetricExpansion 4y ago
The Telegram app is native: https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS
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by MetricExpansion 4y ago
Basically. I think Elon is a blowhard idiot who succeeds despite himself and have thought so since 2017. But I purchased my Model 3 in 2021 because, after cross-shopping many car models and trying to optimize for the characteristics and fea
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by MetricExpansion 4y ago
As a long time Mac user, I had long been used to people saying things along the lines of “I tolerate their hardware to use macOS” especially re: the terrible laptop designs. Now with the release of the AS machines, I hear the exact opposite
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by MetricExpansion 4y ago
The modding communities for Bethesda games rely heavily on code injection, especially the script extender plugins that are central to the entire enterprise.
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by MetricExpansion 4y ago
For more Psybient in the vein of Solar Fields, it's also worth checking out releases on Ultimae Records (which is the label for some Solar Fields releases). Some of their artists which go well for programming IMO are Scann-Tec, MIKTEK,
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by MetricExpansion 4y ago
This is a really bad take. Heat pumps can have coefficients of performance (joules of cooling provided over joules of energy consumed) between 2.5-5 (going down as outside temperatures drop). In most situations, it’s more efficient to bur
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
Bjarne Stroustrup’s classic quote “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses” certainly applies here.
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
I didn’t think NetBeans supported C++ anymore?
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
Of course disconnecting Russia from the internet isn’t on the table, but if they did, perhaps a silver lining is that the cybersecurity situation could be greatly improved.
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
Indeed. Is this the fate that Russia is facing, or are the sanction not enough for this to happen?
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
I can’t believe I had to come down this far to see the Law of Headlines. C++ isn’t going anywhere for a long time. For all of its technical and design faults and overbearing complexity, its (yes, deceptive) compatibility with C, the most
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
Perhaps syntactically C++‘s operator overloading can make it quite palatable, but C and C++’s unique aliasing rules would mean that a naive implementation could leave performance on the table. There’s a reason it’s almost always Fortran at
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
I only have limited experience, but I’ve seen projects migrate from Ada to C++ more often than the other way around. If I had to guess why, it’s probably because it’s easier to hire for.
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
The biggest loss will be the interesting subreddits like that one. Reddit killed off forums and became the empire that has had its dominion over most of the niche interests. Unfortunately, as Reddit has been growing bigger and bigger and tr
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
I have increasingly noticed this general trend (here, on Reddit, and elsewhere) to just blame a myriad of societal ills on “Capitalism”. Sometimes it’s related to economics or whatever, but more often it’s really a non-sequitur. Some of the
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
Swift? (minus the ability to specify co/contra-variance)
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
Pithy, but I’d actually argue the opposite. As someone who consumes quite a bit of science content on YouTube, it’s actually quite jarring to go back to traditional TV science shows. It feels a lot less information dense and more time-was
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
I think any argument against the possibility of developing AGI is going to have it. The argument has to be either: 1) there’s something non-material about human intelligence (basically, there’s a soul), or 2) something about the processes t
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
If Teams is any indication, do you really think Loop is going to be much better?
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
I think it's fair to say that HN can be a bit myopic. Both about this and other topics, there is a lack of understanding of the mindset of "the general population". There can be a lot of ideas that a stated in way that makes
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by MetricExpansion 5y ago
I recently landed a new job. I'm currently in the process of leaving my old job and awaiting my first day at the new one. And I think this played into it. I was pretty happy with my old position, but I did have some small desire to fin

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