OliverM

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by OliverM 3mo ago
This is easily googled, no? It is not a twitter fight.
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by OliverM 6mo ago
I'm not suggesting otherwise. I'm saying that your "toy example" comment is very dismissive of something that was an extraordinary accomplishment of its day. They invented spreadsheets without it. Dependency graphs are e
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by OliverM 6mo ago
The clause "it's absolutely necessary for all but the simplest toy examples" is what I was disagreeing with. But I wouldn't be surprised to hear that visicalc adopted one as soon as it was technically feasible in later v
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by OliverM 6mo ago
Isn’t the existence & success of visicalc a direct counter to this?
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by OliverM 6mo ago
The author is an accomplished software engineer.
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by OliverM 1y ago
It has both of those. I use them from Emacs comfortably.
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by OliverM 2y ago
Not this Irishman…
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by OliverM 2y ago
No, not in this case. The article already assumes the existence of a near perfectly-efficient process. It's just looking at the minimum energy needed to remove the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to long-established physi
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by OliverM 2y ago
This is impressive, but they just sound so _alien_, especially to this non-U.S. English speaker (to the point of being actively irritating to listen to). I guess picking up on social cues communicating this (rather than express instruction
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by OliverM 3y ago
I don't object to it at all, I think it's a great idea. We need more models of supporting open-source, including financial ones. BTW I also don't see commercial and open-source as intrinsically opposed to each other - project
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by OliverM 3y ago
I thought Ardour was a commercial product? If you want to download a binary from their site it's either a demo version with injected silence every 10 minutes, or a paid-for option (either a small monthly sub or a larger one-off payment
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by OliverM 3y ago
Also see the ICCL's statement on the same amendment (it's a lot more direct about the issue and the implications): https://www.iccl.ie/news/last-minute-government-amendment-se... The ICCL is the Irish Council
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by OliverM 3y ago
I like the sentiment but this could have been a tweet. If it was it wouldn't be preaching to the choir. I am being glib above but in the spirit of useful feedback, the article needs editing for length. It's not that it's badl
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by OliverM 3y ago
This is genuinely thrilling. I know it’s likely to be a C++ codebase, which I don’t have a huge amount of experience in (yet). But having open source access to a music machine of the Deluge’s calibre is phenomenal.
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by OliverM 3y ago
I've not used Htmx, but a cursory browse of their docs gives https://htmx.org/extensions/multi-swap/ which seems to solve exactly this problem. And thinking about it, what makes it as difficult as you say? If
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by OliverM 3y ago
What are you hoping to gain from learning Clojure? Have you seen how it’s management of state is different to Python’s in how it allows much closer control of data sharing? That opens up really nice concurrency models, and makes thinking ab
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by OliverM 4y ago
The quick run speed is great for shortening the feedback loop. I've had great experiences with Lisp-style environments for that reason, and the language is much higher level than Rust while still offering good performance. I've ma
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by OliverM 4y ago
Sounds like any functional language would have disappointed in that case?
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by OliverM 4y ago
"Go back to"??
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by OliverM 4y ago
Knowledge of the entire machine's activity. When I was a young teenager the home machine of choice was the Commodore 64 and its competitors. When you turned it on you usually had an interactive programming language REPL start up, proba
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by OliverM 4y ago
I think the PS5 shows that they're doing a huge amount of things right. But they don't seem to have the same kind of _vision_ apple does (even if you dislike that vision). They still seem to value hardware over software while I th
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by OliverM 4y ago
C++ was one of the first languages I learnt as an undergrad, maybe 20 years ago. I used it for a few hobby projects but not much else (professionally these days I mainly use Typescript & Go). I'd love to pick up C++ again but I&#x2
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by OliverM 4y ago
Thank you, your blog post was a pleasure to read. CoPilot looks great!
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by OliverM 4y ago
Are there proofs for other languages/runtimes available? I'd love to see the level of rigour needed to demonstrate that
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by OliverM 4y ago
Hmm it does seem like Emacs is growing support for the Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP), the LSP-alike convention that allows language developers to build language-specific debuggers that tie into the VSCode UI: https://github.com&#x
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by OliverM 4y ago
Are there no good UI experiences you can bolt onto gdb? Do Emacs/Vim not have nice modes that take some of the pain away? I've no real experience with using gdb - my main debugger usage has been on the JVM or using old Borland deb
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by OliverM 4y ago
They have those. They're iPhones. I'm using an iPhone 8+. My wife is using my old iPhone 5s. I changed the battery on the 5s but that's it.
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by OliverM 4y ago
Quinoa?
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by OliverM 4y ago
Isn't dust from tyre wear a major point of concern? E.g. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/25/tyre-dus...
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by OliverM 4y ago
Why is reading a scathing review such a satisfying experience? The reviewer’s esteem for Pym animates this entire piece, but having encountered precisely zero Pym novels to date, I can’t say with any certainty who’s actually in the right he

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