archargelod

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by archargelod 5d ago
Notice how I didn't say that I "learned" both in a day, I "remembered" them. Of course actual learning will take some time, especially with less used characters. But remembering shapes and differentiating between th
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by archargelod 5d ago
Absolutely agree. Romaji was absolutely pointless for me and probably a detriment overall to learning a language. Japanese uses consonant + vowel pairs as a rule, and the faster you train your intuition for this, the better. Remembering bot
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by archargelod 9d ago
Depends on what you mean by "simple". In my head, specifically with software, simple is defined as "does less", which is definitely somewhat easier to make, than a complex program that "does more".
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by archargelod 13d ago
Literally doesn't matter, player closest to dice at the moment you open the box.
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by archargelod 13d ago
Can somebody explain why not just make a die with 5! sides, and roll it once to decide the order? With each side having a unique order printed e.g. 12345 -> 12354 -> ... Especially, that 120-sided dice are already invented and commerc
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by archargelod 25d ago
I still classify JIT languages as interpreted, because they require a runtime and it kills the convenience of sharing small binary e.g. in C or Nim. And Julia docs are also unambigious in stating that code is sometimes interpreted[0]: >
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by archargelod 26d ago
How do you write a spec for correctness? Only the small and unimpressive programs can be checked exhaustively.
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by archargelod 29d ago
I indeed don't know about Java, but with C# there are a lot of limitations if you want AOT compilation and you still get the bloated binary and limited performance. I also, personally, never seen a single project written in either Java
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by archargelod 29d ago
Inferior to languages that compile to native binaries, not burning dramatically more cpu cycles than necessary.
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by archargelod 29d ago
I was excited to try Julia, but then, as I saw it was an interpreted language, with bulky runtime, slow startup times and bloated library sizes - my initial interest quickly faded. For the same reasons I see languages like Python, Java, C#
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by archargelod 1mo ago
Sorry for negativity, but it wouldn't hurt to put some qualifier in the title, like, "Pi agent". So people, not interested in that theme can avoid your article. Thank you. I was expecting an article about Pi constant or maybe
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by archargelod 2mo ago
You don't need that many with Deepseek. The easy jailbreak is to provide an excessive character sheet that states that it's a real person, not an AI. And make sure that your character has absolutely no self-censoring or morals. LL
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by archargelod 2mo ago
You can find a number of benchmarks with similar results, but I really like this one[0]. I didn't check all algorithms for differences, but just looking on mandelbrot bench - both are version 1 (without hacks or some manual loop unroll
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by archargelod 2mo ago
> GC languages are slower This is not necessarily true. It depends on a language, e.g. Go is slow, Nim[0] is extremely fast with conventional GC and slightly faster with ARC/ORC[1]. GC programs can be faster than manually managed on
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by archargelod 2mo ago
I'm just too used to how parsing works in Zsh. For bash and sh, there is indeed should be a semicolon.
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by archargelod 2mo ago
Why take a perfectly readable if-statement and turn it into something, 99.9% of people would need to lookup. Concise != better. You can make it one line with: [ -z "$1" ] && { echo "missing argument, aborting.&q
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by archargelod 2mo ago
> We typically don't make an organized effort to eradicate them unless they are actively doing us harm. Animals are either useful and breeded controllably, or useless and considered a pest, an obstacle to {insert any goal here}. Als
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by archargelod 2mo ago
Large companies are on the path of replacing people who are bad at coding, with systems that are emulating humans who are bad at coding. Coding has been solved in the sense that, per dollar spent, companies can get 10x or even 100x the amou
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by archargelod 2mo ago
Apparently, from what I usually see, they start a completely new project every couple of days. Some revibe their older projects from scratch, with "better" prompts (surely that was the problem).
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by archargelod 2mo ago
> The author seems annoyed that Codeberg wants to focus on projects that have a legitimate contributor community and is not designed for one-off individual projects. And the author is wrong. Nothing in the ban on heavy LLM-assisted proje
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by archargelod 2mo ago
> Codeberg initially was a FLOSS alternative to big company Github Codeberg never was a full alternative to Github. From the start it's been an open platform, run by European non-profit, exclusively for Free and Open Source projects
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by archargelod 2mo ago
Why do you use a VPN regulated by your government? That really limits its usefulness.
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by archargelod 2mo ago
Discord has an option to login with qr code. And it's very often used maliciously to steal accounts.
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by archargelod 2mo ago
> What then? Then all digital systems will be compromised and our civilization will collapse. Without internet and computers, we would all be living happy farmer lives.
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by archargelod 2mo ago
Good sentiment, wrong target. I took some liberties to fix the beginning: > If you don’t know what AI is, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. The boot is made of shit and the face is everything we have learned about security
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by archargelod 2mo ago
Is there any way in Go to selectively turn off bounds checking for a block, function or module? E.g. in Nim I can just do: proc littleEndian(b: openarray[byte]): uint32 = {.push boundChecks: off.} return uint32(b[0]) or (u
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by archargelod 2mo ago
What, you expect them to care about security? If that was the case, it would've been very ironic.
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by archargelod 2mo ago
I see shell as an instrument through which you use other tools. In that sense, vi feels much more like a shell, because you have to use other standard unix programs with `:.!` for much functionality. Where Emacs comes with all bells and whi
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The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
239 points by archargelod 2mo ago|60 comments
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by archargelod 2mo ago
Maybe it's me who's weird, but I find animations as much worse - it's basically pointless and wastes slightly more time (even when program is fast enough!). The interface without animations feels snappier even if sometimes it

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