astral303

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by astral303 2y ago
If you find that exception-free code that is necessarily littered with exit value checks at every call, which discourages refactoring and adds massive noise, then you can call the decisions to eschew exceptions as “sane” and “clean”, but I
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by astral303 2y ago
Pouring foundation, installing plumbing and wiring the building is specialized by the physical necessity of these activities, which cannot be repeated without mistake at a great cost. That justifies specialization. Unlike building a bridge
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by astral303 2y ago
I agree that doing this work is looked down upon and not recognized as the critical work that it is.
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by astral303 2y ago
I agree, very cool. I still miss the fast productive workflow of Jeskola Buzz from back in the day. Modular software synth + tracker with pattern sequencing. https://youtu.be/8J8i72a11W4?si=IRic-Z_YMinudnhn
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by astral303 2y ago
Have you considered the impact of traffic calming measures on emergency services? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9922345/#:~:tex... .
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by astral303 2y ago
Oops, my mistake.. yeah, it does have multiple levels of undo. My favorite 3-way merge tool, kdiff3, has no undo.
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by astral303 2y ago
I tried it out and the instructions have tips on what record to pick, they say to pick a well known version of a song (like not a live version etc), and preferably song with a beat, but it says it doesn’t use any 3rd party APIs or libraries
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by astral303 2y ago
Jef Raskin’s “Humane Interface” book was such an eye opener for me—-no modes (that explained why I was always frustrated with vi or emacs), and that computers should never lose your data. From this post I learned there was a project called
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by astral303 2y ago
Sad that C is still being utilized with a serious face. If you can't be bothered to develop in C++ and only pay for what you use, RAII is like your last problem.
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by astral303 2y ago
You can be really productive, expressive and performant in Groovy. So much of the language still works well with @CompileStatic and doesn’t require dynamic typing. Writing clear code that has decent refactoring support in IntelliJ. Don’t fo
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by astral303 2y ago
Thank you, I missed the stack allocation design doc stating it’s on the roadmap. ( https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/core... ) Appreciate the detail about the stack allocate
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by astral303 2y ago
Manual memory management vs garbage collection trades speed of allocation for speed of freeing memory. Freeing memory is expensive in a garbage collected language, but allocation is basically free. Modern garbage collectors are very good an
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by astral303 2y ago
I don’t think so, because it is the runtime JIT (Just-In-Time) optimizer that is the critical speed advantage that allows the CLR and JVM to beat C and C++. The inlining of virtual calls is the critical optimization that enables this. Bec
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by astral303 3y ago
+1 … it has a great discussion of structural vs object-oriented vs functional, presenting the trade-offs, it describes different service and module decomposition patterns, with pros and cons for each, without prescribing one. Here is a blog
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by astral303 3y ago
What if the person that has physical access to your LAN is not you? Example, a rogue physical visitor that you were unable to fully supervise.
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by astral303 3y ago
Categorization seems like low-hanging fruit given the age of AI we are in today.
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by astral303 3y ago
It’s because all consumer disks are garbage. The way it works is that disks are tested. Disks without failures are sold as “Enterprise.” Those that have failures are labeled and sold as “consumer”, not thrown in the bin.
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by astral303 3y ago
Declaring throws end up leaking layers of abstractions in practice. Many thrown checked exceptions are not appropriate to pass above certain layers. It is often not OK to expose checked exceptions that are really implementation details up t
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by astral303 3y ago
Been waiting for my Spectrum Next since I ordered it in Nov 2020. That’s been 31 months and the current “promise” on the Kickstarter page is shipping in Q3.. but the goal posts have been moved so many times that the Q3 shipping date looks l
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by astral303 3y ago
"What do you get when you cross a computer with a car?" "A computer!" It's a "Riddle for the Information Age" that in Alan Cooper wrote in 1999 [1] in "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum". One of
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by astral303 3y ago
My guess is that this enables crosstalk between the nerves which would have been entirely absent otherwise. And crosstalk between left and right sides of the brain is beneficial evolutionarily.
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by astral303 3y ago
I am so excited for such a TV, here are some name ideas for you: plainum-TV, gramseye, you-control-it(still comes with a remote), BarelySmart, SmartEnuff, MindYouTech, AllPane, SimplePaneVision, Plainorama, Plainoramic Vision. HDMI such an
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by astral303 3y ago
the consumer has no choice. if you buy an HDD, you gambling.
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by astral303 3y ago
rotary engines do not really scream at peak power... this is why Mazda has plans to use rotary at peak power to generate electricity for their hybrid EVs. re 20 years to make a new engine point, compare investment $ in traditional ICE acros
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by astral303 4y ago
Configuration is code, so the YAML written in your tool is still code, code that developers are consuming and versioning. Making it YAML doesn’t make it not code . Your YAML configuration files are proprietary syntax , it is a proprietary
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by astral303 4y ago
Allowing FSD (in the next 20 years) to drive is unsafe, in my eyes. Investment in alternative transportation is the answer that doesn’t require driving from human or an algorithm.
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by astral303 4y ago
I don’t think self-driving cars lead to fewer people owning cars, in fact it’s quite the opposite. With FSD, those who don’t like driving can deal with owning a car to do necessary transportation tasks (e.g. commuting), instead of giving it
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by astral303 4y ago
But video is not the same as still imagery. Different tradeoffs must be made for motion.
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by astral303 4y ago
There’s a great book by Tom DeMarco that argues for having slack, and for that being critical for innovation: “Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency”
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by astral303 4y ago
One could write a whole book about great UX using only interfaces in ncurses/text mode. (Edited: I missed a section on UX/research).

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