barries11

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by barries11 9d ago
Holy crap, I haven't thought of Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser in well north of 50 years... thanks for the nostalgiagasm.
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by barries11 3mo ago
"stall" is the best term I can think of as in "pipeline stall". Better term, anyone?
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by barries11 8mo ago
Coincidentally, I recently looked at using CUE as a config file format, but it looked like it was too syntactically complex and unwieldy for them to edit compared to, say, TOML (which is warty-but-usable) or YAML (which is incredibly comple
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by barries11 8mo ago
ELI5 how this is Literate Programming? See the first example on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming for comparison. CUE seems like the opposite: a typed data structure used to produce artifacts via a uni
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by barries11 10mo ago
"hysterical porpoises" always makes me smile, and it's the benemalapropism I go for.
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by barries11 1y ago
I don't disagree at all--p4 was kick-ass back in the day but the world, and our expectations, have moved on. Plus, they went all high-street enterprisey. What makes it convoluted? Where did it lose the beat?
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by barries11 1y ago
I used Perforce a lot in the 90s, when it was simple (just p4, p4d, and p4merge!), super fast, and never crashed or corrupted itself. Way simpler, and easier to train newbies on, than any of the alternatives. Subdirectories-as-branches (l
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by barries11 2y ago
From the README (I'm not the author): Important sqlite-vec is a work-in-progress and not ready for general usage! I plan to launch a "beta" version in the next month or so. Watch this repo for updates, and read this blog post
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by barries11 2y ago
Nice, I will definitely use these techniques. Here are a few settings that make GNU make a bit faster, and enable multi-line, strict-mode bash scripts as recipes (make recipes are normally sequences of single-line sh invocations)--and enabl