creativemonkeys

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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
In Lex Fridman's podcast, Carmack says he's officially only working 1 day at Meta in advisory capacity, though sometimes chimes in on other days as well. He also says he wants to completely focus on AGI, so I wouldn't rely on
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
Because Meta bought Oculus. It's not the news feed guys designing the next gen VR hardware.
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
Have any of you downvoters read the C grammar? There is no --> operator in C. I'll never understand some people.
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
"-->" is not an operator in the C language, it's just a way of writing the unary operator "--" and comparison operator ">" together without any whitespace between them, since whitespace is ignored by
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
I suppose short and long have to do with register sizes being available as half word and dword, and there are instructions that work with smaller data sizes on both x86 and ARM, but I agree that in today's world, you want to know the n
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
I'm sure someone will come along and explain why I have no idea what I'm talking about, but so far my understanding is those names exist because of the difference in CPU word size. Typically "int" represents the natural
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
I've built a C compiler and have read the dragon book. I wish I read Crafting Interpreters before reading Compilers by Aho. It's good, and there's no nonsense. The author knows what he's talking about. Plus it's fre
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
Photopea has been pretty good at replacing Photoshop for my needs (non-designer).
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
I'm moving to PA, so out of curiosity, why are you recommending to move to Philly?
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
I think you misunderstood the comment you replied to. Their point wasn't that 12s to 9s is a negligible improvement generally. The point was that the improvement only applied to a tiny fraction of their users and it was still a bad exp
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
Last time I checked how much I'd lose, it was between 10k and 15k, which is not much compared to my total comp.
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
Yeah... that's a pretty deceptive practice, though I assume it's legal to buy a brand and manufacture a different product under that label.
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
I think it tastes different now too, but I can't find an old bottle to compare.
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
If I'm using "-e", I also like to use "set -o pipefail" which will fail the script if any command in a pipeline fails too: x | y | z, which is useful if 'y' fails but 'z' continues to process the
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
In my experience, the American society places a high value on 'balance' - from "checks and balances" to balanced individuals, to balanced meals, to balancing criticism with some praise first, etc. When this balance is of
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
on small projects, with clang, I use "-Weverything -Werror" and then I start fixing the issues one by one. I also either disable anything I'm willing to live with using -Wno<warning> or I use '#pragma clang diagnos
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by creativemonkeys 4y ago
As far as I can tell, D already implements this idea. The Rust/RustGC duality is very similar to D's approach, which has manual memory management and an optional GC [1], and DMDScript [2] could be the scripting language. [1] http
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by creativemonkeys 5y ago
To answer your question, I'm well aware of the backends used, but using LLVM doesn't mean that the same IR or assembler gets generated. Enjoy the rest of this weekend.
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by creativemonkeys 5y ago
That's not a bad argument, it's a statement of fact. I'm using it to point out that using Rust carries risk, whether you realize it or not. Just because you've accepted the risk, doesn't mean it is a universally goo
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by creativemonkeys 5y ago
I don't see a problem with using C in the real world, but if you're going to attempt to race on the highway and you don't know how to steer clear of potholes, don't go blaming the car when the wheels fly off. The car req
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by creativemonkeys 5y ago
They came, they saw, and they went away, and C is still the smallest, fastest and most portable language. I think the only way to dethrone C is to change the equation of what's expensive to do in hardware - accessing memory, and that&#
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by creativemonkeys 5y ago
What you're missing is the difference between known issues and unknown issues. You're looking at a language that's been heavily used for 60 years and accumulated a long list of known issues and things not to do, that powers p
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by creativemonkeys 5y ago
A segfault lets the user know that the developer made a mistake, and where in the code it happened. Blaming C for segfaults is blaming the tool. C is a small language with a spec designed to adapt to new hardware while remaining fast. The s
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by creativemonkeys 5y ago
Absolutely not. Once a user reads "Head First Java" or customizes Django sites, they get their standard issue keyboard and they're ready to start writing interrupt handlers in C. If the code crashes, it must be the language.
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by creativemonkeys 5y ago
One of C's design principles is to be fast at the cost of safety, just like an F1 formula car. It will let you make fast mistakes. You drove a Corolla in college, then got a job and drove a cool BMW for several years and now you think
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by creativemonkeys 5y ago
Since 2013, I've spent $1287.38 on bundles in Humble Bundle. This change doesn't seem to affect people like me, how primarily buy bundles, but my guard is up now.
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by creativemonkeys 5y ago
I can whole-heartedly recommend "The Ray Tracer Challenge" by Jamis Buck. It's a fun project-based book without all the computer graphics theory, where you focus on building a ray tracer in small increments while Jamis holds
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by creativemonkeys 5y ago
I'm not a SublimeText user (so I have no skin in this game), but from reading the discussion, it seems to me like the problem is as follows: 1. You bought a license to use SublimeText 3 in perpetuity 2. Later ST3 offers a routine
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by creativemonkeys 5y ago
I'm a software developer who worked with research assistants and scientists for 10 years on large scale multinational projects at an Ivy League university. It's getting better these days, but at the time, those folks didn't
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by creativemonkeys 5y ago
One thing we did early is train our first child that she should not expect us to be in the room when she sleeps. It took a few iterations of (put baby to sleep, leave room, give baby a chance to self-soothe, pop back in for a bit to let her

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