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by dejv 5mo ago
New programming language. Took some good ideas of Pascal and making it more modern. Minimal runtime, manual memory management, single (small) executable, no dependencies. Compiler itself is written in Swift and I am using QBE as a backend A
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by dejv 6mo ago
Careers could be very very long. My relative was kicked out of academia after finishing his postdoc and has to work manual jobs till the end of comunism in my country. His career actually started after 60 and he died just a few weeks before
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by dejv 8mo ago
It was custom SW created by construction company: things like quotations, warehouse management, controlling, some accounting integrations, time tracking and what not. At the end it was sold to about 60 other companies. It was about 30 years
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by dejv 8mo ago
I lived for next to nothing and I had a gig maintaining a system that paid something like 1500 euros a month and it required few hours a month. Did that gig for 12 years, saved me many times when I tried to launch other projects.
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by dejv 8mo ago
I also taken up farming in 2013 after 10 years of working on startups (as founder and early engineer, with no success at all). I was about to move back to village I was born at and escaped as fast as I could at the age 15. I started natural
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by dejv 9mo ago
"Do LLMs make bad code: yes all the time (at the moment zero clue about good architecture). Are they still useful: yes, extremely so." Well, lets see how all the economics will play out. LLMs might be really useful, but as far as
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by dejv 11mo ago
No
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by dejv 1y ago
Even if I wrote 10k lines of code a day I will be out of things to implement in day two. Maybe I am working on wrong codebases, but I never felt like I am behind because of not enough lines got writen. It was always finding and forming corr
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by dejv 2y ago
Similar story in Europe with white tailed eagles, which are quite similar in size. They were extinct in my area for maybe 60 years and recently returned and even started to hatch.
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by dejv 2y ago
Well, yes. Kinda. You need to know a bit about high level organization and structure of OSes first as the codebase is not particularly small.
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by dejv 2y ago
Universities in eastern bloc were really elite places. Only low single digits percent of people were able to enroll. Also majority of degrees were in STEM, education or medicine as they were deemed useful for the state. To get degree outsid
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by dejv 2y ago
I am playing with LK (little kernel) with aim to replicate some functionality of Fuchsia OS, just much simplier and lighweight. I do miss something that is more interactive than Arduino or RTOSes, but not as heavy as having to run Linux.
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by dejv 2y ago
Not sure about Arduino specific code, but including C/C++ is fairly easy. See Swift Embedded Examples [1] (check Sources/Support) [1]: https://github.com/apple/swift-embedded-examples/tree/main/
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by dejv 3y ago
100 or even 200 will be quite a hard target to hit even considering BOM. Most bare bone optics setup will cost you maybe 100, 130 USD. Unless you find some spare parts or go DVD grating route. The best way is to search for ocean optics part
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by dejv 3y ago
There are huge apps (such as Shopify) which will safe a lot of money by having more performant BE so they do invest heavily into it. Python workloads, with deep pocketed backers, do spend more time inside GPU or C runtime.
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by dejv 3y ago
The Pragmatic Programmer - I read this book when I was programming professionally for maybe 5 or so years, so I already had my basics covered, but reading this book really expanded my horizons on what it means to create software profesional
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by dejv 3y ago
Technically it was not an investment, they've sold part of company to Bezos. As in money went directly into owners bank accounts instead of bank account of the company.
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by dejv 3y ago
+ you can write both UI and low level code in one language
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by dejv 3y ago
A lot of lab instrumentation companies across EU still use it. Also quite a few companies producing industry machinery, industrial displays etc.
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by dejv 3y ago
Well, purpose of Tada list was to act as a funnel to Basecamp: they took part of the functionality and when you needed more you check the Basecamp. I think they are going to with this strategy again: limited subset of Basecamp and when you
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by dejv 3y ago
I feel like this is going to be something closer to Tada list than Basecamp.
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by dejv 3y ago
Did you take a look on how Zircon (Fuchsia) is handling this? It is quite interesting.
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by dejv 3y ago
Working from home since 2007, I do keep my setup very simple: - good quality chair - single 27" monitor with adjustable arm (to level it with my eyes) - Microsoft Sculpt ergonomic keyboard and Logitech G603 mouse - mouse pad with wrist
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by dejv 3y ago
Don't forget precision machinery of all kinds: from industrial CNCs, medical instrumentation or electron microscopes.
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by dejv 3y ago
Not sure about availability around the world, but I would say Merkur: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkur_(toy) Fun fact: first line for creating contact lenses was build using this system.
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by dejv 3y ago
Any recommendations of math history book? Something more on popsci side? Something not really for general public, but also not for math PhD.
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by dejv 3y ago
They used to produce great Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tokamakenergy6400
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by dejv 3y ago
As someone who was born in rural place, who left as soon as I can and then come back briefly to run again, I saw quite a few people who make the leap, left bustle and hustle of big city behind and were ready to embarace slow and more intent
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by dejv 3y ago
Yes, after spending decade in cities of various sizes from 0,5 to mega cities like London, Berlin or Kuala Lumpur I moved to rural place of 2k people and started small winery. That was in 2013 and that rural place was my hometown I left whe
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by dejv 4y ago
I did approx 12 month sabbatical when I was 28, back in 2013. I travel a bit, spent few months in hometown I left when I was 15 and then move away again realizing why I was so happy to leave it in first place. Looking back to that year I am

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