dimitropoulos

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by dimitropoulos 2mo ago
nope! never heard of them! (note: I'm the guy that did the Doom in TS types thing) what type-level fun do they bring to the table?
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by dimitropoulos 2mo ago
I answered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838629
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by dimitropoulos 2mo ago
I was referring to the type system in the formal "specification" sense, not the implementation details of the compiler, such as the compiler's runtime (Go, or, in the past, JavaScript/Node). it's too bad there&#x27
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by dimitropoulos 2mo ago
jokes aside, have you heard of the Jevons Paradox[1]? it feels like the "induced demand" effect to me with the whole "just one more lane" phenomenon you sometimes can see in roadways. when you increase the efficiency
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by dimitropoulos 2mo ago
good points, let's get negated types and higher kinded types in there then you've got yourself a deal. maybe regex thrown in too for flavor
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by dimitropoulos 2mo ago
the real story here is an incredible team that managed to simultaneously keep two separate codebases alive for the most advanced type system known to mankind (yeahhh yeahh Hindley-Milner eat your heart out). huge congrats to the team! looki
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by dimitropoulos 3mo ago
there's also a DeepSeek whitepaper on this technique https://www.seangoedecke.com/text-tokens-as-image-tokens
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60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it(github.com)
315 points by dimitropoulos 3mo ago|99 comments
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by dimitropoulos 5mo ago
> Libraries like Effect have increased the popularity of generators, but it's still an unusual syntax for the vast majority of JavaScript developers. I'm getting so tired of hearing this. I loved the article and it's inte
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by dimitropoulos 8mo ago
it's interesting that in this article you see all three: TypeScript, Typescript, and typescript.
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by dimitropoulos 10mo ago
with all the hype around durable execution... what makes it difference from job queuing solutions like BullMQ or Agenda.js that rely on DLQ on top of Redis or Mongo? is it just a DX thing?
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by dimitropoulos 10mo ago
wow great example - I'm also baffled by this. is this just not a great example because it seems like it's reinventing the wheel
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by dimitropoulos 10mo ago
didn't the latest unreal release have something voxel related? cool to see more voxel stuff happening. we've come a long way since the Euclideon "unlimited detail" days.
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VST3 and ASIO SDKs now have open source licenses(cdm.link)
2 points by dimitropoulos 11mo ago|0 comments
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by dimitropoulos 1y ago
the Doom in TypeScript types project wouldn't have been possible without Nick and Helion - I owe Nick a huge thanks! He helped with some of the more obscure parts of the engine and also helped make a super small WAD that is what the g
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by dimitropoulos 1y ago
you're faulting a headline for being precise and accurate. there is no sense in which TypeScript is a runtime. TypeScript is literally a complier (targeting JavaScript, which has runtimes) and nothing more and has always been as such
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Blackmagic Design raises USA prices 34% due to tariffs(twitter.com)
5 points by dimitropoulos 1y ago|1 comments
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by dimitropoulos 1y ago
Most notably: a very prominent camera (the PYXIS 12K) was announced on Friday for $4,995 USD and on Sunday was changed to $6,595. Almost all other prices saw this 34% increase (but only for the US, all other countries are unaffected).
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by dimitropoulos 1y ago
Thanks for explaining. But I guess I'm still not clear on how the work gets divvied up. Not tryin to be a hater - I'll have to give it a spin - but that part's a bit murky to me still.
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TypeScript-go is now a performance benchmark for the Go compiler(go-review.googlesource.com)
9 points by dimitropoulos 2y ago|0 comments
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by dimitropoulos 2y ago
thank you for the clarification. you're right. I guess I was just trying to say that it's a spectrum (even if Rust is very very far along the way towards not having any holes). I can't seem to find it but there's some
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by dimitropoulos 2y ago
hi! author of the Doom thing, here. while I won't be the one to try, my answer is "absolutely yes, it will make a massive difference". Sub-1-day Doom-first-frame is probably a possibility now, if not much more because actua
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by dimitropoulos 2y ago
did you contribute to the current TypeScript codebase? (not intended snarky, just curious)
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by dimitropoulos 2y ago
I love Rust, but you can play exactly the same game with Rust: https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs
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by dimitropoulos 2y ago
well, thanks for explaining. we might just simply disagree here. when I hear "TypeScript" I think of TypeScript, and when I hear "JavaScript" I think of JavaScript. I know what you mean re: casually speaking, but this
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by dimitropoulos 2y ago
yes, and TypeScript is not JavaScript. Objectively, every element of _TypeScript_, strictly speaking, is well known to be separate.
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by dimitropoulos 2y ago
he went into the C# question in more detail this interview: https://youtu.be/10qowKUW82U?t=1154s
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by dimitropoulos 2y ago
he went into more detail about C# in this one: https://youtu.be/10qowKUW82U?t=1154s
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by dimitropoulos 2y ago
look, not to argue with a stranger on hacker news, lol, but genuine calm question here: is this really a helpful nit? I know what you're getting at but the blogpost itself doesn't imply that JavaScript is 10x faster. I could com
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by dimitropoulos 2y ago
thank you, to both of you, for so many years of groundbreaking work. you've both been on the project for, what, 11 years now? such legends.

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