jkercher

8 ms·

1.
by jkercher 25d ago
Please tell me this is sarcasm...
2.
by jkercher 26d ago
I think you nailed it. And that would make sense and should be expected. 99.9% of the world's software (the training data) is several orders of magnitude away from max performance. Another possible confusing thing for an LLM is that ge
3.
by jkercher 3mo ago
I don't know man. It's just zero. Dereferencing it just crashes your program (assuming an operating system). This kind of just reads like a fear of pointers. Corrupted/out-of-range pointers are, at least, a real problem.
4.
by jkercher 3mo ago
Meh, I think NULL is fine in C. It's an extra, valid state to represent pointers at no cost. Unlike the more hand holdy languages, it's quite rare for a pointer in C to have the ability to be NULL since, more often than not, it&#
5.
by jkercher 3mo ago
Ha. I'm probably in the more anti AI camp, but if it could free us from the plague that is Python thinking, I might change my tune. 2 seconds might feel negligible in the real world, but it is damn near an eternity in the supercompute
6.
by jkercher 4mo ago
Sam?
7.
by jkercher 4mo ago
You make that sound worse than it is. On the overall topic, you have 0 supply chain risk, and the whole thing is local. Also, your code from 2009 is still valid. That would be a foreign concept in some languages like Python.
8.
by jkercher 6mo ago
I too have used a similar strategy of packing variables together. I even came up with a name for it. I called it a "building."
9.
by jkercher 7mo ago
Tangentially related. Don't ever put "." in your PATH. I used to do this to avoid typing the "./" to execute something in my current directory. BAD IDEA. It can turn a typo into a fork bomb. I took down a produ
10.
by jkercher 8mo ago
One of the advantages to the pointer + length approach is free substrings. This inline approach doesn't allow that.
11.
by jkercher 11mo ago
Couldn't agree more. I have a project at work from 2016 that builds multiple different HMIs (C++) along with 2 embedded systems (C). They all have to play nicely with each other as they share some structures and can all be updated in t
12.
by jkercher 11mo ago
I certainly would not use it prescriptively as I said originally. I wouldn't use any poker book prescriptively. You make your own style and pull pieces from others just like any other trade. I like the way Joe does X.. I like the way
13.
by jkercher 11mo ago
I don't think so. I don't play nearly as often as I used to, but I still do alright. Though, I usually play tournaments where "game theory optimal" can only get you so far. There is a lot more nuance in a tournament whe
14.
by jkercher 11mo ago
Super System is old, but I wouldn't call it outdated. Definitely still worth a read. The more books you've read, the bigger your tool set. The key here is that it works in both directions because each style you learn, is a style y
15.
by jkercher 1y ago
Rust and Zig are both perfectly fine languages. Odin wins on simplicity and familiarity for me. I'm most productive in C which is what I use at work. So, for me, it's a better C with some quality of life improvements. It's no
16.
by jkercher 1y ago
When I first heard about Odin, I thought, why another C replacement?! What's wrong with rust or zig? Then, after looking into it, I had a very similar experience to the author. Someone made a language just for me! It's for people
17.
by jkercher 2y ago
What's naive?
18.
by jkercher 2y ago
I'm not looking for an argument, but my knee jerk reaction to seeing 4 or 5 different answers to the question of getting python to C... Why not just learn C?
19.
by jkercher 2y ago
clickhouse-local is pretty slick as well. You can operate directly on text files as if they were tables. I made my own toy text file database thing and thought I was cool because I could outrun similar programs like q, textql, sqlite, etc.
20.
by jkercher 3y ago
I think he's saying the text should be more muted like the copyright at the bottom.
21.
by jkercher 3y ago
Cool. Let us software guys know when we get computers that are 1000x faster so we can write the next language/framework that is 1000x slower.
22.
by jkercher 4y ago
I think he is getting at this part "non-mass scale platform." He's implying it only protects the big players that can afford the change.