kamov

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by kamov 2mo ago
Okay, so would you say LuaJIT is slop, just because it is hand coded?
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by kamov 2mo ago
100k satellites is kind of insane, why not a smaller number of satellites which are more powerful, like the satellites from AST Spacemobile? It should be possible to launch smaller number of satellites without sacrificing progress
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by kamov 3mo ago
> I've approximated it somewhere around 15 minutes of maintenance per month, barring an emergency. If that's normal to you, congrats - you've peaked in life. However, that's absolutely absurd to me. I used to spend da
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by kamov 5mo ago
This is an oversimplification, adopting "capitalism" wholesale as a developing nation without guardrails is incredibly risky because foreign capital will just buy out or crush native industries. The way China actually succeeded wa
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by kamov 7mo ago
What do you use local models for? I'm asking generally about possible applications of these smaller models
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by kamov 8mo ago
https://kamoshi.org/ I have written from scratch an SSG and used my website to dogfood it. A lot of it is/was experimenting and learning how web works bottom up, so it is rough around the edges nearly everywhere, but p
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by kamov 9mo ago
> This isn't democratization. It's feudalism with better marketing. It's not "feudalism", it's just capitalism. Everything will be commodified in the end including your feelings and thoughts.
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by kamov 9mo ago
You can use both Nix and Cargo at the same time, and they accomplish different things. Nix's purpose is more like rustup, except it works for each program on your computer
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by kamov 1y ago
Except in Python you can easily access the type hints at runtime, which allowed people to build ergonomic libraries such as Pydantic
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by kamov 2y ago
What were the main issues you came across? What language would you prefer if you had to start from scratch and had the choice to go with anything else?
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by kamov 2y ago
Is a city council unethical too? It is a form of government as well
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by kamov 2y ago
Rust used to have a GC in the past, as well as green threads and a bigger runtime. All of this has been explicitly removed before Rust 1.0. The reasons are well documented in many pull requests and RFCs for the language. The way the async f
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by kamov 2y ago
The fundamental issue is that humans contrary to machines will never know for sure whether whatever they do write is in fact correct code. One can think they are writing good and readable code, but that doesn't mean anything if the cod
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by kamov 2y ago
I personally think that writing so called "terse, clever" (misnomer) code, is not an issue with the language, rather the user. Do we really want to have worse tools, just because some people are writing bad code? Clearly it's
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by kamov 2y ago
Sum types allow for more robust modeling of the API boundary in libraries, so in fact having a better type system is desirable even when "just gluing libraries", because it can make incorrect program states physically unrepresenta
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by kamov 2y ago
Elliptic curve cryptography can be broken by Shor's algorithm as well https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.06752
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by kamov 2y ago
Whatever language you end up choosing, I hope it will be a memory safe one. Browsers' main purpose is to interact with the outside world, and they even have to run third party code (JS) all the time, so minimizing attack surface would
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by kamov 2y ago
I think that pioneering the work of reimplementing web standards in not strictly OOP language will make the implementation easier for anyone else in the future, surely many of the problems exist by virtue of being done for the first time
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by kamov 2y ago
Not paying for a book when you have the full ability to do so is just greed. But there are also those who come from places where monthly wage is like $200, so they wouldn't be able to afford a $30 book even if they wanted to
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by kamov 2y ago
Sadly this program seems to segfault on Wayland.
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by kamov 2y ago
> If your language only supports adding more complexity and never simplifies syntax, it's inevitably going to be replaced. The same thing will happen with Rust in 20 years, it's just how things go. I feel like this won't n
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by kamov 2y ago
Knowing the industry there's a bunch of people out there on the payroll continuously knocking out these assets all day long every day.
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by kamov 2y ago
Sorry, I don't want to be that guy , but I'm curious why use Java and not something like Rust? Is it because of the Lucene ecosystem?
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by kamov 2y ago
This isn't quite right, linked lists and trees in functional languages can be represented extremely succintly, i.e. data List a = Nil | Node a (List a) data Tree a = Leaf a | Node (Tree a) (Tree a) there is nothing stopping yo
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by kamov 3y ago
Right about now KDE is moving to Wayland. KDE Plasma 6 released a week ago will use Wayland by default, with X11 being an opt in mode. I think that X11 while it might exist for the next decade, it will at best be a second class citizen, at
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by kamov 3y ago
This is approximately how most Haskell libraries are versioned -- PVP summary: +-+------- breaking API changes -- | | +----- non-breaking API additions -- | | | +--- code changes with no API cha
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by kamov 3y ago
That only happened in the first few weeks/months following the invasion, and since then people returned to calling them "Ruskie". The general consensus is that the name refers to the historical area of Ruthenia https:/&
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by kamov 3y ago
> I think it's better than TypeScript - fight me I used Python type hints and MyPy since long before I used TypeScript, and I have to say that TypeScript's take on types is just plain better (that doesn't mean it's go