looneysquash

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by looneysquash 4mo ago
I love the transparency that Adafruit is proving on this.
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by looneysquash 4mo ago
I wonder if any compiler can rewrite that last one into one of the others.
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by looneysquash 4mo ago
And companies are legal fiction. Meta doesn't remove a post, a person does. Or maybe some software built by a person. A person from a government told a person at Meta to block it, and that person did (probably by telling yet more peopl
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by looneysquash 4mo ago
Well, I haven't actually tried the asm.js approach for this, so maybe I'm missing something. But since asm.js is just (a subset of) javascript, I assumed I could just pass ArrayBuffers around. With wasm, I could pass a Uint8Array
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by looneysquash 4mo ago
I personally think this is a mistake. But I'm not sure how much it matters. It's not like a lot of people were using asm.js still AFAIK. But wasm is too isolated from javascript. From my limited use of it, I was considering trying
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by looneysquash 4mo ago
It's not clear to me from that post how they will be spending the money they'll save by firing 60% of our R&D team. Could someone explain it? If you have a lot of new stuff to build, and if you're not currently losing mon
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by looneysquash 4mo ago
Would be nice if more people were focus on fixing these issues instead of just a bunch of "we already know", and making fun up the tone of the site. Thanks op for reminding us of the privacy issues with our browsers. The EFF and o
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by looneysquash 4mo ago
That sounds like it wouldn't scale. If everyone did it, then it would just delay things.
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by looneysquash 5mo ago
The number 42 is also a mathematical symbol we can observe. (Or two symbols, depending on how you want to define symbol). You can observe the symbol. You can observe 42 of some object, 42 sheep for example. You can observe a pie chart, or
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by looneysquash 5mo ago
Why would you name yourself Warp without any connection to OS/2?
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by looneysquash 5mo ago
To me, one of the big features of markdown is it's half WYSIWYG. By that I mean, the basics reuse the way we faked formatting to do real formatting. The input is (usually) perfectly readable on its own. Even if you don't know (or
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by looneysquash 5mo ago
Somewhat related, this book is pretty good: https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/ It answers a lot of the questions I see being asked in this thread.
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by looneysquash 5mo ago
The company you work for almost always has more power in negotiations than you do. (For some hypothetical "you".) The bigger the company is, the more power they have typically. If you want to make more money or get better benefits
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by looneysquash 5mo ago
For a open source project like SDL is, for something like this, it's usually a matter of how invasive it is, and how likely the contributors seem to stick around and maintain it. Different projects have different policies, and I don&#x
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by looneysquash 5mo ago
That's deplorable. We probably need to dig one or more levels deeper though. What changed to enable and popularized these bad business practices?
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by looneysquash 5mo ago
But what would have happened if they weren't able to get Microsoft's attention through an outside channel (this site) and had to go through the normal process? I'm glad it was resolved quickly for WireGuard, but I'm conc
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by looneysquash 5mo ago
> The tough truth is that there already is a cargo for C/C++: Conan2 Is it though? When I read the tutorial: https://docs.conan.io/2/tutorial/consuming_packages/build_si... It says to hand write a `CM
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by looneysquash 5mo ago
Besides Cargo, you might want to take a look at Python's pyproject.toml standard. https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/writing-pyproj... It's similar, but designed for an existing ecosyste
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by looneysquash 5mo ago
Nice. I have been thinking of making something similar. Now hopefully I don't have to! Not sure how big your plans are. My thoughts would be to start as a cmake generator but to eventually replace it. Maybe optionally. And to integrate
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by looneysquash 6mo ago
I've only interacted with him a couple of times, years ago, but he was very helpful and accepted my MR.
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by looneysquash 6mo ago
When the government imposes these rules, this is an outcome they callously ignore. Sure, we can rightly criticize the author for their abuse towards this working class government employee. But then to some degree we're guilty of what t
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by looneysquash 6mo ago
There's not a body inside Chuck Norris's casket, there's just a fist.
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by looneysquash 6mo ago
I don't get it. Why buy Astral? Why not just fund it? Why not just hire the company to do whatever work you want to get out of the team as part of the merger? Why buy, when they can rent? (Not to mention, multiple companies could hire
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by looneysquash 7mo ago
Maybe there's a gap in my knowledge of notation, but I was confused by: > Let’s define the Lagrange basis functions It looks like you defined `l_i(x)` as a piecewise function or a step function. But then you show with it's actu
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by looneysquash 7mo ago
Last I heard, it's still legally called the Department of Defense. But anyway, I guess the question is, will any other big AI companies stand with them? It's what needs to happen, but I am not hopeful.
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by looneysquash 7mo ago
You really really do want to use a framework (such as Lit) if you're writing web components. Or at least, I don't want to use your framework free web components. Because the frameworks handle a bunch of stuff for you, like reactiv
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by looneysquash 7mo ago
Ordinary people aren't even ok now. Lest we forget, software engineers aren't exactly ordinary people: they make quite a bit above the median wage. AI taking our jobs is scary because it will turn us into "ordinary people&q
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by looneysquash 8mo ago
Or they could have offered local control from launch and not had this issue.
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by looneysquash 9mo ago
That's because the biggest ad selling companies make or fund the web browsers.
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by looneysquash 9mo ago
Looks like a good policy to me. One thing I didn't like was the copy/paste response for violations. It makes sense to have one. Just the text they propose uses what I'd call insider terms, and also terms that sort of put down

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