nocombination

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by nocombination 2y ago
When people mention `bash` it's immediately a code smell. In order to write portable shell scripts, it must be only POSIX `sh`. If the need ever arises for a more complex data structure, typically I jump into AWK since it's also P
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by nocombination 3y ago
Yeah sorry didn't mean to add TOML in there. And to be fair, YAML is somewhat clean for what it is. I shouldn't have included that in my rant either. My main gripe is with the "JSON Everywhere" approach. :) There's
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by nocombination 3y ago
Generally there is misunderstanding of these markups. JSON came along because the JavaScript people found it convenient and more network-efficient (the irony being it's not really). But a million years later followed the schema-validat
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by nocombination 3y ago
As other folks have commented, CUDA not being an open standard is a large part of the problem. That and the developers who target CUDA directly when writing Stable Diffusion algorithms—they are forcing the monopoly. Even at the cost of not
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by nocombination 3y ago
Remember we are talking about putting it into the core OS and overall what will the impact be on the stability of said OS. What folks here tend to describe is userspace applications which languages like Go/Java/C#/Erlang&#x2F
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by nocombination 3y ago
Right—and maybe those places ought to install OpenBSD. https://www.openbsd.org/ Rust is not immune to security vulnerabilities. And at the end of the day, social engineering will steal more data than "hacking the mainf
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by nocombination 3y ago
It's not what you program in that matters—it's how you test and ensure quality results.
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by nocombination 3y ago
Honestly, after being in the software industry for a couple of decades and seeing how many times folks attempt to reinvent the wheel (for commercial or other reasons), I am beginning to sigh when I see how many language zealots there are (n
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by nocombination 3y ago
I recommend taking a look at Autotools—if anything for historical context. It quickly becomes apparent that many features in CMake (and likely meson—no experience there myself)—are derived from some functionality in Autotools. It also helps
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by nocombination 3y ago
Funny to mention cmake when GNU Autotools handles all of these dependency resolution with grace using only a few lines of autoconf. CMake script syntax is not very great, and debugging is no better than sprinkling printf's throughout..
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by nocombination 3y ago
> My recommendation is this - decide if you want to make a company, or if you want to make Open Source. The number if places that have succeeded in both is vanishingly small. The issue at hand is more about deciding how OTHER people&#x2F