omega_rythm

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by omega_rythm 12y ago
Which is a deficiency of compilers and languages they support: there should be a notion of "verbatim" code, where the compiler doesn't try to apply any code transformation changing the "literal" semantics (as oppose
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
Did you give a shot at other languages in the same category as F#, like Haskell, Ocaml, Clojure or Elixir?
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
It may have to do that often actions on set top boxes are related to accessing content, for which the software has to check permissions; these are usually embedded in the stream (think mumultiplexed), and the decoder needs to receive the fr
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
In one of William Gibson's books (the first trilogy I believe), there was this idea of companies running algorithms on new product names to check if translated in other languages, the name would mean something NSFW. Just imagine how l
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
I didn't talk about liking or disliking ads. I don't like medicaments but I find them very valuable.
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
Well, I don't know. I think that people from the west tend to see the negative aspect of advertising: people over here think "annoyance" (all the answers to my provocative post were like that — yeah, small sample, not signifi
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
> No user would opt-in to commercials, ever. I don't believe for a second this system was designed with opt-in in mind. The occidental mindset is heavily geared against advertising. If you got free rebate coupons, gifts, etc. as rew
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
I guess the text tries to cover both opt-in and opt-out dialog boxes, which perhaps indicates that somewhere in the admin level configuration is an option to choose which mode the service should work in. Or Samsung and Yahoo just did not un
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
> The only experience that's worse is those set-top boxes the cable companies provide you with. I don't know about the American market. Over here (France), set-top boxen aren't so bad. And there are regular software upgrad
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
It's probably the only one that works, and it's just a hint (the conversion function is weird btw, it accepts hexadecimal symbols ranging from '0' to 'z'; it actually "decodes" any base from binary to
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
I wouldn't worry much about people whom I granted access to my computer, (though it could be worrisome if someone else got their hands on their credentials), I would worry about people who got access fraudulently. But that requires tig
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
I don't understand the point you're trying to make: are you saying that no matter the OS, some hardware platforms will be flaky and others well supported?
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
I must admit that my knowledge of llvm is very limited. I did make the (perhaps wrong) assumption that it would be easier to understand on that basis alone (well, and the fact that the people writing it know how to code C++ properly, I gues
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
That doesn't mean no decision has been made: in a typed language with subtyping, this amounts to choose the "top" type of the type hierarchy, and without subtyping, you're choosing not to enforce structural constraints.
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
Yes, it's correct, at least my dictionary says so.
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
Gcc code is arcane: it relies heavily on macros to define some kind of DSL for the compiler backends (check out the .def files), but if you want to contribute seriously you need to learn that DSL and how it works behind the scene somewhat
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
Was there a followup to that story? It seems like the author made a lot of assumptions (I read PG article about Corp devs).
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
It makes sense, thanks for the explanation.
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
Great work! The image quality is astounding, really. So, I just tested your renderer with the material test scene, and while it ran pretty fast, it seems it only used 3 cores out of 4 on my system. Is there a way to configure/force the
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
Of course, but even with lisp you can't (programmatically) work on the code without having that code representation. If it's trivial, then there's no harm in opening it, but RMS thinks otherwise, so there must be something el
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
Hmmm, Charybde and Scylla. There's no solution I suppose, or maybe just go by what RMS wants: produce a data structure for the necessary data for the simplest possible improvement, then define a more involved data structure for a more
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
You really should have a look at the rust code this guy wrote. I would not call that last optimization type safe.
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
It doesn't have to be like that. I suggested elsewhere in that thread that emacs maintainers should use llvm for what they need, since it can already provide that service. This would require further down the road to have Gcc match llvm
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
Why not reverse the argument? If llvm can already be used for that sort of task, why not simply use it in place of Gcc for that very precise task? I'm pretty sure RMS would not mind it as much as opening gcc's AST, and he would
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
I don't think the issue is just allowing proprietary IDEs to interface with Gcc; I think there are deeper issues at play. Also, I wouldn't say that he's forcing anyone to chop things, he's more likely saying "let&#x
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
For RMS, allowing non free code to be derived from free code is unethical, it goes against all the ideal of his movement. Indeed, from your standpoint, the thing he is fighting against seems trivial, but there are deeper consequences.
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
There's ethic, and there is practicalities. RMS stands by the former, while many engineers think mostly about the later. I wouldn't say that thinking ethically is a bad thing, but it may hamper things, because it usually deals ver
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by omega_rythm 12y ago
This may sound like a reductio at absurdum, but if that innovation threaten your ability to survive, you will be very reluctant to research it, won't you? Gcc has been the very foundation of gnu, it's the cornerstone of the whole