rmckayfleming

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by rmckayfleming 8mo ago
It was ridiculous. He got it less than a year into his presidency.
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by rmckayfleming 9mo ago
Oh neat, I've been working with claude on an NES emulator in Racket using an SDL3 wrapper also written mostly by Claude.
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by rmckayfleming 2y ago
"I feel uneasy about design patterns. On the one hand, my university class on design patterns revived my interest in programming. On the other hand, I find most patterns in the Gang of Four book to be irrelevant to my daily work; they
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by rmckayfleming 2y ago
Not just dirt cheap, the turn around time to manufacture was significantly lower. Sony had an existing CD manufacturing business and could produce runs of discs in the span of a week or so, whereas cartridges typically took months. That was
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by rmckayfleming 3y ago
Yea, people generally don't think about these things. People were genuinely surprised to find out that 70% of our expenses as a software business were... salaries. The next largest category? Rent. Everything else was effectively a roun
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by rmckayfleming 3y ago
I just bought a house this year, the previous owners lived in it for about 2 years from brand new. Thankfully it has an ethernet drop to every room upstairs, and in reasonable places on the main floor. Far better than the situation at the l
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by rmckayfleming 3y ago
Have you used the 7900XT with LLMs at all?
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by rmckayfleming 3y ago
I do wonder how much of an impact the PS5 and Xbox Series have on this though since they both have RDNA2 GPUs. Consoles tend to face higher optimization pressure, especially as the generation wears on. It might be why AMD has kept so compet
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by rmckayfleming 3y ago
Like, SBCL compiles and assembles directly to machine code, that's very much the Lisp way. But SBCL has a lot of C that's involved in getting the SBCL image running and interacting with the host.
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by rmckayfleming 3y ago
It's more that it's easier to use C for two reasons. The first is that C is really popular and therefore pretty portable. It's a lingua franca. The other is that because the hosts are largely defined in C, it's easier to
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by rmckayfleming 3y ago
CL is the x86 of the Lisps. Successful because of backwards compatibility, but also ugly because of it.
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by rmckayfleming 3y ago
I know. I've been spending a lot of time with CL, Scheme, and Clojure the past few years, and the ideal Lisp is some combination of them all. There are aspects of each that I miss in the others. CL has the nicest environment and develo
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by rmckayfleming 3y ago
What do you mean "factorial in recursive style"? Like recursive with an accumulator?
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by rmckayfleming 3y ago
Nope. Nothing. I’ve been waiting since they released it. Part of me thinks it might be because I responded yes to “Outside of the US”.
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by rmckayfleming 3y ago
My understanding is that that's a non-trivial problem. You'd likely need some sort of AI system to do it, since the perception of colour isn't something that can be simply modelled.
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by rmckayfleming 3y ago
Yep, it's saved me a lot of time on data transformation tasks. For instance, I wanted to convert the colors in Tailwind to CSS variables. I had the JSON listing all of the names and hex colors, I just needed to rewrite the names and co
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
I’ve been very happy with mine playing games of all vintages and development budgets. Just this weekend I was playing Far Cry 4 and The Division 2 quite smoothly.
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
This is one of those problems that Tail Call Elimination cleanly addresses. The "obvious" approach to writing an FSM does exactly what you'd expect.
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
Yea. The last half of season 1 it starts to become more just Star Trek. Season 2 and 3 are straight Star Trek. I really enjoyed them.
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
My impression was more that he just wanted to do Star Trek but the studios were like "it'll be funny right???". And so he went along with it at first, but dropped it as time went on. On a related note, I've been rewatchi
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
It's easy to forget nearly 10 years on, but React came out when Backbone.js with mustache templates was rather common, and React was a LOT easier to manage. The other popular frameworks at the time were Ember and Angular 1, which were
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
With the caveat that you don't literally follow Lisp by having a #. reader macro.
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
Yea, I was playing Wolfenstein New Order on it and was shocked at how well it ran. Easily made 60fps with battery life projected at well over 3hrs. Setting the refresh rate to 40hz helps a lot too.
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
I used to have two otherwise identical displays, but it still does it for me now that all of my displays are different. Notably, I think this stuff happens more when you have 3+ monitors. I don't remember having as many issues with jus
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
Interesting you say that about the Airpods. In my experience I've found that Airpods work extremely well so long as they're only paired with your Apple devices. Once I paired them to my PC I started having issues where they'd
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
Pretty much every thread on Tailwind will devolve into debates on CSS development/maintenance practices. My take is that Tailwind enables a style of CSS development more akin to using a dynamically typed language. It's really grea
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
A recurring question I have is: how many microcontrollers/CPUs are in a modern personal computer? There are clearly a lot, but just how many?
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
It’s definitely context dependent. But I spent the last few years of my dad’s life not really speaking to him much, and when he died - suddenly at the age of 53 - I realized it had been for really petty reasons. The things I disagreed with
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Ask HN: Number of Microcontrollers in a Modern Computer?
2 points by rmckayfleming 4y ago|0 comments
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by rmckayfleming 4y ago
People appreciate art for the story. It’s why originals sell for more than prints.

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