rnikander

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by rnikander 2mo ago
All this computing power. Can we even simulate a water molecule yet from scratch with QM?
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by rnikander 1y ago
I'm working on an app similar to Anki, where I can make my own cards for spaced repetition, organize them by folders and tags, and can run different queries to get groups to practice from. I'm curious what features people wish Ank
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by rnikander 1y ago
Interesting. My projects would benefit from those more convenient clones into closure captures. The other point where Rc is uglier than, say, Swift, is the explicit `.borrow()` and `.borrow_mut()` everywhere. I wonder if that could also be
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by rnikander 1y ago
Some Clojure fans once told me they thought datalog was better than SQL and it was a shame that the relational DBs all used SQL. I never dug into it enough to find out why they thought that way.
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by rnikander 1y ago
Been trying Rust for some months now. The IDE experience is so much nicer I'm probably sticking with it, but the restrictions on how I write code are still grating on me. I need to learn the language better, but now I still feel like I
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by rnikander 2y ago
I just used Skype the other day. I still find it useful for certain things. Is it that these companies can't maintain a piece of software unless they see a way for it to grow and dominate the world?
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by rnikander 2y ago
Agree, the Volt seemed like a good idea. I don’t know the inside story of GM discontinuing that car. I imagined it was corporate dysfunction.
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by rnikander 2y ago
I was using Swift before. Currently learning Rust. Want to use it for cross-platform UI, and I'm stuggling with exactly what you describe there.
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by rnikander 2y ago
Any hope for a new iPhone SE? My 1st gen's battery is near dead.
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by rnikander 3y ago
Yup. They could have security by allowing the user to see and control the sandboxing that the operating system imposes on the apps. The app store is not required, but they act like it is.
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by rnikander 3y ago
Is Mojo interactive like Python? I mean will it work well with notebook style programming? I've been looking for something that works well in that interactive mode (like Python) but also has types (like, say, Swift). Swift playgrounds
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by rnikander 3y ago
Yes, my short post may sound dismissive, but I work in tech and I'm aware that our industry has lots of legitimate creativity and intellectual property. Of course we also have hype, marketing, BS, and herd stampedes. Some aspects of GP
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by rnikander 3y ago
What is Nvidia's gold mine? They don't make their own chips, right? Doesn't that mean that other companies can quickly catch up, if they are even behind?
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by rnikander 3y ago
I don't like it either. It also seems arrogant to me – something about squatting on an entire letter and trying to rebrand it for your company.
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by rnikander 3y ago
I've haven't looked into how these new AI products are implemented. Can someone give a ballpark estimate on the current costs if someone wanted to build their own, say: 1. LLM that talks like ChatGPT 2. Image generator that m
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by rnikander 3y ago
I agree with his approach but I'm on macOS so I don't think I can even use this currently. Anyone know if he has a plan to get this out so everyone can use it? It's not like the authors of Clang are going to implement this. I
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by rnikander 3y ago
I want to do cross platform native C++ dev. Maybe I should switch to Microsoft-land. I've been using a MacBook for years. I see Visual Studio docs talking about C++ cross-platform mobile (iOS, Android), but nothing about desktop (eg, L
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by rnikander 3y ago
It's hard to say what I mean exactly, because I don't know what I will need to make my program fast, but I know I want the ability to adapt and control low level details. That would include memory layout and allocation, and skippi
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by rnikander 3y ago
I still can't use C++20 modules with a macOS app (Clang). I tried, and compile times balloon 10-30x on some files. Maybe I should give up and try Rust. Does Rust give you _maximum_ control over performance the way C and C++ do? I need
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by rnikander 3y ago
I wish I could build and deploy iOS apps from Linux on these things.
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by rnikander 4y ago
Do some companies fund GCC C++ development? It seems too hairy for only heroic volunteers to get it done, but I don't know.
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by rnikander 4y ago
I wonder if I can use GCC on macOS to build apps for macOS/iOS that can be App Store deployed. Or if I'm stuck with Clang there. These days I still use macOS and exist in the Apple ecosystem. I wouldn't mind moving to Linux,
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by rnikander 4y ago
I've been using C++ a lot lately after many years away. There are different kinds of frustration. With C++ my frustration is the "this is so close to being awesome" variety, not the "wow, this just sucks" variety.
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by rnikander 4y ago
Modules look like an awesome, game-changing feature, and they were supposed to be a part of C++20. As far as I know I still can't reasonably use them with Clang and CMake. Anyone know what the problem is? Are enough people being paid t
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by rnikander 4y ago
A woman once told me that she made $300K/year as an "expert witness", on various topics. She was smart and she said she would study a bit and go testify. It blew my mind. I didn't understand whether she was working for t
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by rnikander 4y ago
And I forgot: 3. keyword arguments to functions. :)
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by rnikander 4y ago
Years ago I worked on some C++ and the code had a lot of pointers to objects. Maybe it was not well written C++. In Swift (and Kotlin and others) the compiler can prove that you never get a null pointer error at runtime. If you want somethi
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by rnikander 4y ago
Swift gets weirder and more difficult, C++ gets better. Will the two lines intersect? Probably not, but I'm starting to wonder. I wish C++ had a few more cosmetic and convenient things that I've gotten used to in Swift. 1. Propert
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by rnikander 4y ago
This guy looks like he's implementing an entire new C++ compiler, but he seems unconcerned with making it open source or getting it to work on other platforms. I'm not sure what he's up to. https://twitter.com&#x2F
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by rnikander 4y ago
So rent a room and/or don’t live in the best part of the city. That’s what I did near Boston a few years ago. My rent was well under $1000. Do people think they’re entitled to private apartments in the most expensive cities in the worl

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