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by sramsay 1mo ago
I think what you're talking about is part of a much larger pattern. Autotools imagines that the most important thing is the "user" in a world where people want to download your software and build it on their machine. They don
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by sramsay 2mo ago
I do find that "signalling expertise" is important. "I have a significant background in biblical scholarship. You can assume I've read the most important works in NT studies in particular. Do not translate Greek, Latin,
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by sramsay 6mo ago
I absolutely understand what you're saying. It makes complete sense. But I will never, ever shake the sense that software that isn't as fast as possible is offensive, immoral, delinquent -- the result of sloth, lassitude, lack of
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by sramsay 8mo ago
I'll put TB Barricade against Pro-L 2 and TB Reverb against Pro-R for sure. I mostly use other stuff for EQ and compression, but those two are really very similar to the FB offerings.
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by sramsay 8mo ago
And honestly, if I was on a desert island with just u-he plugins . . .
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by sramsay 9mo ago
This. Is. Awesome. Really. It amazes me that I still find out about new Linux plugins after years of producing music on the platform. It could not have been easy to compile this; the information is all over the place online. The ability t
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by sramsay 9mo ago
Thank you!
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by sramsay 9mo ago
Author, here. This is exactly the question I was trying (perhaps ineptly) to pose: If we designed a programming language with the idea that it would be primarily or exclusively vibe coded, what would that language look like? Might it look s
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If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?(stephenramsay.net)
632 points by sramsay 9mo ago|612 comments
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by sramsay 10mo ago
There might be. And I certainly bear no ill will of any kind toward the project or its devs. But I am in terminals all day long, and I hesitate to use one that is written in a language that hasn't yet hit 1.0. Foot is way more my speed
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by sramsay 10mo ago
I keep hearing this, but I fail to see why "the massive, well-maintained set of critical libraries upon which UNIX is based" is not a good reason to use C in 2025. I have never seen a language with a better ffi into C than C.
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by sramsay 1y ago
Truly, one of the most original artists of our time. I am among those who think Einstein on the Beach is one of the greatest theatrical works of the twentieth century, but I don't think I ever saw a Wilson piece that didn't comp
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by sramsay 1y ago
> I'm not a scholar, just an amateur, but two sentences were strikingly ridiculous. Well, I am a scholar, and if you mean "Noah clearly did not hide these texts," then yes. Of course, that is ridiculous. But it's actu
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by sramsay 1y ago
I remember megatons of Java Servlet(tm) hype convincing us that real programmers do OO. Java remains the only programming language I've ever heard covered in a feature story for NPR.
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by sramsay 1y ago
Actually, what's amazing is that many of the people being mentioned fit within any coherent statement of the boundaries. Schaeffer is on it but not Radigue? When it said, "There's few women," I didn't think they mea
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by sramsay 1y ago
When translating ancient Greek in class, one often slips into a weird translation-ese that would be pretty funny if you didn't know what was going on. You end up saying things like: "The going-into-the-temple men were on the one h
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by sramsay 1y ago
It's funny you mention Kiril. I keep thinking about Pope Francis's (apparently deep and genuine) friendship with Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church. It is traditional for the EP to visit Rome on the patronal
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by sramsay 1y ago
I was really struck by the antipathy toward GCC. I'm not sure I quite understand where it's coming from.
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by sramsay 1y ago
This has more-or-less been my setup for over twenty-five years. I've used gentoo and vim that entire time, but have changed desktops a few times (i3 currently, but always something along those lines). All development -- and all writing
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by sramsay 1y ago
I'm talking about who can sign the forms that say you fulfilled the requirements of a degree. Random people cannot do that. Emeritus professors usually retain that ability. I've served on PhD defenses where you had uncredentiale
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by sramsay 1y ago
> That's just an honorary title It's true that it's an honorific, but I think it has a little more teeth than you think. At the institutions I've worked at, it comes with a few perks (like faculty-level library priv
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by sramsay 1y ago
The question is, who among is willing to be the object of tomhow's first official Unsportsmanlike Conduct penalty? ;)
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by sramsay 1y ago
> Everyone may pick their language based on their aesthetic preference and attraction to certain features, but we should avoid sweeping statements about software correctness and the best means to achieve it. Once there are costs involved
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by sramsay 1y ago
Last release was four years ago.
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by sramsay 1y ago
I don't think people realize just how important XML is in this space (complex documentary editing, textual criticism, scholarly full-text archives in the humanities). JSON cannot be used for the kinds of tasks to which TEI is put. It&#
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by sramsay 2y ago
> it is C with a bit of polish. I am fast becoming a Zig zealot. What I've discovered is that while it does regularize some of the syntax of C, the really noticeable thing about Zig is that it feels like C with all the stuff I (and
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by sramsay 2y ago
But is not, in any sense of the term, a DAW.
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by sramsay 2y ago
How so? (If you're hearing a combative tone, it's unintended; I'm asking seriously, because I would love for this to be true!)
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by sramsay 2y ago
Better than C++? Better than Lua?
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by sramsay 2y ago
Hmm. I could substitute lots of languages for zig in that first sentence. But that doesn't invariably lead the communities that maintain those languages to utter the second. I also doubt I have space to enumerate the languages that cla

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