tayistay

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by tayistay 8mo ago
Can I call into the interpreter from multiple threads or does it use global state?
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by tayistay 1y ago
Congrats! I think this could be quite useful for me. I noticed that `let`-declared variables seem to be mutable. I'd strongly recommend against that. Add a `var` keyword.
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by tayistay 1y ago
Re 2: Iran previously launched drones and missiles at Israel about a year ago. See https://apnews.com/article/strait-of-hormuz-vessel-33fcffde2...
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by tayistay 1y ago
I've been working on a type checker for a language with ad-hoc overloading and what I did was have the checker proceed iteratively, making passes over the set of constraints and applying deduction rules. So it never guesses, branches,
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by tayistay 2y ago
Before iOS, I was coding animation software on Linux using vim/scons for five years. So no real IDE. But not a fair comparison because we had a build team keeping everything nice. I also ported one of my apps to Windows and Visual Stud
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by tayistay 2y ago
Ok well you asked. I've been using Xcode for 15 years now professionally. I have two CS degrees and one of my apps was featured on the Mac App Store front page. So, basically, I know wtf I'm talking about. I detest Xcode. The late
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by tayistay 2y ago
What podcast?
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by tayistay 2y ago
I suspect the problem there is that the multiple paths to a new location will not yield consistent results.
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by tayistay 2y ago
Google says: “California is the largest agricultural exporter in the United States”
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by tayistay 2y ago
If you have a recent machine, the actual developer experience isn't too bad. It's just not a language for language purists (was it ever?). I'm enough of a purist to be annoyed whenever I see the "expression took too long
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by tayistay 2y ago
Does the article mention if the 1 in 6 is actually a change vs previous years/generations? I didn’t see anything.
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by tayistay 2y ago
Well, probably wouldn't be able to convince you that the artists playing shows using Euroroack (or Elektron, or TE) in front of bigger audiences that you ever have are "genuinely good."
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by tayistay 2y ago
> The OLED never really shows you anything useful to the act of music-making. Thou art prone to hyperbole! Said instrument of synthesis ("Operator-1") has a step sequencer, mixer, ADSR envelopes, recorder, and other useful ind
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by tayistay 2y ago
Blasphemy! Thou shalt not present such claims without the proper scrolls and ledgers of sales to substantiate. Ist thou not acquainted with the more-expensive instruments of musical synthesis available?
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by tayistay 2y ago
Under disadvantages: > You can also call the layout code twice (once to get the size, once to do the interaction), but that is not only more expensive, it's also complex to implement, and in some cases twice is not enough. egui neve
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by tayistay 3y ago
So much is bad about it: > After two weeks, I come up with some of my own tweaks that make the algorithm work a bit better. I happily add “built a state-of-the-art library for numerical integration, with novel improvements on the best te
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by tayistay 3y ago
I think the explanation for "defund the police" is simpler... they just see the bad stuff cops do on the news, but haven't ever actually needed the cops personally (and few of their friends have too), primarily due to their a
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by tayistay 3y ago
Can that be done without disabling JIT for the rest of us? My app would benefit greatly from JIT compilation, and it's always been a bummer that it can't realize its full performance potential on iOS.
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by tayistay 3y ago
Isn't this more of a problem of Google being too permissive about trash browsers on their store than an issue of whether a browser can have its own JIT compiler?
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by tayistay 3y ago
While I agree with that general sentiment, far more than that experienced homelessness over a 20 year period.
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by tayistay 3y ago
They haven't. You can't get a paper into SIGGRAPH that misses relevant existing research.
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by tayistay 3y ago
Various comparisons with plenoxels are in the paper.
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by tayistay 3y ago
> The argument that a cooperative scheduling is doomed to fail is overblown. Apps are already very much cooperative. For proof, run a version of that on your nice preemptive system : [pathological example which creates tons of threads an
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by tayistay 3y ago
The article matches my experience with SwiftUI [1][2]. For example, AFAICT, it's not really possible to write a usable node-graph editor using SwiftUI due to layout and dependency analysis overhead. You have to put the entire node grap
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by tayistay 3y ago
Metal is not a standard graphics API. It's a platform-specific Apple thing. I use it and it's pretty nice, but it's not a cross-platform standard.
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by tayistay 3y ago
Is this essentially the "cyclic reference counting" algorithm from the Garbage Collection Handbook [1], Chapter 5, Algorithm 5.5? [1] https://gchandbook.org
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by tayistay 3y ago
From the paper [1]: > However, these existing approaches typically face multiple drawbacks which limit their proposed applications, including (i) surface discontinuities Which cites the MIT inFORM project (3 in the references). [1] htt
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by tayistay 3y ago
From the article: const result = comptime square("hello"); // compile time error: type mismatch ok, cool. But if the error occurs deep in some hierarchy of comptime calls, do you get the same kind of long errors t
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by tayistay 3y ago
I'm using this technique in a compiler [1]. One thing I really like about it is that, unlike pointers, I can reuse the integer indices (`ExprRef` in the article) between arrays. So, for example, I have separate arrays for the AST and c
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by tayistay 3y ago
Admittedly I missed that assumption in cutting to the meat of the article. However, does WordPad or a spreadsheet really need to synthesize styling when the font doesn't have it? I just loaded a font without an italic style into TextEd

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