throwaway34241

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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Sure, I’ve used a variety of other languages (C#, Java, Swift, C, even Scheme etc) and like Go, and even chose it for a solo project. To me it feels like C with some extra features, kind of like Objective-C. If you need to do some C-like t
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
If you’re in the market for an ergo keyboard, I’ve used and liked the Kinesis Freestyle for years now. It’s a fully split keyboard with a staggered layout - I use it in a tented setup, and the ergonomics have been good while it’s similar e
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> I'm not sure what the difference is with regards to pointers. In C# most objects are 'class' objects, which are implicitly passed by pointer, although some are 'struct' objects passed by value. In Go rather th
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I think C# might be the closest mainstream language, but I’d say explicit pointers, interior pointers, and slices as the default list type might be things that make Go programming a little lower level. There are also other differences that
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I’m not going to defend what random internet commenters may have said, but in my view the core team has been fairly consistent and their design decisions (to me) make sense. The first thing to understand is that Go occupies a space lower le
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I agree, it seems like an editor based on direct AST manipulation could work pretty well with existing languages (I actually prototyped one a long time ago in university). Some languages like C with text-based preprocessors might cause som
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> The second part looks to be more interesting: I’d like to see some arguments for why a LVT wouldn’t just be passed along to the renters like every other expense is currently. I think the general idea goes something like: a new apartmen
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I agree that people have experiences, but I don't understand why they must be magical or non-existent in the physical world. Why can't the word "experience" simply be referring to the physical processes that happen when
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
There are a lot of levels of "thinking" across the animal / insect / even plant kingdoms. The simplest levels of stimulus response (like a venus fly trap closing its mouth) don't seem to require a metaphysical expl
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
To add to adgjlsfhk1’s answer, if you are writing Android games you are probably using a cross-platform game engine that doesn’t use Java (like Unity) which solves the issue but more importantly also allows you to sell your game on iOS with
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
For memory layout C# actually has an important difference in that it supports value types (so you can have an array of vertices without individually allocating each one, which has a lot of overhead and drastically reduces cache efficiency).
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> Being able to have many GCs is a good thing. The only advantage I can think of to having a single GC is with using 3rd party packages. If the trade off is always low latency and throughput then libraries know to target that when optim
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> Liberal market based societies / economies have many failings, and would be a very interesting conversation to explore some of these. On an absolute basis maybe, but on a relative basis I'd say they've been very effectiv
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Sure, the US is certainly not immune to that dynamic. For example dysfunctional regulation restricts the housing supply (in certain areas), causing the prices to be high. Then left-wing politicians will point to the high prices as a failu
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> This is the very tangible result of suboptimal choices. I agree - I've always liked that story about the grocery store. I don't think bad policies are something that can be straightforwardly extrapolated into a course to th
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I think it's useful to explore historical perspectives, but there are many others. If I look at my parents' generation in the US, people were being forced against their will to fight overseas in a war that didn't achieve any
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
The corporate world isn't a bad analogy. But corporates are still by and large very profitable, some companies operate as they always have (although that isn't newsworthy, and it isn't a marketing point), and on this specifi
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> So the price of this "equity" movement is going to be (and always was) mass de-industrialization and transforming the economy to third world status I also disagree with these sort of decisions but this seems a bit hyperbolic.
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
If the government was restricting the supply of cars / TVs / medicine, etc, causing the prices to be high, you could make a similar argument: why not buy the older car / smaller TV / medicine with more side-effects that
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
It's always been incomprehensible to me why they went all the way to production on $500 standalone devices with inside-out tracking but no tracked controllers , then gave up and let Oculus/FB/Meta eat their lunch. They did t
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I wonder how coherent the base of either party is values-wise or ideologically. There's certainly some intellectuals that have a clear ideological side, but for the people I talk to offline there often seems to be a kind of sports-tea
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I agree that it would affect the US's relative dominance but I don't see why the living standards of Americans would be massively reduced. For things like medical care, housing, education etc those costs are mostly domestic so it
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
Most of the economy isn't tradeable though, including major sectors like housing, education, health care etc. If other countries get sick of buying US bonds, the relative value of the currency might depreciate. But as long as it doesn
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
If I remember correctly, I think Krugman's view is less that there won't be sustained inflation pressure (he's speculated it's transitory, but expressed a lot of uncertainty about it), but rather that the Fed tightening
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
If you've played a sport or video games you've probably made all sorts of actions / judgement calls without having time to fully verbalize them, but with the thought still conscious enough that you could explain what you were
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> It used to be that the Fed was not too focused on asset valuations, and actually drove policy on the basis of their mandates. Unfortunately they're too cowardly to do that anymore. From the financial crisis to COVID low interest r
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> …it will be a shame. We need lot of low-cost headsets for XR to proliferate I agree, I’m just expecting today’s mid-market to be tomorrow’s low end (and to eventually have working old devices being basically thrown away due to over-su
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
> Those would be the gamers. But I am targeting students. And not many students can afford high-end devices. I am more interested in devices such as Google Cardboard, Zapbox and AR4E. High cost of devices should not become a roadblock fo
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
It's actually easier than you might think: Go has most of the capabilities of C, including calling C APIs like malloc/free etc and casting them to Go data types. Of course (like C) writing code in that way won't be particula
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by throwaway34241 5y ago
I'm also writing a Quest app in Go, maybe we should chat sometime! I added my email to my profile.

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