ulbu

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by ulbu 13d ago
calling what someone else finds interesting “not an interesting measure” is itself something that calls for an interested measure.
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by ulbu 25d ago
but zig has no ternaries, so it does not apply to a discussion about zig’s syntax. and ternary is a branch with no variable introduction, so it doesn’t apply again. (it’s basically a weak switch expression, and the value moves leftwards tow
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by ulbu 26d ago
if |result| (evaluation)
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by ulbu 26d ago
|capture| hides an inconsistency that bugs me – everywhere else, assignment to a variable flows leftwards. |capture| is an unnatural rightwards assignment. in general, I like zig syntax, but i find that it had very little regard to how the
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by ulbu 3mo ago
I think they mean red as a shell scripting/command line language.
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by ulbu 3mo ago
or “sometimes not, until more data arrives”.
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by ulbu 3mo ago
it’s little-endian protocols that require that you juggle your struct fields. plus, there are still big-endian protocols that will stay for a long time. for example, MIDI clip files in MIDI 2.0 are big-endian.
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by ulbu 3mo ago
C3 is a contender to C++ because of its namespace operator?
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by ulbu 3mo ago
you need different packed structs for little- and big-endian data. and casting with little-endian data is a nightmare - you need to reverse-cascade your struct fields to be in accordance with the little-endian bit-pattern. (or have a compti
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by ulbu 3mo ago
well, it doesn’t say Lua5.1-JIT
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by ulbu 3mo ago
evolution is a wrong concept to approach it. cancer is not a separate life form, but a bug in the regeneration system of a complicated life form. it doesn’t exist outside of it, it cannot propagate.
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by ulbu 3mo ago
Excuse me, but I think zig grows ever better from driving away users who are driven away by flashy headlines and whatever is the opposite of this “activism” you suggest.
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by ulbu 3mo ago
the green is from moving the line
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by ulbu 4mo ago
bun seems to be committed to slop rust already. so, with their ethic, maybe we should just disassociate them from zig and let them go realize their slop dreams? zig is on its way to improving compilation times in its own pace and does so fo
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by ulbu 4mo ago
the “(super) efficient” is not there yet. Io is still dynamic dispatch with multiple layers of indirection. afaik it’s slower than before. the upcoming releases are expected to provide a solution to this “dispatch is comptime-known, but st
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by ulbu 4mo ago
I propose GRIM: Generative Recursive Indeterministic Impression Machine.
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by ulbu 4mo ago
this comment sounds so ironic in the context of a discussion pertaining to llms
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by ulbu 4mo ago
or pain perception
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by ulbu 4mo ago
scheme is great, but the dx of some implementations is not. i’m on guile scheme due to guix, and frankly, i’m hating it a quite bit. stack traces are esoteric and error messages entirely unhelpful, documentation masquerades as deep but is i
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by ulbu 4mo ago
how is guitar shape a trademark? edit: thanks for the responses!
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by ulbu 4mo ago
that’s why we say that with such discoveries we receive a new way – of looking, of doing, of thinking… these new paths preexist in the abstract, but they can be taken only when they’ve been opened. and that is as good as anything “new”
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by ulbu 4mo ago
that’s the advertisement part of this ordeal you’re experiencing.
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by ulbu 4mo ago
it can’t really be a way to think about it when the recommendation is to not think about it and just do it. experience, observe, reach opinion. all in accordance with you and not some number that’s abstract to your perception.
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by ulbu 4mo ago
IDEs made the mistake of locking the user into desktop-traditional keybinding paradigm instead of using a more flexible one which would allow for implementation of both vim and desktop paradigms. (don’t respond with “well they have vim mode
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by ulbu 4mo ago
so Tao is coinductive
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by ulbu 4mo ago
well, it needs to be communicated better.
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by ulbu 4mo ago
orr, maybe it is about mending the world. but the little part that’s yours.
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by ulbu 4mo ago
it's not about mending the world. it's about finding pleasure in living out what's right. it's embodying of a value, a moral principle. the way you express it says that the breadth of the effect of your choices is an ess
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by ulbu 4mo ago
to introduce a perspective and a community to someone who might want to be informed about it or participate.
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by ulbu 5mo ago
"Writing software doesn't require GitHub". Well, if they do not need whatever is specific to github and claim that someone who sorely lacks these features has a mental problem...

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