xedrac

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by xedrac 4d ago
Racket also added contracts around the same time that D did.
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by xedrac 8d ago
I think this is awesome! LAN parties were so much fun back in the day. And the social aspect is what I miss the most (and my youthful energy to stay up all night).
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by xedrac 15d ago
I use emacs daily (with vim keybindings of course), but I completely understand why vscode is so popular. It's extremely easy to get started with, has features galore, and sane defaults. Emacs takes much more effort to get productive
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by xedrac 15d ago
Conservatives like Firefox too.
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by xedrac 27d ago
Yes, as bloated as Go. I consider Java, C# and Go roughly equivalent in speed, space, and memory.
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by xedrac 28d ago
While I agree with you, I also have to acknowledge the absurdity of some schools having kids define their own crazy undergrad majors, while plunging them into large amounts of debt. They should at least have to sign a waiver that says, &q
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by xedrac 1mo ago
I'm a life long vim user, and I love Emacs w/evil mode. There's something about hacking in elisp on the editor that you're using to do the hacking, that just makes me fall in love with programming again. I'm not j
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by xedrac 1mo ago
I think they believe that AI will account for nearly all production, and jobs will no longer be necessary. At the very least, it's going to be tumultuous.
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by xedrac 1mo ago
I haven't been down in the normal BMI range since 8th grade. And I was measured at 6% body fat my senior year in high school! BMI has always run several points high for me. For that reason, I've always liked waist to height rat
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by xedrac 1mo ago
I think the author has been very open about the use of LLMs. And while I am very wary of LLM slop, this is one use case where it makes complete sense to utilize them to the fullest. A Clojure implementation already exists for LLMs to refe
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by xedrac 2mo ago
Codeberg infrastructure needs work...
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by xedrac 2mo ago
> If you're good you can keep a lid on tech debt in the face of rapidly changing requirements. If you suck at it, well... you can't. Every drop of tech debt (aside from AI slop) I have ever been a part of has manifested simply
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by xedrac 2mo ago
If you're using Lisp, then sure. If you're using C++, then chances are you're going to have to heavily overengineer the thing to cover all possible requirement changes. That comes at a great cost - in most cases, you are un
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by xedrac 2mo ago
People say this, but I'm not sure I understand how it could be true. For example, taxing billionaires is often cited as the solution to this problem. But if we took Elon Musk's $730 billion fortune and divided it evenly among th
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by xedrac 2mo ago
I suspect scheme would handle this much better.
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by xedrac 2mo ago
Java may be memory safe, but no memory is safe from the JVM. :)
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by xedrac 2mo ago
Do you feel threatened that Russia and Iran will succeed in conquering all of Europe and the Middle East? I see it more like a couple of misbehaving misfits. That's very different than say, WWII.
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by xedrac 2mo ago
One could argue that human learning is not all that different from machines training on data. We are all regurgitation our own experiences and knowledge to some degree. We certainly have things that machines don't, but LLMs can defini
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by xedrac 2mo ago
Conversely, most of the high impact bugs are also written in C and C++, because they rely on "coding style and engineering practice" to be correct. Rust raises the floor on this by a lot.
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by xedrac 2mo ago
Gleam looks interesting, but I can't say I'm too impressed with Tangled... it won't even let me sign up.
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by xedrac 2mo ago
That was my experience too.
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by xedrac 2mo ago
Don't forget Jolt! It's clojure built on top of Chez Scheme, which is super cool.
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by xedrac 2mo ago
Since the Rust support in the kernel is not optional, it already has an impact on platform support, no? Or maybe they are using the gnu toolchain to avoid that?
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by xedrac 2mo ago
If it's written with nostd, I'd expect them to be similar.
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by xedrac 2mo ago
> Less skilled co-workers will make mistakes that will have more consequences when the language is more permissive. Even the most skilled engineers are going to make these mistakes sometimes. That's the whole point of more restricti
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by xedrac 3mo ago
I'll put my money on AI software contributions...
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by xedrac 3mo ago
The median alone doesn't paint the whole picture. We need to compare the spread as well. The median doesn't care if you make just under the median, or $1 a month.
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by xedrac 3mo ago
I've only ever used emacs in vim mode (evil-mode). Its vim emulation is the best I've seen anywhere.
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by xedrac 3mo ago
I'm happy to see these improvements. One thing that has always been annoying with Emacs is how much configuration is required to get a modern editor going. Things like Doom Emacs, and Spacemacs try to solve that problem, but both fe
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by xedrac 3mo ago
I tried Helix for a few weeks and found it to be less efficient overall. Now granted it's hardly fair to compare 3 weeks to 20 years, so maybe with more time I might change my mind. I really missed vim's . key to repeat the last

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