correct_horse

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Haskell, OCaml, Erlang lead the way and Rust, Zig and Go get all the mindshare. I feel like its a common pattern for more experimental languages to pioneer features and other languages to copy the features and bring them to a C style syntax that the majority of devs are familiar with.

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قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

Mac minis are particularly suited to running AI models because they can have a pretty good quantity of RAM (64GB) assigned to the GPU at a reasonable price compared to Nvidia offerings. Mac minis have unified memory which means it can be split between CPU and GPU in a configurable way. I think apple didn’t price mac minis with AI stuff in mind, so they end up being good value.

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قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

Just here to point out that the actor’s name is Bob Odenkirk not Odendirk. In a statically typed language this would be an error at compile time not hacker news comment time.

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قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

Safe rust can leak memory, so a better question is "If someone wrote C code that made an invalid read or write, would rust do the same?" I can't answer the question, but ideally if the translated was safe, it would somehow eliminate the bug while keeping the desired behavior. That scenario seems a bit too optimistic though, so probably it'll have an unsafe block that does the invalid read/write and a human can come in and add runtime checks or refactor it further.

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قبل 9 أشهرdiscuss

for when not to use a spreadsheet, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34968457 tl;dr when it involves automated processes

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قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

I also got nausea from this game and I've never gotten nausea from a video game before. The style is amazing, but the camera controls need some work. I don't know what the camera needs besides a more standard mouse control.

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قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

I think I agree. I’m curious what software would be in places 2-10. If we’re talking about HN, maybe excel/google sheets? Maybe C++? Recent versions of macOS always seem to get hate, but I think macOS is in a different category.

correct_horse

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Fil-C seems interesting, and I didn’t understand the details of how multi-threaded garbage collectors worked before reading it (I still don’t but I’m closer!). The tradeoff between a compacting garbage collector (Java) vs what you can bolt on to C without forking LLVM is particularly interesting.

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I can suggest "The Selfish Gene". It is about evolutionary biology, not molecular biology. I'm not really sure what you're looking for.

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قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

> Biology is non-toxic

Except for the toxic organisms (poison frogs, newts, fish, etc.). The best you can say on this line of thinking is that biology is biodegradable, except even that isn't true. Modern diatoms don't biodegrade - they mostly turn to sediment at the bottom of the oceans. Further, coal is mostly made of what used to be woody (lignin-containing) plants that couldn't be biodegraded when lignin first evolved[1]. The unique aspect of modern industry that makes it not sustainable is its scale and speed. The solution might involve industrially creating organisms with a similar scale and speed (like ones that can metabolize plastic).

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#Formation

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