nulltype · HackerLangs

27 days agodiscuss

For the implemented formats, wuffs is safer and also often faster: https://github.com/google/wuffs

4 months agodiscuss

It’s hard to say that one needs unused variables.

6 months agodiscuss

“The bugs are real. The math is not. All estimates are made up. Your frustration, however, is valid.”

I’m pretty sure it’s way less than 2%, but I definitely notice running into the same bugs many times.

nulltype

6 months agodiscuss

I think the point was that people care about ppd, not ppi. 218 ppi would be too low if the screen is 1 inch from your eye or too high if it’s 100 inches from your eye.

Retina probably means 60 ppd.

nulltype

7 months agodiscuss

Isn’t it somewhat common to say something like “slow this down by a factor of 2”?

nulltype

9 months agodiscuss

Looks like it's probably https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...

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