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Naru41
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
This style of simulating faux-realistic materials (such as glass or aluminum) on the screen looks dated and cheesy now -- (Windows engineering team 2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120614042824/http://blogs.msdn...

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"Cheesy and dated" -- it keeps hitting me through the years.
Naru41
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Utility-scale solar is very unpopular in Japan. Because most suitable lands of them are densely forested, and installing utility-scale solar systems requires destory the forests.

There are concerns landslides due to reduced water storage functionality, and emotional antipathy at having their hometowns' mountains covered with solar panels.
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·11 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I think Rust is the biggest winner that has from LLM support. When I got an compile error, it is painful without LLM to reverse-thinking how to re-write something and why it needs to be written that way.
Naru41
·11 bulan yang lalu·discuss
True.

The number can be determined at comp-time.

Buffer sizes should be computing manually.
Naru41
·11 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I've often thought that if C just had a syntax like Go definding method, C would be much easier to write.

uint16_t (MyStruct* s) some_func() { .. }

uint16_t MyStruct_some_func(MyStruct* s) { .. }

(I guess I should just use C++... but C++ is overwhelmed in many ways)
Naru41
·11 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Funny trivia. But of course -- there is absolute zero reason to base64 encode ascii text. Evenmore laughable to put Json encoded in base64 text inside regular Json.
Naru41
·12 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The ideal HTML I have in mind is a DOM tree represented entirely in TLV binary -- and a compiled .so file instead of .js. And a unpacked data to be used directly in C programming data structure. Zero copy, no parsing, (data vaildation is unavoidable but) that's certainly fast.
Naru41
·tahun lalu·discuss
This style of simulating faux-realistic materials (such as glass or aluminum) on the screen looks dated and cheesy now -- (Windows engineering team 2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120614042824/http://blogs.msdn...
Naru41
·tahun lalu·discuss
They skipped iPhone 9 once. So iPhone 17 and going for iPhone 2026 could be better for measuring the age of the device and could be beneficial for consumers -- but what about the OS version? No one care that.

From an engineering standpoint, skipping a sequential number is just wasteful.
Naru41
·tahun lalu·discuss
I don't see the point - ASCII vs. binary doesn't make any real difference. And there's no an actual unencrypted HTTP/2 traffic, so there's no incentive to censor.
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·tahun lalu·discuss
> A cryptosystem is incoherent if its implementation is distributed by the same entity which it purports to secure against.

That's what the recent Signal tormoil is like.

Communication via Signal app that's safe if you could be sure it was compiled from verified open-source code, but Signal still doesn't provide any way to in principle eliminate the possibility that client binary distributers put in a backdoor at the last minute.
Naru41
·tahun lalu·discuss
Successful Math/CS people have a hard time applying it in biotechnology.

https://x.com/iskander/status/1903077361152610374 -- about a dozen of us with math/CS backgrounds ditched tech for biomedicine. And we got humbled hard: most of what we did flopped & techies
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·tahun lalu·discuss
Yup, I don't understand why Google would sponsor McLaren F1 team. They've already done a better promoting Chrome.
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·tahun lalu·discuss
> I'll be expecting my Nobel peace prize in the postbox and several job offers in my DMs within the next 3 working days.

This joke alone was worth the read.
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·tahun lalu·discuss
No-modularize is strictly good if you can avoid it. Hardcode memory addresses at compile time is simpler and faster.
Naru41
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
More than decade ago, I didn't understand an actual value of Lisp, but I remember this song well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM1Zb3xmvMc
Naru41
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
If Android had provided an defining UI API like this entirely in C without using Java, Android would have 100% monopolized the mobile OS market. So fast, efficient.
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·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Excellent. If these compiled data structures were the web standard instead of HTML, www would be ridiculously fast.