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Writing C with indent-based Python syntax

sph.mn
1 points·by arboles·4 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

Ask HN: Can a license make large corporations give back?

8 points·by arboles·5 bulan yang lalu·9 comments

I don't want to paint or write in the age of AI

idiomdrottning.org
2 points·by arboles·6 bulan yang lalu·1 comments

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arboles
·17 hari yang lalu·discuss
I'm going to sound like I live under a rock, but what is the true reason companies open-source genuinely good software?

Shouldn't Baidu (or Google) hoard it for themselves to extract the value in a way the competition isn't be able to imitate?
arboles
·bulan lalu·discuss
In the pages you linked there's not much writing to really get a taste (https://k.nyc responds with an unclosed <div> containing the letter k, come on), but I found some language examples in

* https://codeberg.org/growler/k/pulls/

* https://codeberg.org/growler/k/issues

User @growler writes in succinct sentences and uses only periods.

I'm having fun with the idea, in my head, that using array languages changes how you speak and write.

HN commenters have also pointed out the peculiar way ngn/k writes C:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31362512
arboles
·bulan lalu·discuss
Can you link to a genuine example?
arboles
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Yeah, it used to function as proof-of-work but then the market was flooded with cheap printed circuits that trivialized the workload
arboles
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
What kind of interesting patterns are you expecting? What is the hypothesis?
arboles
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Care to share what you are curious about?
arboles
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
They didn't scrape the entire map. A minecraft map is 30 million blocks^2
arboles
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> Providing a Torrent for this amount of data is not easy whatsoever. We are currently working on creating a Torrent that includes all data, but this may take a few weeks.

What do they mean by this? I understand that it would be a download on the order of 26TiB (if we extrapolate from the recent 200k^2 download, which is a ~1TiB torrent[1]). If bandwidth costs are the issue (certainly it's an issue) they could throttle their seeding speed and let the swarm seed it. That's what bittorrent is for.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/2b2t_Uncensored/comments/1tefffd/in...
arboles
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I mean, barely anything you mentioned in this reply to do with the kernel.
arboles
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I was asking what they did differently in the programming.
arboles
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> Its design from kernel to UI is intended to make the system accessible to the user sitting at the desk.

What does this translate to, in some amount of technical detail?
arboles
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
That comment was criticizing Google's support. Did you also have an experience with them?
arboles
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Why are phone calls or SMS under attorney-client privilege[1] but AI transcripts of a call with an attorney isn't? I was under the impression there isn't any expectation of privacy from phone carriers either. AI's recording of a conversation is actually more like a fourth-party, no?

[1] https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-legal-help/what-ar...
arboles
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Have you ever asked an LLM if it understands this stuff?
arboles
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
That comment seems off-topic, but just to exemplify:

In your example even as the interface for those products is unstable (UI that changes all the time, slightly broken API), those products are coded in a language like C++ or Java, which benefit from compiler error checking. The seams where it connects with other systems is where they're unstable. That's the point of this blog post.
arboles
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I've always found system administration much harder than "coding". You get parser and compiler errors for a lot of your mistakes, but administering a server you're testing it all at runtime.
arboles
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I didn't know file descriptors worked like that admittedly. Also instead of moving the files couldn't we copy them to the new root and pivot_root then?
arboles
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Don't you get any errors even if you race immediately to start pivot_root? pivot_root also won't modify all open file descriptors at once. Seems it's not fatal, but have you managed to do this over ssh and not be disconnected?
arboles
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Please elaborate.
arboles
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Or just run sshd on your client computer and mount (sshfs) a directory on the render farm server