ozy · HackerTrans

So I have to switch away from cursor? Any recommendations?

I really like the idea of openscad, or this, or the many alternatives. But when I say a shape with these and these dimensions, the next shape should attach to it somewhere. And then I want to say: chamfer all outside edges. But in all these programs, it's me redoing the math in my code, computing where the shape goes. As for chamfers, I just give up ...

ozy

9 ay öncediscuss

Useless unless the logical operators receive their rhs unevaluated. And that is generalized as a language feature.

ozy

9 ay öncediscuss

That is why you cannot ask the room for semantic changes. Like “if I call an umbrella a monkey, and it will rain today, what do I need to bring?”

Unless we suppose those books describe how to implement a memory of sorts, and how to reason, etc. But then how sure are we it’s not conscious?

ozy

9 ay öncediscuss

Maybe consciousness is exactly like simulated fire. It does a lot inside the simulation, but is nothing on the outside.

ozy

9 ay öncediscuss

Most of those are abstractions, but not a runtime overhead. NonNull even enables an optimization not available to most other languages.

And you can wonder, is this accidental complexity? Or is this necessary complexity?

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