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قبل 5 أيامdiscuss

All of my gamer friends exclusively play Java edition and so do I. Also minecraft's most active speedrun category (any % glitchless, random seed) uses version 1.16.1 on Java edition. The biggest server of minecraft youtubers, hermitcraft, runs on java edition. I suspect some younger gamers whose parents bought the first copy for them on the microsoft store play bedrock?

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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.

correct_horse

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.

correct_horse

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 10 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.

correct_horse

قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

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

correct_horse

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

قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

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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قبل 4 سنواتdiscuss

> Disable spotlight for everything except what you want to use it for

My friend's mac would "take off" (fan spun up crazy fast) after every boot/login and I disabled full-text search of documents to fix it. There was probably a weird, maybe not-to-spec pdf/docx on the filesystem that spotlight couldn't parse and got stuck. Kinda dumb that it would waste a 100% usage on one CPU core for a couple minutes every boot though.

correct_horse

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

Do you think an eventually open style spam filter could work? One where the implemntation is released say 2 years after it was first written (including modifications)

correct_horse

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

The funniest part of this article (in the context of being posted on HN) is that the author separately mentions engineer and software engineer in her list of client professions. That settles it - normal people think they're different.

correct_horse

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

Cloud gaming would lose practical consumers' control much more than Netflix did. At the very least, one could always point a video camera at the screen to copy video (suppose for one's own records). But with games, there is no chance to do anything like this. Netflix had an interactive Black Mirror episode called Bandersnatch(2018) that I speculated at the time was appealing from a business perspective because copying interactive content is much harder than straight video.

correct_horse

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

Memory hole is from 1984. It is where they put papers to be incinerated and forgotten. Spotify removed a few Joe Rogan episodes IIRC.

correct_horse

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I'm not sure if the author of this blog visits hacker news to read this, but your code blocks are unreadable without javascript. They're black highlighted black text.

correct_horse

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

Unsurprising, since the creator of rust, Graydon Hoare now works for apple on swift[0] in "a non-leadership position".

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7qels2/i_wonder_why_g...

correct_horse

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

Most non-copyleft (permissive free software and proprietary software) tries to stay as far away as possible from the GPLv3 license. Because of this, macOS ships gnu nano 2.0.6 whereas the latest is 5.8. FreeBSD doesn't even have nano installed by default.

correct_horse

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

Display Data Channel generally doesn't work through dongles. I'm not really sure how usb-c dongles work (block diagram, etc.), so I don't know why this is the case.

correct_horse

قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

I like rust, but don't use it for embedded. Here's a blog I read on how to make GPIO access safe https://www.ecorax.net/macro-bunker-2/.

In that article, they have three goals: verify that the pin is correctly configured, use atomic reads and writes, make sure only one thread (including interrupts) can write to a pin at a time.

Spoiler alert, the way they avoid interrupts screwing everything up is with `cortex_m::interrupt::free(|_| {/*read/write pin*/})`, which executes the passed closure in an interrupt-free context. The author's solution isn't atomic, but the borrow checker and the fact that they target single threaded MCU means no one else can be writing to the port at the same time.

correct_horse

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I haven't found a good solution to a fallible constructor without exceptions. You might want this if you have a C++ wrapper around a file or some other OS primitive. I would love some allowance for constructors returning std::optional. One problem with this is that child classes' constructors would have to return optional too or else they might throw an exception when they call optional::value.