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New comment by mypalmike in "The Acton Programming Language"

mypalmike — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 05:06:54 +0000

I thought the same. Possibly because I recently wrote a compiler/interpreter for the Action! language. Not terribly useful in its current state, but most of the language is supported.

https://github.com/mypalmike/RetrAction

New comment by mypalmike in "WebGPU-Based WiFi Simulator"

mypalmike — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:39:03 +0000

I get the same coil whine on my laptop (AMD Radeon Mobile GPU) whenever I run GPU heavy code.

New comment by mypalmike in "Adding syntax to the CPython interpreter"

mypalmike — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:14:53 +0000

Though I used it for 2 years of it as my primary language at work, I never quite got used to Ruby's quirky idioms like this. It just reads badly to me, in terms of quickly understanding code flow, to have statements that start with "raise" or "return" which might not raise or return. Similar to the up-thread comment about assignment.

New comment by mypalmike in "A Simple open-source Phone programmable with Arduino"

mypalmike — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 18:46:36 +0000

It seems unlikely to be a cgnat issue since the phone uses WiFi rather than cellular networks (where cgnat is most commonly found).

New comment by mypalmike in "The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair"

mypalmike — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:42:50 +0000

You are describing selective breeding.

GMO is different. It involves the laboratory isolation of genes, and techniques to introduce said genes into an organism such that its DNA is altered. These technique do include gene splicing.

Golden rice is one well known example. It is a GMO plant which has been modified with genes taken from daffodils and a bacteria called erwinium uredovora. It's not just breeding existing species for good qualities.

New comment by mypalmike in "OpenAI to become for-profit company"

mypalmike — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:28:37 +0000

This metaphor is quite stretched.

A more fitting metaphor would be something like... If you had the ability to read all the books in the library extremely quickly, and to make useful mental connections between the information you read such that people would come to you for your vast knowledge, should you be allowed in the library?

New comment by mypalmike in "OpenNMS: Visualize and monitor everything on your local and distributed networks"

mypalmike — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:03:16 +0000

NMS systems are useful for monitoring large networks where something is likely to fail due to sheer quantity of devices/interfaces. Visualization is secondary to state capture and alerting.

New comment by mypalmike in "Playstation 2 GS emulation – the final frontier of Vulkan compute emulation"

mypalmike — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 09:14:40 +0000

Most games were primarily C. 3D performance came from the graphics hardware, which had straightforward C APIs and dedicated texture RAM. The machine lacked a floating point processor, so I think we wrote some fixed point math routines in assembly, but that's basically it.

New comment by mypalmike in "The art of programming and why I won't use LLM"

mypalmike — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 18:38:55 +0000

That was precisely the goal of many high level languages.

New comment by mypalmike in "Artificial intelligence is losing hype"

mypalmike — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 23:14:48 +0000

Designing biological tools is not a commonly accepted bar for AGI.

New comment by mypalmike in "Getting back into C programming for CP/M"

mypalmike — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 05:42:48 +0000

So true. My first parser was for a little text adventure I wrote. I didn't know parsing was a thing people might write about, so I just muddled through some text manipulation in Atari BASIC it until it worked. Even sorting was something you just had to figure out - I managed to come up with bubble sort on my own, presumably like many others did in those days, unaware that sorting was well-trodden territory.

New comment by mypalmike in "Please do not attempt to simplify this code"

mypalmike — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 22:53:05 +0000

Someone has obviously simplified the code. Oops.

New comment by mypalmike in "Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection"

mypalmike — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 21:58:34 +0000

If the memory's lifetime correctly coincides with the function (which is why you might use alloca in the first place), I don't see how this would be a memory leak nor why it would lead to a crash. Maybe on systems which limit stack size...?

New comment by mypalmike in "One-man SaaS, 9 Years In"

mypalmike — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:52:32 +0000

One Punch Man

New comment by mypalmike in "Perfectionism – one of the biggest productivity killers in the eng industry"

mypalmike — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 19:51:30 +0000

Bit of an aside... In my experience, game companies are particularly prone to treating engineers like children in this and other ways.

New comment by mypalmike in "Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy"

mypalmike — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 21:19:23 +0000

And the Dutch East India Company before that.

New comment by mypalmike in "Secure Boot is broken on 200 models from 5 big device makers"

mypalmike — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:41:55 +0000

There are multi-actuator hard drives out there. I don't know if any of them separate read heads from write heads, but it would certainly seem possible for such a drive to exist.

New comment by mypalmike in "What could explain the gallium anomaly?"

mypalmike — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:20:44 +0000

Your question piqued my curiosity, so I did some googling... Apparently sharpies do work in space, though NASA seems to prefer the Duro brand of marker.

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/saga-writing-sp...

New comment by mypalmike in "Making Python Less Random"

mypalmike — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 18:53:04 +0000

Agreed. I was mostly trying to give the briefest overview I could for a hn comment.

I don't love spring, but I've seen the benefits from having a well-organized, declarative graph of the top-level objects (i.e. the core objects that live for the entire process lifetime). It provides a clear pattern for how to add new code to a large, growing codebase. Without such a structure, devs end up tacking new code on in arbitrary ways.

New comment by mypalmike in "Making Python Less Random"

mypalmike — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:53:10 +0000

It's primarily a technique used in object oriented programming. So it's hard to translate to Haskell.

The big picture of what a DI framework does is let you declare your structural object graph using a config file or decorators and have the whole thing instantiated at runtime automagically.

The detailed view is "a fancy way to pass something like a function argument". An object that has dependencies gets them passed in ("injected") at runtime rather than calling dependent function directly or internally instantiating dependent objects and calling them.

Doing things this way in OO languages has a number of benefits, including improved testability.