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New comment by nutate in "Conway's Game of Life, but musical"

nutate — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:10:22 +0000

gonna have a panic attack at the twinkle twinkle "star" not being a half-note.

New comment by nutate in "Rust Atomics and Locks (2023)"

nutate — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 23:41:51 +0000

I wrote this in a review I believe, but this is one of the most comprehensive introductions to a good 80% of what could be considered a high performance computing education. It's extremely well written, in the weeds, but not lost in them. If you've done heavy atomics and or locks in C or C++ or with Fortran libraries, this will help show you how rust prevents so many footguns at compile time.

New comment by nutate in "The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing"

nutate — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:28:12 +0000

Triggered by the use of 1-bit to describe a trit.

New comment by nutate in "Why time seems to pass faster as we age"

nutate — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:28:48 +0000

My thought has always been that the ratio of lifetime to any given sublifetime unit of time is always increasing, leading to a change in relative experience. But if you focus on the fact that a second is constant, you always have the same amount of time right now.

New comment by nutate in "Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company"

nutate — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:30:05 +0000

And to celebrate the free for free internet of the past, google is finally finishing its acquisition of dejanews by shutting down their usenet indexing. https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538?visit_id=6...

New comment by nutate in "Show HN: Numbat – A programming language with physical dimensions as types"

nutate — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:13:14 +0000

First project I've ever seen that made me instantly sponsor it. Then to only find out you wrote fd and hexyl and some other classics. Great work.

New comment by nutate in "Cursorless is alien magic from the future"

nutate — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 17:13:18 +0000

I love this and I'm super glad it's being developed, but I think I'd have to break my arm or hand (or have severe RSI) to really dive in. The startup cost seems high, mentally speaking.

New comment by nutate in "Flawless – Durable execution engine for Rust"

nutate — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:17:43 +0000

How does this handle the machine running out of memory?

New comment by nutate in "Generators are dead, long live coroutines, generators are back"

nutate — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:46:34 +0000

This is great, the amount of boilerplate it takes to write an iterator is a bit cumbersome right now. Looking forward to see how this fares as it moves towards stable.

New comment by nutate in "Python 3.12"

nutate — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:26:12 +0000

Let's say you wanted to run some python code that was written and test it against some C/C++/Rust for accuracy of some sort (numerical, lexicographical, etc). In the old way you would have to fire up multiple processes to do that (like OS level processes) but now you can have your multithreaded compiled code running in threads and your multi-GIL'd interpreted code running all in one process and comparing their results in the `main` of your C/C++/Rust. That's a contrived example, but the issue was that a single GIL isn't threadsafe in and of itself. So if you're using these compiled languages as sort of python runners you couldn't multithread python interpreter execution and guarantee the code working. Also as the above comment stated, you could do hacks, but you'd double your memory allocation by needing a python and C/C++/Rust representation for everything that went back and forth.

New comment by nutate in "Python 3.12"

nutate — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:21:01 +0000

Same w/ Rust and Python, this is really neat because now each thread could have a GIL without doing exactly what you said. The pyO3 commit to allow subinterpreters was merged 21 days ago, so this might "just work" today: https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/pull/3446

New comment by nutate in "Google accused of directing motorist to drive off collapsed bridge"

nutate — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 13:49:43 +0000

I drove into a ditch in Costa Rica following google maps. It was the end of any fantasy of ine that they still wanted to organize the world's information. Luckily it only cost $500 or so for the privilege of finding that out for sure.

New comment by nutate in "Effectiveness of physical activity for improving depression, anxiety, distress"

nutate — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 20:01:41 +0000

This was the big turning point for me, and I'm in my forties. Thinking that I couldn't enjoy exercise was mainly because my 'form' was so bad it literally hurt. Luckily you can get better at things, and once you do, or you reach that point where it feels good, then the discipline isn't really needed any more than folks need discipline to play their grueling video games.

New comment by nutate in "Feds probing roughly 5k pilots suspected of withholding major health issues"

nutate — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:14:27 +0000

The mental health limitations around flight are how you get malaysian air flight 370. Don't say anything, treat anything, work through anything involving mental health because you'll lose your license immediately. Therefore the folks with milder mental illnesses will never solo pilot a plane, and folks with serious psychopathic mental illness, especially if it appears after they begin working, will kill everyone on board.

New comment by nutate in "Cards as Weapons (1977)"

nutate — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:07:34 +0000

Oddly my parents owned a bookstore, so yea I was growing up in the opposite of the GOP vision for Florida.

New comment by nutate in "Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns"

nutate — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:05:01 +0000

jarmitage is a legend (in my eyes), so I'm sure he has his own opinions, but TidalCycles (as it is now known) depends on supercollider for both Midi and Sample playback. It communicates to supercollider through the OSC protocol, so it's conceivable supercollider could/can be swapped out for another engine. As is I think the install a bunch of Haskell stuff + install an editor plugin + install supercollider is the largest blocker to getting folks started with tidal. In the pre-tidalcycles era, Tidal played samples (only afaicr) through its own Dirt sample player which was still a separate process, but included with tidal itself. Now it uses SuperDirt which depends on supercollider.

Compared to PD and max/msp, Tidal is far more focused on the pattern language and the magic that can come out of that. Any 'programming as programming' has to be done with Haskell and loaded in as its own functions. Puredata and max/msp both are full (graphical) programming environments with their own quirks and special tricks, but in a way a bit more like Supercollider in that they can speak midi and do playback inside their own engines (afaik).

New comment by nutate in "Cards as Weapons (1977)"

nutate — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:57:21 +0000

As a kid I had access to that book and I got to be a pretty wicked card thrower. Haven't tried it in a while.

New comment by nutate in "Space After Periods (1993)"

nutate — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 17:50:11 +0000

from NASA: Space exploration helps to address fundamental questions about our place in the Universe and the history of our solar system.

New comment by nutate in "Trsvid, a video player for TRS-80 Model 1, 3 and 4"

nutate — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:54:11 +0000

Incredible. I still remember 13 ghosts being the most intense game I'd seen on TRS-80. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQDqYZ2pgOs

New comment by nutate in "Archive your Reddit data before it's too late"

nutate — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 19:06:53 +0000

This is akin to saying get all your trash back from the landfill before it closes.