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bitcrafter

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  • Linux changed in 2024, but 2025 will be MUCH BIGGER

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  • I personally am extremely concerned about the fact that Windows is already at version 11 but Linux has not even made it to version 7 yet.

  • Gotta use those quantum numbers for peak 🤌 random randomness

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  • That makes sense. I had thought that you were implying that the quantum nature of the randomly generated numbers helped specifically with quantum computer simulations, but based on your reply you clearly just meant that you were using it as a multi-purpose RNG that is free of unwanted correlations between the randomly generated bits.

    Out of curiosity, have you found that the card works as well as advertised? I ask because it seems to me that any imprecision in the design and/or manufacture of the card could introduce systematic errors in the quantum measurements that would result in correlations in the sampled bits, so I am curious if you have been able to verify that is not something to be concerned about.

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  • I would not recommend this as an exercise for a beginner, but RPython is a subset of Python with a C backend; it is used as the basis of PyPy (an implementation of Python), so it may be possible to use it to implement the low-level parts which then can be used to bootstrap a full Python virtual machine.

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  • Yes, and that’s basically what the CPython interpreter does when you call a Python script. It sometimes even leaves the machine code laying in your filesystem, with the extension .pyc . This is the byte code (aka machine code) for CPython’s implementation of the Python Virtual Machine (PVM).

    This is incorrect; the term "machine code" refers to code that can be run on a real machine, not to code that requires a virtual machine.

  • Koto: a simple and expressive programming language, usable as an extension language for Rust applications, or as a standalone scripting language

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  • The context you are missing is that, for a lot of people, OOP was taught as the be-all and end-all of abstraction. I personally have seen some of my less experienced colleagues start to write code to solve a problem and immediately reach for OOP over and over again, even when this made things a lot messier (which ultimately I had to deal with...), because that is how they were told at one point was the "correct" way to do it, so I can completely sympathize with anti-OOP sentiment. On the other hand, I am not personally vehemently anti-OOP because I think that (as you have correctly observed) OOP is a perfectly fine pattern when it fits, and arguably the root problem that my colleagues had was not so much that they used OOP everywhere but that there was a tendency to not think through the consequences of their design choices.

  • Gotta use those quantum numbers for peak 🤌 random randomness

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  • If you are just measuring the quantum effect to turn it into a classical random number before using it, then how does that help you over a less expensive way of generating a classical random number for quantum computer simulations?

  • "How types make hard problems easy" (or at least reduce cognitive load over time)

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  • Article written like it’s someone that just discovered types even though a majority of the programming world said to use types for decades…

    Yeah, how dare the author discover something that they did not know before and get so excited about it that they wanted to write an article about what they learned! That is a completely inappropriate thing to do with a personal blog.

    Edit: Finally figured out how to link the image to the original comic. (I needed to embed the image link inside of another link.)

  • Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite

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  • To clarify: I am saying that it is not "normal" that the type you get back out is not only not necessarily the type that you put in, but may be different depending on the value that you put in. Put another way, sqlite is strongly typed unless you mistakenly thought that type affinities by themselves made it be strictly typed, in which case it becomes neither strictly nor strictly typed.

  • Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite

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  • Strongly typed is orthogonal to strictly typed, so these two properties alone are not contradictory.

    However, it is a bit unsettling that, if a column has an INTEGER type affinity, and you try to put a string in it, then the string is implicitly converted to an integer if it represents an integer and just stored silently as-is otherwise.

  • Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite

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  • Hmm, well... I have never murdered anyone, not even once! Is that good enough for their Code of Ethics?

  • bjForth v0.0.3 is out!

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  • You are making the extremely incorrect presumption that I am unfamiliar with Lisp and how macros work. What is unclear to me is how you specifically think that arbitrarily rewriting code at macro expansion time is exactly equivalent to arbitrarily manipulating the stack at runtime.

  • bjForth v0.0.3 is out!

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  • Perhaps you could explain exactly what you mean?

  • bjForth v0.0.3 is out!

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  • In Forth, though, the number of results pushed to the stack after an execution of a word could be a function of the input rather than a single value or even a fixed number of values.

    Likewise, the number of arguments that a word pops from the stack could be a function of a value pushed earlier to the stack.

  • bjForth v0.0.3 is out!

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  • No. Roughly speaking, functional languages implicitly manage the stack for you, whereas Forth requires you to manage it explicitly.

  • Terms for intentional anti-extensibility

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    1. Develop your project on a temporary filesystem until it has the desired functionality.
    2. Move the compiled binary to a persistent filesystem.
    3. Reboot.

  • FRAMEWORK 16: an almost perfect Linux laptop

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  • So in short, they do not suck so much as blow?

  • FRAMEWORK 16: an almost perfect Linux laptop

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  • What’s more, the entire video content, with timestamps, is readable in-description, because they must have realized people like yourself prefer that sometimes, you just didn’t take the time to look.

    The full description is hidden by default in the link to the video above. To expand it, you have to click on "Show More", but the only text that is visible is:

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  • You ever do something like this? What's your story?

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  • These particular characters have deliberately been given stereotypical mannerisms that lead the reader to think that they are the kind of people who would act in such a way. The joke then ends up being on the reader because it turns out that they could not have read these characters and their intentions any more wrong, and illustrates the folly of stereotypes.

    If your culture does not have this particular stereotype then I can see how this was lost on you.

  • Greppability is an underrated code metric

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  • I am not a big fan of the first example. If all that a function is doing is pasting its argument into a template string, then I'd rather see that pattern expressed explicitly in a single line of code than have to mentally infer this pattern myself by reading two separately expressed cases in six lines of code.

    (It's not that big of a deal, but when reading through a lot of code to figure out what is going on, these little extra mental exertions start to really add up.)