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andeee23 commented on Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift   swift.org/blog/improving-... · Posted by u/timsneath
skrrtww · 20 days ago
This is pretty great stuff, I knew about the raw interop features but had no idea what API Notes offered. Quite cool.

I can't help but feel that Swift will ultimately be the "slow and steady wins the race" safe language of the future. Swift steadily working "first" on both tooling and cohabitability with existing ecosystems is a huge boon for adoption. It understands what an ABI is! If I were doing a greenfield cross platform application I think Swift would be the first thing I reach for now.

The qualms I have with Swift are mostly some of the more recent complex language features that can make Swift code much harder to understand and read, as well as the brainpower required to use Swift concurrency. That and some performance concerns, though many of those seem like they may be solvable with optimizations in LLVM.

andeee23 · 20 days ago
i’m not sure about the work on tooling

just a few weeks ago i was trying to work on a swift project in neovim and found the whole langserver experience pretty bad

and it’s way worse when working on swif ui apps, but i guess that’s more of an apple wanting you to use xcode thing.

i wish there was better tooling, i like the language, but i just switched to nim for my side project

andeee23 commented on Ask HN: What was your win this week while working on your project?    · Posted by u/mhrnik
mhrnik · a year ago
looking good on pc as well as mobile.
andeee23 · a year ago
thanks!
andeee23 commented on Ask HN: What was your win this week while working on your project?    · Posted by u/mhrnik
andeee23 · a year ago
I was inspired by https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/ and did a complete redesign of my dev blog: https://andi.dev/

Not sure if it counts, but I consider the blog an ongoing project

andeee23 commented on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?    · Posted by u/david927
andeee23 · a year ago
I’m working on a macos virtual microphone app that lets you take a real microphone input and apply audio processing effects on it like raising the gain, reverb, etc, then using that as your microphone in other apps, like for video calls

Comes from my own desire for something like that. Right now I’m using a hacked together solution using blackhole and a random vst. It was a pain to set up initially, trying to make it easier for other people.

I know there’s loopback but it costs too much for what i need and has a lot of extra features i don’t care about, plus i’d still need to bring my own vst to it

andeee23 commented on The Diamond Sutra, the oldest dated printed book (2016)   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/squircle
ars · 2 years ago
What does "conditioned" mean in that sentence?
andeee23 · 2 years ago
conditioned in buddhism refers to the fact that anything that exists, originates from something else.

so any one thing you examine will be “conditioned” on the previous things that cause it to appear

cause and effect basically

this has some philosophical implications, since all you are as a person is a bundle of emotions, mental patterns, etc that are ultimately conditioned

this leads to the buddhist view of no self, where there isn’t something that makes you “you”. just a bunch of responses to stimuli. some of those responses are thoughts of a self.

andeee23 commented on Dot – A standalone open source app meant for easy use of local LLMs and RAG   github.com/alexpinel/Dot... · Posted by u/irsagent
reacharavindh · 2 years ago
I’m curious to try it out. There seem to be many options to upload a document and ask stuff about it.

But, the holy grail is an LLM that can successfully work on a large corpus of documents and data like slack history, huge wiki installations and answer useful questions with proper references.

I tried a few, but they don’t really hit the mark. We need the usability of a simple search engine UI with private data sources.

andeee23 · 2 years ago
https://storytell.ai seems to be doing what you’re looking for, especially the part with the linking to proper references
andeee23 commented on X tells advertisers to spend $1k per month or risk losing verification status   engadget.com/x-tells-adve... · Posted by u/niuzeta
andeee23 · 3 years ago
i guess you can call that… Xtortion

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