There are different qualities of salt. Some contain additives, sea salt contains plastic particles. I eat plenty of salt, as much as I feel like; but it's all mineral salt without additives.
Readit NewsEveryone likes to pretend they can predict the future for a while, to the point where they will stop at nothing to make it conform to their predictions. Then comes the part where they will defend their choices to death, no matter how much evidence to the contrary is piling up. Once you start seeing the entire chain of consequences, it becomes easier to discipline yourself; it's a process of growing up and taking responsibility.
bgongfu commented on The Art of Not Dying: the First Emperor’s Pursuit of Immortality laphamsquarterly.org/roun... · Posted by u/lermontov
The whole discussion is a side track, the essence of who we are is and always was immortal. Do you honestly believe in a universe that would throw away the results of the experiment?
There's no proof either way, but it seems the least likely alternative to me. As to Buddha, Gandhi, Tesla, Einstein and many more otherwise respectable thinkers.
Examine what you're not supposed to think, what is collectively ridiculed; that's where truth is hiding in plain sight.
bgongfu commented on Factor: An impressive stack-based language environment junglecoder.com/blog/fact... · Posted by u/yumaikas
Interesting. But does cixl really do refcounting on stack values? It should only be done on aggregates or objects reaching out into the heap, not on int or float primitives on the stack.
Primitive types such as booleans, int, floats, times etc. are passed by value.
Reference counting is only used for heap allocated values and types that themselves reference values, like pairs and tables.
https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl/blob/master/src/cixl/bo...
bgongfu commented on Factor: An impressive stack-based language environment junglecoder.com/blog/fact... · Posted by u/yumaikas
Everything is based on composition, which makes it easy to build computations up like building blocks. Stacks are also efficient. The JVM bytecode is actually a stack language, for example.
There's a newer one called Kitten that is statically typed and uses term rewriting to allow for more normal syntax when you want. It's pretty cool. Too bad none of these languages will ever take off.
And since composition is seamless, and they're relatively trivial to implement; they make great glue/DSL/process description languages. Take off as in replace C++ or Java, probably not. I see them more as a complement to existing languages, a more convenient way to glue the pieces together. Even wrote my own [0] to see how far it's possible to push that idea in C.
bgongfu commented on On Apple's Love Affair with Swift stefan-lesser.com/2018/06... · Posted by u/doener
I guess I am struggling to get across what I mean.
I see Hickey as having a specific, focused, goal about enabling simplicity (given his specific meaning for that word) and yes I totally agree that every designer, including Hickey, does as you say.
What I was trying to get across was that I don’t see the guiding principle that guide the selection of those “best” features to include so much as “there’s this great stuff” that we must include.
Does that make more sense? Or should I put down my shovel?
I get what you're saying, and I get the same feeling from most modern languages. They lack conceptual integrity. It's sort of spreading like a virus, even C++ fell into the same trap lately. Whole system design is difficult, really difficult, tear your hair out difficult. Accumulating features is a Sunday walk in the park in comparison; until the pile tips over, that is.
bgongfu commented on Ask: How do you apply “programmer’s” efficiency in everyday life things? · Posted by u/5_minutes
Hard to measure but I believe I think more about how things might fail than other family members.
It sort of makes sense in an engineering/programming context, but life in general doesn't really lend itself to that level of control.
Did you ever try thinking about how they might turn out for the best instead to compare results? Energy follows thought, the more you focus on it the more likely it is to happen from my experience. And the only place and time you're ever going to stop failure from happening is here and now using up to date local knowledge.
Take it or leave it...
Can anybody comment on the love for Clang vs. the declining importance of GCC? As it seems to me:
GCC supports more platforms GCC creates more performant code
Is it a license thing or a technical driven issue?
Two words, nested functions. They should have been in the C standard a long time ago, solving the same problems without them is a major pain. And even though Clang supports most of the rest of the GCC extensions, they stubbornly refuse to touch nested functions. That and the code of conduct social justice warrior bullshit they've been pulling lately keeps me away from Clang these days.
>I think I'm going to leave my code in there for now and give them a chance to redeem themselves.
Why would you do that?
I mean, at least import the code to other repos
I wouldn't trust any corporation with something I couldn't afford to loose, Microsoft or not. Corporations, by definition; have no souls.
QOTD!
Sweet memories from a more playful online experience, and probably part of the reason I turned vegan.
[0] http://www.stinkymeat.net/stinkymeat/day1/