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cgh commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter
ToucanLoucan · 2 days ago
The article also says why they suck:

> Dumb TVs sold today have serious image and sound quality tradeoffs, simply because companies don’t make dumb versions of their high-end models. On the image side, you can expect lower resolutions, sizes, and brightness levels and poorer viewing angles. You also won’t find premium panel technologies like OLED. If you want premium image quality or sound, you’re better off using a smart TV offline. Dumb TVs also usually have shorter (one-year) warranties.

cgh · 2 days ago
Yeah, Sceptre's site shows a bunch of dumb TVs that max out at HDMI 2.0, 4K/60Hz. Basically, they are ten years out of date.
cgh commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter
aquir · 2 days ago
Don’t ever connect your TV to the internet?
cgh · 2 days ago
There are still annoyances. Our TV finds every opportunity to send you to its home screen of apps, requiring me to reset the input to the PS5 that we use for Netflix etc. And regardless, I don't want to pay for a lousy customised Android with a bunch of crappy apps preinstalled.
cgh commented on Size of Life   neal.fun/size-of-life/... · Posted by u/eatonphil
cgh · 4 days ago
“Compressible rodent” was not a phrase I thought I’d ever hear but I’m glad I did. Worth the price of a couple of coffees.
cgh commented on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?   stephenramsay.net/posts/v... · Posted by u/sramsay
crazygringo · 5 days ago
That's a really, really interesting point.

It makes me imagine a programming language designed for LLMs but not humans, designed for rigorous specification of every function, variable, type, etc., valid inputs and outputs, tightly coupled to unit tests, mandatory explicit handling of every exception, etc.

Maybe it'll look like a lot of boilerplate but make it easy to read as opposed to easy to write.

The idea of a language that is extremely high-effort to write, but massively assists in guaranteeing correctness, could be ideal for LLM's.

cgh · 5 days ago
That’s what the article is about.
cgh commented on Why we built Lightpanda in Zig   lightpanda.io/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/ashvardanian
smj-edison · 9 days ago
What form of interfaces would you want? Something trait-based? Rust's orphan rule has bitten me many times now, and it causes consolidation around certain libraries. Something like Go's interface, where the signature just needs to match? That would be nicer than the current situation with `anytype`, but I don't know if it's better enough to justify a full interface system. Curious to hear your thoughts.
cgh · 9 days ago
Essentially enough syntactic sugar so you could write eg the Allocator interface without manually specifying the vtable and the opaque pointer.

But yeah, Go’s system is nice and simple. I am not sure, but I think the fact that Zig programs are a single compilation unit might have some bearing on the orphan rule. There is no concept of crates so “traits”/interfaces can be defined and implemented anywhere.

cgh commented on Why we built Lightpanda in Zig   lightpanda.io/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/ashvardanian
Mond_ · 9 days ago
What exactly do you need that Zig doesn't have? Inheritance?
cgh · 9 days ago
Proper interfaces would be nice. I realize that eg tagged unions work for most cases but the syntactic sugar would reduce a bit of friction.
cgh commented on Why we built Lightpanda in Zig   lightpanda.io/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/ashvardanian
drnick1 · 9 days ago
I have seen this time and time again: first complain that C/C++ are too complex or lack feature X, new language is proposed, then sooner or later people find out that's it's not fast, expressive, flexible enough or imposes a nonstandard way of doing things (Rust), then back to C/C++ and few years after the cycle repeats.
cgh · 9 days ago
Most of the article is about why they didn’t use C or C++.
cgh commented on Why we built Lightpanda in Zig   lightpanda.io/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/ashvardanian
websiteapi · 9 days ago
has there ever been a project that became popular and/or successful because of its programming language? does it really matter to the end user what language it's in if it works well?
cgh · 9 days ago
https://paulgraham.com/avg.html

Paul Graham is one of the founders of Y Combinator, the company that hosts Hacker News.

cgh commented on Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years   topspeed.com/reliable-jap... · Posted by u/teleforce
Aloha · 10 days ago
Indeed, long lived engines are not unusual

Chrysler LA - 1964-2003

Ford Windsor 1961-2000

Ford Inline 6 1960-2016

Modular V8 1990-2014

cgh · 10 days ago
Nissan VQ series, 1994-today
cgh commented on Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years   sherwood.news/tech/apple-... · Posted by u/avonmach
cgh · 12 days ago
This comment really reminds me of that old Onion column The Outside Scoop by Jackie Harvey.

u/cgh

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