Readit Newsdeostroll commented on Ohm: A user-friendly parsing toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript ohmjs.org/... · Posted by u/charlieirish
Anybody out there who has tried to convert js to ast and back and got OOM?! (I tried @babel/parser). I pray this one doesn't disappoint.
Oh, and comments!!! My general observation is that one cannot capture the comments when code is generated from ast. Although esprima has something in the standard to this effect, implementations generally stuck with weird commenting styles and how to generate code from them...for e.g
var /* hello */ world, foo, /* bar */ s;
deostroll commented on How much memory do you need in 2024 to run 1M concurrent tasks? hez2010.github.io/async-r... · Posted by u/neonsunset
Did anyone do an analysis on what happens after the test? Like in nodejs if we keep the application running after the so called test and left it idle for 1 or more hours. Does the memory come down?
We are thinking of an alternate way to make loopback 3 faster. Not the way loopback 4 is today.
deostroll commented on Casio fx-CG50 calculator comes with Python built-in casio.com/intl/scientific... · Posted by u/miohtama
A raspberry-pi might do better than this calculator. Besides comparing different things, a calculator's main design goal should be to assist with calculations and last for a long time. Anything beyond that it is overkill. If your goal is to visualize-and-study, use a PC.
The language died because of Microsoft tried to woo java developers into using the .net ecosystem. So whenever the CLR got more features, C# (rather than VB) started supporting them more readily. Experience wise, it looked more elegant in c# than in vb.
VB originally wasn't thought of as an OOP language. But through vb.net when that paradigm was "imported", the language lost its charm.
Further more, web development took flight. No one was interested to build desktop applications anymore.
Also I wouldn't say the influx of java developers into the .net ecosystem was that considerable. (Or for that matter other platform developers like python, delphi). It was definitely slow during the 2002s. Because the java ecosystem had achieved code-once-and-run-any-where paradigm. You could write desktop applications developed on windows, on, linux machines. From a business POV why would application developers "want" a different ecosystem to achieve this?
All this sort of eventually killed classic VB.
PS: you should also ask bing ai this question. :)
deostroll commented on Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts hillelwayne.com/post/ahk-... · Posted by u/Tomte
Not sure if AutoHotKey is the tool for this, but, I am looking for a functionality such that, when I get a ping from MS Teams (say), I want some other system in my home network to notify me of it - perhaps a notification in my android phone?
Anyway we can achieve this?
deostroll commented on Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately? · Posted by u/theycallhermax
The Dawn of Everything, by Graeber and Wengrow.
Refutes most of the claims made by Harari in Sapiens, and shows everything you though you knew about prehistory is plain wrong. It's a great book, very well written and well informed.
Made me think that humanity's history isn't an arrow pointing in the direction of progress; we make experiments. Our current way of life is not the "best so far", it's but one arrangement among many other possible configurations. The alternative between this and going back to living in caves is a false choice.
Harari doesn't pose the question to the reader! Europe's obsessions with exploration and conquests were driven by the scientific revolution. He does say that China could have very well done they part in it, but the Chinese rulers had no such global ambitions. With all this, it is a little premature to conclude that we are what we are because of our history. Although that is apparent if you look at it with that kind of objectiveness. But it could have been very well the Chinese if fate wanted it to be.
And people just sit around, unimpressed, and complain that ... what ... it isn't a perfect superintelligence that understands everything perfectly? This is the most amazing technology I've experienced as a 50+ year old nerd that has been sitting deep in tech for basically my whole life. This is the stuff of science fiction, and while there totally are limitations, the speed at which it is progressing is insane. And people are like, "Wah, it can't write code like a Senior engineer with 20 years of experience!"
Crazy.