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dwb commented on An Implementation of J (1992)   jsoftware.com/ioj/ioj.htm... · Posted by u/ofalkaed
jandrese · 6 days ago
> J is a dialect of APL

That is an alarming statement, especially as the first line on the site.

> Words are expressed in the standard ASCII alphabet. Primitive words are spelled with one or two letters; two letter words end with a period or a colon. The entire spelling scheme is shown in the system summary. The verb ;: facilitates exploration of the rhematic rules. Thus:

       ;: 'sum =:+/_6.95*i.3 4'
    ┌───┬──┬─┬─┬─────┬─┬──┬───┐
    │sum│=:│+│/│_6.95│*│i.│3 4│
    └───┴──┴─┴─┴─────┴─┴──┴───┘
    
> The source code for word formation is in the files w*.c. The process is controlled by the function wordil (word index and length) and the table state. Rows of state correspond to 10 states; columns to 9 character classes. Each table entry is a (new state, function) pair. Starting at state S, a sentence is scanned from left to right one character at a time; the table entry corresponding to the current state and character class is applied.

I'm already lost, and this is the first example.

dwb · 6 days ago
This kind of comment mystifies me. What’s the value of it, what are you trying to say? Are you proud of your ignorance, or trying to ridicule, or what? What is alarming about coming across something you’re not familiar with? J and APL have Wikipedia articles that serve as a basic enough introduction. Why not educate yourself first?
dwb commented on OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI   simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw
lowdest · 7 days ago
I am under the impression that I'm a natural general intelligence, and I am far from the optimal entity to perform my job.
dwb · 7 days ago
Boundless optimisation is something we should be resisting, at least in our current economic system.
dwb commented on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode   old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdv... · Posted by u/hliyan
a2dam · 13 days ago
I didn't say that all speech is ads, I said that ads are speech.
dwb · 13 days ago
?? I know you didn’t. I don’t think my post is hard to understand. The point of freedom of speech is the free expression of ideas and opinions. You can do that in many ways. You could write a book. You could email the editor of a news website. You could write a song. In my ideal society, though, you would not be allowed to put it on a massive billboard that everyone has to look at all the time. I don’t think this curtails anyone’s freedom of speech.
dwb commented on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode   old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdv... · Posted by u/hliyan
sumnole · 14 days ago
Ads really aren't that bad. Targeted ads may even help you discover products you'll enjoy.

The ad in the article is pretty obviously an ad to anyone that can read the words, "New Series. Start Watching".

Ads like these that randomly display during idle is hardly what I consider invasive.

Hopefully OP's sister gets her mental health under control, but I wouldn't immediately raise pitch forks to ban an entire industry vital to the economy and business-consumer communication.

dwb · 14 days ago
Don't want businesses to communicate with me, thanks. So entitled!
dwb commented on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode   old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdv... · Posted by u/hliyan
a2dam · 14 days ago
Ads are speech. Replace all mention of "ads" in your post with "speech I don't like" and see how it reads.
dwb · 14 days ago
If you change words in a text then the meaning changes. Even if all ads are speech (I don't think they are, but I don't need to argue that), not all speech is advertisement. You can say your piece in one of many other forms that doesn't hijack my attention.
dwb commented on Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig   sinclairtarget.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/yurivish
kachapopopow · 15 days ago
<auto/type/name> <name/type> (array?) (:)= (value)

<fn> <generic> <name>(<type/argument>[:] <type/argument> [(->/:) type]

[import/use/using] (<package>[/|:|::|.]<type> | "file") (ok header files are a relic of the past I have to admit that)

I tried writing zig and as someone who has pretty much written in every commonly used language it just felt different enough where I kept having to look up the syntax.

dwb · 15 days ago
There’s almost countless languages that don’t do anything like this, whereas Zig is very similar. It’s fine to prefer this syntax or that, but Zig is pretty ordinary, as languages go. So yes, the differences are trivial enough that it’s a bit much to complain about. You can’t have spent much time with Zig or you’d have learned the syntax easily.
dwb commented on Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig   sinclairtarget.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/yurivish
kachapopopow · 16 days ago
I could never get into zig purely because of the syntax and I know I am not alone, can someone explain the odd choices that were taken when creating zig?

the most odd one probably being 'const expected = [_]u32{ 123, 67, 89, 99 };'

and the 2nd most being the word 'try' instead of just ?

the 3rd one would be the imports

and `try std.fs.File.stdout().writeAll("hello world!\n");` is not really convincing either for a basic print.

dwb · 16 days ago
These are extremely trivial, to the point that I don’t really know what you’re complaining about. What would expect or prefer?
dwb commented on Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains   air.dev... · Posted by u/NumerousProcess
ivape · 17 days ago
Right. A computer can make more code than a human can review. So, forget about the universe where you ever review code. You have to shift to almost a QA person and ignore all code and just validate the output. When it is suggested that you as a programmer will disappear, this is what they mean.
dwb · 16 days ago
I think for production code this is wildly irresponsible. I’m having a decent time with LLM code generation, but I wouldn’t dream of skipping code review.
dwb commented on Functional Quadtrees   lbjgruppen.com/en/posts/f... · Posted by u/lbj
runemadsen · 16 days ago
We just did a whole visual identity around the quadtree concept. Take a scroll on this one! https://trace.systems/
dwb · 16 days ago
That all sounds incredibly dystopian, ugh.
dwb commented on Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/thomasjb
heddelt · 16 days ago
>iPhone Pocket

That has got to be a joke. It's like they're mocking their customers. I can't stop laughing at the sight of the guy they somehow convinced to model this thing in their promotional photo.

dwb · 16 days ago
I don’t get the extreme negative reaction here and elsewhere. It’s not for me either, but I also don’t think it looks ridiculous – it just a little bag. There’s a pretty hard limit on how crazy that can look. It’s like the detractors aren’t aware or accepting that there are people with different tastes in the world. Why not just say “it’s not for me”?

u/dwb

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