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kaoD commented on An Implementation of J (1992)   jsoftware.com/ioj/ioj.htm... · Posted by u/ofalkaed
userbinator · a day ago
For those used to traditional language syntax, anything in the APL family is like Chinese to someone who only knows Latin-family natural languages. It's always amusing to see all the reaction comments when APL/J/K is posted here.
kaoD · a day ago
I kinda liked J but my gripe with it is that I have to learn it almost from scratch every time I try to use it.

The tacit syntax is too idiosyncratic (I always forget the different types of verb trains) and I'm not entirely convinced it actually helped me as a "tool of thought" (but it might just be me not sticking with it long enough to be able to decode The Matrix).

I wish multidimensional arrays were a first-class citizen in my main languages though.

kaoD commented on The Tor Project is switching to Rust   itsfoss.com/news/tor-rust... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
rpigab · 3 days ago
I had that problem too, very slow on network requests, just change the setting "num_relays_proxied" from 3 to 1 to make it blazingly fast.
kaoD · 3 days ago
If this is sarcastic you should probably add /s or someone might actually follow your "advice".
kaoD commented on Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01:a next-generation native multimodal large model   qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-omn... · Posted by u/pretext
iFire · 5 days ago
> How many resistors are used in fuzzhugger phantom octave guitar pedal?

Weird, as someone not having a database of the web, I wouldn't be able to calculate either result.

kaoD · 5 days ago
> as someone not having a database of the web, I wouldn't be able to calculate either result

And that's how I know you're not an LLM!

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kaoD commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental   lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul
menaerus · 5 days ago
No, I am not saying keep the status quo. I am simply challenging the idea that kernel will enjoy benefits that is supposed to be provided by Rust.

Distribution of bugs across the whole codebase is not following the normal distribution but multimodal. Now, imagine where the highest concentration of bugs will be. And how many bugs there will be elsewhere. Easy to guess.

kaoD · 5 days ago
> Now, imagine where the highest concentration of bugs will be. And how many bugs there will be elsewhere.

You're doing it again!

Doesn't matter where the majority of bugs will be. If you avoid the minority it's still an improvement.

Also, Rust safety is not related at all to bugs. You seem to have a misunderstanding of what Rust is or what safe Rust provides.

(Also, I'd challenge the rest of your assumptions, but that's another story.)

kaoD commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental   lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul
menaerus · 5 days ago
So, unsafe block every 70 LoC in 1500 LoC toy example? Sure, it's a strong argument.
kaoD · 5 days ago
How is that worse than everything being unsafe?

I've seen this argument thrown around often here in HN ("$IMPROVEMENT is still not perfect! So let's keep the statu quo.") and it baffles me.

C is not perfect and it still replaced ASM in 99% of its use cases.

kaoD commented on Autism's confusing cousins   psychiatrymargins.com/p/a... · Posted by u/Anon84
iammjm · 9 days ago
Fuck discord. Another big for-profit platform that is swallowing big chunks of the internet. before discord there were lots of self-organized forums with their own communities and rules. Now I need to register with some big overlord and download their shitty app just to read what has before been just an URL away?
kaoD · 9 days ago
But you can enjoy it before enshittification arrives!

All praise our VC overlords.

kaoD commented on Autism's confusing cousins   psychiatrymargins.com/p/a... · Posted by u/Anon84
squigz · 9 days ago
Maybe the issue is this perception that "the Internet" consists mainly of the big 4 social media sites.

Go on Discord. People have usernames, avatars. Discord Profile Bios are just as unique as forum signatures.

kaoD · 9 days ago
I am on Discord and the balkanization+homogeneization is still as prominent there as everywhere else.

Server admins are just NPCs providing @everyone announcements from time to time, to keep the player engaged (spoiler: the average Joe is just irritated by those). Sometimes you get a quest from them.

Also: 99% won't read profile bios (and you have to pay for actual customization, don't you?) while forum signatures were front-and-center.

I have to say I'm surprised to see Discord mentioned as an opposite to social media instead of... just yet another iteration of the same ploy.

kaoD commented on Autism's confusing cousins   psychiatrymargins.com/p/a... · Posted by u/Anon84
HPsquared · 9 days ago
The internet is turning society into a kind of "social emulsion" where everyone is their own little droplet in the fluid, but they don't merge together.
kaoD · 9 days ago
It's not "the internet". It is "this internet".

Back in the 90s early 00s the internet made us mesh together because each one of us there was a specific person. We had forum signatures and every single post was clearly made by a person, for a person.

Then social media took over and relegated every single person into a tiny unidentifiable avatar next to a non-prominent name, not unlike NPCs in CRPGs.

In turn this has been exploited by the powers that be to ensure the social glue gets even weaker: a society barely held together won't revolt. There's only one thing left to do: productivity, productivity, productivity.

The political opponent is no longer a person. Just a nameless, faceless NPC (personifying everything that's wrong) spawned there to be defeated and collect their social loot tokens.

But I might just be an old fart rambling about the good, old days.

kaoD commented on Learning music with Strudel   terryds.notion.site/Learn... · Posted by u/terryds
keymasta · 12 days ago
As per my knowledge, and as per Britannica, a chord actually uses three or more notes. A two note structure is called a diad, which implies a bit of confusion in the term "power chord" (written as 5, as in G5, which == G D == 1 5).. as it is not by definition a chord but a diad.

This may be a pedantic clarification, but that is the definition

kaoD · 12 days ago
TBH "definition" depends on the theory from which you're looking at the notes.

In the eyes of the Common Practice two simultaneous notes are not chords; in rock they most definitely are; in EDM you don't even care, since timbre is all that matters; in jazz you'd say "it depends" (e.g. might even be a triad with an omitted 5th... depending on context!)

Music theory is too post-hoc.

u/kaoD

KarmaCake day4346February 16, 2013View Original