I remember looking at the source of some fla files and scratching my head trying to understand the actionscript. The cool shit people could do really motivated me to become a programmer. If anyone involved in making this possible is reading this, I love you for your amazing work, thank you!
Readit Newspatates commented on Newgrounds: Flash Forward 2025 newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/... · Posted by u/lsferreira42
You may want to look into OCaml and Dart. Both are highly expressive, have automatic memory handling, native compilation and excellent performance.
I like D, but it's a bit of a mess at the moment with the DIP-1000 (Rust-inspired stuff for memory management) half-baked changes, the new experimental allocators (probably coming from Zig), it keeps breaking (on MacOS at least). With the very advanced metaprogramming, it also suffers from lack of good tooling, just like Nim... Nim was going to "solve" that a few years ago, but as far as I can see from the outside, nothing really "shipped" recently to improve the situation. Without good tooling, I am quite sure I am more productive even in Rust (and I am no expert on it), let alone OCaml (tooling is decent, and the language is just really powerful) and Dart (which has absolutely awesome tooling), for example.
Does anyone use Dart in a productive setting outside Flutter? AFAICT (from outside), they even let go of AngularDart and focus solely on Flutter - something which I avoid because of the a11y problems it brings.
patates commented on Imagen 4 is now generally available developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Prompt: realistic photo of a duck reading a book about web architecture
Result: https://imgur.com/a/Ri0yb31
This is supposed to be SOTA?
patates commented on South Park creator’s 2007 digital ad revenue sharing clause readtrung.com/p/south-par... · Posted by u/JustExAWS
If something in the water makes a million people into disgusting mass shooters, we should look into it
> If something in the water makes a million people into disgusting mass shooters, we should look into it
You're using a completely made-up extreme example to make your point, but we're surrounded by real-world examples of free speech being heavily impacted. We don't need to invent scenarios.
patates commented on South Park creator’s 2007 digital ad revenue sharing clause readtrung.com/p/south-par... · Posted by u/JustExAWS
As much I loved this show growing up, an interesting thing about South Park is that they essentially defined the alt right (in the sense of a disenfranchised young man, often lashing out at marginalized groups and political correctness etc). Am I wrong or did there use to be an article called “South Park conservative” that basically described what eventually became “alt-right”?
Edit: found it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park_Republican
A comedy show is just a comedy show. We're all responsible for who we become. If some purposefully terrible animated pixels inspire me to be a disgusting person, that's on me. If I play a shooting game and end up hurting someone, that's on me too (or my parents, if I'm young!). And if I spend too much time on HN, thinking AI is garbage, and then lose my job because I fell behind, that's also on me! (As well as starting to write my own comedy here on HN, knowing exactly what I'm getting into!)
Why is OpenAI a threat to Nvidia? They are still highly dependent on those GPUs
Maybe if they grow too much they'd develop their own chips. Also if one company wins, as in they wipe out the competition, they'd have much less incentive to train more and more advanced models.
patates commented on URL-Driven State in HTMX lorenstew.art/blog/bookma... · Posted by u/lorenstewart
Ideally, this is how state management should work all the time, regardless. Holding too much state server-side breaks bookmarks and shares.
EDIT: Hmm. Is this comment controversial? Obviously some people disagree strongly. Mind sharing why?
didn't down-vote you but perhaps you mean tech which holds nearly all client state on the server like JSF or webforms and I think that may be not so clear to some :)
for front-end frameworks, not storing the state on the URL usually means storing it on the memory or sessionstorage and server is usually not involved
patates commented on URL-Driven State in HTMX lorenstew.art/blog/bookma... · Posted by u/lorenstewart
> The same thing should happen that happens with Rails/Django and friends: nothing
So you can never make any breaking change to your api whatsoever? Or, in practice, you don't care and let users deal with app crashes and invalid state? Yep, welcome to the frontend-world.
why do you think that this must happen on the front-end? you can make a breaking change and when the user submits an invalid state
a) serve an error page, leaving that to the backend (at some point the backend must validate anyway)
b) serve the regular front-end and react to the invalid state with error messages. there are libraries like zod that should make your job easier.
patates commented on The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass theverge.com/analysis/713... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Millions of worried parents, perhaps? Parents who are worried about the negative effects of gambling, tobacco, alcohol, and porn?
There are a lot of very advanced software one can use to limit access to those sites, as well as control the time spent online. I think many tablets/phones even have built in parental controls. Why do you think the government should be involved?
> I find Claude Code objectively less annoying to use compared to Cursor, or Github Copilot agents even with the same underlying model! What makes it so damn good?