Readit Newspharrington commented on I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dum... · Posted by u/begoon
Cathedrals are the opposite of extreme beta mode with lots of breaking changes.
Yes. I guess what I meant is that cathedrals are a complex system that we know how to do, and still they take ages to build properly.
pharrington commented on I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dum... · Posted by u/begoon
I'm not a Zig PM but the first obvious fix for the issues the OP wrote about is to write better documentation, including usage examples (the more the better, almost to a fault). Also doubles as a good time to reflect on whether the user is having to do too much.
If the tradeoff was absolute performance/avoiding introducing load-bearing performance-lowering abstraction I think that goal was achieved, but DX may have gone out the window.
I'm not a Zig developer, but I imagine one reason why the Zig documentation is so spartan is because the language is still young and constantly evolving. It's really hard to devote the time and energy to writing documentation when you know that what you've written will just be wrong at some uncertain point in the future.
pharrington commented on I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dum... · Posted by u/begoon
What's the benchmark for how long something can be pre-1.0? Seems like a nonsense argument.
There is no benchmark. As a species, we don't even know know what a good programming language is, let alone how to reliably develop one. This stuff takes time, and we're all learning it together.
I like to compare this to real world cathedral building. There are some cathedrals that are literally taking centuries to build! It's OK if the important, but difficult thing takes a long time to build.
pharrington commented on The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024) tulach.cc/the-issue-of-an... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Doesn't actually stop all cheat developers. If even one person develops and sells a cheat that the kernel-level anticheat doesn't catch, then it stops 0% of cheaters from buying and using the cheat.
It makes the cheats more valuable on the black market. I'm fairly sure the only people cheating in the major competitive games with anticheat are whales and extremely unethical pro players.
pharrington commented on The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis statsignificant.com/p/the... · Posted by u/gmays
I have a much better hypothesis, and I will not support it with an errorprone statistical analysis. Custom ringtones are less popular because phone UI developers made it harder to customize ringtones.
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This seemed suspicious at first, but https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ (the original official site) confirms it's real.
The man himself also posted about it on his social media https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/115025974777386803
Why do the CEOs think they are safe? If AI can replace the knowledge workers it can also run the company.
No problem. The AI runs the company, and the CEO still gets all of the money!
pharrington commented on FDA approves eye drops that fix near vision without glasses newatlas.com/aging/age-re... · Posted by u/geox
You can educate yourself on the FDA process, including public access to all the FDA documentation, including meeting minutes and sponsorship slides. It’s all there on fda.gov
But instead of doing that you’ve decided to just write this comment instead and post something that looks quite silly for those that have taken the first approach.
When you navigate to the Clinical Trials section[1], the "View Clinical Trials Guidance Document" link[2] currently stalls, and then gives a 403 error page that says "Page Not Found". All of the information is not there on fda.gov, and whoever's in charge is doing a very sloppy job.
[1]https://www.fda.gov/science-research/science-and-research-sp...