For those who don't know, the author is Edsger W. Dijkstra
Took 2 paragraphs for me to guess the author ;)
Readit Newsskemper911 commented on On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transc... · Posted by u/torstenvl
B->C->C++->D->Rust->Zig->ZZtop?
skemper911 commented on OpenCore Legacy Patcher – Use new macOS versions on old hardware dortania.github.io/OpenCo... · Posted by u/frereubu
I mean, you have an 8-year old computer. What did you realistically expect would happen here? For Apple to support your computer until the end of time even if you’re the only person using that model? In the tech world, 8 years is already practically a lifetime.
At a certain point, it’s no longer profitable for a company to continue supporting old systems. And that rarely has to do with power and almost entirely due to it being 8-year old devices with practically no remaining user base.
Seems like apple themselves had a good solution to this with one model of the iMac that supported use as an secondary monitor. Imagine if every laptop / iMac supported use as a secondary monitor.
Will use after free with Zig code also bring a smile?
Of course it would a big oops simile, but use after free isn't something that has happened to me in 40 years but I keep testing for it in other peoples code ;)
The way C is written in the kernel is really unlike the C you typically encounter in the wild. Try reading it and tell me how comprehensible you find it and how easily people ramp up into kernel contributions.
and we have yet to see tangible benefits of using Rust
I am surprised Linus agreed to this given that he doesn’t like C++
Sometimes that is what I try to do when my expectations are subverted if I care enough about the subject.
Macros, the ugly side of C, Rust. Shame Zig didn't come before rust, imagining kernel data structures written in Zig, brings a smile.
Right on point that kernel style C is its own unique world, with a steep learning curve, so lets add Rust with its own steep learning curve. Rust readability isn't any better than kernel C, guess I'm missing the 10,000 hours of reading Rust.
./KISS
skemper911 commented on New Ghostscript PDF interpreter ghostscript.com/blog/pdfi... · Posted by u/diskmuncher
I don't know the current team, but I have met its founder: L. Peter Deutsch [1].
James Gosling, inventor of Java, once described him as the "greatest programmer in the world". They both used to work at Sun Microsystems.
Three of the greatest programmers I've experienced worked there, Peter, Tor, Raph. Hats off.
skemper911 commented on Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? · Posted by u/whitepoplar
Been using an aero press for years, but the seal wears out. Need to press very carefully or the air goes out the top instead of the bottom.
replacement seals are cheap $6
skemper911 commented on 'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens sciencealert.com/a-20-min... · Posted by u/samizdis
Convertible car, let in the fresh smog.
skemper911 commented on Ditherpunk 2 – beyond 1-bit makeworld.gq/2021/02/dith... · Posted by u/makeworld
The matrices for clustered dot halftoning should not be too hard to generate. I think it boils down to which approach take to generate the thresholds matrix:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/127719.122727?casa_token=...
> (ordered dither): This algorithm is generally identified as a dispersed-dot technique [Limb 69], but if the intensity threshold levels are spatially concentrated it results in a clustered-dot dithering.
You want to know something cool? Here's a tech report from HP that describes a stenography approach based on halftoning:
Digital Halftoning by Robert Ulichney
How does this compare with Observable?
https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl
A julia notebook using observablehq underneath.
Reactive with a git compatible file format, looks very promising.