I mirror some specific repositories of mine to GH specifically so that they will be included in Copilot’s training data. It amuses me when chatbots think that they know Lojban or Metamath, can’t distinguish RPython from Python 2.7, or think that Monte is Mathematica. Some languages, particularly Zaddy, are likely so confusing and have such small corpora that chatbots will never be able to generate them; their inclusion in training data is possibly unhelpful.

No, I don’t keep everything there. In particular Cammy is only publically available via the notoriously unreliable OSDN mirror because I don’t trust folks to understand purity, functions, and category theory.

Also, the author has a standalone blog post on the topic from 2011, Expression Parsing Made Easy.

Put a rescue distro on a USB stick. When you first boot the laptop, use the rescue distro. Write down the USB IDs (lsusb) and PCI IDs (lspci). Read through the kernel boot log (sudo dmesg | less) and write down the names of any kernel drivers that might matter; WiFi, GPUs, USB bridges, and keyboard layouts are important in particular. For laptops, look up manufacturer-specific drivers for keyboards, fans, and power management.

Linux requires about 8MiB of RAM to boot. The entire netbook movement relied on machines with 2GiB or less; I remember putting Linux onto a 2GiB Sony VAIO that had struggled to boot Windows. Your laptops aren’t too small, but you may be choosing distros with poor hardware support or large monolithic packages. I bet that one of Debian, Gentoo, or NixOS would boot on those machines that still work; of those, Debian is probably easiest.

Old laptops sucks. Windows use to be very efficient. XP and 7 has held up very well after all these years. And most importantly Linux isn’t a one size fits all solution.

Nah, Windows sucked back then too. If a machine boots Windows XP or Windows 7, then it can easily be made to boot an out-of-the-box Linux distro. The Asus machine you listed might have some boot issues, but the Acer and Dell do not appear different from any of the Acers or Dells that I’ve put Linux on in the past decade. My daily driver is a $150 refurbished Dell Latitude 5390 running NixOS.

It’s not even an analogy; pointers and reference mechanics are the same concept in programming and linguistics. See the page on referents for an example blend of viewpoints.

The author would do well to look up SGML; Markdown is fundamentally about sugaring the syntax for tag-oriented markup and is defined as a superset of HTML, so mistaking it for something like TeX or Word really demonstrates a failure to engage with Markdown per se. I suppose that the author can be forgiven somewhat, considering that they are talking to writers, but it’s yet another example of how writers really only do research up to the point where they can emit a plausible article and get paid.

It’s worth noting that Microsoft bought PowerPoint, GitHub, LinkedIn, and many other things—but it did in fact create Word and Excel. Microsoft is, in essence, a sales company. It’s not too great at designing software.

So close to a real insight! The correct lesson is that Microsoft, like Blizzard, is skilled at imitating what’s popular in the market; like magpies, they don’t need to have a culture of software design as long as they have a culture of software sales. In particular, Microsoft didn’t create Word or Excel, but ripped off WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3.

Forget about your job for a moment. In general, why are you willing to set a threshold on how accessible your work is? I urge you to forget about how callous your employer wants you to be.

Pick a language like Perl, where some packages are written in C and some are written in pure Perl, and you’ll get to experience the same cryptic GCC errors, sometimes. There’s no secret to pip; many Python developers upload wheels with pre-compiled binaries, including Windows-compatible binaries, and so you don’t have to run GCC because they already did it for you.

Nah, just use direnv instead, comrade.

“For the record, I still don’t like this particular face-eating incident.” As if you aren’t a leopard enthusiast. Who cares whether you like something?

If you were creating a new programming language from scratch, there’s no clear agreed answer to what error handling approach you should pick, not the way we have more or less agreed on how for, while, and so on should work.

I think that they don’t talk to enough language designers. Errors-as-values is the correct model because it eventually leads to the understanding that errors are our opinions about the state of the machine rather than an actual failure of the machine’s invariants, and the permanent divide between recoverable-yet-undesirable “error” states and genuine faults in the hardware. All other error models persist due to inertia and machismo.

This doesn’t mean that exceptions have to be removed from languages, but rather that we should think of them as continuation-passing or stack-controlling operations which perform non-local jumps; they’re part of the structured-control-flow toolbox along with break/return/continue jumps. Going in the other direction, a language designer need not add exceptions if they intend to add call/cc instead.

You’d be left to evaluate trade offs in language design and language ergonomics and to make (and justify) your choices, and there probably would always be people who think you should have chosen differently.

Yeah, but Sturgeon’s Law never stops; most new programming languages are fundamentally not interesting because they are either garbage-collected Algol-descended languages or memory-unsafe. Meanwhile, sum types can always be added to simply-typed lambda calculi without invalidating any safety properties. If you argue in favor of mediocrity, you’re gonna get Golang instead of something good.

For what it’s worth, most of your comments aren’t eligible for copyright; they aren’t sufficiently original or information-packed. Just like @onlinepersona@programming.dev and their licensing efforts, it’s mostly a vanity to attach a license to unoriginal one-line throwaway jokes. I wouldn’t say that it’s arrogant so much as lacking in self-awareness; a one-liner must be deeply insightful, contain a pun or paraprosdokian, address the current zeitgeist, or otherwise be memorable above and beyond the time and place that contextualized it.

CPython is still 3-4x slower than PyPy.

Whose arguments are you apologizing for? Read the thread backwards. Your claims about C and kernel policy were wrong, therefore @pressanykeynow@lemmy.world’s point about multiple languages was right, therefore your main defense of Hellwig acting in good faith is unevidenced. So, are you still so ready to insist that Hellwig is arguing in good faith? Would you say that this thread has adequately discussed the technical details and is ready to return to the overarching political point?

I would recommend looking at English WP’s style guide on weasel words. Rather than matching evidence and countering claims, you’ve set up a nest of strongly-held opinions with words like “basically”, “personal experience”, “I believe”, “an opinion of course”, “it isn’t just me”, and refused to actually directly engage with the evidence scrutinized. Given that it takes maybe five minutes to find even just one piece of assembly that has no justification for not being written in C, I think that it’s fair to characterize your position as inconsistent with actual kernel-hacking practices at best.

Similarly, I hope that your technical leaders know that ActiveState has a fork of CPython 2.7 which is still receiving security patches, and also that PyPy for Python 2.7 is actively maintained and can improve the diversity and performance of your backend.

Man, some folks around here really make it obvious that they’ve never been yelled at by Linus in-person.

Both of your technical claims are wrong. C isn’t high-level assembly; on e.g. x86, it has no way to express SIMD, control I- and D-caches, or encode certain efficient instructions for which there is no corresponding idiom like Hamming weight (popcount). Also, the kernel does not have any sort of policy mandating a minimum of assembly, and there are definitely many spots where writing a compilation unit purely in assembly is done instead of using inline assembly to make the unit shorter and more readable.

Like @devtoi@feddit.nu I use plain-text accounting (PTA) to manage a few bank accounts, including small businesses. In my case, I’m using hledger. Every time I get a receipt, invoice, or statement, I type it into a text file. My bank gives me CSVs which are easy to import. Reports are done with a few commands; repeatable reports are done by saving commands to a shell script. hledger comes with builtin tools for monthly reports, BSE, currencies, pending invoices, closing/opening new years, and those are merely what I recall using recently.

Nobody cares what you want, fascist.

As explained self-referentially in this Zeit article, photo and video of Musk’s actions is not publishable without alterations in Germany because it violates anti-Nazi laws. By German standards, Musk is a Nazi.

Your opinion doesn’t mean shit when you are this ill-read, this out-of-touch with politics, and this apologetic for an open fascist.

There are a lot of programming languages. Also, features can often be hacked onto or off of a language. It’s therefore important to be able to quickly reject a language based on undesirable features. It’s also important to recall the big picture: to maintain a large amount of instructions or transformations which have been proven correct. Anything which gets in the way of that big picture should be quickly rejected.