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All this computing power. Can we even simulate a water molecule yet from scratch with QM?

I'm working on an app similar to Anki, where I can make my own cards for spaced repetition, organize them by folders and tags, and can run different queries to get groups to practi…

Interesting. My projects would benefit from those more convenient clones into closure captures. The other point where Rc is uglier than, say, Swift, is the explicit `.borrow()` and…

Some Clojure fans once told me they thought datalog was better than SQL and it was a shame that the relational DBs all used SQL. I never dug into it enough to find out why they tho…

Been trying Rust for some months now. The IDE experience is so much nicer I'm probably sticking with it, but the restrictions on how I write code are still grating on me. I need to…

I just used Skype the other day. I still find it useful for certain things. Is it that these companies can't maintain a piece of software unless they see a way for it to grow and d…

Agree, the Volt seemed like a good idea. I don’t know the inside story of GM discontinuing that car. I imagined it was corporate dysfunction.

I was using Swift before. Currently learning Rust. Want to use it for cross-platform UI, and I'm stuggling with exactly what you describe there.

Any hope for a new iPhone SE? My 1st gen's battery is near dead.

Yup. They could have security by allowing the user to see and control the sandboxing that the operating system imposes on the apps. The app store is not required, but they act like…

Is Mojo interactive like Python? I mean will it work well with notebook style programming? I've been looking for something that works well in that interactive mode (like Python) bu…

Yes, my short post may sound dismissive, but I work in tech and I'm aware that our industry has lots of legitimate creativity and intellectual property. Of course we also have hype…

What is Nvidia's gold mine? They don't make their own chips, right? Doesn't that mean that other companies can quickly catch up, if they are even behind?

I don't like it either. It also seems arrogant to me – something about squatting on an entire letter and trying to rebrand it for your company.

I've haven't looked into how these new AI products are implemented. Can someone give a ballpark estimate on the current costs if someone wanted to build their own, say: 1. LLM that…

I agree with his approach but I'm on macOS so I don't think I can even use this currently. Anyone know if he has a plan to get this out so everyone can use it? It's not like the au…

I want to do cross platform native C++ dev. Maybe I should switch to Microsoft-land. I've been using a MacBook for years. I see Visual Studio docs talking about C++ cross-platform …

It's hard to say what I mean exactly, because I don't know what I will need to make my program fast, but I know I want the ability to adapt and control low level details. That woul…

I still can't use C++20 modules with a macOS app (Clang). I tried, and compile times balloon 10-30x on some files. Maybe I should give up and try Rust. Does Rust give you _maximum_…

I wish I could build and deploy iOS apps from Linux on these things.

Do some companies fund GCC C++ development? It seems too hairy for only heroic volunteers to get it done, but I don't know.

I wonder if I can use GCC on macOS to build apps for macOS/iOS that can be App Store deployed. Or if I'm stuck with Clang there. These days I still use macOS and exist in the Apple…

I've been using C++ a lot lately after many years away. There are different kinds of frustration. With C++ my frustration is the "this is so close to being awesome" variety, not th…