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Totally agreed; I was talking from the POV of someone designing an iOS app. Apple could fix a lot of this jank with better design, individual apps less so.

Screenshot and share functionality get massively overloaded on iOS, but it's not because a product person / designer lacks the necessary taste, vision or "courage". It's because th…

If solutions come naturally to you in OOP, why not just roll with it? Personally I find it easiest do design data flows: think about what we need in order to compute the result. Th…

When you need a configuration step, cmake will actually save you a lot of time, especially if you work cross platform or even cross compile. I love to hate cmake as much as the nex…

The wireless used for pro audio is never bluetooth, however.

Indeed, which is not all that different from LLM code generation, to be honest.

Yes. LLMs are search engines into the (latent) space or source code. Stuff you put into the context window is the "query". I've had some good results by minimizing the conversation…

When something is hundreds of megabytes, it is very unlikely to be mostly compiled code. A lot of that fits in each megabyte.

Probably true for many. When thinking about hard problems I'm usually not thinking in language, at least not the kind we speak between us humans, so it can be incredibly distractin…

>I seriously doubt anyone who has written projects in assembly would make such comparisons... With genuine respect, I believe this type of insinuation is rarely productive. Someone…

sure, I was thinking of large OO cores. "Correspondd to the instructions the cpu runs and their observable order" is how I'd characterize C as well, but to each their own.

I have empathy for this having written compiler passes for 10ish years of my career. But as I've studied register renaming, speculative branch prediction and trace caches I would n…

And yet modern assembly does not correspond 1:1 to the micro-ops the CPU runs or even necessarily the order in which they run. Both ISA-level assembly and C are targeting an abstra…

When I was in third grade, I decided I want to make computer games to get more of them. Dad got me started with GW-Basic turtle graphics and I made pictures with them - usually non…

Finnish has been very peripheral and isolated due to geography. It is closely related to Estonian, but remains much more similar to their common archaic root, while Estonian has st…

In my experience search engines have rapidly deteriorated - probably because of the SEO arms race - and LLMs often feel like search engines used to feel back when they worked. Who …

Not in general. Immutable strings can be deduplicated, leading to a different performance tradeoff that is often quite good. This is mentioned in TFA.

For sure. Data structures and call graphs like to converge, so when designing a data model, you are actually designing the (most natural) program flow too.

The recent C# feature called interceptors [1] pretty much looks like comefrom from where I stand. Yet everyone talking about it has either been serious, or very good at trolling. 1…

I wrote blitters in assembly back in those days for my teenager hobby games. When I could actually target the 386 with its dword moves, it felt blisteringly fast. Maybe the 386 did…