livingcoder

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[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

I loved both of these games as a kid.

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, okay. Thank you for clarifying. So doesn't that mean we should never have a compiler written in the same language that it compiles? Why would we ever choose to make the mistake of using the same language? Is it ever not a mistake?

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Why would a Rust compiler written in C be more trustworthy than one written in Rust?

If the idea is that, in an ideal world, we would compile each layer of compilers from assembly-up-to-Rust for each build, that seems even more risky as then you have to trust each compiler instead of just one.

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 17 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I'm still lost on why they're doing it.

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

It just felt so cliche, that the crazy discovery they make is that the strange stuff is alive. The writers couldn't make it sentient because then they'd need to explain why it's just like the Great Lake but different from the Great Lake. It just exists and Star Fleet happens to be the only ones who know about it.

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

lol, I love that you're conflating the creator having the budget to make the show more in-line with his original vision with someone else making a lousy change for no clear reason. It's a nice knee-slapper of a comment you have right there. Good luck with it.

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Who wanted a visual reboot of the Klingons?

Discovery had so many problems for me: ship flies on magic mushrooms, her mom basically doesn't care about her anymore by the end of it - the show-starting plot line, and the Klingons look like sweaty orcs.

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

The idea that someone would introduce the verbiage "garbage collection" in the context of Rust is crazy to me. I hope they change that to "file cleanup" or... anything else.

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

I save "template" SQL queries in a special directory so that I don't have to google how to do specific things. It's basically my own personal "examples" folder.

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Who is writing SQL in the terminal?

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

AI is surprisingly helpful with providing a starting point. When you want a helloworld app, an example of how to use some part of a crate, or a code snippet showing how to take what you have and do something unusual with it, AI is super useful.

I would love to be able to get the same quality of AI locally as I do from ChatGPT. If that's possible, please let me know. I've got two 3090s ready to go.

But for now, I'm just enjoying the fact that ChatGPT is free. Once they put up a pay wall, it's back to suffering (or maybe/probably trying out some open-source models).

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