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(DIR) Post #A8gafylN7W0GEND8VM by luke@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-06-26T14:27:53.435Z
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Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLkoA discussion about how they make software and what this means by Jonathan Blow, Thekla, Inc.
(DIR) Post #A8gafzDjQ4gjeKTmi0 by anjum@mstdn.io
2021-06-26T15:49:52Z
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@luke 40:34 got me excited by thinking about what Temple OS had achieved, an operating system where you could program graphics in under a minute from booting up.
(DIR) Post #A8gh0J4BwPx6iZ5crA by torresjrjr@qoto.org
2021-06-26T19:39:19Z
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@luke 40:28> You can't just draw pixels to the screenReminded me of Plan 9's `/dev/draw`.http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/3rd_edition/rio/rio_slides.pdfhttp://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/3/draw
(DIR) Post #A8gyo51C93qAqc0XCq by crunklord420@kiwifarms.cc
2021-06-26T14:31:28.411151Z
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@luke Jon Blow has some great takes, also some hot takes.
(DIR) Post #A8kugRZilyyRJ06GMy by billiam@shitposter.club
2021-06-28T20:31:27.190223Z
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@crunklord420 @luke amusingly, computer games have contributed to the idea of the permanence of technology.i.e. When you upgrade a tech in a game like Age of Empires or Starcraft, you benefit from that tech until the end of the game (yes, there might be one-time-use techs ingame, but the ebb-and-flow of technology is not present in games)
(DIR) Post #A8q6HuiBTf4rfgvaAC by yellowarchitect@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-07-01T00:16:37.521Z
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I have played all popular RTS and never thought of this, wow.If you look it that way, when you win and have no competition, the civilization collapses and you are forced to start a new game with starting tech xaxaxa
(DIR) Post #A8utT7O8MK8wYiMT9E by yellowarchitect@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-06-30T15:41:58.254Z
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What he said seems true. In fact, more and more programmers entering the field, have no idea of even how pointers or sockets work, and if they do know the theory, they haven't worked with them. For all their creations, these modern-day programmers rely on frameworks and engines, which they dont know how they work under the hood, and even worse - these frameworks and engines are declining in stability (slowly), and so are the creations relying on them.The modern-day programmers have nothing to do with the old-day autists tinkering their Amiga's memory instructions for fun, who kickstarted the industry and set up the standards and created the first tools. The only commonality is that they both write code.Honestly... The mindset of the modern-day programmer is release it fast, fix it later. To be "Agile". The results end up like goblin technology, swiftly made but full of errors and never long-term.And what better example than oracle's downfall, as yet another example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941, confirming what this guy said.They removed the first "generation", gave it to pajeets who bloated the codebase but made updates quickly and cheaply, and now every1 is working exclusively by trial&error mixed with unit-testing, to the point features which used to take days, now take months. One "generation" removed, and it all falls apart as the next "generations" simply continue the direction of the original technology, and great effort is made into fixing the bugs constantly leaking, but not into fixing what causes them.This video constantly reminded me of TempleOS. I am reluctant to try it, but the entire concept is to have an intuitive, simple, un-bloated computer, without mysterious errors, and having full control - the opposite of today's computers. Computers have become too hard to use for anything not commonly used (see the "you just can't" in that video) Today's computers have become black boxes which "just work", and if they bug, you just restart and pray. I have reached the point I haven't updated any program of mine for months, because I would much rather have a stable, consistent experience, instead of magical bugs popping here and there, in exchange of a minor feature I don't care about. It wouldn't surprise me if I get into TempleOS in a few years at this point.
(DIR) Post #A8xY9O3t8uSMuqWPei by bruma_hobo@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-07-04T22:46:22.692Z
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Ah, he likes Ultima IV, I like him already.
(DIR) Post #A92Sg4SDR78jj2tyro by hyphen@anime.website
2021-06-26T15:10:54.819413Z
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@crunklord420 @luke > they think that anime girl is their boyfriend girlfriendtopical
(DIR) Post #A92SkmzzlHf52Mx53g by FrailLeaf@neckbeard.xyz
2021-06-26T15:56:39.193151Z
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@luke based talk. Now I will learn Assembly.
(DIR) Post #A92Su9I8FQnMmZtkqu by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-06-29T21:19:15.348Z
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I can believe software free-riding on hardware. I've seen it first hand and I it is absolutely true. I used a feature phone made by a company branding itself as Nokia and manufactured in 2019. They lost the greybeards, and the whole thing was built with web technologies. It took a fraction of a second text input to react, the UI was near unusable. It was worse than any 1990s mobile texting phone I used decades before (and some were terrible, but all were responsive because the hardware was so comparatively weak they had to be written in low level languages to do anything), but soydevs didn't get fired for incompetent design and implementation and that phone - the Nokia 2720 Flip is selling well in India I hear. The staff working at Nokia back when they built their reputation doing things competently have moved on, and now Nokia means peddling to nostalgia.