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Omar Rizwan @omar

i was talking to people at dinner about my friend who was studying library science and his defense of (what i think of as) the 'library science point of view' on search

that correctness and relevance are really completely independent concepts, and search engines like Google are wrong to conflate those concepts by just giving you endless ranked results

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Omar Rizwan @omar

the new ScreenCaptureKit in macOS is cool, i'm going to rework some stuff to use it, i think: developer.apple.com/documentation/screencapturekit?language=objc

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Omar Rizwan @omar

is there 'C with Lisp syntax' in the way that people have done Python with Lisp syntax, Haskell with Lisp syntax, etc (i'd like it to actually be transliterable ~1:1 to valid C, not a new C-like language with C-like semantics)

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Omar Rizwan @omar

it's funny how Objective-C and C++ are both "C with object-oriented programming added" on paper or to like someone who isn't familiar (like kid me)

but they are really completely different conceptions of what that means, they're not comparable at all

once you actually learn them

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Omar Rizwan @omar

:-)

greetings,
you have been specifically chosen ...

to be part of a “special winter html freewrite” this coming sunday
that is, if you can make it :)

as you know, html energy is all around us. it's raw and super powerful! in this free
write, we'll try a new format for html writing. we will buddy up and one partner will
describe a website to be coded by the other. we need buddies to survive the winter
and keep the html energy fire going strong!

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Omar Rizwan @omar

osnr — Today at 10:48 PM
it's funny, it kind of reminds me of the old-school like Unix talk things where you could message everyone logged into the same Unix server
i think you could do that on the Stanford machines
this sense of like a bounded, accountable compute area where you actually can just broadcast to everyone and that's meaningful (whether it's a remote login server with a few other students, or a Wi-Fi network with everyone else in the same room as you)

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Omar Rizwan @omar

(partly this is laziness -- it looks like it's a lot easier to just do the Vulkan plumbing code for simple compute than to set up the entire old-school rasterization pipeline social.omar.website/@omar/statuses/01GQC9SRCE4AQRZ1Y0TS1K4RRQ)

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Omar Rizwan @omar

"Plumbing explicit synchronization through the Linux ecosystem" (2020) lwn.net/Articles/814587/

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Omar Rizwan @omar

osnr — Today at 11:33 PM
i kinda feel like we should just use compute shaders for everything
do we need the traditional pipeline ???

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Omar Rizwan @omar

hack day set in one of the computer museums that has working old computers -- you're not allowed to bring your laptop or phone, you all have to actually code on the PDP or Apple II or SGI workstation or whatever

> I still didn’t go to large systems museum and I was back in Pittsburgh
> i didn’t feel like arranging it to see some dusty pdp’s tbh

they should do a hackathon

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