axefrog | 1 year ago | on: The Simplicity of Prolog
Fun fact: A large portion of TerminusDB's codebase is written in Prolog.
https://github.com/terminusdb
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axefrog | 3 years ago | on: SomaFM
Di.fm has a modern UI and going as strong as ever.
axefrog | 4 years ago | on: One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
The Veloren developers seem to have forgotten to provide a page of information _anywhere_ giving a non-negligible overview of what the game is about. The main website has little more than a paragraph listing some other games as inspiration, followed by some Minecraft-like screenshots. It also has a manual which is clearly focused on developers and contributors, as it provides next to no information for a new person who just wants to know a bit more about the game without having to actually download it. How is it similar to Dwarf Fortress? How is it similar to Minecraft? How is it different? What do you do in it? Why is it so much work just to find an overview of the game and what it has to offer?
axefrog | 5 years ago | on: Maine Becomes First State to Use Ranked-Choice Voting in a Presidential Election
We have a massive problem with our media being largely owned by Murdoch. The result is that our elections tend to be heavily influenced by lies and propaganda, just as is the case with Fox News in the US.
axefrog | 5 years ago | on: They're Made Out of Meat (1991)
I find the whole premise odd. Meat is fundamentally associated with living creatures. How could you have a concept of meat and simultaneously find it weird that creatures would be composed of it?
axefrog | 6 years ago | on: Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance
Genuine curiosity... why have you put an apostrophe in "parent"?
axefrog | 8 years ago | on: Kate Middleton’s ‘luxury’ birth cost less than the average U.S. birth
But it's ok for taxes to pay for roads and garbage collection?
axefrog | 8 years ago | on: Hello wasm-pack
Does anyone have a good sense of the current performance impact of crossing the boundary between JS and WASM? I've often thought it'd be great to be able to expose high-performance data structures (and other infrastructure-level stuff) via WASM and then make use of them from JavaScript, but I seem to recall that the interop performance cost is currently too high to make it worth doing, which leaves WASM mainly only useful for long-running tasks, such as game engines, expensive graph layout algorithms and so forth.
Edit: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/04/javascript-to-rust-and-bac...
> "The wasm-bindgen code generation has been designed with the future host bindings proposal in mind from day 1. As soon as that’s a feature available in WebAssembly, we’ll be able to directly invoke imported functions without any of wasm-bindgen‘s JS shims. Furthermore, this will allow JS engines to aggressively optimize WebAssembly manipulating the DOM as invocations are well-typed and no longer need the argument validation checks that calls from JS need. At that point wasm-bindgen will not only make it easy to work with richer types like strings, but it will also provide best-in-class DOM manipulation performance."
axefrog | 8 years ago | on: The web, on this day 10 years ago
Don't forget that screen resolutions were lower on average back then, which means that the side-by-side comparison doesn't really account for relative scale.
axefrog | 9 years ago | on: Hacking DNA: CRISPR, Ken Thompson, and the Gene Drive
I'm curious; what don't you like about Aubrey De Grey? I haven't yet seen an interview or conversation with him where he doesn't seem extremely knowledgeable about his field, or lacks an understanding of anything relevant that he's queried on. He also seems to have a fairly significant number of credible people on his side in the biotech/medical fields.
axefrog | 9 years ago | on: YC AI
Thankyou, this looks to be exactly what I need! Starting the course now.
axefrog | 9 years ago | on: What makes WebAssembly fast?
The W3C spec is now finalised and locked in, and Chrome and Firefox will release Web Assembly completely in their next releases, respectively.
axefrog | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you overcome fear of failure?
Realise that by not risking failure, you fail automatically.
axefrog | 9 years ago | on: Why Do DMT Users See Insects from a Parallel Universe?
Occam's razor is a guideline, not an immutable law.
axefrog | 9 years ago | on: Visual Studio Code 1.7.1
Updates are monthly. Would you prefer a six-or-twelve month digest summary?
axefrog | 10 years ago | on: Victorian Jokes Database
Just as a point for consideration, look at the television variety shows broadcast back in the 50's. Simple slapstick humour, such as tripping over or crashing through a drywall brought huge amounts of laughter from the audience. If that happened today, the only laughter you'd hear would be from the laugh track.
axefrog | 10 years ago | on: Ion: Cross-platform OpenGL library from Google
Looks pretty good, but would like to see more than just a features list. Some documentation? An issues list? A way to discuss the project with the developers and other users? (e.g. via Gitter or a Google Group)
axefrog | 10 years ago | on: Starting a tech startup with C++
axefrog | 10 years ago | on: Google Knowledge Graph Search API
I don't see how it could. If you search Google for apple, or even ask a person to give you information about the term "Apple", how can they give you what you need without further context?
axefrog | 10 years ago | on: New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
Actually that link doesn't even link properly to the Surface Bookj page now, which means anyone new reading these comments won't get the context, seeing as all they'll find via the link is Surface Pro devices.
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