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Pouya Kary — Kinda a researcher.

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pmkary··on Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
The world will never be free. There will never be a way for a person to install something on iOS without Apple throwing its rocks. 5% fee basic means alternative app stores are disguised app store. Just as chrome is safari in disguise...
pmkary··on Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme
I think not, but this was a really interesting thing, I'm so glad you introduced me to it, thank you!
pmkary··on OpenAI disbanded the team that assessed catastrophic model risks
Brought to you by the for-profit-non-profit established to build proprietary open source models by the philanthropist CEO who is building bunkers.
pmkary··on scScript for Linux
Honestly I didn't understand anything from the page, why C that is bytecode compiled, don't we suffer making C just to have the speed? Examples? What showing the bytecode means?
pmkary··on Racket v9.3
My father is within the scientific community and so, sadly I'm fully aware of this trait of theirs. But there is just something about people like this that I want to have the luxury of avoiding. At least in this situations. There are languages famous for their nice communities (say Rust and Ruby) why choose racket when they exist?
pmkary··on Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
Ads are bad! Blocking ads on our own homepage? How do you expect us to keep the lights on?
pmkary··on Oracle – a photorealistic browser for every Magic card ever printed
The heading logo is the best thing I have seen in a long time.
pmkary··on Racket v9.3
I have heard so many bas thing about Racket, all the bullying of the core team and being really bad people in general. Each time I like to give it a shot I remember this and just walk away.
pmkary··on Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme
How many years have it been there? My memory reminds me of Jolt but I very hardly remember what was it, all I remember is that it was a LISP.
pmkary··on Squeak 6.1
Use the Glamorous Toolkit.
pmkary··on Everything you do is being recorded
Shocker.
pmkary··on Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
Cool!
pmkary··on Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
I know. What I meant by owning was about the creator aspect of it, and I just cannot accept Disney as the creator.

Back when I was a kid, there were two toy stores near my grandma's house and they had such a competition. And people were always buying and there was sort of a hype between the two, you could either believe in this or that. And then once my mom asked one of them about something and they told us both stores were owned by one person...

And now you can think you are with or against the corporate Java and in the end you are under Oracle no matter what.

pmkary··on Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
:)))))
pmkary··on TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface
You're very welcome and so selfishly I must say: please do!
pmkary··on Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language
It was written in the GitHub bio.
pmkary··on Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
Yeah its like George Lucas, doesn't matter you care for the Jedis or the Dark Side or even Jar Jar, he owns them all.
pmkary··on Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
Oh you fell into the trap... Just don't anthropomorphize Oracle...
pmkary··on TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface
This is one of the most beautiful things I have seen in such a long time. The numeric sliders, the color pickers, the analogue numeric displays, such a great great interface. I wish more and more things were this beautiful.
pmkary··on Taste Is All That's Left
I liked the article.
pmkary··on USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data
Being awful is easy when you start, but think about how much they have worked, how hard they have worked, how much an anti-anti-christ they must have proved themselves to be, what Indiana Jones traps they must have escaped to reach Palantir's CEO from the lobby, how many kids they probably have sacrificed to Satan, to get a contract from one of the most prominent and established war crime houses in history, to do what Google Analytics could do with copy-pasting three lines of code and signing in with your own Google account — just so they could burn their already-gone reputation and keep being one of the worst ways to waste human labor, office space, servers, and dead trees. This takes work, and I must admit I'm in total awe. This is going way beyond the competition to prove something, even if that something is the stupidest thing the laws of physics can handle.
pmkary··on Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language
The fact that the author is 14 years old makes my day. Nice work!
pmkary··on Taste Is All That's Left
I guess around fourteen years ago—back when I was at high school—I picked up the legendary TeXbook. I was in love and totally beguiled by the great Knuth's Art of Computer Programming; how could it be so beautiful? how could it be so precise? and henceforth as I understood the he had developed that masterwork of TeX to make his book, I immediately went to read it. There, in page four he writes:

I guess around fourteen years ago—back when I was at high school—I picked up the legendary TeXbook. I was in love and totally beguiled by the great Knuth's Art of Computer Programming; how could it be so beautiful? how could it be so precise? and henceforth as I understood that he had developed that masterwork of TeX to make his book, I immediately went to read it. There, in page four he writes:

> Book printing differs significantly from ordinary typing with respect to

> dashes, hyphens, and minus signs. In good math books, these symbols are all

> different; in fact there usually are at least four different symbols:

>

> a hyphen (-);

> an en-dash (–);

> an em-dash (—);

> a minus sign (−).

>

> Hyphens are used for compound words like ‘daughter-in-law’ and ‘X-rated’. En-

> dashes are used for number ranges like ‘pages 13–34’, and also in contexts like

> ‘exercise 1.2.6–52’. Em-dashes are used for punctuation in sentences—they are

> what we often call simply dashes. And minus signs are used in formulas. A

> conscientious user of T E X will be careful to distinguish these four usages, and

> here is how to do it:

>

> for a hyphen, type a hyphen (-);

> for an en-dash, type two hyphens (--);

> for an em-dash, type three hyphens (---);

> for a minus sign, type a hyphen in mathematics mode ($-$).

So I kept using the beautiful em dash ever since; because that is how the greats do it.

pmkary··on Apple is getting this wrong
Your "I sense potential" was the best thing I read all month :))))
pmkary··on Apple is getting this wrong
I'm looking forward to see that with popcorns and great pleasure.
pmkary··on Apple is getting this wrong
How shitty you must be as a company to go out and write this. Kindergarteners have better public policy. I have not seen any gathering of people (other than Trump's whole whatever that circus is called) this openly and easily tell lies. Gathering non profit funds then becoming for profit, Being built to do open source development and not shipping one result, going to the congress and saying "I'm not making any profit of this company" and rigging the world's economy... Now this shit "hey I was the nice person! I said nice things to Apple, look these are facts"

Keep your garbage for the court.

pmkary··on Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
Despite the hate it is receiving, I thought lets test it at least, and tried it to any project that I have locally. For every single of them the coverage generates hundreds of errors and so it is basically useless. I get that I can write a project from scratch, don't use any third party library, and it'll compile to binary, but then why should I not use Rust, Go, Zig, D, C, V, Ada, C++, Nim, Swift, Kotlin Native, Haskell... literally anything designed to be compiled and compiled well?
pmkary··on AI companies are shredding rare books
Horribly horrible horrific horrible insane psychopaths
pmkary··on Neither GCC nor Clang are compliant with standard C++
I laughed so hard at this....
pmkary··on Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
This is great marketing, I had no idea what inscribe was, but a blog like this going viral did something no ad could do for me.
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