Joker_vD

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by Joker_vD 2mo ago
> The counterpoint is that what humans already do is exactly what's needed in some cases, making those cases the ideal applications for humanoids. If my old textbook on control theory (printed in 80s) to be believed, there apparentl
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by Joker_vD 2mo ago
So? Since when has making backups of the copyrighted stuff that you have the right to use been made illegal?
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by Joker_vD 2mo ago
> It prohibits the URL owners from changing it. That's mostly about the social contract: if you publish something on the Internet, should it be made easier for the readers/users to access, or for you to move the thing around fo
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by Joker_vD 2mo ago
> they better choose MiSTer FPGA from the beginning. Well, the MiSTer project was yet 4 years from being launched back in 2013 when the RISC-5 was implemented in FPGA, so I hope you'd excuse Wirth from not choosing it.
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by Joker_vD 2mo ago
> 7 columns of up to 13 cards each, Not quite. The rightmost one initially has 6 closed cards and 1 revealed card which can be a king, so you can put 12 more cards on top of it, for a total of 6+13 = 19 cards. So I'd make 7 arrays f
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Yeah, and it also can be a RS-232 compliant serial link cable with 4 wires that are RX, TX, GND, and a +5V for good measure, attached to a USB-C head, can't it? I mean, that'd be totally fine, right?
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Pfft, police. Have you read Watchbird (1953) by Robert Sheckley? That's pretty much exactly where we're heading right now.
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
> Why would you take your phone with you when you run? Well, how would I get my phone back after I ran to the place I intended to run to otherwise?
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
> The subtraction instruction has a set with reversed operands, so we have SUB, SUBU, SUBS, SUBC, SUBCU, SUBCS, but also SUBR, SUBRU, SUBRS, SUBRC, SUBRCU, SUBRCS. Pretty much the only use of "reversed subtraction" instruction
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
By "the same thing", you mean writing the blog post on Cloudflare's official blog?
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Another entry in "Marketing department starts a promotion campaign for the new product that's indistinguishable from a phishing attack" list. Starting with not using a subdomain on your own, very well-known domain but instead
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Apparently, Windows does have precisely that, FlushFileBuffers [0][1]. The analogue in the Unix world is fsync(). Of course, some hard drives lie about actually having written their caches down, in which case there is nothing much anyone
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Do I love selective quoting! "Undefined behavior may be expected... when a program uses an incorrect construct or invalid data". There is also "erroneous behaviour" which "is always the consequence of incorrect prog
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Also, if you pull the power plug, neither finally blocks nor defers would run. I personally consider it a clear and obvious deficiency in the semantics (and the implementations) of those programming languages but everybody refuses to listen
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
TL;DR: You can mix and match calling conventions as long as you actually track what piece of (compiled) software uses what convention.
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Last time I checked, software compiled with both Cygwin and MSYS2 internally uses SysV calling convention, only switching to WINAPI when calling, well, Win32 API.
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
GHC uses its own calling convention yet it's compatible with Win API just fine. The secret, of course, is to implement not only your bespoke calling convention, but also the other ones that you care to interoperate with.
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Eh, or that, I guess. I personally would rather not squish the type of the elements together with the dimensions, but it can work like that, sure. Especially if you use square brackets for generic instantiation, so your example is semantica
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Yeah, they took it from Pascal: var p: ^integer, i: integer; p := @i; p^ := 42; Which follows an obvious "if modifier of a base type goes to the left of the type, then the operator that uses this modifier goes to the
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
> "str is an array 10 of pointers to char" Wow, imagine if it was possible to actually use a language like that do declare the type of the variable like that? Something like str: array [0..9] of ^Char; or even v
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
> I already know how gates and full adders work. But do you know how an 8-bit Kogge-Stone adder works? Most of the sources I've read are quite unhelpful. I particularly "like" the ones (e.g. Wikipedia) that use some rand
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
So much for "well, C started its life with a single-pass compiler, so it simply couldn't be made to work" justification, which makes it false in two ways: we actually have the sources of the original C compiler, and it was tw
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
It's like... oh my god, dude, even I, an actual human, don't have that much of self-reflection, so could you just stop writing apologia, please, and switch to actually doing the task?
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Just remember simple :!pkill -KILL vim
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Yes, the one where the program counter also doubles as the only index register available, so you process data by executing it, hopefully in a somewhat "inert" state of mind.
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Yeah, and now the computers can be social-engineered too. I guess that's progress.
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Well, until it has a glorious socialist revolution — yes, it is a first world country.
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
A top seller in Libya, Somali, Iraq, and that one particular first-world country which our lawyers from that country advise us to refrain from naming! Buy one today!
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
...the AI companies? Probably Anthropic itself? I see no possibility of regulatory capture here, so it must be a good idea.
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
You know, it's always funny to read takes like "A broken compiler forcing you to write explicit SIMD instead of trusting auto-vectorization and coming out 20-30% faster is the best argument I've seen for reading your own gene

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