Zambyte

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   by Zambyte 1y ago

   I can give a specific example. for (0..5) |i| { i = i + 1; std.debug.print("foo {}\n", .{i}); } In this loop in Zig, the reassignment to i fails, because i is a constant. However, i is a new constant b
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   by Zambyte 1y ago

   Rocket League never had issues with anti-cheat. I have been actively playing it since before they stopped shipping a native version.
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   by Zambyte 1y ago

   Such is life dealing with propriety software.
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   by Zambyte 1y ago

   Also many online competitive games with anti-cheat work. The only ones that don't are literally kernel level malware, and should be avoided anyways.
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   by Zambyte 1y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive
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   by Zambyte 1y ago

   I can't root or otherwise customize my OS on my device because Linux is not GPLv3.
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   by Zambyte 1y ago

   My software is definitely not artistic expression. I signed over the rights to the software to my employer. These statements are not codependent in any way.
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   by Zambyte 1y ago

   What history are you considering?
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   by Zambyte 1y ago

   I understand. The different meanings of "code" in this conversation is why I said "software" in my comment instead of code. Copyrighting software is as absurd the other things you listed.
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    Our role as programmers being closer to artists than engineers does not make code closer to paintings than bridges. We do have highly repeatable patterns. Nearly every program can be essentially boiled down to some subset of CRUD + tranfo
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    Software I write at work is not artistic expression yet is covered by copyright. This isn't a counter argument, just pointing out how absurd copyright is.
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    If LLM training violates AGPL, it violates MIT. People focus too much on the copyleft terms of the *GPL licenses. MIT, and most permissive licenses, require attribution. Honestly with how much focus there tends to be on *GPL in these discus
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    Asking people to define "general intelligence" in a way that does not include capabilities we have had for years always reveals that people do not believe that they themselves are capable of general intelligence. At least if they
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    I kind of like the Scheme way of doing it, which is to have a true and a false value, and everything besides false is truthy. All strings including the empty string are true, all numbers including zero are true, all lists including the empt
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    The Linux kernel is the only Linux thing. There is nothing else Linux to expose.
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    The percentage of non-hacker users has gone up. Hackers aren't leaving, it's just more accessible.
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    I personally find this to be more interesting simply because it has the social inertia of Bluesky behind it. Software has centralized on GitHub because it is discoverable there. Software on Tangled is discoverable through Bluesky, and the s
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    > I would expect the compiler to ensure that all references to true and false reference single addresses, too. Why? If you're sending a constant true to a channel, wouldn't that true value exist in the stack frame for the funct
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    The AI effect[0] strikes again. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    What does "close to the machine" mean to you?
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    Human scale electric vehicles (e-bikes, e-scooters, etc) do not seem to suffer from this problem as much.
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    Regarding iteration, a simple solution without reaching for while loops is to iterate on a range and operate relative to the length. const a = [_]u8{ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 }; // 2 4 6 8 10 for (a[0 .. a.len
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    The "Debug mode" section does not mention the DebugAllocator[0], which does indeed crash with an error on the "Should be caught!" line. Try this: const std = @import("std"); pub fn main() !void {
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    The AI effect[0] strikes again. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    Interesting, this is the first I'm hearing of that. It's too little too late for me though. I was paying for Perplexity Pro and Kagi Ultimate at the same time for a few months to decide which I liked more. Perplexity was often abl
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    Walkable cities are actually illegal in much of the US due to zoning laws right now. The reason you don't see shops in residential suburban developments is not because there is no demand, it's because it's literally illegal.
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    100 yards is less than a block. Did you mean to say a longer distance? And yeah, walkable cities includes infrastructure that does not magnify the sun at pedestrians (see: shade, plants)
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    Drivers were never a necessity for anyone but automobile manufacturing executives.
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    They already said we live in a very dumb era.
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    by Zambyte 1y ago

    Yes it is.