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by alcover 2y ago
I often see such replies and wonder : the article isn't about choosing langs but is an exercise in C. That's the constraint.
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by alcover 2y ago
> Type erasure is still type checked though In the C example ? What do you mean ?
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by alcover 2y ago
> where your target is MORE sophisticated than your own lang. I.. hadn't thought of this. I mean I wouldn't transpile to a slow lang like python but choosing Zig or C++ is tempting. Zig maybe not as it's unfinished. But C+
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by alcover 2y ago
Wouldn't 'illusion' be the more precise term here ? When one thinks he recognizes something, whereas 'hallucination' is more of unreal appearing out of the blue ?
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by alcover 2y ago
I unfortunately agree with you. Old people with confusion/dementia, schizoid types, or very naive persons will fall for shattering scams. And the consequences on their grasp on reality will be terrible.
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by alcover 2y ago
Oh yes ? The scambot will leave a distress message and a number in your voicemail, using the voice of a relative. You would know better but I guarantee old people will call the number and strike a convo with the virtual relative.
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by alcover 2y ago
The page wants to load miles and miles of Javascript. It can go to hell.
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by alcover 2y ago
> gdb(..) smashing tui with app output this got me losing my mind. How/why propose this tempting TUI mode when the result looks like a broken arcade game ?? How do you people comfortably debug C in Linux ? I know VSCode look
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by alcover 2y ago
That is excellent and the result can be very pleasing as this render in the article : https://ameye.dev/notes/rendering-outlines/edge-detection/co... It looks like a frame from dutch comic book Franka !
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by alcover 2y ago
ISWYDH
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by alcover 2y ago
> we destroy everything With human birth rate declining maybe Nature will have a chance to heal ?
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by alcover 2y ago
DeepMasking
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by alcover 2y ago
Crumb has been living in a small village in the south of France since the 90's. In the "Crumb" doc he says something along "They're all wearing baseball hats. I'm getting out of here.", speaking about th
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by alcover 2y ago
There's a continuous GoL called LENIA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlzV4aJ7iMI (in French) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34108724
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by alcover 2y ago
"And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind."
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by alcover 2y ago
Thanks, that's more like it. Though I don't fancy having to type `:Break` each time I need a break point. That should be a single click in the gutter.
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by alcover 2y ago
Thank you. I tried SublimeGDB. Yours seems nice but also heavy in config and integration into Sublime. What I'm after is the other way around : an editor around GDB. > you need to install Terminus It's not mentionned in
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by alcover 2y ago
> Unique Debugging That caught my eye. How do you people debug C (on Linux) ? I'm tired of switching constantly between Sublime and GDB. I know there's a GDB plugin for Sublime but it's a pain to configure. I need
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by alcover 2y ago
This baffles me so much. It would be so simple and valuable to add.
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by alcover 2y ago
> small amount of old skool phreaking I would believe so since part of phreaking is solely exploiting configuration. For example, a default password for voicemail lets the phreaker access user menu then possibly - or so I was tol
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by alcover 2y ago
I was gently obsessed with it while a student, a long time ago. I used to call random companies at night and, once on voicemail, fumble with *, # or 0 in the hope to get the ellusive outdial out of the PBX. I never succeded. But what I lo
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by alcover 2y ago
I'm 100% fed up typing those damned semis all the time.. That's the very initial reason I embarked on a dialect of C. (That and strings) They're mostly useless and a visual annoyance.
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by alcover 2y ago
Oh, that's quite on the mark! Nitpicking: I'm not fond of reserving keywords like len or append . len(arr) append(arr, v) Better is arr.len arr.append(v) Also x: [dynamic]int is quite verbose Maybe bett
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by alcover 2y ago
> I'd think that an ideal game dev language would be programmer time efficient, reasonably performant and designed for skilled programmers who can handle a language filled with footguns. Basically a better version of C such as
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by alcover 2y ago
Those specs amaze me. How far we have gone for those who remember 90's computing !
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by alcover 3y ago
> Has anyone else noticed that? No, and I think you're gifted with good pattern recognition! Now models could be trained adversarially against this GPTZero and you'd have a harder time..
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by alcover 3y ago
I fully agree. Stylometry is surprinsingly accurate (as proven on this very forum corpus) and would be quite involved to hide from.
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by alcover 3y ago
Thank you. I fail to grasp your P.S. in relation to the Levant passage ?
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by alcover 3y ago
I wonder which routes were opened by this. Gibraltar ? Tunisia -> Sicilly -> Italy ? In any case the Levant was always an out.
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by alcover 3y ago
I feel dread for sure.. like plagues from the past may reappear. Especially famine. When I watch documentaries about disappeared civilisations, I now get vertigo. I think the pressure for drastic, technical solutions will mount sharply and

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