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by alcover 4y ago
> some, very old > I had sworn were done anonymously How in the hell did they do it ? I presume you changed IP and user-agent many times over since then... How ?
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by alcover 4y ago
Nice post! But to me your analogy does not really stand : bots are the ones catching up with human conversation in an "accelerated way", feeding on a corpus that predates them. Bots are not an invariant nature that netizens imit
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by alcover 4y ago
> Language Implementation Patterns I hear the code examples are in Java. I think that's unfortunate. (And a bit ironic about your post).
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by alcover 4y ago
> we can’t do a grand reboot But a partial one, yes. Let's make new 'virtuous' sites using only a core subset of HTML/JS and fast and energy-efficient. (inb4 XKCD) Yes, like a new standard.
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by alcover 4y ago
SWIM also carefully avoids electronically paying for tobacco because that info, despite the theoretical separation, may be golden to insurance corps..
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by alcover 4y ago
I fully agree with you. The writing's on the wall for wasteful computing, not just for the obvious SUVs, suburbia or mass-tourism. Energy cost rules everything. The current deluge of web media and JS-obese apps will one day turn to a c
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by alcover 4y ago
Not that I know of. Especially for C. I resorted to re-post to reddit when I reach a subjective milestone but the returns are slim. Also I hear people may dislike such an auto-promoting endeavour... First time I posted an early naive versio
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by alcover 4y ago
I get many stars on my last project but no issues or PR. It feels quite lonely and, more importantly, I can't know if my work is going in a good direction. I think people mainly use stars as bookmark.
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by alcover 4y ago
Well.. that'll do it ! I wonder how I never stumbled upon that massive trove.
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by alcover 4y ago
There's the Clib initiative at https://github.com/clibs . I don't know how much they curate/review their entries. As often said, apt install foo is also a bit of a package manager for C. Maybe we should esta
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by alcover 4y ago
You're supposing they bear females only ?
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by alcover 4y ago
> If you knew that you needed phone charge to enter your apartment I bet you'd bring a spare battery pack when you went out. I don't even.. what the hell.. UBIK is a fiction, not a desirable lifestyle. Your sentence i
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by alcover 4y ago
> The time/discipline tradeoff is complex It's really not. Here's how I do : once a week buy lots vegetables at the market. Once every two days, put a good deal of veggies + rice/lentils (+ rarely chicken) in
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by alcover 4y ago
Is it not rather void bar(struct y *s, unsigned int foo) { s->c = (s->c & 0xf0) | foo; }
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by alcover 5y ago
I like your project a lot and adhere 100% to your minimalist views. Using #include in this way is neat and I suspect it may be possible to further this 'brutal' approach with pre-processor tricks and struct permissiveness. To help
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by alcover 5y ago
Fascinating question. Wildly speculating, I'd suppose european concubines were very much sought after by slavers and their 'customers'. And even more so blonds and redheads for their 'exotism'. Now some Algerians lo
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by alcover 5y ago
> Our culture unfortunately worships youth Yes. This cult burns everything around it. The word 'wisdom' is rarely uttered, and even sounds ancient.
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by alcover 5y ago
I'm in disbelief.. Scared also - why not ? Someone knowledgable in this thread, please tell us it's possible to backtrace such an illustration to its learning set sources. If these things are not just a controlled average(?) of re
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by alcover 5y ago
http://alcover.fr/ Check these crazy drawings, manic C string libs and... integer sequences !
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by alcover 5y ago
> for all but the most famous OK DALL-E, generate our logo in the style of ${most famous}
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by alcover 5y ago
It's not the number of people, it's how they live. Big houses, big cars, commute. > it's a good thing that the world's population will shrink Not if it happens too fast. It may very well be unstoppable. In c
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by alcover 5y ago
I hear many minerals and fuels are past/near peaking. Recycling and thriftness will ease the descent a bit but I share your urgency. We have to go full-bore on space and nuclear.
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by alcover 5y ago
Yes. Some big old companies have been family-owned for generations. You may be much more intent on keeping brand quality if you envision your grand-children prospering off it.
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by alcover 5y ago
This is nice. But less space-efficient than CSV when its strictly tabular, since CSV has columns legend on first row allowing 'pure' rows, whereas JSON will have to key every field, on every row.
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by alcover 5y ago
> if you bft_free OWN with outstanding REFs, nothing happens and the bft_free on last REF does nothing as well so it becomes just a leak. I seem to have solved this with a `wantfree` flag. https://github.com/alcover&#x2F
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by alcover 5y ago
That was very helpful. I'll skip the endianness and try to resolve the hardcoded :62 part.
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by alcover 5y ago
(author) Thank you a lot! I'm humbled by the attention you took. Please bear in mind I never intended to see this project publicized so early on the HN stage. I'm still experimenting in C, and it shows... That's a lot to chew
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by alcover 5y ago
When its mature, would you object to dual GPL+commercial ?
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by alcover 5y ago
(author here) I think I read the order of a struct members is guaranteed. So ssolen and type should not overlap ?
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by alcover 5y ago
(author here) That's concerning.. Should I rather use a full 64bit data field + masking ? I'm a bit naive about portability.

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