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by laxd 3y ago
Lots of great work by many people. But I bet this guy and his optimizations to the vfs and locking has made a significant impact. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commits?author=mjguzi...
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by laxd 3y ago
A thing that always comes to mind with these kind of news is the claim that octopi have comparable effects from MDMA as humans. For anyone that have an overview of evolutionary history that should be interesting to say the least. https:&#x
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by laxd 3y ago
Right, have you tried to port all the C++ libraries to your toaster?
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by laxd 3y ago
Minetest is a prime example of the weakness of the open source community. A bunch of people want to "system dev" you a framework. Very few want, or is capabale of, designing you an actual finished game, at least in the open source
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by laxd 3y ago
Ok, I was just choosing you to respond to for all the flack I was getting for calling it a mod and not a server. You are circling back to my original point of confusion - that these guys where a mod community and not just a server.
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by laxd 3y ago
Ok, I hope we can split the wheat from the chaff without haggle. I'm corrected, "Hypixel" is the name of a server, not a mod. So who was the guys that started Hypixel Studios and Hytale? Maintaining a server doesn't seem
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by laxd 3y ago
> Look at bedrock edition, the only people who play it are people who mis-clicked when buying or don't own a PC. I would need a reference to believe that. The core minecraft community - streamers, modders, tech folks ... might be al
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by laxd 3y ago
Allright, no server mod?
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by laxd 3y ago
For those wondering, hypixel was an impressive minecraft mod. The devs moved on to create Hytale - a minecraft-like game that is still to be released. At least that's what my fallible memory says. https://hytale.com/ I
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by laxd 3y ago
> ... some FreeBSD fanboi is hard at work porting ... Or developers.
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by laxd 3y ago
Phone queues are frustrating. But I'm not there to get mindless text generated back at me. I've already experienced it. Reminds me of all the dystopian art trying to depict the human despair and powerlessness of facing the system
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by laxd 3y ago
... they can both understand and emit human text. Yikes! We are headed towards customer service hell. At least I'd like there to be some human feelings while I'm getting fucked.
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by laxd 3y ago
That's event tracking for system logs. Serious bizness feature. You could turn it of in group policy.
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by laxd 3y ago
I've done math sites with MathML in Firefox and MathJax as fallback for other browsers. The difference is huge. MathML rendering is immediate while MathJax comes limping along after an annoying delay. Even when bundling the MathJax lib
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by laxd 3y ago
I wouldn't. For me, covid was just a couple of days of fever with no other symptoms. Strange feeling to get fever isolated like that. But I'd take it multiple times over the typical knocked out for a week flu with multiple flavour
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by laxd 3y ago
Earlier discussion, different article, same OS. Interesting top comment by one of the devs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9806607
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by laxd 3y ago
"There's currently 5 games written in rust. ... And 50 game engines". That sounds like the open source game ecosystem in general. Maybe multiply by n.
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by laxd 3y ago
Fiskesuppe just means "fish soup", and the ways of making it are as varied as the name suggests. Putting a score on it is nonsense.
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by laxd 3y ago
> ... quantum computers are really early in their development and can't do the more complicated things yet. It's like if we had calculators that took an hour to do each arithmetic operation ... Reminds me of the story George St
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by laxd 3y ago
I was confident that at least the germans would back me here, after all they got words like taschenrechner. But according to my dictionary they call it computer. Danish seems like 30% english nowadays, so I can't count on them. At leas
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by laxd 3y ago
> I feel that the majority of time working with computers is not actually computing numbers (addition, subtraction, multiplication) but LOGISTICS. I think this was figured out in the 50's, when IBM started making mainframes for busi
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by laxd 3y ago
Norsk Data was one of the big guys producing minicomputers in the 70s and 80s. Apparently they held on to minicomputers for too long and quickly lost business to Sun and workstation manufacturers in the early 90s. https://en.wiki
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by laxd 3y ago
Just learned that there was a language called DART in 1959. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC
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by laxd 3y ago
Getting into rust recently I think it's not to be undervalued how much a good built-in library has to say. In C there is so much coding just for small things that you take for granted coming from higher level languages. In rust, it&#x2
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by laxd 3y ago
Naah, I'd benefit from having one in tucked away in a closet. Just let the museums have theirs first.
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by laxd 3y ago
> For example, one can prove that any yacc-generated parser never infinite loops and runs in O(n) Trivial when actually writing the code. And your example of infinite left recursion is basics in parser theory. No one in their right mind
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by laxd 3y ago
That's agreeable. We seems to disagree on how to achieve that ideal - on the specific point of whether to use a parser generator or not. The correct answer is not :)
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by laxd 3y ago
.... "syntax highlighting, linting, code navigation, testing, packaging, documentation, operating systems/architecture support" This has nothing to do with using a parser generator or not.
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by laxd 3y ago
You got good theory backing hand-written parsers, and the code is there right in your face. I don't know how a regex engine works.
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by laxd 3y ago
And lose touch with your code and having too deal with problems through a heavily abstracted layer. Great!

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