lioeters

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by lioeters 10mo ago
We'll see who's "not gonna make it" when the market is inevitably saturated with low-skilled slop engineers.
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by lioeters 10mo ago
The animation on their website looks nice, I'm curious to try it. But that's a good point about needing WINE wrapper on Linux and Mac. Apparently they're working on a native port. Installation: Non-Windows systems - https:&#
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Writing for the Opponent(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by lioeters 10mo ago|0 comments
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by lioeters 10mo ago
I enjoyed this explanation of how the philosophy of Shugyo-style training applies to software engineering. There are some choice phrases that describe the process of mastering an art. > understand the nature of the steel .. the tool disa
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by lioeters 10mo ago
"Give me a 190-byte hex0 seed of x86 assembly, and I shall compile the rest of the world." - Archimedes
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by lioeters 10mo ago
> multi-ton granite block .. suspended from the ceiling of the building That's fun to imagine. I've heard of vibration isolation for machines, using springs and such, but this is on a whole another scale. Sounds like the buildi
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by lioeters 10mo ago
It's fascinating, the recent recurring theme of precise time and synchronization. The video was published on 2025-12-27. > With PTP 1588, AES67, and SMPTE 2110, we can transmit synchronous audio and video with sub-millisecond latenc
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by lioeters 10mo ago
I'm enjoying the articles! I went through the exercise and it was my first time running my own executable on PID 1. That was fun and educational.
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by lioeters 10mo ago
A snowflake is a 3D recursive growth algorithm over time. The macroscopic shapes are inherent in an earlier seed of molecular structure and arrangement of other factors by chance and circumstance. As they form while falling through the air,
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by lioeters 10mo ago
Apparently GUI frontend is not a subject or problem that interests him. He lives and thinks close to the metal, at a lower layer of abstraction. The software he writes for himself and others in that ecological milieu, people who would take
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by lioeters 10mo ago
Hear, hear. The key word I feel, is autonomy. It's like that article says, the coming war on general-purpose computing. We must seize the means of computation. We've already lost control of mobile phones, whose major operating sys
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GNU C Language Introduction and Reference Manual, Edition 0.1 (May 2025) [pdf](gnu.org)
9 points by lioeters 10mo ago|1 comments
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by lioeters 10mo ago
By the way (I'm who submitted the link) - I found a prior discussion on the same document but different URL now expired. There's even a comment by one of the authors, sharing some context. https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by lioeters 10mo ago
This biography includes more information than I've seen elsewhere about the legendary programmer, who's been discussed time and again on this forum.
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by lioeters 10mo ago
That's wonderful how you tied those threads together to describe Go's philosophical origins. I'm having a great time exploring the links. And the parallel with NeXTSTEP is fascinating too, I've been interested in that pa
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Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf](ipaidia.gr)
360 points by lioeters 10mo ago|126 comments
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by lioeters 10mo ago
The last link has more info than I've seen elsewhere. Here's an altenative link with PDF download. https://www.ipaidia.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/117-2020-f...
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by lioeters 10mo ago
I love it, I find the note interesting, educational, and adds to the discussion in context. Guess you're bound to get a few haters when you share your work in public, but I for one appreciate all your posts, comments, articles, open-so
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by lioeters 10mo ago
I don't write modern C for daily use, so I can't really say. But I've been re-learning and writing C99 more these days, not professionally but personal use - and I appreciate the smallness of the language. Might even say C pe
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by lioeters 10mo ago
I remember LZEXE from those olden days. When I discovered the author of FFmpeg and QEMU also created LZEXE, I was so impressed. I've been using his software for my entire computing career. It's similar to the respect I have for th
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by lioeters 10mo ago
I love this project, what it's aiming to achieve. Thanks for sharing the links! It's very interesting, making a C compiler that supports a small subset of C, enough to compile TCC. And the stack-based language as intermediate repr
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by lioeters 10mo ago
> as my primary language I'd love to hear more how it is, the state of the library ecosystem, language evolution (wasn't there a new major version recently?), pros/cons, reasons to use it compared to other languages. About
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by lioeters 10mo ago
> consistent and predictable That's what matters to me, not how similar Lua is to other languages, but that the language is well-designed in its own system of rules and conventions. It makes sense, every part of it contributes to a
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by lioeters 10mo ago
Now every time I see UTC, I hear the voice of Yoda: "Universal Time, Coordinated it is."
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by lioeters 10mo ago
It actually gives me hope that we may find a way out of the enshittification of the web.
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by lioeters 10mo ago
And Microsoftware running on the Micronet.
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by lioeters 10mo ago
> 99% of people In 2025, depending on the study, it is said that 31.5~42.7% of internet users now block ads. Nearly one-third of Americans (32.2%) use ad blockers, with desktop leading at 37%.
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by lioeters 10mo ago
I'm guessing the use of undeclared variables result in an error, instead of implicitly creating a global variable.
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by lioeters 10mo ago
OK now slap the wrists of Alphabet and Meta.
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by lioeters 10mo ago
The Simulators working at the universal data center wondering why this particular server rack is getting hot. "Have you tried turning it off and back on?"

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