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by rwbt 8y ago
I hope they make real progress on improving the C language, not just slap on yet another library/header to the standard lib (cough.. <complex.h> ..cough).
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by rwbt 8y ago
Yep, it was made jokingly trying to make a point about the slippery slope of 'bloat'. But didn't go that well.
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by rwbt 8y ago
I think having a primitive templating system would also reduce the usage of macros. While we're at it throw in AST macros too.
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by rwbt 8y ago
This might not be helpful, but I decided to rely on serendipity. Sometimes I feel like we think too much about finding the best of the 'best' and we rely on expert opinions of the crowd instead of taking a chance ourselves and tr
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by rwbt 8y ago
For those of you already using Boost, Boost also has a MMAP in their IOStreams library and it works pretty well (like most things boost). https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_68_0/libs/iostreams/doc&#x2F
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by rwbt 8y ago
TiddlyWiki is great, but I really need is something like Notational Velocity but everything is stored in a single html file (with .js embedded of course), so that it's very portable.
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by rwbt 8y ago
I've recently started using Fossil[0] to archive all my personal data. It works rather brilliantly. Technically you can use any VCS but Fossil is unique in that the entire repo is a single SQLite db, so it's very easy to backup an
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by rwbt 8y ago
Yeah, it kinda took me by surprise too. One would think the Toyobaru twins along with the MX5 would have a lot higher manual transmission sales.
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by rwbt 8y ago
> More importantly is when lateral grip finally breaks there is no warning to the driver with a cocked wheel and gentle progression: it just lets go. This honestly depends on the tires. A lot of performance tires lose grip very gradually
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by rwbt 8y ago
A lot of annoyances, needless complicated door handles, buggy software. But this made me smile and the car enthusiast inside me is ecstatic. > "This car is a joy to drive on Angeles Crest Highway, and I don't say that lightly.
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by rwbt 8y ago
Even though rooftop solar might not be the most economical solution to reduce greenhouse gas footprints, I would argue it's very effective. The costs are directly baked into the real estate mortgage and requires zero changes with regar
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by rwbt 9y ago
> Grayshift has been shopping its iPhone cracking technology to police forces. The firm, which includes an ex-Apple security engineer on its staff, provided demonstrations to potential customers, according to one email. Wow. That's
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by rwbt 9y ago
SQLite is tested extensively fossil or not. Short of military software it's probably the most tested piece of software.
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by rwbt 9y ago
Technically Dr. Richard Hipp is right https://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.o...
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by rwbt 9y ago
I'm not sure if you know how innovative the BMW i3 is. They decided to go for an entirely different manufacturing process using Carbon Fibre instead of traditional steel stamping and it's entire supply chain is built on renewable
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by rwbt 9y ago
Street racing is akin to a Drag race. Autocross type circuit events are more technical with tight corners and I suspect many street racers won't be interested in them. A better solution is to increase access to drag strips. I believe m
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by rwbt 9y ago
I'm nowhere near technically competent to develop something like SQLite in any language. Richard Hipp is a legend unto himself. But, I tried working in Nim without GC and out turned out to be a bigger hassle than I expected it to be. G
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by rwbt 9y ago
Interesting. I love programming in Nim but I'm not sure if I would consider developing something like SQLite in Nim. It still has a few rough edges IMHO.
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by rwbt 9y ago
Yep. I experienced many such situations. Like I said, I still use boost because the benefits outweigh the baggage, but I try to avoid it as much as I can.
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by rwbt 9y ago
Boost is a technical masterpiece and very high quality C++. It's also battle tested and very reliable. I use it for my professional projects but I loathe using it. Not just the complexity, but the error messages are really hard to deci
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by rwbt 9y ago
My favorite aspect of programming in C is how little it gets in the way of the programmer. Once you become familiar with the language there is not much to lookup in the docs because it's such a small language. I might end up writing mo
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by rwbt 9y ago
> And of course you can only choose between compilers that do too much (as in, not "C compilers" but "compilers that happen to support C as well"), compilers that don't even aim for standards compliance, or propr
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by rwbt 9y ago
AABB Trees (Axis Aligned Bounding Box) might be an option. Most realtime collision detection systems utilize them.
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by rwbt 9y ago
After programming in C++ for nearly a decade, I too came to the same conclusion. I was always told to avoid C (because dangling pointers and what not) but now even though C++ has some things I like, overall I think C is a lot easier to &#x2
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by rwbt 9y ago
Also, NPR has had a text only site for ages http://thin.npr.org
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by rwbt 9y ago
Nvidia's Quadro GPU offerings still have 'proper' GL_LINES hardware support for CAD. I'm not sure if they still use Bresenham under the skin though. But most of the consumer GPU offerings just resort to tessellation into
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by rwbt 9y ago
If it works with integers, it'll likely also work with 'Fixed-point' co-ordinates. A Fixed Point version is fairly trivial if you know how the integer algorithm works.
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by rwbt 9y ago
Coming from C++ (with C experience too), I too was hesitant about Nim because of GC. But I can turn it off completely or even better "--gc=stack" which makes it behave like C++ (dealloc when going out of scope). The compiler is al
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by rwbt 9y ago
Nim is probably the most easiest language I've picked up. It's a delight to program in Nim and the performance is stellar (beats hand coded C in many cases). It's a rare feat really.
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by rwbt 10y ago
> I feel like having a more common language would just lead people to bang their heads against the impossible or implement horribly inefficient algos not really understanding what's going on under the hood Good point.

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