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by skitter 4y ago
Mpv has an interesting commit message that rants about the insanity of C locales: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa91
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by skitter 4y ago
Fish and Zsh can automatically cd into a dir if you type a path in.
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by skitter 4y ago
When I heard about this project, they were using Skyrim Script Extender code without permission[0] (and denying it) and made a lot of money from it (which the SKSE people feared could get them in legal trouble with Bethesda). I hope this ha
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by skitter 4y ago
> Penguins don’t implement the “fly” method that can be found in birds. Yep. That would be like having immutable lists which implement List which has an "add" method. Obviously that would be too stupid for a sensible programmin
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by skitter 4y ago
"finally" in Java and afaik "val" in Kotlin because of it are a bit of a sham: They work fine for primitives, but for reference types only apply to the object identity. You can still mutate the pointed-to object willy-ni
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by skitter 4y ago
Tested it, seems to about double the speed (from 22.3mb/s to 47.6mb/s).
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by skitter 4y ago
Rust doesn't have linear/relevant types, only affine types.
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by skitter 4y ago
I don't know GScript, but wouldn't it be enough to know which methods are declared in GScript (and not allow overloading for these)? Then type inference can work fully most of the time and only give up when calling non-Java code.
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by skitter 4y ago
The problem is less that it doesn't provide an implementation, but more that it doesn't allow anyone else to provide an implementation either (aside via code generation).
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Toki Pona(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by skitter 4y ago|0 comments
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by skitter 4y ago
Makes me think of toki pona, which doesn't distinguish between eating and being food.
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by skitter 5y ago
Additionally to the lack of generics, all references/pointers in Java/Go can be null/nil (so you can't express that a reference points to something) and all fields are zero-initialized (so having every field set to zero
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by skitter 5y ago
That was the same conclusion I came to when I tried it. Freenet works, but it's slow and there's barely anything there. Unfortunately, a big draw to use a network is how many users it already has.
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by skitter 5y ago
WASI is an API, not a way of specifying APIs.
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by skitter 5y ago
They still tend to differentiate between 2- and 3 element tuples (but I agree that the implicit concatenation is problematic).
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by skitter 5y ago
I wouldn't say that it has deeper worldgen, but because it replaces voxel terrain with a lower lod after a certain distance, the world has a feeling of massive scale. You can see a far away mountain range on the horizon and actually jo
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by skitter 5y ago
But I bet you learnt a lot of new things from it: if (f != 1.1) puts("Do not compare a float to an integer value\n"); if (d == 1.1) puts("But that's okay for a double\n"); In the back of
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by skitter 5y ago
> Arrays are covariant in their type param, so I can pass a `Dog[]` into a function that accepts `Animal[]`. If that function adds a `Cat` to the passed array, the compiler is perfectly happy, but we'll see a runtime error. The same
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by skitter 5y ago
AFAIK one other thing to note is that in Linux userspace, malloc (or fork) might succeed, but accessing the memory later can fail because of memory overcommit.
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by skitter 5y ago
I believe x gets promoted to int, negated and then narrowed to the return type.
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by skitter 5y ago
Another case where it doesn't work is with keyboard layouts that use shift lock instead of caps lock.
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by skitter 5y ago
Apparently wgsl was created because SPIR-V isn't well suited for being an intermediate representation to target graphics APIs other than Vulkan itself. Some notes of intrest: https://kvark.github.io/spirv/2021&#x2F
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by skitter 5y ago
What are the advantages of low maximum stack size limits (given growable stacks)?
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by skitter 5y ago
One option not mentioned yet is Posteo. They don't keep your IP and strip it in case your mail client sets it in the headers. They also don't take any personal identification for signup or billing (you can even send them letters w
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by skitter 5y ago
Specifically Settlers 3 & 4. In 1, 2, 6 and I believe 7, paths are build manually; 5 doesn't have roads.
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by skitter 5y ago
Afaik for the WebAssembly MVP, the goal was to have a simple, efficient compile target - therefore only integers and floats. To make wasm more useful & easier to integrate, the plan calls for interface types[0], which allow both accessi
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by skitter 5y ago
I've just started the same, it's definitely fun. One thing that surprised me about field resolution is that a class can have multiple fields with the same name (if they have different types).
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by skitter 5y ago
I don't get the link between enterprise software and predictive optimizations. But call stacks don't prevent them (the argument seems so assume you can only really store data on the stack), nor does it prevent automatic optimizati
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by skitter 6y ago
You have my full agreement. Disallowing website-chosen fonts (or enforcing minimum font size) can break some things slightly, but is worth it in my eyes. But with colors, there are way too many sites blindly assuming a black-on-white browse
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by skitter 6y ago
According to the article, they didn't loose them, the Minister of Defense just pretended they were suddenly found again.

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