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by slimsag 5y ago
If there is any tech industry that is seriously deserving of extremely strict, federal and state regulation, it's the video game industry IMHO. Between what Blizzard has done here, EA regularly pushing children to gambling, Telltale Ga
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by slimsag 5y ago
Hi HN - I put together a stupid little page of what it would look like if tech was written about in the same way as all the "recipe websites" out there write about recipes. Enjoy!
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Best Apache Chef Recipe(slimsag.com)
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by slimsag 5y ago
Boy oh boy do I have the recipe for you! http://slimsag.com/best-apache-chef-recipe/1438731.htm
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by slimsag 5y ago
I'd argue it's less about what the compiler does by default, but rather what it (and the community) enable. For Mach (the Zig game engine I'm working on), I have a Zig build script which fetches the required parts of the macO
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by slimsag 5y ago
Highly recommend this Asian Boss interview[0] for anyone who doesn't know what is going on in Myanmar. She talks about the military coup, how militants regularly shoot at civilians in their homes if they have their lights on at night,
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by slimsag 5y ago
This doesn't really surprise me. We use CloudSQL at my work (Sourcegraph) and have run into all sorts of weird issues actually putting it into production, e.g. segmentation faults when turning on Query Insights (which, lol, is supposed
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by slimsag 5y ago
I'm really happy to have another open-source 3D game engine out there, that's good for everyone. Also, you should know Amazon's Lumberyard was basically just a copy of CryEngine that they purchased and began to modify. They m
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by slimsag 5y ago
Yep, that's basically correct!
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by slimsag 5y ago
It wasn't measured emperically as we're not very worried about that aspect. Still, the author of Ziglyph, jecolon, did some rudimentary comparisons and found it was equal and sometimes better by a few milliseconds. I suspect the s
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by slimsag 5y ago
Yes, sorry about that - I omitted a bit of that information for brevity. If you want to play with allkeys.txt (which is by far much more sequential, simpler data than UnicodeData.txt) then you only need to remove the non-NFD strings (since
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by slimsag 5y ago
Author here, I hinted at the end of the article that I am exploring exactly that: a compression algorithm for the DUCET specifically. My early findings suggest that I can bring it to under 50K and beat gzip/brotli compressions, but wit
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by slimsag 5y ago
A Go "rune" is not the same as a "single rendered/visible character" though, a grapheme cluster/glyph/squiggle is from what I understand. example: https://play.golang.org/p/jJdS2WRWDXs
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by slimsag 5y ago
I think GP means RAII, which is still an open area of discussion in Zig: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/782 I'd love to see it if it can be implemented in a way that fits the language, but that re
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by slimsag 5y ago
I've been working with Zig almost 8h/day since Sept. of last year[0], and am super excited about the ideas it is bringing to low-level programming - even to C/C++/Rust. I hope folks outside of the Zig community give it a
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by slimsag 5y ago
Accidents happen, and LLVM is a really large complex project with tons of downstream users (like Zig and Rust) discovering issues not caught by LLVM's test suite / clang. It's definitely a real problem[0][1][2][3], I would ar
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by slimsag 5y ago
That's what this whole thread is about: you can literally do just that.
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by slimsag 5y ago
An arena allocator allows you to store many allocations _of different types_ in the same single chunk of memory, and then free all of them at one point in time.
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by slimsag 5y ago
Personally, I'd rather have Blender integrate the feature set of Inkscape and Gimp directly - in the same way that Blender makes an awesome video editor today.
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Wow, I didn't know that - surprising!
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by slimsag 5y ago
Regex engines don't just parse regular languages - that ship sailed a long time ago. As I understand it, any regex engine supporting backtracking is no longer working with regular languages. As the author of Perl's regex engine La
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by slimsag 5y ago
Perl's regex engine actually supports defining regex in human readable groups[0] which I think is pretty nice. In my regex engine[1], I'm adding support for a blended mix of plain regex syntax and EBNF-like definition syntax, so y
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by slimsag 5y ago
It's still really early stages, but I am actively working on a regexp engine[0] in Zig which aims to blur the line between regex engines and advanced parsing algorithms used to parse programming languages. I am quite optimistic that du
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by slimsag 5y ago
Also: * Named groups are not supported everywhere. * Lookahead/lookbehind are not supported in Go and Rust (unless using fancy-regexp, from what I understand) Also beware that character classes like `[]` have differing Unicode support,
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by slimsag 5y ago
27 and I remember this vaguely.
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by slimsag 5y ago
If we want more accessible UIs, we need to demand better standard accessibility APIs from OS vendors Microsoft and Apple. Unity has no official support for screenreaders or colorblind modes. Unreal has both. If an major game engine develope
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by slimsag 5y ago
Really? I'm down-voted for trying to help uncover where it doesn't work?
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Also works for me, Firefox Nightly on Mac OS.
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by slimsag 5y ago
A lot of WiFi routers actually support plugging in VPN details in the router software itself, it's not complex at all[0] even for your average consumer. [0] https://www.expressvpn.com/vpn-software/vpn-router#recomm
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by slimsag 5y ago
All things considered, not _that_ irrational. For example the flight in Okinawa > The pilots attempted to use the cockpit escape rope to climb to the ground, but the first officer was knocked off the rope when the number 2 engine and rig

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