stefncb

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by stefncb 3y ago
I'm aware I was mean and maybe that wasn't right, so I'm genuinely sorry for that. My point stands anyway.
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by stefncb 3y ago
Human empathy in action.
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by stefncb 3y ago
Xe's. And as a response to your previous comment, it's not preference so much as completely ignoring someone's personality and instead assuming one based on some stereotype. And I'm sorry if that upsets you but you can&#
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by stefncb 3y ago
I somewhat agree with the sentiment, in the sense that I also don't enjoy tech in that way. But we're all different, and the fact that we enjoy things in different ways shouldn't mean that we can't listen to and learn fr
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by stefncb 3y ago
Fair enough.
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by stefncb 3y ago
I learned the chords very quickly, but everyone works differently. What kind of feedback exactly would you expect from it? I can't immediately think of anything that would make it much better. I guess animations could help, but then th
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by stefncb 3y ago
That's fair and I share the sentiment to some degree, especially in "regular" systems. In the time period I used plan 9 I quickly got used to it though, and the method of interaction made me a bit slower and much more conside
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by stefncb 3y ago
Think about it a different way: the regex thing can only deal with unary numbers, like your computer can only deal with binary. It's really no different. I'm not sure if you can write a decimal-to-unary converter in regex but I re
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by stefncb 3y ago
It is, but for what it's worth using the mouse is much more pleasant than what we're used to ime. It's weird at first, especially with the teleporting thing but it works really well. Also, if you're gonna try it do it ei
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by stefncb 3y ago
I agree, except for the SQLite thing; the code is fully public domain and the license is safely ignorable. The reason it exists in the first place is for corporations to have some formal license to buy if they have an internal policy requir
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by stefncb 3y ago
Moore even later admitted that he made an insane guess for marketing.
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by stefncb 3y ago
People don't usually use them informally but it's technically incorrect not to use them. You'll mostly see them in books and articles.
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by stefncb 3y ago
Okay I admit my reply wasn't that good. I'll take another shot: I think it's ignorant to assume that everyone on hacker news lives in a developed country and makes a lot of money. The statement was completely unnecessary, a
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by stefncb 3y ago
> if you are on this forum, you can mostly likely afford one ...what?
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by stefncb 3y ago
In this particular instance you'd have to disambiguate with "I have" or "I had", I alone would mean the wrong thing.
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by stefncb 3y ago
The solution is to not use the reader and instead write a parser yourself. S-Expressions are really simple, you should be able to do that quite easily.
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by stefncb 3y ago
The average upvote count for comments here is 5, anecdotally. On reddit it can be in the dozens, even hundreds depending on subreddit. My abandoned reddit account I had for 2 years had 39k karma, and I wasn't obsessed.
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by stefncb 3y ago
Someone else posted this link: https://reddark.untone.uk/ Loads instantly for me. Seems to be the same website.
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by stefncb 3y ago
I agree with you completely. And a bigger annoyance than generating headers is actually reading them; C is really not a pleasant format to parse.
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by stefncb 3y ago
You don't need stable syscalls. Instead of exposing libc as a dynamic library with a questionable ABI, make a stable ABI and expose interface files that contain function names and parameters. You can easily parse these files and genera
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by stefncb 3y ago
Why is it so strange that someone ignored a convention?
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by stefncb 3y ago
The difference is that states require you to follow the rules, but you can choose what language you want to use yourself. I don't need to know Java if I want to use Lisp, and you don't need to know Lisp if you want to use Java. Ye
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by stefncb 3y ago
Please explain yourself then. This kind of criticism is very unproductive and demoralizing to people who put hard work into making something. I'm not for or against either side, but I was put off by your comment.
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by stefncb 3y ago
And that's fine. Choice is good. IMO the problem isn't that there are a lot of things to choose from, it's that there are a lot of things on top of each other. Stuff on top of stuff on top of stuff. I personally wouldn'
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by stefncb 3y ago
This isn't all that different from a four stroke, at some level. With a piston engine you lubricate from below, the oil never getting above the rings. Practically some does and gets burned away, but that's negligible usually. Anyw
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by stefncb 3y ago
If you look at an image, you can see the three apex seals on the stator, which is shaped the same way as a wankel rotor. The rotor of the liquidpiston engine is shaped similarly to the wankel stator and has no seals. It's almost the sa
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by stefncb 3y ago
It's effectively an inside-out wankel, so the seals are stationary. This is a much easier problem to solve, and now you don't need to throw oil in the combustion chamber to lubricate the moving seals.
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by stefncb 3y ago
Semantics. CL is extremely dynamic and has separate symbol namespaces, Scheme has more rigid types, Clojure has a lot of stuff built around immutability and replaced the general use of lists with arrays, Fennel has lua types and semantics,
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by stefncb 3y ago
I assume his point was that there's no technical reason for C to not support it.
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by stefncb 3y ago
I honestly liked the whitespace significant operator precedence.

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