teo_zero

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by teo_zero 2mo ago
Ah, now I see that indeed we agree without understanding each other. The source is a misinterpretation of your sentence far up the thread: > I can't see why the calling convention could matter. The "could matter" was under
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
Thank you. Sometimes I forget that for each and every significant experience in life there's probably an XKCD page that captured its essence!
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
If I have read the article, then reached the comments sections, it's because I have found the subject interesting. It's like watching a movie and someone trying to tell me unsolicited news about the director's private life. I
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
The example you set up was about f() calling into g() calling into h(). Why do you mention h() calling into g() now? The whole thread is about how the traditional calling convention makes it difficult to implement TCO in C. Functions with d
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
> But I think your comment "this is AI" is warranted. Clue: it's never warranted. Nobody wants to hear it. Even when it's true. Even when it's evident (actually less so when it's evident).
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
> There is a Japanese word that almost everyone reading this has already heard I had never heard this word. It's the second time in a row that I encounter something unknown to me that is characterized as being universal. Curiously e
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
h() can't have more arguments than g(): that's an important limitation.
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
Yes, no doubts. But why does the author think that in this case such process was followed, and was so successful to deserve the "amazing" adjective? How did this specific design manage to convey the intended feeling? Was it better
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
No, I don't find anything amazing in Blade Runner's title sequence, and the article does nothing to convince me. Yes, they got small-caps spacing right: hardly amazing. And what about the "feeling" the article talks abou
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
Technically true. Practically, to make a substantial profit, what you sell must be more worthy than something you can also download for free. So you must sell an enhanced version of the original software. And that is what the GPL wants
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
Absolutely. That's how coding used to work in the 70s. Then software passed from people to companies, which proved alien to the cultural values that had hold so far. At the end of the 80s Stallman designed something to address the corp
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
I'm confused. You begin your post with a stance that's typical of copyleft proponents, then you end it in the opposite direction. There is a trait in human nature that pushes us to share our knowledge. But we would like this shari
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
> 16-bit Commodore Amiga era The Motorola 68000 was a 32-bit processor. What Commodore Amiga was 16 bits?
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
Does anybody know why the site is called 16-bits? Aren't trackers an expression of the first 32-bit computers?
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
I thought "makers" all used Python. What's the friction that EYG is supposed to remove?
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
LOL, and an internet connection, too! But, seriously, of course "web" requires internet and a computer and an operating system. But since when "web" also means Node.js? If a web component is advertized as dependency free
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
Do you mean I don't need Node.js on the machine where I run it?
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
How can it be defined dependency free if it depends on Node.js?
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
Good article! I just wouldn't start off with bold sentences as > SIMD can be simple to understand and > writing SIMD is just about as easy as a for loop and then the first example requires 12 lines to replace one line of scalar c
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by teo_zero 2mo ago
> if you’re careless about one thing like that you’re probably careless about other things I'm not convinced. This rule holds only if the two "things" are related. But one can have a passion for serving the best quality co
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by teo_zero 3mo ago
Good idea but strange syntax. It would be more idiomatic if the command came first and the list of globs last. Additionally the use of "--" is not what everybody expects: here it is used to introduce one argument, the command, whi
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by teo_zero 3mo ago
> nobody can tell from reading my code whether I wrote it in Vim You mean, except for the spurious :w here and there...
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by teo_zero 3mo ago
But why? What's wrong with a tidy notebook?
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by teo_zero 3mo ago
> I don't get why I'm downvoted Because your comment was addressing the author instead of the article itself. Tell-tale words are "you" and "people". It would have been different if you said, for example, &q
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by teo_zero 3mo ago
> Few know that they can create an "app-icon" from any Web page Let's say from most web pages. Some sites will hijack your browser and install their PWA instead of the page you requested.
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by teo_zero 3mo ago
If you are allergic to AI-generated articles, I can't stand syntactic mistakes. The day you get your "AI generated" flag, I'll want my "lousy with mistakes", too.
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by teo_zero 3mo ago
Thank you. I imagined that the 3 words were just a rendez-vous token that the receiving end must hand to the relay to retrieve the right data. I understand that it also includes a password to validate the key. Are 32 bits enough to serve bo
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by teo_zero 3mo ago
How can one be sure that the relay does not record all the data flowing through it? There's not a second independent channel where the key is exchanged between sender and receiver.
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by teo_zero 3mo ago
I'm glad someone else asked. :) It's not so widely used and it's not explained in the first couple screenfuls of TFA (which by itself is weirdly structured, taking entire paragraphs to explain when it was introduced, when it
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by teo_zero 3mo ago
I don't get it. If the ring structure has 4 field (excluding the cold ones), and all 4 have alignment constraints, doesn't it define 4 zones in 4 cache lines, and not 2? I expected head and cached_tail, for example, to share the s

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