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by vkazanov 2y ago
The proper name would be then Android/Linux, I.e. Linux kernel with a non-gnu userspace. Either way, Linux the kernel has won everywhere but the desktop: server space, handheld, embedded, etc. In my house there is not a single device w
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by vkazanov 2y ago
In the oop age of arch I felt like I had no mouth (and I had to scream). This book, as well as the data oriented design approach, is what made things right for me.
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by vkazanov 2y ago
Both times my, ehm, good friend bought a house in uk the docs included a very thorough list of things that had to stay, as well as things that HAD to go. Does England count as Europe?
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by vkazanov 2y ago
Isn't SDL itself is quite minimal already? I mean, it is definitely not high-level in any sense of the word.
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by vkazanov 2y ago
This is a great article explaining the reasoning of both sides of the battle. And it is a very important turning point: riscv getting traction, desktop and mobile arms everywhere, x86 crisis in general.
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by vkazanov 2y ago
What's even more interesting is that even the great pyramid itself wasn't the beginning of it all, they built it in the later Old Kingdom period. And we know so much because of the unusual culture of having to carve out one's
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by vkazanov 2y ago
Dailymail is dailymail but this particular article is boring. Things like this happen every year, thanks to both the tomb building tradition and the climate of the region. Middle kingdom did thrive about 4k years ago, this is the height of
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by vkazanov 2y ago
Surprisingly, I wanted to correct you but the phoenician alphabet is thought to be derived from Egyptian as well. So egyptian it is.
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by vkazanov 2y ago
And Greek alphabet is sort of a base for both major groups of European alphabets, Latin and Cyrillic. Can we just say greek-based alphabets?
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by vkazanov 2y ago
It would have been interesting sometime around the first C++ exposure but probably a bit too late by now :-)
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by vkazanov 2y ago
No Objective-C for me. I was always living in the Linux/x86 world as long as I remember. Isn't it like C with dynamic dispatch bolted on..? As strange as it may sound, I do know quite a lot about Smalltalk implementation details
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by vkazanov 2y ago
It's supertempting to remember my path: 1. Basic on ZX Spectrum around 5-6 years old. Draw circle and a box and a triangle and... Look ma, a rocket! 2. Pascal around 10-12. I can write a loop! and a function. But anything longer than 1
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by vkazanov 2y ago
Coming from higher level languages, even C, it is actually very mind-opening to see stack as just 2 numbers (stack base, stack top). Not reading about it in theory but seeing in assembly how the program literally decrements the top addres
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by vkazanov 2y ago
This is just not correct. Dynamic systems like the ones based on javascript or Java or scheme have received A LOT of attention in the last 10-20 years. In fact, javascript does start fairy quickly. The usual solution to the startup problem
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by vkazanov 2y ago
The key here is that this is meant to be used for dynamic languages that don't have a lot of typing info when doing AOT compilation
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by vkazanov 2y ago
Most modern jit compilers are using live profile data, especially the original basic block versioning technique which this article is based on. This particular algorithm tries to get rid of some the problems of the relatively simple PGO-lik
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by vkazanov 2y ago
Any company that makes big money on long-living multiplayer games?
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by vkazanov 2y ago
this is a good deal, better than most retention packages out there. But why is every ceo feels obligated to use this kind of meaningless corpo speak in these emails? "Macro Headwinds", "full responsibility"?
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by vkazanov 2y ago
Engineer would first try to build a cooking machine.
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by vkazanov 2y ago
Author here so happy to explain the concept!
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Edit code chunks from multiple files in Emacs(github.com)
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by vkazanov 2y ago
chunk-edit is an Emacs package that lets you edit code chunks from various sources within a single buffer. It provides syntax highlighting and the ability to save changes back to the original files or buffers.
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by vkazanov 2y ago
Well, Rust makes one BIG bet, and then keeps adding everything else, just like C++ keeps doing. The thing is: people don't want everything. For the kind of things that are expected to be build in C and C-inspired languages it just does
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by vkazanov 2y ago
My point is not that use-after-free or other resource allocation problems do not exist. The point is that in vanilla C any solution one might come up with is too fragile. Reasonable patterns require a very, very steady hand to work (which m
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by vkazanov 2y ago
Tbh, use after free was never a big problem for me (in old school C). Random integer promotion rules, weird puzzle-like type declaration rules, the macro mess, the crazy WG14 reasoning in general. No, use after free was NEVER a problem. So
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by vkazanov 2y ago
Yes, BSDs are great technically and popular enough to be noticeable. Unfortunately, most of BSD innovation stays locked behind proprietary forks.
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by vkazanov 2y ago
Yes, I know, 999 was what we called. So how it works, unfortunately, is that GPs get a lot of pressure to not do things "just in case". But "just in case" is the only way you can notice things that are wrong on a deeper
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Wasn't me, it's a corporate perk
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by vkazanov 2y ago
As someone in the same income range, and many friends in comparable spot, I have to say that NHS is sometimes ok . Here's an NHS case. Case 1. My friend's wife had her body going numb, like, completely senseless. They didn't
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by vkazanov 2y ago
I use emacs + beancount-mode + some helper elisp scripts. On average, it takes about 30-40 minutes per sitting to do a weekly review, and that's mostly checking g what hides behind amazon/ebay/Google payments. So it's no

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