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Comment · 10 months ago
Had to look it up. Saw this right on the main page of nanomsg:

> This project has largely been superceded by the nng project. Users are encouraged to use nng if they are able. The nng project is wire compatible with this library, and supports a significant superset of capabilities.

Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
Can you clarify what you’re referring to?
Comment · 1 year ago
> This may not come as a surprise, but Linux (and with some tweaking even macOS) supports SLIP.

Anyone have any experience with SLIP for macOS? Curious if the author was actually able to make that work, I’ve been looking into something similar the past few weeks with no luck.

Comment · 1 year ago
Does that mean there’s no culling for overlapping elements? Sorry, just trying to understand your response.
Comment · 1 year ago
Are there any culling optimizations for unseen elements when layering SVG images? Looks like this isn’t an optimization that comes out-of-the-box with OpenVG and all the major web browsers needed to add this, so wondering what your solution is doing.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Makes you dream there could be an equivalent for our own universe?

I’ve always considered that to be what’s achieved by the LHC: smashing the fundamental building blocks of our universe together at extreme enough energies to briefly cause ripples through the substrate of said universe

Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve been curious, what are the motivations for most projects to use Lua for enabling scripting in C over this? Is the concern around including an entire Python interpreter in a project and Lua is lighter?
Comment · 1 year ago
> apparently it's code named "red knot" (or "red_knot")

Missed opportunity to call it typy in my opinion

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Just listened to a segment about him on NPR, apparently his writing themes were greatly influenced by an experience he had as a child where he was standing next to someone who was killed by a lightning strike.
Comment · 2 years ago
> fixed-cost universal construction (it only takes fifteen gliders to build anything buildable)

Here’s the Hacker News discussion from when this was discovered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797799

Dave, I’m still regularly blown away by this discovery. I don’t know what else there is to be said, but do you have any other comments regarding this?

Comment · 2 years ago
Darn. Thanks for checking though, I appreciate the effort

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