siev
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Hahaha I very much enjoyed seeing GOOL there. I also love that you went for that over GOAL, which is probably the much more famous one.
Comment · 8 months ago
Exactly my thought haha. And Urbit comes from the LISP/Lambda Calculus world of concerning themselves with high level abstractions and mathematical elegance above all, while Uxn and similar systems follow in the footsteps of Forth and the idea of "get something small and low level working as soon as possible."
Comment · 9 months ago
Yeah and he didn't want to deal with receiving death threats for working on a passion project. Which I guess is considered being "emotionally unstable".
Comment · 9 months ago
I usually use snowflake as a last resort, and even that's not consistently working right now. However I've seen people recommend running Conduit[1] to friends overseas, which is an easy-to-use Psiphon proxy node. Psiphon is a popular circumvention tool here so that could be helpful.
Comment · 9 months ago
> It subsidize basic needs of its poorer citizens, such as fuel, bread, housing, education and healthcare.
Hold on, am I living in the wrong Iran?
Comment · 9 months ago
I guess it's time to check "be accused of spreading psyops" off my internet bucket list.
Because I guess you're not interested in my own personal experience of witnessing said people get killed either. Or not exiting my home because I feared for my life. But you seem to have a loose definition of "unconfirmed" [1] so I won't dwell on that. Here's all I have to say:
> When the Israeli government claims that Iran needs to be toppled to protect the Iranian people, while they simultaneously commit genocide in Palestine, I have to stop and think about their real motives.
The Iranian government is evil.
The Israeli government is evil.
Both are, believe it or not, true. Conservative ruling systems often dislike other conservative ruling systems.
> Trump wants to bring democracy to Iran
_Iranians_ want to bring democracy to Iran. And as one of them, I sincerely don't give a shit about what Trump or Israel or anyone else outside of this fucking country wants.
Comment · 9 months ago
We do. It's not very good. As in, there isn't even a properly functioning domestic search engine that can match the quality of anything past AltaVista. The only local platforms worth a damn are the ones you'd be using anyway. (the local equivalents to Uber, Maps etc.)
All other platforms (instant messengers, social media, news) are massively unpopular for being horrid to use at best, and government spyware at worst.
To slow down the immediate damage the government has rolled back a few of the recent restrictions, hence why I can access HN. Among Google and a handful of other basic websites. But they are obviously experimenting and trying to figure out how much censorship they can get away with. There is talk of a planned "whitelisting" of the country's internet. Where almost all but a few big important services are blocked completely. This would have the bonus effect of making circumvention using VPNs and other methods even more difficult than it already is.
Comment · 11 months ago
It unfortunately reads a bit like an unintentional punchline, yes.
Comment · 11 months ago
Gonna link SSFF's enjoyable telling of the 3DO port story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxF1_wg2d_Q
I will never get over the company CEO sending here PNGs of new weapon models and saying, essentially, "Yeah so you can just copy & paste these into the game, right?"
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Rust also has the standard NonZero<T> type for that use case.
Comment · 1 year ago
I like the sentiment, I love C. But this book seems riddled with errors and baffling decisions.
First of all, the fixed points are LITERALLY NOT FIXED POINTS. They're decimal floats. Fixed points are just integers that re-scale when multiplied or divided. There is no exponent field, no nothing. The author seems to have confused the notion "fixed points allow for precise calculations of monetary values" to mean that they're decimal. They're not. That section of the book contradicts itself constantly and also the code is wrong.
Also an ordered vector is used to implement a map/set. Because:
> Most people would likely instinctively reach for hash tables, and typically spend the next few months researching optimal hash algorithms and table designs.
> A binary searched vector is as simple as it gets and performs pretty well while being more predictable.
A basic hash table or hash set[1] is both simpler and faster than this solution. And I don't see what's stopping someone from spending the next few months researching optimal dynamic array growth and searching algorithms instead. This line of reasoning just doesn't make any sense.
And "Once nice advantage is that since they don't need any infrastructure, they're comparably cheap to create." What? It needs a dynamic array!
https://queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3212477.3212479