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citbl

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About citbl

Grey beard, fresh code.

I like compilers. I don't like unnecessary abstraction.

Build what you use & use what you build™

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    Comment #48291329

    With an LLM. So next week he can write about JavaScript and the next.

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    Comment #48291249

    2016 check out my new JavaScript Library! 2026 check out the work I didn't write! 2036 how I've written 200 lines in this ancient Latin called C

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    Comment #48291118

    I appreciate the honesty of saying this is using electron. I'm not sure what problem it actually solves or aims at solving other than being cool? Visual orientation does matter in …

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    Comment #48277348

    We are the point now where we let LLM dictate the language?

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    Comment #48167601

    Impressive work. There is a ton of work done in there. You can improve it by giving a reason for people to want to adopt it. That is bring novel ideas and push the envelope. As is,…

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    Comment #47172626

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    Comment #46400097

    I've been amazed by this jam. It's like bigger and better every year (in terms of jams going deeper and deeper). I imagine we're 5 years away of "Make your own OS, language, compil…

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    Comment #46397938

    The last 2 paragraphs were quite poetic. PS: 2014

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    Comment #46390849

    Impressive work. I shipped couch multiplayer games on PS4 in the past and it has passed its heyday (it didn't do too well, financially). So seeing it done on the web actually makes…

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    Comment #46381196

    There are still plenty of things that VSCode does and Zed doesn't. E.g. Dart debugging. Also there is the VC money problem with Zed, at some point, that money will want returns on …

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    Comment #46351851

    It wouldn't hurt if they could capitalise their sentences every now and then.

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    Comment #46002709

    All cargo companies run a wide fleet of many different plane types, particularly to avoid this very problem of being grounded by the FAA. But yes, these were still widely used in c…

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    Comment #45664841

    hmmmmm youth. I remember running windows95 overnight so that it could be a "server". The next morning, moving the mouse was making the harddrive go nuts, it was paging just by movi…

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    Comment #45664828

    Incidentally it was also on a thinkpad that I had installed it. Honestly I've never owned any other laptops than thinkpads and macbooks. Every other laptop I've ever touched in a c…

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    Comment #45664784

    I'm surprised seeing improvements in Suspend/Hibernate support. I've used OpenBSD on laptops before and it was _fine_. I thought they primarily target servers. This feels like lapt…

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    Comment #45652717

    This is a very clever idea. I've toyed with the idea of making a multiple site mystery challenge in the past, a bit like a geo game with real world tagging and drop boxes. Never go…

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    Comment #45651734

    Ok, thank you for this.

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    Comment #45650109

    That is not what deflation is. Deflation is prices are going up and wages are stagnant or falling.

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    Comment #45639827

    The next one probably won't be caught by running noticeably slower than usual. It was a pure fluke that it got discovered _this early_.

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    Comment #45631474

    I used to load up tapes for 15' on my spectrum and then poke around trying to understand what was under the hood. All I had was a thick book in a language I didn't speak yet. No in…

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    Comment #45627290

    What a wonderful write up and I feel the same. I've been working on my free time on a tui code editor in the same vein eventually with make and lldb built in.

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    Comment #45616792

    Nice, bookmarked. But if you're serious about reducing carbon waste, don't make visitors download 7.5MB to load the webpage.

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    Comment #45613676

    Thanks I didn't know about this. I just read some article and took it for granted.

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    Comment #45612059

    and for me it's the dart debugging! we all want something.

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    Comment #45611816

    Sorry late response/question. Do you have a good source of documentation regarding QBE? I tried to use it in the past and it was a PITA as I was left basically helpless. I don't do…