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dboon

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About dboon

http://spader.zone

please contact me if you'd like! domain above, and my handle is spader. does this kind of you-know-what obfuscation even work anymore? ah, well. send me something.

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    Thanks for the reply, I'm sure you're also just a regular person writing about the stuff you like and regardless of whether you end up agreeing with me or deciding that, no, that w…

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    I promise I'm not normally uptight like this, but there's a difference between having a laugh and whatever this is. Like I said, this feels (a) legitimately angry and (b) in a spit…

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    Comment #48979821

    This prose feels extremely angry and ungenerous; abstractly, I agree with a lot of the points, but when I read this: > My conclusion is that OpenCode is clown-car turboslop with a …

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    I remain deeply unconvinced. I respect your writing and opinion enough to have actually put chunks of the essay into Pangram, including the part you label "blatantly Claude", and..…

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    Comment #48541146

    What? This is one of the most clearly human written articles I could imagine. Can you explain what you mean?

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    Comment #48540839

    Yeah, recreating Conan minus the foundational idea stated at the beginning of the post. Yup.

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    Comment #48531832

    I am making Cargo for C. I have 3/4 of a working demo; the tool can build itself, including some non-trivial dependencies which I've ported to build natively with the tool (instead…

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    Comment #48250784

    The library provides a few basic allocators.

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    Comment #48250774

    A comment from a legend. Thanks for reading and thanks for the response! I agree; the dynamic array is typed as a T* for ergonomics sake but is similarly a pointer and a length (an…

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    Comment #48250724

    I have no philosophical complaints with supporting odd architectures in general. I agree that most obscure targets are probably not that much code, since the library is factored wi…

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    Comment #48250672

    People are very silly and very entitled. I'd bend over backward to help anyone contribute to or use the library in any way. In response, all I ask is for some common courtesy and f…

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    Haha jk…but really? Lol just kidding…unless?

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    Yeah, AI has done a number to this place

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    No problem and thanks for the apology. Happens to the best of us. Regardless, thanks for the comment — I definitely didn’t mean to slip by the pthread stuff on a “well technically …

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    Thanks! I didn’t know this.

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    Comment #48245598

    Thanks for reading and thanks for the link. I'll read anything DJB wrote.

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    Comment #48245584

    It...is not a libc implementation. That's an impressive level of misunderstanding!

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    Comment #48245578

    It looks like I need to update my macOS machine! Thanks for the sanity, and thanks for reading.

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    Comment #48245534

    Man, this place has become strange. This person has no idea who I am. But thanks for commenting on my 'library' nonetheless!

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    Comment #48245528

    Thank you, but why's that?

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    Yes, unfortunately the threading primitives require libc. Ditto subprocesses. It's on my list. But regarding: "Oops... apparently this is vibecoded. Welp, I just wasted ten minutes…