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I don't know man. It's just zero. Dereferencing it just crashes your program (assuming an operating system). This kind of just reads like a fear of pointers. Corrupted/out-of-range…

Meh, I think NULL is fine in C. It's an extra, valid state to represent pointers at no cost. Unlike the more hand holdy languages, it's quite rare for a pointer in C to have the ab…

Ha. I'm probably in the more anti AI camp, but if it could free us from the plague that is Python thinking, I might change my tune. 2 seconds might feel negligible in the real worl…

Sam?

You make that sound worse than it is. On the overall topic, you have 0 supply chain risk, and the whole thing is local. Also, your code from 2009 is still valid. That would be a fo…

I too have used a similar strategy of packing variables together. I even came up with a name for it. I called it a "building."

Tangentially related. Don't ever put "." in your PATH. I used to do this to avoid typing the "./" to execute something in my current directory. BAD IDEA. It can turn a typo into a …

One of the advantages to the pointer + length approach is free substrings. This inline approach doesn't allow that.

Couldn't agree more. I have a project at work from 2016 that builds multiple different HMIs (C++) along with 2 embedded systems (C). They all have to play nicely with each other as…

I certainly would not use it prescriptively as I said originally. I wouldn't use any poker book prescriptively. You make your own style and pull pieces from others just like any ot…

I don't think so. I don't play nearly as often as I used to, but I still do alright. Though, I usually play tournaments where "game theory optimal" can only get you so far. There i…

Super System is old, but I wouldn't call it outdated. Definitely still worth a read. The more books you've read, the bigger your tool set. The key here is that it works in both dir…

Rust and Zig are both perfectly fine languages. Odin wins on simplicity and familiarity for me. I'm most productive in C which is what I use at work. So, for me, it's a better C wi…

When I first heard about Odin, I thought, why another C replacement?! What's wrong with rust or zig? Then, after looking into it, I had a very similar experience to the author. Som…

What's naive?

I'm not looking for an argument, but my knee jerk reaction to seeing 4 or 5 different answers to the question of getting python to C... Why not just learn C?

clickhouse-local is pretty slick as well. You can operate directly on text files as if they were tables. I made my own toy text file database thing and thought I was cool because I…

I think he's saying the text should be more muted like the copyright at the bottom.

Cool. Let us software guys know when we get computers that are 1000x faster so we can write the next language/framework that is 1000x slower.

I think he is getting at this part "non-mass scale platform." He's implying it only protects the big players that can afford the change.