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mistivia

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About mistivia

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    I think that in 2026, it's not a good idea to still be using human brainpower to parse gibberish that was hastily decided in the 1960s/1970s for the convenience of writing parsers.…

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    > we are performing an rather imprecise and expensive acos() call No, the acos() call is not expensive at all. There is hardware acceleration.We can calculate acos() with in 12 CPU…

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    > The deepest truths fit on a napkin. If you have really done physics or engineering, you would never believe this. Simple and elegant formulas usually can only solve the "spherica…

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    Comment #47308058

    I've add exmaples of a toy EDSL and compile-time reflex in C++17 in GitHub readme, which wouldn't work with constexpr only.

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    Comment #47295406

    Template metaprogramming isn't really suited for this task, the prime sieve here serves only as a proof of concept, meant to show the capabilities of this style. But there are case…

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    Comment #46706723

    We have seen similar situations countless times before. Just as the Internet allowed people to bypass publishers to release text, and YouTube allowed creators to bypass TV stations…

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    Comment #46460817

    I don't want a Rust language without a borrow checker. I want a C language with a Borrow Checker. Rust's complexity is already approaching C++, and removing the Borrow Checker woul…

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    Comment #45939508

    I used similar method to craft my own type-safe algorithm and data structure library in C: https://github.com/mistivia/algds Although it's a toy not for production, it's very inter…

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    It's very dangerous to write a http parser from scratch in C. This can be very vulnerable without rigorous testing. To get a useful web framework for production in C, I think it's …

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    Show HN: EZLive – lightweight serverless self-hosted livestream

    I recently made a small open source project `EZLive`. It lets you host your private live video without a server with public IP address. It can also serve as a build block of a more…